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August 2025 Issue 625
Was the Seventies really the villain decade of car design
I have subscribed to your excellent magazine for many years now, and I always enjoy the wide variety of cars and subjects that you cover. I particularly was looking forward to reading the article on t
WE’VE HAD A LOT OF FUN TRAVELLING backwards and forwards in time over the last five issues and we’ve gained a fresh perspective on each decade in turn, including the current one. As Dickie Meaden obse
‘Nostalgia is a shelter from the current turbulence’
Ah, 1985: heart of the decade of Cold War superpowers and Dayglo socks. The year of Marty McFly and Back to the Future – “You made a time machine – out of a DeLorean?” Dodgy Sylvester Stallone action
THE FIRST ERAS TEST WAS SPECIAL. PERFECT ROADS, CRISP spring weather and a chance to get under the skin of six ’80s icons, cars my more senior colleagues earned their road-testing stripes in. Being ev
WE TRIED. WE REALLY DID. BUT NO MATTER WHICH WAY WE sliced it, the 2000s couldn’t be adequately represented with six cars. And so – much to the dismay of photographer Dean Smith – we went with seven.