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That’s marque historian Clare Hay’s verdict regarding the boat-tail body on 1927 Bentley 3 Litre chassis TN1564, and it’s no idle hyperbole. This ultimate development of the ‘skiff ’ body style (origi

Since my first visit in 1982, four-up in a road-test Jaguar XJ-S HE, Rétromobile has regularly blown me away. The range of incredible Gallic machines always make this Paris show a much-awaited fixture

I SUCCUMBED. OR, as younger people say, I caved. I’d been looking at my Phantom’s bodywork (the victim of a blow-over respray prior to my renewed ownership, after a white ‘wrap’ was removed) and alway

Mugello, one of Italy’s greatest racetracks, was once an epic 41-mile closed-road race. We go looking for its original layout in Maserati’s GT2 Stradale, the most focused MC20 yet

The Bentayga has long been a somewhat nonconformist character within the Bentley line-up. As the brand’s first SUV, it caused quite a stir when it was launched in 2015, breaking with decades of coupé