Finishing lines

The year 1948 was a significant one for British motoring and motorsport: on 18 September, racing was re-established with the inaugural fixture at Goodwood, and on 27 October the Earls Court Motor Show

Coombs & Son (Guildford) Ltd was among the very first Jaguar dealers, taking on the franchise in 1936 alongside a well-established Rover distributorship. The business had its origins in 19th-century w

What’s the price of indifference? In the case of TWR’s Tom Walkinshaw, it was the development of an alternative to Jaguar’s XJ220, the prototype of which he’d just surveyed at the 1988 British Motor S

When editor Joe Dunn messages to ask if it is OK to share your email address with Mercedes-Benz, it is intriguing to know why. Then when Mercedes-Benz Heritage almost immediately gets in touch to ask

Just another race, just another distant memory. Jackie OIiver reckons he doesn’t remember much about the 1970 Buenos Aires 1000Kms and his drive in the Lola T70 MkIIIB you see here, which he shared wi

It has become an all too familiar tale in this era of new technology: a new company emerges from nowhere, boasts of an amazing car and promises that production will begin very soon – and then goes sus