Bon voyage

Whoever decided that drivers should have either practicality or performance clearly lacked vision. For much of its existence the estate car or stationwagon was just a practical workhorse. Aside from o

Ididn’t know Richard Parry-Jones when I travelled to Saint-Tropez in January 1993 to drive a new Ford. But without knowing it, I was already feeling his influence. The car was the replacement for the

It's five miles to Exeter and one car has a half a tank of Esso Extra – will it make it or end up at the roadside?

SPENDING a lot of time in a car over a condensed period is a great way to unearth its strengths and weaknesses. So, a two-week, 1,200-mile break, loaded to the gills, with a roofbox on top plus four b

How quickly empires can fall and dynasties wither. Within living memory the Rootes Group, once one of the key players in the UK’s booming motor industry, was producing a range of sports saloons that w

The first Autocar magazine of the new century was a cracker: official details of MG’s hot new roadster, the F Trophy 160 SE, conceived to do battle with the BMW Z3 via its 158bhp engine and £21,000 pr