Paul walton

JAMES ATTWOOD Illya, shall we start with your Mini, given that it’s from 2001? ILLYA VERPRAET It’s significant on a number of levels. Originally it was meant to be just a car, but BMW built a whole br

There have been plenty of comings and goings in the Charlton fleet this month, and more than one regrettable decision.

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

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

John Simister gets under the skin of six classics that are now officially ‘historic’

The Jeep Wrangler has left us. Our long-term 2.0-litre Sahara departed the Autocar fold recently with 25,500 miles on the clock (around 16,000 of them amassed in our hands). Its new mission is to find