Back to the drawing board

What have I done? I have just spent about six times that which I’ve yet previously spent on a car, on a vehicle that has twice as many cylinders as I’m used to, will consume about double the amount of

A Ford Escort RS 1800 that sold at auction in July for a record £276,848 is evidence of the growing appeal of modern classics to the Gen X and millennial generations, who now have the money and desire

If anyone had suggested 20 years ago that a Mk2 Ford Escort would sell for more than a quarter of a million pounds, they would have been laughed out of court. Times have changed and the RS1800 has bec

Losing Fisher & Ludlow (which had made monocoque bodies for the Standard 8 and 10) to the British Motor Corporation led Standard-Triumph to choose separate-chassis construction for its next small car.

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In 1973, the arrival of a new Toyota Crown raised eyebrows in our middle-England cul-de-sac, where most driveways were decorated with conservatively styled British products, plus the occasional Fiat o