Patrese had jumped out of his V8 Juddpowered Formula 1 Williams after first qualifying on the Friday afternoon of the 1988 Italian Grand Prix and straight into a mount that wasn’t perhaps quite as dif

The irony of our final approach to Leonardo Fioravanti’s lofty residence, perched high in the hills above Turin, is not lost on me. After emerging unscathed from a high-speed, near-1300km journey from

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

There were gasps of amazement at RM Sotheby’s Maranello sale in 2012 when Chris Evans splashed out a record £5.5m on a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spider originally owned by actor James Coburn. Fas

If the 1963-’65 Buick Riviera is not the peak of American luxury coupes, I cannot think of one that looks better. It was the early ’60s passion project of General Motors’ styling vice president Bill M

At this title we know the SLR in general and one, chassis 0004/55, in particular. It’s the car in which Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson won the 1955 Mille Miglia after which the latter wrote his acc