You hear it long before you see it: the tranquil of this bucolic Hampshire village has been shattered by some hooligan flouting its urban speed limit. Heads turn. The demonic roar and ring-a-ding-ding

Sidecars have always been a hotbed of ingenuity, exuberance and grit. We unearthed these extreme chair-mounted exponents in our archive

In the late 1970s, Maserati hit upon a radical, borderline blasphemous idea. What if it hit pause on building very interesting sports cars and grand tourers that many people admired but no one bought.

That’s impossible, mate, it won’t accelerate, the gearing is way too long,” a British gearbox expert said to Jeroen Booij after he sent over the spec to rebuild his Mini transmission. “It should work,

At £37,777, Bimota’s KB998 Rimini is a premium bit of kit. But double that and you get the exquisite KB998 Rimini Corse…

Bugatti’s official story is that the seed of the Veyron was planted in 1997. VW Group boss Ferdinand Piëch and his powertrain chief Karl-Heinz Neumann were on a Japanese train brewing up engine ideas.