Stephen bayley

The cars at Hampton Court’s concours event combine the weird, the wonderful and the very expensive. And then there’s the people…

The concours world exists in a strange parallel universe. Participants often spend huge amounts of money on buying and restoring a classic, only to watch on while a bunch of strangers wearing white Pa

Renault will offer 100 cars from its heritage collection for sale via Artcurial on 7 December. Ranging from early examples to modern-classic concepts, the lots due to go under the hammer include a var

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A REMARKABLE c1904 Opel Darracq is set to make its debut on the RM Sotheby’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Run on 2 November. Discovered stashed in the basement of a Hanover technical university in 1

They said Antonio – later ‘Tony’ – Lago was ‘spietato ma con grande fascino’ (which is to say ‘ruthless, but charming’). And they said of his most famous car that it was ‘une veritable oeuvre d’art’.