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Opera is dead. And has been for quite a long time. I don’t care what anybody says about Poulenc and Prokofiev, I cannot be persuaded that any listenable music theatre has been written since Puccini. (

The Jet was based on a DB4 GT platform that departed the UK in December 1960. Giugiaro rustled up a new outline with breakneck speed, while Bertone’s artisans fashioned the new body inside three month

The first use of ‘sports car’ is often credited to Vauxhall’s C10 Prince Henry, but in many ways the term would be better applied to this, the earlier 20hp A-type. Disarmingly handsome, low-slung and

The Gordon GT broke cover at the 1960 Geneva motor show, and took until 1964 to reach (limited) production. It marked the jumping-off point for Giugiaro’s career as a designer: its outline made the le

Brake hard, drop to second, wipe the wheel as you thrust forwards again and gather the second apex, run wide on exit and then gun this Riley Brooklands down the very short straight accompanied by what

It’s all about the fours: four cylinders, four valves, four camshafts, all conspiring to make Porsche’s 356A Carrera the stuff of dreams. Created at the behest of Ferry Porsche himself, the Carrera’s