Gear

If any vehicle is emblematic of the declining value of pre-war machinery, it is this 1927 Star Vela. The last-known six-cylinder Star to survive in the UK, it’s for sale at just under £30,000 – or rou

As new models become ever more bloated and indistinguishable from one another in their visual appearance, is it any wonder that car designers are inclined to look over their shoulders at their marques

‘The experience [of driving it] is like carrying a TV remote for the world… everywhere you go, you can hit pause and everyone around you comes to a standstill,’ says California-based collector Phillip

Once they headed the company car parks of Eighties Britain, now these executive icons offer prestige, nostalgia and pure driving pleasure from £5k. But which of these trading-floor titans best rewards the shrewd classic motorist?

YOU’LL PAY: £45,000 YOU’LL LOOK LIKE: A LOTTERY WINNER ON THEIR WAY TO THE GREEK PILLAR EMPORIUM Has the 360 finally aged out of its blobby phase and into used Ferrari temptation? Though its curves we

In 1976 Lancia brought out the Gamma, a luxury saloon that took the place of the Flavia 2000. It had a flat-four engine of 1998cc or 2484cc, but it was withdrawn in 1984, after 15,296 had been built,