The pursuit of perfection

The Bolide marks the end of Bugatti’s VW Group era and its mighty W16 engine. We get to grips with this weapon of a car

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

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

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

A 60-YEAR-OLD car with just over 20,000 miles on the clock, no matter what the marque, is a rare beast. That it had remained in the same ownership all its life is unusual, and that it should survive u

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. (