The mx-5 amplified

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

THE HANDBRAKE FULCRUM. IT’S A SMALL, INCONSEQUENTIAL piece of metal, one you’d never see unless you pulled the gaiter off and dismantled the mechanism, but somehow this ordinary component has been mad

We were spoiled for choice when it came to outlandish performance that was genuinely attainable back in the Nineties, as this super sextet of buys proves

Toyota took a lesson from the Fiat X1/9, scaling the concept up just enough to capture the former MGB market sector with a beautifully balanced, mid-engined coupé powered by an oversquare, twin-cam fo

IT’S BEEN ALMOST TWO YEARS since I handed back the key to our previous MX-5, a soft-top 2.0 GT Sport Tech (see evo 317), yet such was the impression it left on me that I still find myself periodically

Retro done right is a complicated proposition. Too much cut ’n’ paste and you’re in a world of heavy handed pastiche, the blood and bones of caricature. Too little, and your nod to the past ends up im