Rear of the year

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

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 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

OF ALL THE cars this fabled designer is responsible for, his favourite may or may not surprise you. It’s the archly utilitarian Fiat Panda. But we’ll get to that. ‘It is somehow easy,’ he says, ‘to cr

ONE OF ONE has a nice ring to it, don’t you think? Something made just for you, to fit your life, to your spec, so you can go about your day knowing there’s nothing out there that’ll match it. There a

The Nineties produced some of the most capable, varied and driver-focused all-wheel drive cars ever, but can the old guard here put up a fight against the newer kids on the block?