For Jethro Harris, his Aston Martin Vantage V8 coupé is a dream come true, albeit one tinged with sadness. “I’ve always loved the model,” he says, “but unfortunately mine was an inheritance purchase.

Marketed as the quickest roadgoing Bentley ever, the world’s fastest four-seater and the first all-new (not Rolls-Royce-derived) Bentley model since 1931, the Continental GT would go a long way to rec

↳ WHAT TO PAY £60,000–£80,000 ↳ WHY YOU SHOULD Ferrari will never build a naturally aspirated open-gate manual supercar ever again (probably) ↳ WHY YOU SHOULDN’T The sills rot, it looks a bit startled

Amid the industrial agonies and political intrigues that dogged the British Leyland empire in the 1970s, the MGB GT V8 is definitely one of the brighter spots. Rather like the Daimler SP250, it was a

This ‘brutal’ Bentley makes more of a cost-conscious Aston alternative which, if you buy right, shouldn’t cost any more than a Silver Spirit or Brooklands to run. What’s not to like?

Something is not right. Racing cars are meant to be more difficult to drive than road cars; extra power and performance but less harnessed, so trickier to access and control than with the engineering