STOW-ON-THE-WOLD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE

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

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 seems to me that old cars are the nearest thing we have to working time machines: they are ideal for triggering memories, or even the feel and flavour of a particular era. Sports cars, of course, a

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