Patrese had jumped out of his V8 Juddpowered Formula 1 Williams after first qualifying on the Friday afternoon of the 1988 Italian Grand Prix and straight into a mount that wasn’t perhaps quite as dif

John Simister gets under the skin of six classics that are now officially ‘historic’

How quickly empires can fall and dynasties wither. Within living memory the Rootes Group, once one of the key players in the UK’s booming motor industry, was producing a range of sports saloons that w

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How was it that the Mini became ‘cool’ during the Swinging Sixties? We investigate by attempting to separate fact from fiction

If you told a Triumph dealer in 1965 that less than two decades later the famous name would have been last seen on a British-built Honda, they would probably have regarded you as an eccentric. Some 60