‘the engineers watched on in horror’

JAMES ATTWOOD Illya, shall we start with your Mini, given that it’s from 2001? ILLYA VERPRAET It’s significant on a number of levels. Originally it was meant to be just a car, but BMW built a whole br

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

The first Autocar magazine of the new century was a cracker: official details of MG’s hot new roadster, the F Trophy 160 SE, conceived to do battle with the BMW Z3 via its 158bhp engine and £21,000 pr

The good thing about running two examples of the same model – 1964 Ford Galaxies in my case – is that you can contrast and compare by swapping parts around. Long before the recent round of work descri

I couldn’t agree more with Mark Tisshaw’s view that “stale Mercedes designs are underselling revolutionary cars” (Opinion, autocar.co.uk). I had a test drive in the new CLA 250+ EV recently (a superb

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