Chrysler citadel, 1999

While the crises of the Seventies had ravaged much of the established car industries, Japan prospered through innovation. On the cusp of the Eighties, Tokyo showed us the future of motoring

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

ONE OF THE problems that car designers have when visiting a motor show is talking to other designers. Not about the weather but about each other’s work. Former students in senior positions at well-kno

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

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