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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

Renault’s Twingo returns, cute and electric. But is it a design great like Apple’s G3 iMac – or indeed the original Twingo? Critic Stephen Bayley referees

Opera is dead. And has been for quite a long time. I don’t care what anybody says about Poulenc and Prokofiev, I cannot be persuaded that any listenable music theatre has been written since Puccini. (

ONE OF ONE has a nice ring to it, don’t you think? Something made just for you, to fit your life, to your spec, so you can go about your day knowing there’s nothing out there that’ll match it. There a

The Jet was based on a DB4 GT platform that departed the UK in December 1960. Giugiaro rustled up a new outline with breakneck speed, while Bertone’s artisans fashioned the new body inside three month

OF ALL THE cars this fabled designer is responsible for, his favourite may or may not surprise you. It’s the archly utilitarian Fiat Panda. But we’ll get to that. ‘It is somehow easy,’ he says, ‘to cr