The 1930s pickup that’s a 1,000bhp hot rod

IT’S BARELY TWO months since I was gushing over Mazda’s bone-stock 1.6-litre heritage fleet car on these pages, so the idea of replacing that engine with a 3.0-litre V6 (of more than twice the power!)

It has been a hectic season for the Stovebolt Special: 11 hillclimb weekends, two hillclimb schools, and 3000 rapid road miles getting to and from them. And one serious breakage. That was sorted in ti

I have many happy memories at Blyton Park, near Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. These range from trying to tame the mighty, maleficent Porsche 997 GT2 RS to flying off the end of the back straight in a Gl

PRODUCTION OF THE FORD FOCUS HAS just ended for good, and that means the Focus ST has joined the likes of the Renault Sport Mégane, Hyundai i30 N, Honda Civic Type R and Ford’s own Fiesta ST in the gr

HUDDERSFIELD, WEST YORKSHIRE

T HE CAR PARK AT OUR HOTEL HAS TAKEN ON THE role of a truck stop. It’s early Monday morning and what would ordinarily be a sleepy nook behind a retail park in southeastern France has become a temporar