Myth buster

The world is awash in restomods, continuation cars and misty eyed tributes these days, cars that lean on stories from the past to charge exorbitant amounts in the present. Monterey Car Week is the epi

The irony of our final approach to Leonardo Fioravanti’s lofty residence, perched high in the hills above Turin, is not lost on me. After emerging unscathed from a high-speed, near-1300km journey from

Or perhaps not. Anyway, for the full ‘F1 team principal on the pitwall’ vibe, the Valkyrie comes equipped with a set of purposeful motorsport cans, complete with mouthpiece and trailing cables. For th

‘AND SO THE REAL REASON THAT THE TSAR WAS overthrown was…? Smith…? SMITH?!?!’ But Smith isn’t thinking about a chilly Petrograd and the fate of Nicholas II in 1917. There is a window open in the class

The persistent (and ultimately unfounded) rumours that cabriolets would be banned in the USA in the aftermath of Ralph Nader’s landmark 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed crops up in the story of virtually

ON AVERAGE, PALM SPRINGS GETS AS little as five inches of rainfall per year, but today all of it seems to have arrived at once. Hours earlier we were being baked by intense 40-degree heat, but thick g