The big picture

Ford Motor Company exists because of motorsport. In 1901, Henry Ford took part in his only race, a 10-mile contest against Alexander Winton in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, in a self-built 26hp car called

It is nothing new to turn a large private collection of classics into a museum, though it is less common in the UK and Europe than the USA (where the tax benefits can be considerable). Even so, to do

The locals call it a ‘baby blizzard’. It’s the sort of thing that would be declared a national emergency in the UK, but Detroit powers on. Formerly America’s most formidable industrial city, Motown ha

Sporting whitewall tyres, Ray Smith’s cream-coloured 1936 Series 62 Hudson Terraplane convertible-coupé looks every inch the classic American sedan – except it was made in Brentford, west London. Actu

It’s a petrolhead’s dream: wrestling a rusty old padlock and prising open a creaky door to unearth a classic car ripe for a loving restoration. It’s called a barn find, and there are YouTube channels

Amid impossible financial odds in 1974, Aston Martin opportunistically sought to usurp an equally sickly Rolls-Royce with this Lagonda prototype. It arguably saved the company