For all their apparent differences, the Lancia Thema 8.32 and Lotus Carlton share plenty. Both were created for the same reason: a large car manufacturer conferring its more exotic connections on to a ...

Tony Collins, the founder of I Say, Ding Dong!, concedes that his business has “a silly name”.

Ford Zodiac MkII, Standard Vanguard Vignale, Austin A105 Westminster and Vauxhall Cresta PA gather as we rewind to the 1950s.

Despite Ferrari’s trademark, lightning-quick rack and trick rear-wheel steering, the 12Cilindri has natural responses whichever ‘ manettino ’ driving mode is selected on the steering-wheel-mounted ...

The R100’s case was helped by notable success in endurance events: in 1969, R100s won the Grand Prix of Singapore and Suzuka ...

“Jaguar knew nothing of the R9R project, but when John Egan heard about it he instructed Tom to name it a ‘JaguarSport’, as ...

The Letchworth outfit reanimated the proposal in early 1971 after tobacco company HO Wills was coerced by Ogle chairman John ...

The National Technical Museum is much like London’s Science Museum in its scope, but with the Czech Republic not having a single national motor museum that covers all marques, its transport collection ...

“However, it had only done 38,000 miles and had a beautiful interior – still with the factory BMC plastic on the rear seats. Compared to others I’d seen, the floorpans, chassis rails and spring ...

The well-proven and durable straight-six, arranged in two groups of three-cylinder iron blocks with a single detachable iron (later aluminium) cylinder head, now had a narrower bore but longer stroke ...

The concept had been well tried for many years before 1953, by Meccano in Liverpool, where Dinky Toys were produced. Yet really these were the preserve of the wealthy middle classes. A Dinky ...

When the 60th-anniversary event happened in 2015, the brand had been dormant for 20 years; this time more than 1000 Alpines returned home, representing around 2.5% of all the cars produced so far.