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New cars
Another World In a world ruled by stylists and accountants, no motor manufacturer could possibly hope to wring a quarter…
Another World In a world ruled by stylists and accountants, no motor manufacturer could possibly hope to wring a quarter…
Carrera 4: a revelation Proud of the new model as Porsche's management surely is, not quite enough emphasis was given…
More dash, less cash The new Piazza Turbo, they call it optimistically. In fact, little of it is new save…
Glamorous aberration Blower. It was a memorable tag when Bentley's race exploits filled the papers even more than Jaguar's do…
Rejuvenated flagship In a record market of 2.2 million new car registrations in 1988, it was the quality car sector…
Saab 9000 Carlsson and CDi Since his successes of nearly thirty years ago in international rallying (and particularly in the…
Barrie Price re-formed the Lea-Francis company in 1977, and soon revived this respected name on a new Jaguar-engined Leaf (Motor…
On October 23 the VSCC's annual Eastern Rally map-reading event had entries ranging from Ron Barker's towering Renault 45 and…
We hear that Morgan three-wheelers have been doing well in Australia. Stuart Harper and Phil Spencer sent their Moggys out…
Coventry's Museum of British Road Transport has been given £77,420 as a result of an appeal for funds started seven…
Airedale tale Arising from our analysis of Dorman and Riley valvegear (Motor Sport, November 1987), we have received a very…
Sir Alistair Miller, Mr Brooklands! If you had to choose, who would you call "Mr Brooklands"? Parry Thomas, perhaps, who…
Of the cars referred to above, the Viper vanished mysteriously in the 1930s but Delage II, rebuilt and re-bodied for…
Entries open on January 1 for the well-established Esso Bristol-Bournemouth Run of the Yeovil CC, for which some 350 entries…
We are well into 1928 in the Owen John W diaries, and he was pressing on as busily as ever.…
For one of the most challenging VSCC events, the Lakeland Trial, entries numbered 87 but there were seven non starters.…
The VSCC President Roger Collings has driven his 60hp Mercedes for at least 100,000 miles both as a road car…
The official results of the prolifically supported Kenco RAC Veteran Car Run show 359 starters out of 427 entries of…
Ferrari feast As in every walk of life, the modelling world is fragmented into several special interest groups. On the…
Sporting Rileys—The Forgotten Champions by David G Styles. 288pp. 91/2" x 8". (Dalton Watson plc, Russell Chambers, The Piazza, Covent…
Last night I had the great privilege of attending Norman Dewis’s 90th birthday party. Held at Jaguar’s Castle Bromwich plant, with C-types parked outside and the prototype D in the…
After crashing during Saturday’s practice session, Dario Franchitti bounced back to drive a perfect race at St Petersburg on Sunday. The double IndyCar champion took the lead from pole winner…
Rubens Barrichello (1st) An absolutely perfect race for the Brazilian. He looked just like a certain Brit at the start of the season, produced the fast laps when he needed…
MotoGP esport is better than no racing at all, but it seems like some fans might be confusing the two