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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…
Coventry's Museum of British Road Transport has been given £77,420 as a result of an appeal for funds started seven…
On October 23 the VSCC's annual Eastern Rally map-reading event had entries ranging from Ron Barker's towering Renault 45 and…
Airedale tale Arising from our analysis of Dorman and Riley valvegear (Motor Sport, November 1987), we have received a very…
We hear that Morgan three-wheelers have been doing well in Australia. Stuart Harper and Phil Spencer sent their Moggys out…
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…
We are well into 1928 in the Owen John W diaries, and he was pressing on as busily as ever.…
Entries open on January 1 for the well-established Esso Bristol-Bournemouth Run of the Yeovil CC, for which some 350 entries…
The official results of the prolifically supported Kenco RAC Veteran Car Run show 359 starters out of 427 entries of…
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…
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…
MotoGP’s minimum tyre pressure rules will be enforced for the first time in 2023, which will have a huge effect on the racing. For a start, top engineers believe there will be less overtaking and more crashes
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring victory at the Mille Miglia for our very own Denis Jenkinson and the loss of two motor sport greats May 1…
In the MotoGP paddock at Silverstone this week there was a great deal of talk about cost-cutting, about the pros and cons of the new CRT bikes which have been…
This season is an important landmark, not only because it’s MotoGP’s 75th anniversary championship but because it introduces the biggest schedule shake-up in history. So will Saturday’s sprint races be MotoGP’s saviour, or merely a case of quantity over quality?