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Matters of moment, March 1988
Auction anxieties Car auctions have flourished impressively since Lord Montagu held the first such Christie's sale at Beaulieu, many years…
Auction anxieties Car auctions have flourished impressively since Lord Montagu held the first such Christie's sale at Beaulieu, many years…
Another of the great racing drivers, Piero Taruffi, has died at the age of 82. Like Nuvolari, the handsome Italian…
Lamborghini's V12 for Formula One Lamborghini's entry into the impending naturally-aspirated Formula One engine war has been confirmed through the…
Tom cats lick American cream As important to Jaguar as victory itself in the Daytona SunBank 24-Hour race was the…
Power game At last, in the first week in February, we heard officially where the Formula One "circus" will be…
Mediocrity Although we have used the example before, January's Monte Carlo Rally now makes it even more appropriate to compare…
Markku in the murk When all Europe seemed to be enduring wind and rain in place of the customary winter…
Audacity and Adventure When the marathon trail was blazed twenty years ago from London across Europe, through Iran, Afghanistan and…
Snow wonder While most circuit activity comes to halt for the closed season, the sport of ice-racing thrives in winter,…
Tomorrow the World? January 1988 set new British records for rainfall, and for new car introductions. In a month normally…
4 x 4 x 7 What's the best type of going to show off four-wheel drive? Snow, of course. Where…
Another ace? BMW's "series two" 5-series range was beginning to show its age, but that did not stop the German…
Jack of all trades Somehow the 480 ES sits a little uncomfortably in Volvo's range. If there is one manufacturer…
Those too lazy to use their headlamps are putting the most vulnerable road-users to excessive risk, and as a cyclist…
No limits Sitting in the driver's seat, this could be either of the previous Cosworths: ahead is the well-known Sierra…
Performance uprating In the last years of the David Brown era, Aston Martin's Engineering Director Dudley Gershon fought against financial…
J-Series MGs (cont'd) I believe the fastest TT-bodied two-seater J4 performance was that of Hamilton's car, which was second in…
Thus we have a logical and consistent case for 141. There is just one fly in the ointment — the…
Strange case of mistaken identity? In response to WB's theory that the 1922 Bentley in the Donington Collection is not…
Doyen of the dozen? When Eberhard von Kuenheim, Chairman of the Board of BMW AG, described the new 750i as…
Finally, on day two of preseason testing there was genuine excitement as eagle-eyed observers noticed something unusual about Lewis Hamilton’s steering inputs to the W11. In addition to turning the…
Supposing they staged a World Championship, and nobody wanted it? Twelve rounds into the 2009 season, that’s how it is starting to look. The Belgian Grand Prix, won by Kimi…
Lawrence Tomlinson discusses Ginetta's move into the LMP1 privateer ranks It might not be Toyota swooping into the Peugeot-shaped void, but Ginetta’s commitment to make 10 LMP1s offers a much-needed…
Raced by Mike Hailwood and David Hobbs at Le Mans in 1970; painted in the celebrated Gulf livery; and prominent in Steve McQueen’s Le Mans film; this Porsche 917 K…