UNSEASONAL weather has become so common nowadays that one wonders whether climate has ceased to follow any pattern at all. African rains seem to choose their own times, Britain has…

THERE is one howl I must utter this month, which will not be restrained, and it is about the recent semi-arctic weather which afflicted the land with varying ferocity. No,…

If Winter Comes . . . ALTHOUGH we should really be shaking the moth from our leather waistcoats and getting down to Monte Carlo Rally schedules, that great Grand Prix…

Mini Design Sir, In drawing attention to your September Editorial to rho fact that the Mini was not entirely the brainchild of Alec Issigonis, as it would not have been…

There are a few matters arising out of recent events which will benefit from explanation. Plastics and paint: A reader, Mr. A. E. Heywood of Mill Hill, says he no…

Sir, THE NEW ERA SAFETY CAR I am an enthusiastic reader of your excellent magazine, own an Aston-Martin sports-car, and am a member of the Automobile Racing Club of America.…

Euro 2-litre star Lepp returns with Chevron Ex-factory Chevron and March sportscar driver John Lepp ended a 17-year break from racing by competing in the International Supersports Cup rounds at…

4x4x4 If turbocharging was the gimmick of the Eighties, four-wheel-drive is destined to become that of the Nineties. This is not to deride the efforts of the manufacturers of utilitarian…

A Rolls-Royce Book • I have read with considerable interest your review of my book "The Rolls-Royce Phantom!! Continental" in the September issuc of MOTOR SPORT and I thank you…

NEWS FROM THE U.S.A. HARRY HARTZ DOES 152 M.P.H. AT MUROC. AT the wheel of a 4-cylinder, 225-cubic inch displacement Miller Special, Harry Hartz smashed the world's one-mile Class "…

My own preference is for waste to be disposed of, as far as is practicable, as soon as it becomes available ; an engine that warms up quickly but never…

BY COVENTRY TO MODENA The Assistant Editor takes a TR3 to Italy to visit the Maserati, Abarth and Lancia factories IT is seldom possible to move very far in this…