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The mechanical soft-touch isn't always best, says David Williams; sometimes brutality has the edge Suppose Freddy Loix hadn't had the puncture, what then? Rui Madeira looked thoughtful. It would, he…

Always one of the best European Motor Shows, this year's 50th Geneva Show was packed with even more interest than usual. Star of the Show was the exciting four-wheel-drive Audi…

The Italian built SCAT motor car is in my mind just now because a rather covetable little racing car, not of this make but having close associations with it, as…

The surface of the pleasant little 4.193-kilometre Zandvoort circuit having been put into good shape, the KNAC were permitted to organise a Grand Prix to count for the World Championship…

Rene Lalique

MATTERS OF MOMENT • THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS "The maxim of the British people is 'Business as tauar" — Winston Churchill. This is the last issue of MOTOR…

F1 96 World Championship Photographic Review. Vine House Books, £21.95 Of similar size to its stablemate, this volume also packs a wad of photos but no captions! Three quarters of…

Two very different enthusiasts' cars of the early post-vintage period were the AC Bertelli four-cylinder Le Mans Aston Martin and the six-cylinder Blackburne Frazer Nash. Both sold for £595 in 1933,…

THE NEXT RAG. RALLY BLACKPOOL THE VENUE THE 1938 R.A.0 Rally will be the seventh of the series and Blackpool has been chosen as the venue. Blackpool has much to…

We feel that no better obituary to Ken Wharton can be offered than that which attained the Editorial column of the Sunday Express dated January 13th :— "Happy are those…

Sir, I admire your journal very much, especially regarding your mentioning the names of cars which have not been a source of pleasure to their owners. Other national motor magazines…

Mayman benefit Full grandstands, sunshine and an entry of 222 drivers ensured another successful day’s racing at Silverstone on June 34. First on the agenda was an aerobatic display by…