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The Ford Mustang 2.3 Ghia Turbo Back to the drawing board? If there was a Worst Car of the Year Award the Ford Mustang 2.3 Ghia Turbo would surely be…

HIGH SPEEDS AND GOOD RACING AT BROOKLANDS AFEW years ago the season always opened at Brooklands with the Easter Meeting, held on the Bank Holiday. In recent times, however, an…

Miscellany.—The 1½-seater streamlined Singer Nine raced at Brooklands by F. W. Carr and others came to light in Berkshire recently, and has found a new owner. The Sky Fame Museum…

Almost in the bag Victory in the Shell Gemini Brands Hatch 1000kms race has taken the Silk Cut Jaguar team to within one step of securing the World Sportscar Championship…

USED SPORTS CARS FOR SALE (continued). H.E. 1 931 H.E. SIX, fitted Martin-Walter Special S. Sports body. Total ,mileage 5,000. Amazing performance. Magnificent appearance. Tours 65 m.p.h. As new. £135,…

Guest column – Sir Jackie Stewart It's been more than six months since Sir Jackie Stewart resigned as president of the BRDC. Motor Sport asked him for his thoughts about…

A speed trial in the best tradition of seaside sprints will be held at Weston-super-Mare on October 3rd, this annual event of the Burnham-on-Sea MC being held over a half-kilometre…

Sir, After driving for forty-five years and with well over half a million accident-free miles behind me I was recently obliged to take a driving tot as I had not…

At a roadside filling station just outside Nairobi, a car pulls up at the pumps and out clambers a burly figure in singlet and shorts, asking the African attendant to…

When the Scuderia Ferrari could no longer keep up with the German cars from Daimler-Benz and Auto Union, with their 2.9-litre "monoposto" Alfa Romeos, they made a brave attempt to salvage…

I have used Castrol oil in the engines of the cars I have owned and for topping-up the sumps of road-test cars for as long as I can remember and…

Ryan Baptiste still loves Honda's VTEC engine, but the rest of the recipe . . ? The dawn of the next millennium is almost upon us and Honda's sixth generation…