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Thirteen-time grand prix winner David Coulthard is following the likes of Jean Alesi, Mika Häkkinen and Ralf Schumacher into the DTM. The 39-year-old Scotsman (left), who called time on his…

Sir, In an article in the November issue entitled "Cars I Have Owned," I said I thought the Jaguar XK150 was superior to the E-type. The only E-type I had then…

By Elizabeth Bennet ISBN: 0-9537930-0-1 Published by Elizabeth Bennett, £35.00 Mrs Elizabeth Bennett, besides editing the VC C's Gazette, has most industriously produced what will without doubt become the standard…

Entries for the R.S.A.C. ninth Rally close on :April 17th. Copies of the regulations are available from A. K. Stevenson, Blythswood Square, Glasgow. C.2. * * * Entries for Bic…

The Trojan Owners Club has announced its second National Two-Stroke Rally, to be held at Gaydon Motor Museum, Warks, on Sunday May 30. All two-strokes are invited – Saab, DKW,…

On the morning of qualifying at the Hungarian GP, Bernie Ecclestone and FIA president Jean Todt were all smiles when they shook hands for the cameras. As they did so,…

After a generation, the Morgan Plus Eight has finally given in to political correctness. Has the institution been thus ruined? Not likely, says Collin Goodwin I have had two hugely…

Mercedes bends... Since Motor Sport  has, quite rightly, recently had lots about Moss and Jenks, here is a bit more about the latter, when DSJ made a rare driving error.…

Sir, Mr RJ Wade’s letter (Motor Sport, April 1988) surely misses the point. It is the incorrect use of the first and second lands on motorways that causes congestion in…

The Skinner Special Sir, There is a new (and apparently little publicised motor museum. called "Automobilia", a short distance from St. Austell, Cornwall. Amongst the exhibits is an SU (Skinners…

By the 1930s, long-distance flights in light aeroplanes flown by amateur or semi-professional pilots were becoming almost too common. C G Grey, the famous and notably out-spoken editor of The…

Road Test The Vauxhall Firenza AFTER a bad spell with models which did not quite come off and cars with which both keen drivers and ordinary users found fault, Vauxhall…