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• The Result of the Marathon So the greatest rally ever organised is over! The first six placings, confirmed as Motor Sport goes to press, are presented pictorially. From a…

A Midge Too Far? It is no secret that Sir Clive Sinclair has been planning to try to revolutionise motoring with electric vehicles; indeed, a recent advertisement placed by Sinclair…

On Tour The most relaxing three days I have had for ages! That is my verdict of the recent Avon Motor Tour of Britain which took place amongst so much…

Incorporated by Motor Sport, the 100 per cent. Sporting Journal, the Organ of Motoring Sport in the British Isles. The Spirit of the Road is no longer to be a…

GTO Engineering’s home may be in renovated agricultural buildings, but the only livestock in sight is painted on the scarlet flanks of the machinery inside. Words: Gordon Cruickshank. Photography: Charlie…

The Renault 19 is one of those essential staple products that any mass manufacturer must offer in the '90s, one of a breed stamped out by the hundred thousand. It…

i'l,-"V-^1,0.-"WwledwNedw1P"V-"e"`"eone1 MOTORING SPORTSMEN. Mr. George Newman. By THE EDITOR. MR. GEORGE NEWMAN, who is known throughout the industry as a successful trader and a keen sportsman, comes from a family…

The 24-hour race at Le Mans is now six weeks old and the vast American armada that came over and slaughtered "poor little Ferrari," to use Enzo's own words, has long since returned…

In about the best biography there is about the author PG Wodehouse, creator of Jeeves, Bertie Wooster, Psmith and Lord Emsworth, etc, who was still writing good books after the…

Ferrari 166 LM It's not often I go to view an interesting old car at Hyde Park Corner in the middle of London, but within taxi-hailing distance of the Duke…

I note a little trick in The Spectator of explaining a temporary change of writer of a particular feature article by putting at the end of it a note, "Martin…

London breeding for France's new prestige car A collection of railway arches in Hammersmith may be thought the most unlikely location for the development of France's first craftsman-built prestige car…