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The Jaguar XJ 3.4 Excellent value for money £4,998. In round figures that is the price charged for the economy-model Jaguar saloon, with manual or automatic transmission. All things considered,…

WHAT A CAR! Sir, I am enclosing a photograph which I think may prove of interest to your readers. It is a picture of my 2900 B Corto Alfa-Romeo, eight-cylinders,…

It may not be generally known that Jerome K. Jerome, author of  "Three men in a Boat" and its sequel, was a pioneer motorist, but from a chapter from another…

The Vintage Car In spite of the fact that this is nearly A.D. 1950, letters still arrive in numbers at the Motor Sport offices extolling vintage cars. The other day we fell to…

The VSCC held another genuine speed-trial meeting at Colerne aerodrome on April 25. Open only to members, it was a happy social occasion as well as a means of comparing…

THAT 1954 FORMULA Sir, I am writing to tell you about a meeting the constructors of racing ears had with Earl Howe and Colonel Barnes at the R.A.C. on Wednesday,…

To most people motor-car windscreens are of two types. one simple and cheap and the other complex and expensive. The former is the "Standard" toughened variety lifted on Most production…

THE BRIGHTON ROAD-CIRCUIT SCHEME AFTER, an interval of eight years, the scheme to construct a road-racing circuit on the South Downs, near Brighton, has been revived. It will be remembered…

Alain Prost (above, drove a commanding race at Imola to score his second victory in a 1984 World Championship qualifying round, his McLaren MP4/2 never being headed from the start…

A new sound has been born. It hails not from Liverpool nor from any other tin-pan-alley source, for this sound has a distinctly motoring note and comes from Crypton, the…

Charles March, the Earl of March and Kinrara, has been presented with the Motorsport Industry Association’s award for ‘the Most Outstanding Contribution’ to the motor sport industry. Lord March is…

The announcement that the VSCC hopes to have an Auto Union actually racing at its Richard Seaman Trophies Meeting at that so appropriate circuit Donington Park, is exciting news which…