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Vauxhall Motors will mark its centenary year with a recreation of the 1000-mile trial of 1903 this May. Including veteran and vintage cars as well as cars from later periods,…

BENTLEY TALK WITH JAY LENO (JUST DON'T TELL JAGUAR) THERE AREN'T MANY PEOPLE with whom I can indulge my borderline obsessive interest in vintage Bentleys, but an invite to share…

To be first you must first be fit To race a 21st Century sports car flat out round Sebring for 12 hours you need drivers who are not only fast…

The gearchange is not bad, but feels totally different. Obviously the Carrera 2 is a road car. The steering doesn't feel so responsive to me. It feels less taut but…

The first owner of a 1937 Packard 120 d.h. coupé, JG 9450, who drove it until 1951 trouble free and then sold it back to Leonard Williams, the Concessionaires, as…

Rapier Register The new Secretary of the Rapier Register, which caters for owners of Rapiers and Lagonda Rapiers (not Sunbeam Rapiers !), is now C. B. Wragg, 45, Hastings Road,…

VSCC Colerne THE annual speed trial over a standing-start kilometre, with times for the quarter-mile and kilometre and speed over the finishing line, was held on the airfield near Bath…

Another ace? BMW's "series two" 5-series range was beginning to show its age, but that did not stop the German company from selling 700,000 of them since the mild face-lift…

The 4.9-Litre Sunbeams Success after Success far the Indianapolis-engined Cars. Louis Coatalen, Chief Engineer and Director of the Sunbeam Motor Car Co. of Wolverhampton, was a great motor-racing enthusiast, who…

Sir, I write to praise Donington Park and the BARC for a superb BOSS Formula meeting. To witness recent F1 machines was a rare treat Anyone expecting a bunch of…

Four weeks after Tom Walkinshaw Racing's resounding victory in the Daytona 24-Hour race, the Jaguars came very close to defeating the Porsche establishment again in the second round of the…

The Renault 30 TS Expensive but technically worthy ON APRIL 25 of this year a most significant Renault went on sale in its native France, offering more of everything than…