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A FWD petrol conserver of the make which won the E. African Safari and for which pro-British Graham Hill has fallen Variety is the spice and the road-test Jaguar XJ12…

Aston Martin's quest for glory on its return to Le Mans was thwarted as gremlins hobbled the two DBR9s in the closing stages of this year's 24-hour enduro. Car number…

The Sportscar World Championship came to an end at Magny-Cours, France, on October 18 when Peugeot inflicted another comprehensive defeat on Japanese rivals Toyota and Mazda. Just eight cars took…

Too long in the tooth for the track, a squadron of Alfetta engines found a new arena of combat By Doug Nye When Denis Jenkinson died in 1996 I fell…

Length of circuit: 12km. 600. Length of race: 40 laps, 504kma. Previous Winners 1928, (Bartio circuit). Lehoux (Bugatti). 1929. (Bardo circuit). Brilli Peni (Alfa-Romeo). 1931. (Carthage circuit). Varzi, (Bugatti). 1932.…

Vehicle Excise Duty — Tax on Possession This proposal has put me in mind of an excellent way of reducing the effects of ever increasing shop-lifting. Why not simply le,…

Kent Karslake discusses the piston speeds and bore dimensions as judging engine efficiency To the readers of MOTOR SPORT at least, all things it seems, come to him who waits.…

He’s focused on the BTCC these days, but Mike Earle’s varied motor sport career stretches back over half a century By day with Mike Earle begins with a fried egg…

The VSCC has expanded significantly since a group of young enthusiasts founded it in 1934 to encourage the preservation, and especially the use, of what they regarded as proper sportscars,…

Places mean cars, don't they? Hear the word `Maranello' and you think of something red with yellow shields on its flanks. Similarly, 'Weissach' is synonymous with Porsche, and when I…

No more hot-rods — that's the decision of the organisers of the Carrera PanAmeri cana. Increasingly dominated lately by virtually new 200mph lookalikes of period machinery, the trans-Mexico marathon on…

IH IE IR E. arid IF ERE m s haft" Bentleys and World Markets. THE efforts of the British motor industry to develop their export markets both in the Colonies…