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A tax on prestige In this country we pay tax on our earnings and on interest on capital, additional tax on high earnings, tax on company profits. Our marriages, houses, dogs, guns…

Road Impressions of a Six-Cylinder Disc-Braked Luxury Car with a Famous Name The Wolseley 6/99 has a famous name illuminated on the radiator grille after dark, extending back to the birth pangs…

To coincide with the Geneva Motor Show, leading figures from the world of automobile design were on hand to judge the Louis Vuitton Classic Awards 2008/09. Among others, Toyota design…

Your enthusiast cannot help feeling a trifle depressed, for his personal motoring is seriously curtailed by fuel rationing essential to the conduct of hostilities, and, since this strangest of wars…

Plan your year with Moffat, Brock, Johnson... If you've never been to Mount Panorama in Australia for the Bathurst 1000 — surely the most magnificent road circuit in the world…

Entries for the Eight-Clubs' Silverstone Meeting of races and high-speed trial(s) close on May 20th. There will be special arrangements of grouping in races and payment of "starting money." Details:…

An honest report on one of the greatest of present-day cars. Over 100 m.p.h. in a short-chassis saloon WE are as unlikely ever to own a V12 Lagonda as are…

The Evergreen Delage It is always very comforting when a car you fancy does well, and Seaman's win on the Grand Prix Delage in the Isle of Man more than…

BRITISH SUCCESSES ABROAD. In the Hungarian Winter Reliability Trial, Mr. F. Lukavecz riding a 1.72 h.p. Francis-Barnett won his category and was awarded a gold medal. What is even more…

As we went to press, British Motorsport was facing a three-way state of emergency: Silverstone was threatened with the removal of its 2002 grand prix to Paul Ricard in France.…

Having suggested that a Ford Sierra of around four years old might be a good proposition for anyone buying a roomy, dependable, well-contrived car for a low outlay. I am…

Ripeness is All From the academic point of view, the 200-mile Race at Donington Park last month had much to commend it. First of all there was the remarkable spectacle…