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With the Ford Escort being Britain's and the world s best selling car a mid-term revision of the range is a more than averagely interesting event. Externally, the differences are…

0(414 ......?0?11111111, BUGATTI O.C. Prescott seems very much destined to become a very big development. A dub meeting has been wheduled for May 15th, with open dates on Sunday, July…

Sir, I note the reference to the CD Bradford vehicles which Jowett Cars Ltd. were running in prototype form when car production ceased at Idle in 1954. I visited the…

RACING IN THE RAIN trwo recent Grand Prix races have revived discussion about a problem that is as old as motor-racing : the problem of rain. In the Belgian Grand…

Concluding Our Series On Lady Drivers Patsy Burt probably vies with Jean Bloxam as the most successful post-war lady competition driver and at the time of our visit she was waxing…

Naish hillclimb Sir, I was interested to see in the article "Motoring with Bill Little" a photograph of an event at the Naish hillclimb, near Bristol. Meetings regularly took place…

Happily, vintage cars are still being discovered — and restored. A 1921 10.4hp Calthorpe which has been off the road since the 1950s, and was given Morris 8 wheels when…

Improved 1300 & 1600 models Two new o.h.c. cars It is a trifle over eight years since the Mk. 1 Cortina was introduced to the British public, and since that…

Former Le Mans winner Andy Wallace returned to the wheel of a Jaguar sports-prototype for the Group C race at Monza in October. Driving alongside Justin Law in an IMSA XJR10…

For 2012, the FIA aims to make safety car restarts more exciting by removing lapped cars from the leading group. These will be allowed to unlap themselves and join the…

What splendid pictures compose the 2002 Motor Sport Calendar. Not only do the LAT photographs constitute an evocative recall of important pre-war races, from 1922 to 1939, but I like…

The Phoenix Park Races. ENTRIES so far received for the races to be held by the Irish Motor Racing Club in Phoenix Park on September 16th total twenty-two. Of these…