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The question "What is a sports car?" is as old as the sports car itself! Under the heading "Sports Cars" in the classified advertisements of contemporaries we find the following…

15 TO I Sir, I laying recently returned from a year in the U.S.A., where my wife and I drove a secondhand VW Microbus 24,000 almost trouble-free miles through 31…

Sir, I have just read your article on the Jim Clark Room and it brought to mind an incident earlier this year. A party of American walkers and bird watchers…

Sir, If the gear-box fitted to Christopher Matthews' Humber 9/20 (MOTOR SPORT, July, p. 784) really came from a 1922 Austin Ten, it is not surprising that synchromesh assistance was…

Watches Built for Rough reatment mOTORISTS are pampered creatures ; they have clothes specially designed for them, hats, spectacles—and now watches. It all began with the now famous " Schneider…

AUSTINS ADOPT THE HAYES SELF-SELECTOR TRANSMISSION. Sir Herbert Austin is to be congratulated upon his courage and enterprise in offering to the public the Austin Sixteen fitted with the Hayes…

THE-SORROWS OF A SCRAMBLER—continued. after, a well-known lady rider is overtaken, bumping merrily along with her usual cheery smile. We then slide down a vertical drop with locked wheel, only…

A 1,000 h.p. Acre-Engine Sir, Having been a constant reader of your most interesting magazine since it was the days of The Brooklands Gazette, you will realise that I am…

"The young market is something the Americans are terribly aware of, and quite rightly, but the message obviously has not penetrated to lorry-minded Lord Stokes and his board. ... Within…

Massive computing power allows a British company to streamline and test cars before they’re built, and even drive them virtually By Gordon Cruickshank Success has been heading Acura’s way in…

Meeting Zak Brown Marketing boss on racing with boyhood heroes and doing deals with Bernie Many of you may not have heard of Zak Brown. He competed in British Formula…

It is not often that Motor Sport has reason to mention Skoda cars, but we couldn't let a 90th anniversary pass without comment. The firm was founded in 1894 by…