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AN EXCELLENT ESTATE CAR— THE VAUXHALL FRIARY VELOX TII E exceedingly spacious Vauxhall Friary V elox Estate car which MOTOR SPORT tested last month is far from being a sports…

Donington Park's annual SMMT testday gave us the opportunity to drive a convincing testimonial to the capability and durability of the Sprintex supercharger, and to compare it with its Turbo…

I have heard that the Jockey Club is investigating riders who are deemed to have deliberately held back a hone. Rather curious, surely, that we never heard such complaints at…

Sir, Looking recently through a copy of an aviation year-book for 1931, I noted that amongst the civil aircraft registered for that year, was a DH60 Moth, G-ABAG, owned by…

— a cliff-hanger Maybe Jochen Mass made the most prophetic remark after winning at Vallelunga, when he commented that the cars would get better, and the drivers would get used to…

Sir, The picture of Tom Delaney and Willie Green commemorating Donington Park's 70th anniversary, in the news pages of the May issue of Motor Sport, was lent added interest by…

The Jaguar that will bring the historic marque back to the Le Mans 24 Hours is on course to race on British soil later this year. Paul Gentilozzi’s RSR team,…

BMW is a team with no time to waste – not if it is to overcome Ferrari and McLaren for its first win in F1 By Rob Widdows The man…

"Rolls-Royce — The History of the Car" by Martin Bennett. 184 pp. 111/2 in x 83/4 in (Haynes Publishing Group, Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset, BA22 7JJ. £8.95) The past month has seen…

The FIA European Sportscar Championship of the 1970s will be recreated in 2011 after the Historic Sports Car Club announced plans to run a new pan-European series for 2-litre sports-racing…

Part One of this article endeavoured to give some idea of the process by which the pneumatic tyre evolved, in an atmosphere of close secrecy, from a short-lived, very expensive…

A few items of motoring interest occur in "Terence Rattigan — The Man and His Work" by Michael Darlow and Gillian Hodson (Quartet Books, 1979). The great playwright's grandfather, Sir William…