Volkswagen Golf GTI Edition 50 is quicker than ever but loses sight of its roots
These days I need little reminding that I am no longer in the first flush, but bombarded by reminders I am on a daily basis. And this one really did…
Everybody knows you cannot judge a book by its cover but nor, it seems, can you judge a car by its photograph. In this space last month I wrote about…
It looks like a Can-Am car! That’s because it largely is. Meet the M6GT, Bruce McLaren’s personal vision of his brand’s first road car. And perhaps unsurprisingly it is based…
2002 Nissan Skyline Gt-r Crs by Nismo Sold by Broad Arrow, £403,700 Broad Arrow’s auction at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este on the shores of Lake Como might have been…
The most famous Lamborghini Countach in the world is probably the 25th Anniversary white model that Leonardo DiCaprio wrecked during his character Jordan Belfort’s chaotic, drug-crazed drive home from his…
Photography: Jayson Fong All it took was a couple of yowls and one pull on a paddle and I was back. Back at Fiorano and in the hills above Maranello…
Renault made three big mistakes with the Twingo, happily none of which applies to this fourth, new generation. The first was back in 1992 when it created the original and…
What did you make of the Ferrari Luce? You will have seen the whole gamut of opinion on social media from apoplectic, spittle-flecked traditionalists to sharp-suited, sockless tech bros patronising…
Maserati fans might have clocked the fact that the Italian marque’s Trident logo is a century old. It made its inaugural appearance in 1926 when the Maserati brothers built the…
Collecting signatures is a great hobby. It’s real thrill-of-the-chase stuff and a great way to add value to items. However, be warned that more is not always better. By this…
The Volvo ES90 is a big family saloon, a modern interpretation of those charming old land yachts that used to collect from boarding school those of us whose parents had…
I have spent the last month being swept from place to place by a Bentley Arnage, some 17 years after the last one was built – this one as it…
1967 PORSCHE 911 S Sold by Rm Sotheby’s, £233,000 Sheffield-born Magnus Walker proved that the American Dream can come true when he moved to California at 19 and set up…
Back in the 1960s, Austin found itself on such a roll with the Alec Issigonis-designed Mini that it set-out to capitalise on the basic format with the larger Austin/Morris/Riley/Wolseley/Vanden Plas…
Inflation, it’ll get you… especially when you order the extras. Our Lola T292 project is ongoing to get it ready for June’s London Historic Trophy at Brands Hatch, and I’m…
2021 Aston Martin Vantage GTE Sold by RM Sotheby’s, £190,850 Why buy one Aston Martin Vantage race car when you can have three? That’s what the owner of this V8-engined…
Regulars will remember that last month I wrote about the imminent demise of the Alfa Romeo Giulia and its 500bhp Quadrifoglio offshoot, and its forthcoming all electric replacement. I’d love…