The only car that shouts ‘1980s’ louder than a Guards Red 911 Turbo is a Guards Red 911 Turbo ‘Flachbau’ or ‘flat nose’ – the look inspired by Porsche’s 935…
If you think cars can only be fun if they have 1000bhp engines and bulbous coachwork covered in spoilers, splitters and winglets, this month’s dealer car might not be for…
Wandering around the big hangar at the last Sunday Scramble at Bicester Motion, my eyes were drawn to the squat but somehow still beautiful red racing car parked in the…
That’s the best an NSX has ever looked Isn’t it stunning? And that’s saying something because Honda’s original NSX of 1990 was a bit of a design wonder in its…
Aston Martin’s futuristic Lagonda was for years given a wide berth by collectors fearful of its famously fragile electronics, but now the wedge-shaped wonder penned by William Towns has come…
Genuine Ferrari 360 Challenge race cars have surged in value in recent years, with prices climbing from a low of around £100,000 during the 2010s to as much as half…
Back in 1974 Porsche created the 911 Carrera RSR Turbo 2.1. Despite being the Stuttgart firm’s first ever 911 turbo racer, it finished second overall at Le Mans beating every…
In 1931 Barbara Cartland organised an all-female motoring event at Brooklands. British Movietone News had been there in November 1931 to capture the action of the Society Ladies’ Private Handicap;…
Have you seen the reboot of The Grand Tour? Probably not if you’re not an Amazon Prime subscriber, but if you like car shows actually presented by car people, you…
Can you think of a worse time to have launched a business selling an expensive, single-seat racing car for the road than 2009, just months after markets went into meltdown…
There’s always a bit more to be done to a car, however long you feel you’ve left a top engineering team to build it. You expect that satisfying closure of…
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…
