The Fiat 500 Giardiniera can muster all of its 17.5bhp to cruise at 80kph (50mph) Driving pleasure is not simply a question of high performance or an expensive car. The Fiat can be manoeuvred with the ...

Introduced a year after the facelifted 987 Boxster, initially only in Cayman S form with near-911 power, it was soon joined ...

The Hillman Minx Californian is from an era when British car makers still clung to the belief they could palm off Americans with half-baked versions of what they already had in abundance.

According to Gianni Rogliatti’s 1992 book, Ferrari Ecurie Garage Francorchamps, the car – originally in grey with burgundy ...

As the ’70s rolled on, Rolls-Royce continued to improve the Corniche (and the Shadow), the most noticeable changes being the adoption of Burman rack-and-pinion power steering and less attractive, ...

Nigel and Graham Swift established Custom Chrome 47 years ago. Catering for all ages of classic cars, commercial vehicles and motorcycles, their bespoke exhaust systems have won them a global audience ...

The BMW 328’s twin kidney grilles, beneath the famous blue-and-white roundel. And what looks right is right, as is so often the case: the body ties the car together in a smooth ...

The Renault Avantime, to its rapidly growing band of sympathisers, is the perfect answer to the old dilemma of how to combine hard-to-define classic charm with modern-car practicality. The Avantime ...

Eight-cylinder MGBs, celebrating Toyota Land Cruisers and a glorious Humber – all these and more are inside the brand-new Classic & Sports Car, on sale now. Can’t get enough of the latest issue? Here ...

Awesome autos Today, automatic transmissions are steadily becoming the default way of shifting gears in the majority of new combustion-engined cars. But back in the 1970s, a torque-converter auto – or ...

Today, 8 EMO is believed to be the only works Mini Cooper ‘S’ to have been fitted by BMC with all three ‘S’-specification engines. Eventually, after navigating some stop-startery, the traffic melts ...

The Isabella captured the mood perfectly and would prove to be by far Borgward’s best-selling and most profitable model, with 26,000 sold in 1955 alone as production got into its stride. Its ...