Luckily, the enthusiastic CEO of Swindon Powertrain knows how to drive his business in the right direction – and that’s with ...

Production cars were based on the 911 Carrera 3.2 rather than the regular turbo variant, due in part to it being marginally ...

Motoring history has few father-and-son associations as rich as that of the Bugatti dynasty. Jean was no match for his father Ettore’s diverse design output, but he clearly garnered a natural feel for ...

Angelo Maniero was not the first, nor indeed would he be the last, to forge his own path as a car builder thanks to the obstinacy of others. Ferruccio Lamborghini had given Il Commendatore the ...

Under the bonnet, the final development of WO Bentley’s handsome overhead-cam, twin-plug ‘four’ was tuned with a lightened flywheel, increased 6.3:1 compression, drilled valve-spring caps, lighter ...

Thump. A blow to the face knocked Richard Austin to the floor. He regained his senses to the sound of crunching glassfibre and a blaring car alarm: three or four men were using a Ford Sierra Cosworth ...

Though not a North Yorkshire native, Derek Mathewson’s no-nonsense approach to buying and selling cars perfectly suits the down-to-earth reputation of his surroundings – and seems to have struck a ...

There will always be people with more money than sense, and it was for this rarified clientele that Enzo Ferrari sanctioned the creation of the 500 Superfast. That is not the same as saying you had to ...

Just over a year later, three of the latest RS model, the P7b 20M RS, were entered into the London-Sydney Marathon rally. Two completed the event, the highest of them placing seventh in a competition ...

Given today’s global motor industry with its globally homogeneous products, it’s easy to forget how even the biggest multinationals once espoused localism, offering distinctly different models made in ...

Born in 1938, Jankel was brought up in the East End of London. His father, Alexander, ran a wholesale clothing business, and there was an assumption that Bob would join its ranks when he was old ...

Think of the Dolomite Sprint and it conjures the image of a moustachioed man in an Afghan coat, with a Woodbine hanging out of the window, on a wet street in Birmingham. The sort of bloke who smelts ...