Launched in 2016, it’s essentially a Giulia Quadrifoglio with a BMW X3-sized SUV body on top. It has just been refreshed for ...

Marketed as a ‘924 GTP’, Porsche’s four-cylinder entry at Le Mans in 1981 was in fact a thinly disguised prototype of the 944 ...

The idea of two stylish open-top sports cars entering this chaos and making it through to production appeared to be an almost impossible ambition. Yet the Fiat Barchetta and Alfa Romeo 916 Spider ...

This was not a car evolved with the ruthless calculation underpinning, say, a Ford Cortina. Yet it had a coherent logic of its own, both aesthetically and commercially. Tying the proportions of the ...

With their feisty twin-cam four-pots, five-speed transmissions, fine handling and top-drawer styling from the biggest name in the business – Pininfarina – these endearing soft-tops represent to the ...

The concept had been previewed before WW2 – open-topped versions of the KdF Wagen had been seen as early as 1936 – but not until 1949 did this officially sanctioned drophead conversion get the green ...

In an attempt to reduce these speeds, a 3-litre engine capacity limit was introduced, effectively banning the 917 from competition. But anyone who thought the model’s career was finished was in for a ...

“However, it had only done 38,000 miles and had a beautiful interior – still with the factory BMC plastic on the rear seats. Compared to others I’d seen, the floorpans, chassis rails and spring ...

Their children would see a ride in the car as a treat and the vehicle itself as a thing of wonder, even if the car-spotters among them might have been bored by the home-grown homogeny of other traffic ...

This off-road event pitted the London Motor Club against the British Army Motoring Association at a military training base near Aldershot. Clark, competing for the London MC, got bogged down in one of ...

Though expensive, most sold before they were built. Comprehensively re-engineered, including hydropneumatic rear suspension to reduce squat under acceleration, its 16-valve twin-cam head and ...

Following an all too brief period of growth in the aftermath of the Great War, British car production had plummeted by 50% in 1920, not helped by the Treasury switching from a graduated system of ...