At first, Triumph Dolomites were available only as four-door saloons, but for 1938 a drophead Foursome Coupé was introduced, ...

Our senior staff writer, Richard Heseltine, got two hours with the man to interview him for Classic & Sports Car, and ...

But behind those shark-like masks lurks the key to the charm of this M-car duo – and, arguably, something no truly great BMW should be without: a straight-six engine. From a company that always took ...

Few people have gone further on less in motorsport than this likeable all-rounder, a point borne out by the miscellaneous parts heaped against the walls inside the workshop adjacent to his house in St ...

Story has it that Il Duce requested the body be removed from the Alfa and fitted by the Lancia works to a shortened (Corto) Astura Series II chassis for his favourite and youngest son, Bruno. Aged ...

This glimmer of hope brightened into significance when, in January 1946, the US granted the facility a production permit. It would be a far cry from the glamorous Mercedes-Benz output of the 1930s, ...

Not so these four-seaters. Having handed over a reassuringly outrageous sum of money for the privilege (well in excess of the cost of the average UK home in the depressed mid-’70s or, if you prefer, ...

Never one to follow fashion for its own sake, the carrozerria – founded in 1919 by Ugo Zagato, to bring the aeronautical principles of lightness and strength to the automotive world – has always been ...

Racing driver and car-constructor Max Balchowsky tweaked the Fords mechanically, fettling the 390cu in engines and otherwise making them into effective stunt cars, but it was McQueen who led the ...

NSU had been building Fiats under licence since 1930 and fell out badly with the Italians over this new model being entirely of its own conception. The car’s detractors dismissed it as yet another ...

While the Mazda 13B engine’s nominal capacity is a mere 1.3 litres, the ridiculousness of that measure becomes obvious when you level it with the RX-7’s power figure: 237bhp. And it’s thirstier even ...

“There was Prince Bira in a Maserati 250F, Tony Gaze in a Ferrari 625, Jack Brabham in a Cooper-Bristol; all sorts. “As soon as the flag dropped, everything changed. I was 13 years old and knew ...