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40 years on: Sir Alec Issigonis retires

40 years ago this month, Sir Alec Issigonis, creator of Britain’s best-selling motoring icons, retired. The creator of the original Mini, the Morris Minor, the Austin Maxi and Landcrab 1800 ...

Pink Micra gets the blues

A press delivery driver revealed a cunning car coverup recently, exposing a famous Nissan to be not quite what it seemed. Remember the pink Nissan Micra C+Cs? A brace of ...

Renault Vel Satis: road test memories

Renault Vel Satis guru Oliver Hammond piqued my attention via Twitter a while ago because of his efforts in building up a VelSat community. His Vel Satis forum site is ever-more ...

From the Porsche archives: Carmine Red and the Panamera GTS

Porsche has launched the most driver-focused Panamera to date with the LA Motor Show debut of the Panamera GTS. And, pleasingly, the firm has looked to the past for its ...

Vauxhall Open Tourer

The new Vauxhall Astra Cabriolet won’t be the Vauxhall Astra Cabriolet, it seems. That’s not posh enough for a brand that, says CAR magazine, is on the third phase of ...

6Music and the Lombard RAC Rally: Propaganda and Duel

Back in the days when we could watch rallying on TV, and the Lombard RAC Rally was actually called the Lombard RAC Rally, millions of us would await William Woollard ...

BMW turbos: twin power types for diesel and petrol

BMW is committed to a future of turbocharged engines, both diesel and petrol, that will enable it to drop each cylinder set down a peg. The V10 is dead, thank ...

Sterling effort: how Rover left the world’s biggest car market behind

20 years ago this week, Rover Group pulled out of the US new car market. Why? Because the business strategy was to sell upwards of 30k cars a year over ...

Make money on the McLaren F1

McLaren F1 owners are currently in possession of a potential goldmine. Literally. The price of gold is at an all-time high: on Friday, the intraday price rose to $1637.50/oz, as ...