British car makers also saw the layout’s appeal, and while theirs tended to be marginal players at the upper end of the ...

BMW ’s dynasty of compact performance heroes, the Rolls-Royce Camargue at 50, a much-loved Simca and lots more – the latest ...

R&J Simpson is best known for its work on aluminium monocoques for Formula racers, covering roughly the Cosworth DFV era of Formula One, plus countless Formula Two and Formula Three cars. “Often we ...

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A slightly heavy clutch makes it difficult to pull out of a junction without at least a chirrup from the rears, but the Cobra resists the one-wheel-peel of a muscle car thanks to the standard-fit Powr ...

This Oldsmobile Toronado has serious wow factorFeatures ...

At the time he owned a Bristol 404, an elegant coupé whose rear wings had small fins, vestiges of the 450’s, and it was through enthusiastic research that Boré discovered the 450 Le Mans. Of the four ...

Or maybe Diana Dors; after all, she famously owned a Saoutchik Delahaye. In the end, the big Daimler’s closest brush with big-screen glamour was a cameo role in the 1953 Norman Wisdom comedy Trouble ...

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 ...

But I’m right about a few things. The engineers and designers were hugely talented and enthusiastic and, above all, able to work very quickly with very limited resources. The result of the quickfire ...

The automatic transmission was also criticised for jerkiness at high revs: Mercedes persisted with its in-house fluid-coupling auto until the final US-model W108/9s in 1971-ʼ72. Topping the range of ...

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 ...