Exploring the World’s Cult Classic Cars
It was the car that looked “as if it had fallen from the sky”. In 1955, the Citroen DS stunned the motoring world when it was launched at the Paris Motor Show.
Aerodynamic, futuristic, with a huge raking bonnet and pioneering self-levelling suspension, the French car-maker took 12,000 orders on the first day alone.
It was far from the first supermini, but for more than 40 years the Ford Fiesta has held an iron grip on the small car sector.
Britain’s best-selling car for nine years on the spin up to 2017, as well as five times before that, the Fiesta has seduced more buyers than any other car on these shores since it was
It was the car that breathed new life into Vauxhall, a mile-eating motorway cruiser with sharp handling and a smooth, refined engine.
The Cavalier may not have knocked the Ford Cortina off the top of the sales charts, but it probably deserved to.
The Ford Anglia is a rarity among classic cars - it’s immediately recognised all over the world by children and young people, even if it’s as “the Harry Potter car” and not by its given name.
But among the older generation, the Anglia was already a well-known and well-loved family car long before J K Rowling plucked the forerunner to the
Toyota’s first Supra was little more than a badge on a Celica, at 110bhp a world away from the fire-breathing budget supercar it was to become.
It wasn’t until 1986 that the Supra became a model in its own right, and the car had to wait until the A80 generation in 1993 to truly catch fire.
Few big saloons of the 1970s had the cool factor in quite the swaggering way of the Ford Granada.
A bold move away from the boxy Zephyr and Zodiacs, the handsome Granada vindicated Ford’s pan-European strategy to build a car as popular in London as Berlin.
Few cars hold such an iconic place in European history as the humble Trabant, the East German people’s car that became a symbol of freedom at the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Derided in the west as the very essence of communist inefficiency and incompetence - noisy, smoky, slow and uncomfortable - the car is the subject of more myths and
The iconic bruiser from Japan has gone down in performance car folklore, as popular in video games and on the big screen as with its legion of devoted fans.
Originally a luxury saloon manufactured by the Prince Motor Company in 1957, the car evolved into the legendary Nissan Skyline GT-R, a tuner’s favourite dubbed “Godzilla, the monster from Japan” by the
In 1957 the Morris Minor was nine years old and thoughts had turned to its replacement. Enter the Wolseley 1500 and Riley 1.5, which used the Minor floorpan married to the 1489cc B-series engine - a hefty upgrade on the Minor’s 948cc unit.
But the redoubtable Minor was not ready to be confined to the annals of automotive history - not
When did you last see a Fiat 600 on the road? No, me neither. Indeed, the uninitiated may be forgiven for not even knowing the 600 ever existed, such has been the cultural dominance of the 500, the iconic little car resurrected by the Italian firm in 2007 after 32 years out of production.