"8C, Disco Volante, the BAT cars, Giulia, GTA, Spider, 33 Stradale, Alfasud, and Arna (OK, perhaps not the last one). Thumb though Alfa Romeo’s rich and colourful catalogue of past models and you’ll find cars of automotive legend. Beautiful "
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Matra: Sports Car Innovators
"Which company won the European F2 Championship, F1 World Championship (drivers and constructors), 24 Heures du Mans, the World Sportscar Championship, built its own racing V12 engine AND was involved in the production, first as a supplier then as a manufacturer, "
Good Karif, is this car now the desirable brute it always wanted to be?
"I'm a child of the '80s. The early '80s. And that puts me in an awkward position. As I was growing up and developing a taste for cars - identifying badges and body shapes from my bedroom window "
Super Cinqs: the small Renaults 5s of the 70s and 80s
"It’s 1976. ABBA, Elton John and Queen are riding high in the charts, the Queen opens Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre, and when kids weren’t riding their Raleigh Choppers up and down the streets of Britain, they were glued "
MZR Datsun 240Z
"Enthusiasm and passion are marketing buzz words that tend to get thrown around about the most unlikely of subjects these days, but speaking to Rahail Tariq of MZR – the company responsible for the gorgeous Datsun 240z you see in this "
500 miles in an Abarth 695 – A good idea?
"It’s 11pm. North Devon is in the middle of a pretty nasty storm, and in the dark, wind, and icy-cold rain is a lanky figure attempting to stuff his luggage into the back of a little Abarth 695. Yep, that "
Piper GT, GTT and P2 – British sports cars with a loyal following
"There was a time when inventiveness and creativity weren't subjugated by the weight of well-meaning legislation, a time when diversity in automotive design prospered, a time when the minnows of the British motor industry produced cars like the Piper GT, "
QWest – a new breed of coachbuilder for a new millennium
"There’s something familiar about the roads leading to QWest’s HQ. Nestled in a part of Norfolk that is neither flat, city, nor Broadland, these are the roads upon which some incredible cars have been honed to perfection over "
Miura: Ghostly beginnings of the supercar
"The Lamborghini Miura is almost a ghostly presence in the motoring world. Vanishingly rare, closer to VE Day than it is to us, it was the first, true, modern supercar. The first mid-engined car designed for road, not for race. "
Cold War classics and British curiosities
"Peter Frost is a walking, talking encyclopaedia of the rare, the obscure and the unconventional vehicles to have come from behind the Iron Curtain. From Tatras to Trabants, and Wartburgs to Zaporozhets, his collection of Cold War classics is unrivalled "
Bernina GT
"These are the Engadine and Valposchiavo, Swiss valleys, famous for Saint Moritz, the world of skiing and the alpine pass roads open all year. All year except the last weekend of September, when the Bernina Gran Turismo takes place: a 5.7"
Buying a Porsche 996? a cautionary tale
"I have just sold my troubled and troublesome Porsche 996 Carrera 4S. So the front cover of October’s Octane magazine wasn’t exactly welcome in my house: “BARGAIN 911. Why the Porsche 996 is the ‘one to buy’ right now.” To be "
Jag’s F-Type now has a fjord engine
"There will be a certain set of locations which your mind has pre-packaged as appropriate for the handover of a set of key for a Jaguar F-Type. That low, lean, luscious shape lends itself to the steps of the Hotel "