"The changes to this year's F1 regulations will be echoed throughout FIA accredited motorsport. And in endurance racing, the changes will perhaps be most influential on the cars YOU drive. Porsche have timed their return to endurance racing to coincide "
"And to think these used to be the butt of our Essex boy jokes. Back then, in the 1970s, when the Dagenham dustbin in its simple-lined ubiquity was king, it was only the oil crisis and the accompanying rise in "
"Lately we've been hankering after a superbike. And we're not talking about the current crop of super-clean, electronically assisted appliances that stalk the streets and track-days of the English summertime. No. We're talking about a 1980s behemoth. One of those "
"If you like schlocky, 1960s Americana, you'll probably be all over the Green Hornet. If not, you have to check out this absolute corker of a cheesy kids show, starring Martial Arts legend Bruce Lee as the faithful oriental sidekick. "
"We take our racing cars scary. And that's exactly what the Chaparral 2F is. The brainchild of Jim Hall – a Texan oilman and technical savant – the Chaparral motor racing company toward the end of the 1960s and 1970s produced a "
"We spend a good proportion of every day thinking about, looking at and messing about with cars and motorcycles. So when a car appears that makes us go all girly and silly. It's got to be something special. This 1958 BMW 507 "
"If you're thing is late period futurism: then there's little that can beat the Rainbow Concept by Bertone. With a jangle of angular lines and a manually retractable folding roof, this format not only predates Ferrari's 458 Italia by a good "
"The latest wave of the custom obsession has as much to do with humanity as it has machinery. Because mechanics are ultimately an expression of human emotion, desire and aspiration. All cults - skating, surfing, rock'n'roll - whatever - began "
"Anyone out there sick of this sodden winter? Well, we are. And nothing cheers us up and makes us dream of better light and balmier days than a car like this amazing little mini moke. It's for auction at RM, "
"The Jaguar XJR-15 was the world's first fully carbon-fibre road car. Conceived by Jaguar's sporting division in collaboration with Tom Walkinshaw Racing, the production of the car was seen as a way to get a fully specced endurance racer into "
"The cult of the Puch is now firmly established all over the planet. But John Isaac, Cornwall based style documentarian, Hot Rod aficionado and general fleet-footed downstreamer – was onto the the joys of the moped early. John was kind enough "
" Of all the racing formulas that produced stunning race cars, Group 5 is one of our favourites. And this BMW 320 Turbo is a fave among faves. The formula, which was in its deregulated niceness, was almost the precursor of Group B "
"We could write a weighty tome on the Mercedes C-111's test-bed chops. This has to be one of THE most influential cars of the late 20th century. The achievements of the last two iterations (pictured here), are gobsmacking. Originally "
"Concept cars are myths of the near future. When future-obsessed novelist JG Ballard coined that phrase he may have been thinking of the Mercedes C-111. Not that we are all driving around in bright orange, gull winged machines — but we "
"In the heady, creatively inspired days of the end of the 1960s, the whole world appeared ready to go rotary. At the Frankfurt Motor Show of 1969 the Mercedes Benz C111 was one of the most spectacular manifestations of the much "
"Suzuki RE-5 Pimped by an Astronaut and styled by Giorgetto Giugiaro, the Suzuki RE5 was powerful but fatally complex. It looked like the mid seventies super-bike it might have been – but with that ugly radiator thing up front and the "
