In May ’74, Chappe Frères et Gessalin was wound up, ending nearly 40 years of noteworthy endeavour in the backwaters of the ...

While the Bugatti Veyron, Ferrari Enzo and Porsche Carrera GT that joined them in the early-century hypercar league were technically more advanced – the Bugatti and Ferrari had paddle-operated ...

Where the fortunes of the Peugeot have ebbed and flowed, the Mercedes SLs seem always to have been in fashion, although there was a time when the ‘dish roof’ was seen as a bit of ‘bank robber’s wife’s ...

Although it was a roadgoing, productionised version of Rudolf Uhlenhaut’s W194 sports-racers, the 300 Super Leicht Gullwing ...

The Royal Automobile Club (RAC) will welcome hundreds of classic cars to Woodcote Park in Surrey, UK, on Wednesday 9 July ...

Never one to follow fashion for its own sake, the carrozerria – founded in 1919 by Ugo Zagato, to bring the aeronautical principles of lightness and strength to the automotive world – has always been ...

With great memories of an epic Gullwing road trip years ago still fresh in the mind, I don’t hesitate when asked which car I want to drive first. Getting into this 1954 300SL feels very familiar, but ...

While both look similar and use the reversed-backbone chassis that was devised for the Elan – actually just as a testbed for the Rotoflex couplings, but then incorporated into Hickman’s design – they ...

In fairness, Issigonis – architect of many of BMC’s most expensive product- and profit-related issues – was intentionally kept away from the ADO61 project, an early ’60s disaster in abeyance for which ...

Classic & Sports Car presents… British Leyland Legends is on sale now, celebrating one of the more colourful and ...

The straight-six gives British sports cars a distinctive character: their engines major on torque rather than high-rev ...