Mark Devaney is a great Italophile and lover of all things Fiat – and not just the Dino his Tunbridge Wells-based firm 24 Hundred specialises in.

Superb handling was non-negotiable and achieved via the combination of a low centre of gravity, wide 205/60 tyres and ideal weight distribution. Thus, as the ’70s dawned, a more grown-up Lotus seemed ...

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After WW2, British sports cars were largely aimed at the US market – the few sold in the UK were too expensive for most motorists. A thriving industry emerged for sports cars in kit form using more ...

As the first standalone Ford truck design not derived from an existing passenger car, it carried over the well-proven six- and eight-cylinder flathead engines, but was based on a new chassis with a ...

These cars traded on fading memories of the make’s Grand Prix and sports-racing successes, and prioritised elegance and exclusivity over headline-making technical solutions. Cart-sprung Salisbury rear ...

Journalist, newsreader and celebrated BBC foreign correspondent Michael Buerk was a 15-year-old Brummie only just into long trousers (and discovering the delights of the James Bond books) when the ...

When the CRX Si was introduced in 1984, it was Honda’s cake-and-eat-it moment. Weighing less than anything else in its class and boasting a fizzing 12-valve, fuel-injected engine, the Civic CRX Si not ...

Decades before he famously underwent much cosmetic surgery, dated famous actresses, started a sports-car company and twisted Margaret Thatcher’s arm for the UK government to bankroll a factory in ...

“There was Prince Bira in a Maserati 250F, Tony Gaze in a Ferrari 625, Jack Brabham in a Cooper-Bristol; all sorts. “As soon as the flag dropped, everything changed. I was 13 years old and knew ...

The timely coming together of three youthful engineering wizards – Giampaulo Dallara, Paolo Stanzani and Giotto Bizzarrini – plus ace New Zealand-born test driver Bob Wallace, resulted in awesome V12 ...

Those first Lancers and Galants were American in their styling and conventional in their engineering, although the company’s ‘silent shaft’ engines provided impressive smoothness compared with rivals ...