Geoff Burton has 49 scooters stored on two levels in his garage, and every one was made in Britain. There isn’t a Vespa or Lambretta in this collection of some very rare, some weird and some wonderful ...

As the first unitary-bodied British Ford, it was structurally over-built, much like most early monocoques, which meant Abbott could chop away at the back end without fear of the finished product ...

The X100 has endured as one of Jaguar’s most attractive, capable and commercially successful models of the past 30 years, but following privatisation in 1984 the company was in a parlous financial ...

The fact that Aston had survived at all was probably a surprise to most show visitors, given the firm’s troubled first 20 years, but the excellence of cars such as the International, Le Mans and ...

Mesmerising though these figures were, on the face of it there was no sound reason to produce what was then termed ‘the world’s fastest truck’, along with its later SUV-bodied sibling, the Typhoon.

Only trouble is, it has modest performance due to little (in the UK) or strangled (US and Japan) engines. Detroit-based marketing man Gary Kohs is convinced that Ford needs to offer a fast Fiesta, and ...

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The five-bearing 1800 (B18) unit introduced in 1961 kept the Amazon ahead of the pack, and the performance, economy, easy gearchange, and multi-adjustable and very comfortable seats were all still ...

Bought new for £7249 in 1970 (£97,500 in 2025 money), a good Mercedes-Benz 280SE 3.5 Cabriolet – one of 68 right-hookers – ...