As soon as the stunning blue-black Bugatti pulls out of specialist Ivan Dutton’s Oxfordshire base, it’s as if the supercharged coupé knows its way back to first owner Earl Howe’s estate. The return of ...

His collection includes almost every classic make, including Fender, Epiphone, Gretsch, Martin, Sigma and Harley Benton. “Each guitar is different, just like each car is different,” he says. “They’ve ...

It was a messy end to the relationship, but the birth of one of the most fascinating, often baffling, motoring stories. The entire Monteverdi marque is shrouded in a certain amount of mystery, ...

The collection includes popular classics such as a 1975 Vauxhall Firenza HPF Droop Snoot (pictured at the top of this page) and an FC Victor, as well as an example of the first 5hp Light Car of 1903 ...

Recent decades have brought a massive growth in specialists offering a plethora of upgrades to help XK owners get more out of their cars. Uprated brakes, five-speed ʼboxes and rack-and-pinion steering ...

At least part of that pining comes from the heavy rose-tint to my backward glances – after all, it was my first sports car, and bought from my late and much-missed cousin – but it was also, in so many ...

When we last published a Ford Escort Mk1 Buyerʼs guide ( Classic & Sports Car, April 2015), a show-condition RS 2000 was ...

The little MG did just that straight away, taking class honours in the 1961 RAC Rally and the following year’s Rallye Monte-Carlo, while the two streamlined fastback ‘Jacobs’ Midgets did similar in ...

The Jaguar Sovereign XJ12 Series III was on sale not far from somewhere I was due to visit in a few days, so I decided to ...

Sure, there’s no vertiginous urban landscape to get it airborne, or a vast, arid vista to admire from its vinyl Hi-Back bucket seat as you spool through The Doors’ songbook in your head. But its ...

Those are figures to which the Mazda RX-7 and Toyota Supra, now much-vaunted by coupé cognoscenti, never came close. In Europe, however, the transatlantic influences in 1975’s 280ZX and then the 300ZX ...

The Honda Insight first edged into the public consciousness at the 1997 Tokyo motor show, when the J-VX hybrid concept car on which it was based first broke cover. The aggressive hips of the J-VX were ...