Super Swedes star in our brand-new, special-edition magazine Classic & Sports Car presents… Swedish Legends – and it is on ...

They can only produce cars in tiny numbers, and Austin isn’t ready for volume; it’s not something you can switch on overnight. So, before assembly moves to Longbridge in March 1953, the first cars ...

Nissan, too, could not ignore that market, for much of the Z’s production run went to North America. After the men from Dagenham and Coventry had enviously watched the Mustang’s success, Sunbeam got ...

Story has it that Il Duce requested the body be removed from the Alfa and fitted by the Lancia works to a shortened (Corto) Astura Series II chassis for his favourite and youngest son, Bruno. Aged ...

This glimmer of hope brightened into significance when, in January 1946, the US granted the facility a production permit. It would be a far cry from the glamorous Mercedes-Benz output of the 1930s, ...

Today, most in Britain are Japanese Domestic Market imports. JDM cars had smaller turbos and injectors, and less cam lift, so were not quite as powerful, at 276bhp. Japan and the USA also got ...

Not so these four-seaters. Having handed over a reassuringly outrageous sum of money for the privilege (well in excess of the cost of the average UK home in the depressed mid-’70s or, if you prefer, ...

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 ...

Racing driver and car-constructor Max Balchowsky tweaked the Fords mechanically, fettling the 390cu in engines and otherwise making them into effective stunt cars, but it was McQueen who led the ...

NSU had been building Fiats under licence since 1930 and fell out badly with the Italians over this new model being entirely of its own conception. The car’s detractors dismissed it as yet another ...

In the streamlined age, when the romance of speed hit a zenith with cars, trains and aircraft, Lycett loved long drives in his Bentley: on the return leg of a trip to Germany, from Heidelberg to ...

Nor was it the only pack created specially for the show, which from ran from Friday to Sunday (8-10 November): Lancaster Insurance also produced a commemorative edition featuring 30 cars to represent ...