Classic & Sports Car
MOKE IS A TIME CAPSULE
The Alex Issigonis-designed Mini Moke was originally intended for military use as a lightweight, go-anywhere vehicle that could be dropped by parachute. On test it failed, mainly due to its small wheels and low power, so it was repurposed for recreational use. In this form it was produced from 1964-'68, with 14,518 cars made at Longbridge. It was also built in Australia and Portugal.
2 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
CHEVY MASTERS EPIC RALLY
HERO-ERA's Peking to Paris Motor Challenge, from 17 May-22 June, was the event's ninth running.
5 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
Thunder Cats
The Jaguar XJ220 had a famously troubled gestation, but the 200mph supercar's limelight was almost stolen by an in-house skunkworks rival. How does the XJR-15 measure up?
10 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE BRAVE
After a successful visit to the Normandy beaches for the 80th anniversary of D-Day in June 2024, a new trip appeared on the horizon for the Jeep this year.
5 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
JIM KRIER
This expat collector with an eye for Volkswagens has amassed an eclectic hoard
2 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
On the verge of greatness
Monteverdi never quite made the mark its founder intended, but its early cars had rare appeal - as this immaculate 375L reveals
8 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
Martin BUCKLEY
Material from the BBC's 'golden age' tends to be recalled through a heavily rose-tinted lens. Apart from Fawlty Towers, certain Monty Python skits and a few documentaries, I'm not sure it was all that wonderful. Independent television seemed garishly commercial for middle-class tastes: nobody at my school was forbidden to watch it, but I've since learned that plenty of '70s posh kids were. But for all its cheesy game shows and episodes of Crossroads, ITV was the home of exciting action series of the ITC genre - The Persuaders!, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and The Saint are my earliest memories - and that was good enough for me.
2 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
Simon TAYLOR
A pleasing side effect of the ballyhoo surrounding F1: The Movie is remembering down-to-earth Irishman Martin Donnelly. Lewis Hamilton, one of the film’s producers, asked him to provide personal insights for a spectacular crash sequence and its aftermath.
2 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
Mick WALSH
The Cartier Style et Luxe at this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed celebrated four special anniversaries. They included Invicta, Alpina and the Ford Transit, but at 100 years old the Rolls-Royce Phantom is the longest-running model in automotive history (see p126).
2 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
FIRST HRG IS ALMOST FINISHED
One of Britain's most endearing sports cars is 90 years old in 2025, and its very first prototype is reemerging after a protracted mechanical overhaul. Ted Halford (ex-Vale Motors), Guy Robins (formerly of Trojan) and Ron Godfrey (ex-GN) joined forces to build a sports car, the HRG, in the belief that many manufacturers had sacrificed performance for styling and increased weight.
1 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
SMALL WONDER
First owned by a racing double agent, this diminutive Fiat 508S proved to be a true giant-killer across a long and successful career
8 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
“Why I survived, I have no idea. It's just luck and circumstances”
Thierry Boutsen reflects on a career that mixed success with some huge crashes at the highest levels of single-seater and sports-car racing
10+ min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
RELIANT SCIMITAR GTE
In May, I finally moved into my new place and finished the DiY, so it was time to swap weekend trips to B&Q for some visits to my local parts shop to try to get the Reliant ready for the Le Mans Classic.
2 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
LAND-ROVER SERIES II
Having bought the Series II in 2016, it wasn’t very long before I decided to try to recreate former owner Philip Kohler’s trans-African sleeping arrangements for a camping trip of my own.
2 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
AUSTIN VAN HAS HIDDEN TALENTS
The list of cars I have owned in the past would perhaps make any classic enthusiast's pulse race. My first was a Vauxhall 12, followed by Morris Minor and Austin A35 vans, three Minis (a standard car, a Cooper and a van), Hillman Super Minx, Austin-Healey Sprite, Opel Manta, Lotus Europa and Mercedes-Benz 380SL – to name but a few. If nothing else, it proves that boys love their toys.
2 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
A NEW TACK FOR MODERN CLASSICS
Tolman Engineering has found fortune in carefully crafted restomods of retro performance heroes
2 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
RENAULT 5
Great design and low pricing will help the cinq go down in history - like the original
2 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
THE RISE OF AUTOMOBILIA
Alongside values for classic cars, the motoring memorabilia market has also had increasing interest in recent years, with motorsport trinkets and decorative antiques achieving record sales. Gooding Christie's had its highest-ever automobilia sale result in April, at $1,485,469 from more than 500 lots. RM Sotheby's set the world record for a Formula One driver's helmet that same month, at £720k for Ayrton Senna's 1992 lid. In March, Burns & Co of Australia found an astonishing AUS$133,975 (£65,000) for a 100-year-old Shell enamel sign (below right), and in May, Cheffins set a record with a £9000 Benzole light-box.
1 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
Club concours makes successful Surrey debut
An extraordinary collection of veteran cars, coachbuilt rarities and more modern motorsport fare dressed the lawns of Woodcote Park for the first Royal Automobile Club Concours on 9 July.
1 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
F1 IS CENTRE STAGE AT FOS
The previous weekend's British Grand Prix was a timely prelude to the Goodwood Festival of Speed's biggest-ever celebration from 10-13 July, marking 75 years of Formula One. More than 100 cars charted F1's history from the first World Championship race held at Silverstone in 1950, with appearances from champions including Sir Jackie Stewart, Nigel Mansell and Mario Andretti.
4 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
Surrey's speed king
When John Coombs brought his competition expertise to the road, it resulted in some of the most exclusive Jaguars of the 1960s
9 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
RESTORED MINI READY TO ROLL
Nick Hunter of the Mini Cooper Register alerted us to Peter Watchman, who is no newcomer to Mini Coopers.
1 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
BERTONE'S HYBRID SAVIOUR
An Anglophile American and the MG TD were unlikely catalysts for an upturn in Bertone's fortunes, and the Arnolt-MG was the result
7 min |
September 2025
Classic & Sports Car
Anthem for the Phantom
The Phantom name has represented the pinnacle of Rolls-Royce for 100 years, appealing to royals, celebrities and despots in equal measure
5 min |
September 2025
What Car? UK
Porsche Cayenne Electric
All-new, fully electric SUV will be sold alongside the current combustion-engined model On sale 2026 Price from £90,000 (est)
3 min |
September 2025
What Car? UK
Volkswagen Golf GTI
IN THE FIRST half of 2024, more than 126,000 people in the UK moved house - and recently, I did too.
1 min |
September 2025
What Car? UK
Kia Sportage
Refreshed engine line-up and subtle tweaks aim to keep this big-selling family SUV on top On sale Autumn Price from £30,885
2 min |
September 2025
What Car? UK
DS No8
All-new electric flagship from the French premium brand promises comfort and an official range of up to 466 miles On sale November Price from £50,790
3 min |
September 2025
What Car? UK
MG HS
RANGE ANXIETY IS usually something associated with the drivers of electric cars.
1 min |
September 2025
What Car? UK
Audi TT Roadster
This stylish sports car could cost you much less than you think, and it's more than just a pretty face
3 min |