Unsurprisingly, given the nature of the beasts, BRM's Golden Jubilee centrepiece did not follow the script, but 66,000 paying spectators (over three days) witnessed superlative racing at Silverstone's eighth Coys…

ERAs and BRMs will drive through Bourne on August 29, to celebrate the marques' 65th and 50th anniversaries, and the centenary of the birth of Raymond Mays. Employees of both…

Porsche has confirmed that it will not be contesting the Le Mans 24-hour race in June, further depleting the number of mainstream manufacturers looking likely to attend the event. This…

Of all the chief executives of large German car companies , Dieter Zetsche is perhaps the most impressive and approachable. The boss of Daimler AG and therefore of Mercedes- Benz,…

For me, attention was held most by a phenomenon outside the halls: there, platoons of electric BMW i3s silently swept weary journalists from one end of the complex to the…

Visually the latest 911 GT3 is similar to its predecessor, but a host of subtle changes make for a superior car by Andrew Frankel Some insight into the minds of…

Talking of Elises, I’ve been driving one with body panels and seats made from hemp, and upholstery provided by sheep grazing near Lotus’s Norfolk factory. The Lotus Eco Elise has…

As first times go it takes some beating: round the Nordschleife in a McLaren F1 supercar Every time I go to the Nürburgring I’m taken back to my irst visit…

Murray works his magic There are few better ways to obfuscate the truth than to throw a superlative at it. In public your claim appears unambiguous and explicit, in private…

I wonder what Carlo Abarth would have made of the most recent Fiat 500 to bear his name? I loved the looks and the power of the 160bhp £16,105 Esseesse…

From the outside it was a clear case of design by committee, but underneath the Jaguar XJRS had all the class of a true supermodel. Andrew Frankel remembers a Ferrari…

You probably thought Richard Noble's Thrust SSC project was over. With the record raised and the barrier broken, there would not seem to be a lot left to do. Not…