After three generations of the self-styled 'legendary' rotary-powered RX-7 sports car, Mazda is a feared worldwide combatant in the two-seater market. The latest RX-7 is now available in the UK…

Last year, in the months preceding Christmas, I found myself trekking round the upper and middle portions of the Italian "boot" mainly to look at the competition machinery that had…

Alfa to omega Today most major motor shows are biennial affairs in centres such as Tokyo, Detroit, Frankfurt and Paris, with our own Birmingham alternating with the younger Earls Court…

Fiat Ritmo Abarth 125TC Ritmo/Strada + Abarth = 118 m.p.h. and a new production competitor January 1980: the writer huddles below a low stone wall in the hills behind Monte…

Though he was fairly defeated by his younger Finnish team-mate in the David Sutton prepared Escorts on the last British home international, Hannu Milkkola made no mistakes in beating his fellow Finn in…

Winter collection Jeremy Walton drives some of the more significant cars to appear from the Autumnal debuts and looks at the static presentation of the Lotus Elan at Hethel. Any…

Its common knowledge that Ford will introduce the 3-litre version of "the car you always promised yourself" in time for the Motor Show. Recently Motor Sport was able to borrow…

Cones, cones and more cones. They seemed to fill even the vast glass expanses of the brand new S-class Mercedes limousine, twirling hither and thither as though an M25 madman…

Although much younger than its 24 Hours sister at Sarthe, the Spa-Francorchamps race through the equivalent of a day and a night has fast established its own traditions during 28…

When the BMW factory announced their withdrawal from official factory competition in 1970 they made the racing categories of Formula 2 and touring car racing look a lot less interesting…

The Best Coupé

The advantages of placing an engine to drive the front wheels transversely across the engine bay have taken a long time to sink in with the World's biggest car makers. After…