Just a few days after last month's Motor Sport pages went to press I was pleasantly proved a liar. For in that issue I had noted that "in general, the…

In less than quarter of an hour, the 1992 heirs to the Jensen dynasty recaptured their niches in our motoring heart. The West Bromwich company always supplied a unique, truly…

Just as Chrysler have to play third string to Ford and British Leyland in the overall British car market so it is in the performance world. Here the Pentastar brand…

Sport for all? Tramp around today's motor shows; look in many car dealerships, watch the advertisements. The conclusion can be drawn that motor sports and sportier products are the magic…

This month's copy had to be written after an all-too-brief visit to the Racing Car Show at Olympia, so I have tried to compress as much as possible into this…

Pocket supercar In an age which has miniaturised mainframe computers to discount desktop items, or stereo entertainment from respectable wooden cabinets to hissing portability, true high-performance cars were an obvious…

Ford has gambled a reported $6 billion in production of the Mondeo, a front-drive middleweight destined for Europe and the USA (and, thence, to Japan). In Europe, of course, it…

Alfa Romeo has been riding the British recession effectively. Unusually, it is the largest car in the line, the 164 saloon, which breathes life into Romeo. The British Alfa 164…

Since 1963 a young man from Shakespeare's west country region has nearly exclusively devoted his talents to Mini derivatives and how the best can be wrung from the ubiquitous box…

For many potential customers, and some inside Ford, the October 1982 public appearance of the Ford Escort XR3i and RS1600i performance derivatives came as something of a puzzle. Previously, if…

Quietly Charismatic It took three major appraisals before this writer was able to see beyond his blinkered "Original quattro is the best quattro" attitude to the genuine improvements that Audi…

Presently priced from around £6000 to the £10,284 of the fuel-injected range leader that we tested, the Peugeot 106 line supplements, rather than replaces, the chic but ageing 205. Both…