After 29 years on this planet, Francois Delecour has never won a rally. Any kind of motor rally. Yet the Frenchman led his first World Championship event for Ford the…

As we rumbled along Vickers Drive, away from the apparently recession-proof bustle of Brooklands industrial Park, the passage of fresh February air across the cockpit of a 1992 AC Cobra threatened…

A very special saloon Over the racing seasons the category that was always referred to as Special Saloons, or sometimes Super Saloons, has come to mean a very specialist branch of motorsport.…

Continuously variable fun Ford and Fiat have brought automatic transmission within the grasp of Fiesta and Uno buyers with a joint development of the steel belt/variable diameter pulley CTX (Continuously…

Tomorrow the World? January 1988 set new British records for rainfall, and for new car introductions. In a month normally given over to introspective reflection of "that was the year…

A record that comprises two International rally wins well within the first year of competition is a record any manufacturer would be justly pleased with. Who the team goes under…

This is the first time that Motor Sport has published a full Subaru road test. Such an oversight has long been due for remedial attention. Winner of the 1991 and…

The Austin Maxi has not met with unanimous acclaim from the critics, in spite of which British Leyland are confident that the model has enormous sales potential. In the all-important…

The Janspeed twin turbo TR7 racing project has re-emerged in West London. ADA Engineering, who operate from an innocuous surburban street in the hinterland between Shepherds Bush and Acton, are…

Timo Makinen's tarmac-developed Escort RS 1800 Since the introduction of the Escort in 1968, its sporting reputation has been carried by such a host of derivatives that it is sometimes…

Individual Swedish Speed "Performance with responsibility" is the Saab sales slogan for the early Nineties, but any technically aware reader might wonder at the validity of such a statement when…

Motoring into Motorfair Naturally, the approach to the Autumn motor shows of Frankfurt and London Motorfair is littered with new car launches. We have been ruthless in our selection of cars, but…