Car manufacturers try their best to predict what people want, often going to great lengths to offer all the options anyone could possibly ask for – but, as the old adage…

1973 Ford Escort Twin-Cam replica Sold by Collectingcars.com, £24,250 During the two years that I scraped a living buying and selling classic cars in the 1980s (giving up just before…

Bentley and Breitling set a trend for collaborations between luxury car marques and high-end watchmakers when they teamed up in 2002, just a few months before the launch of the…

2014 Realm Heritage C-type Sold by H&H, £67,500 It may be ‘just’ a replica, but the new owner of this Realm C-type certainly shouldn’t be embarrassed by that. The kits…

Renzo Rivolta's industrial forebears made a fortune postwar out of products that included bubble cars, scooters and refrigerators. But the man himself simply left a legacy of some darned cool…

If you've always fancied an ultra-high-performance version of Porsche’s legendary air-cooled swan-song, the 993, German dealer Jan B Lühn might leave you spoiled for choice with this remarkable quartet of…

Although Land Rover’s ‘New’ Defender seems to be gaining some serious traction, demand for original 90 and 110 models shows no sign of waning – in fact, it seems that…

Back in 2005 IWC flew a few watch hacks up to Arjeplog in Sweden, that snowy wasteland where car makers go to develop tyres and anti-lock braking systems, and to…

Some believe Formula 1 enjoyed  its golden era during the ’70s and ’80s. If that’s when you grew up, there’s a good chance you spent more than a few summer…

Think 'pre-war competition cars’ and the name of Hudson might not be the first to spring to mind. But this famous American marque, launched in 1909 and named after Detroit…

1993 Porsche 968 Club Sport Sold by Bonhams, £21,744 It might have been out of production for more than 25 years, but many people still regard Porsche’s stripped-out 968 Club…

If you like old cars and you like old watches you might think Karl-Friedrich Scheufele has the world’s best job. Along with his sister Caroline he’s co-president of Chopard, the…