Road Cars

The Aston Martin Valhalla will eventually be available in a very different form than its original guise. Andrew Frankel says it could be for the better...

It's not just the numbers that will determine whether the Emira is a success or a failure Andrew Frankel argues

For a man you may never have heard of, from a country with no reputation in the automotive sphere, what Mate Rimac has achieved at the age of just 32…

Are you, like me, old enough to remember when Ferrari was just a three-model company, and when the launch of a new one was an almost mythically rare occasion? Well…

They look like they do exactly the same job, don’t they? And for most owners they will, that being to sit in an air-conditioned garage as part of a large…

There are few classic cars more mythical than the original Lamborghini Jota that was built to the design of factory test driver Bob Wallace in 1970. With its riveted, light alloy…

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An interesting model this. On the one hand, a Vauxhall shouldn’t really hold much space on these pages. Yet on the other, this isn’t totally a Vauxhall, it’s more than…

It is safe to say the latest generation of fast Volkswagen Golf has not been accorded the rapturous reception its creators may have hoped for and, given the breed’s recent…

Scrap those dreams of wafting through Tuscany and pour cold water on thoughts of cruising the Amalfi Coast, it turns out a blast down the A30 from Bodmin to Penzance…

There haven’t been many people in this industry to whom I warmed more immediately than Victor Gauntlett, whom I last saw in 2001, 10 years after he left Aston Martin’s…

One of the largest Jaguar E-type gatherings is assembling this weekend at Shelsley Walsh to mark the 60th anniversary of the legendary car’s launch. The oldest E-type in existence will…

A collection of three Aston Martin DB5s — in Coupé, Convertible and Shooting Brake form — will be displayed as they go on sale with a £4m price tag

“If you drink, don’t drive – don’t even putt,” cracked Rat Packer Dean Martin. In 1979, The Cannonball Run star, whose vanity plate was once ‘DRUNKY’, was the first owner…

One of the events I so wish I’d been able to attend was the launch of the Bentley Turbo R in 1986. Not for its sheer power, or sumptuous luxury,…

When Colin Chapman pulled the covers off his dainty Lotus 7 at the Earl’s Court Motor Show in 1957, we doubt that even in his wildest dreams he’d have imagined…

When I was a child, I lived in an almost entirely Alfa-centric world. There were Giulias, Berlinas, Alfettas, ’Suds, one after the other from the late 1960s to the mid-…