Born in 1938, Jankel was brought up in the East End of London. His father, Alexander, ran a wholesale clothing business, and there was an assumption that Bob would join its ranks when he was old ...

The Iso Grifo has a powerful effect on some people. From the team that brings you Classic & Sports Car, a series of collector’s special editions celebrating our favourite marques and classic genres.

Heynes’ original idea for the XJ project in the early ’60s was to create a four-door, four-seat E-type, a low-slung sports saloon that would take the fight to the Europeans in the ’70s and recapture ...

Climb inside the Vanquish and thereʼs a unique atmosphere: a delicious smell of leather mixed with a whiff of oily heat. The ...

It is slightly ironic that Dante Giacosa, Fiat’s legendary design engineer and father of the 500, 600 and 850 models, became a poster boy for front-wheel drive in his final years, establishing with ...

While the Bugatti Veyron, Ferrari Enzo and Porsche Carrera GT that joined them in the early-century hypercar league were technically more advanced – the Bugatti and Ferrari had paddle-operated ...

As I hustle Finn’s saloon back and forth at ever-increasing speeds, my mind is still firmly stuck in a childhood spent picking bits off the spongy headrest mouldings and revelling in the unique aroma ...

Had the Canadian border police not been quite so alert, the Sport-Cabriolet might have disappeared from the country for ever. Once it had been handed in, the Horch was confiscated for a second time, ...

But it was Ferrari’s original 360 Modena, from which the Challenge was derived, that had laid down the supercar gauntlet four years before, and today it has to be the most usable and best-value ...

Sales forecasts of 10,000 units a year did not seem unreasonable. True enough, its new unitary body was no ravishing beauty, yet, as a means of walking a fine line between good looks and increasingly ...

Their children would see a ride in the car as a treat and the vehicle itself as a thing of wonder, even if the car-spotters among them might have been bored by the home-grown homogeny of other traffic ...

Where the large Derby team had taken four years to develop the complex V12 engine for the Phantom III, the small Middlesex outfit was expected to ready its rival in half that time for the 1936 London ...