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Barn-finds return home: Bonhams' Aston Martin sale at Newport Pagnell
With a sale grossing more than GBP 10 million and 100 per cent of lots sold, Bonhams is no doubt toasting yet another successful marque auction at Aston Martin Works. Here we look at some of the ‘barn-finds’, now an important part of the annual sale... read more >>
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Scandal-muse: The female inspiration behind modern art
The modern artist's 'muse' is nothing like her original counterparts, the nine sisters of ancient Greek mythology. Today, most verge on the ‘scandalous’; but isn’t that exactly what we expect from modern art?... read more >>
£3.25m Bertone Jet sets Aston Martin auction record
The unique Aston Martin DB4GT Jet by Bertone has sold for GBP 3,249,500 at Bonhams’ 2013 Aston Martin sale, making it the most expensive Aston Martin ever to be sold at auction... read more >>
Most will already be familiar with BMW’s Art Cars, which marry creative visuals to potent machinery. With the intention of finding some perfect blank canvasses of the automotive form, we trawled the Classic Driver Marketplace... read more >>
Premiummotorrad, Stuttgart: Classic, Custom and Art Bikes
While many business owners drive to work in a saloon, Tobias Aichele of Premiummotorrad prefers the raw sensation of riding an MV Agusta 750 S. His attitude sums up the culture of the company... read more >>
5 things you didn’t know about the Mercedes S-Class
Despite much general coverage in the media, there are still some secrets when it comes to the S-Class, or ‘special class’ Mercedes. For example, were you aware of the unofficial, armoured version of the W108/109? Here are five facts we’ve discovered… read more >>
Aston Martin 'Spa Replica': The first post-War Aston
We took a quick spin in this remarkable car, a quirky, high-performance one-off with impeccable pedigree (but styling that wasn’t to everyone’s taste). Simon de Burton tells the story of the unique Spa Replica. read more >>
Driven: Prototype Range Rover Sport – Featherweight World Champion
We were among the first in the world to drive a pre-production prototype of the new Range Rover Sport. And we were blown away... read more >>
Maserati Quattroporte: Beauty and brawn
The original Frua-designed Quattroporte surprised many with its impressive performance but elegantly unassuming exterior. Forty years later, the same design ethic was very much behind the modern interpretation of the four-door saloon... read more >>
With all the bright lights and fluttering eyelashes of the girls (and come to mention it, the manufacturer PRs), the wheeled subjects of such an important motor show can have their limelight dimmed a little. We’ve freed ourselves of journalistic neutrality to become fellow ‘flâneurs of the fair’, allowing us to bring you our own personal favourites from Geneva 2013... read more >>
