Cars

Tale as old as time

Are fastbacks the new sports car? 

More than ‘just’ a car

Brains and beauty

Twenty-seventeen will go down in automotive history books as the year that the mechanical automobile struck back. Following the dark times of OEM-led indoctrination, in which we were lectured about ‘efficiency’, ‘reduction’, and ‘sustainability’ and the relevance of these words in the context of the limited-production hypercar, it’s taken a group of passionate Italians to slap us in the face and bring us back to our senses.

Crème de la crème

Worth mulling over

A slew of Renault 5 Turbos have landed on the auction scene recently, and with dealers rushing to stock them as a result, the flared-arch 1980s pocket rocket is in the eye-line of the collector. Even the subtle alternatives, such as the Renault Alpine Turbo, the Citroen AX Sport, and of course, the Peugeot 205 GTi, are being hunted down, remembered by those around at the time for their pure driving thrills and cassette deck charisma.