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Little else has been revealed about the groundbreaking Bentley, but it's clear that the front end has been significantly rethought since the ill-received debut of the EXP 9 F concept in 2012.

Considered such a vital model to the future of the British marque – at least 3,000 are forecast to be sold annually – the design must hit the right note within all the company’s major markets. This early picture suggests a closer resemblance to the front-end styling of current Bentleys, although we’ll have to wait a little longer to find out if this applies to the front wings and beyond.

Well, now you have - and if you're remotely interested in classic rallying, I'd recommend getting your 2015 entry in as soon as possible because I've just returned from this year's event and it was truly impressive.

Climbing the Calobra

Of course, you wouldn’t usually refer to this pair as rivals. The box-arched BMW delivered competition-derived underpinnings to sun-seeking Europeans, while the Porsche followed the formula of an ancestor in a quest to re-ignite American interest. The Speedster recipe had been successful three decades earlier with Max Hoffman’s 356, so Porsche re-cooked it in 1989 with a 911 Carrera 3.2 flavour.

Off-the-cuff design hit

According to the American auction house Mecum, this 1964 Le Mans Prototype is the second oldest Ford GT40 in existence. The race car is equipped with the same 4.7-litre V8 with which it ran in the 1965  racing season, along with the rare Colotti four-speed gearbox. You can read the full story of this very special car here.

With the coachbuilding era all but a distant memory, the in-house styling department of Rolls-Royce and Bentley was relishing its heightened importance in the early 1970s. However, Rolls-Royce chose to appoint Pininfarina to design the Camargue: the manufacturer's first (and last) project to be executed entirely by a third party.

In the Classic Driver Market, you'll find numerous Bentleys and Rolls-Royces from all eras for sale.

In the lotlist for the auction house’s 2 May sale in Seabrook, Texas, you won’t only find the staple microcars such as the Fiat 500 and BMW Isetta. Also catching the collective eye of the Classic Driver office is a lovable Subaru 360 Jolly, and a cute example of the Pinin Farina-styled, British-built Nash Metropolitan. And if downsizing isn’t enough, why not lose a wheel too, and go for an original example of the recently revived Morgan Three-Wheeler?

While the Bora boasted a 4.7-litre V8, the Merak possessed a 3.0-litre V6 jointly developed by Maserati and Citroën for the SM. But one shouldn’t automatically refer to the ‘no replacement for displacement’ rule without further consideration.