The Volkswagen Beetle is truly a motoring icon. Launched in 1938 as the ‘People’s Car’ it was designed to bring mobility to those of fairly modest means; the...

The Mercedes-Benz R107 and C107 were produced by Mercedes Benz from 1971 through 1989, being the second longest single series ever produced by the automaker, after the G-Class....

The Fiat 128 Coupè is a sports car built by the Turin house between 1971 and 1978. Between the end of the sixties and the beginning of the...

The Fiat 128 Coupè is a sports car built by the Turin house between 1971 and 1978. Between the end of the sixties and the beginning of the...

Dieppe-born Jean R. initially made his name racing and rallying in the 1950’s at the wheel of self-prepared rear-engined Renaults. The master of the diminutive 4CV, he secured...

The Mercedes-Benz G-Class or G-Wagon, short for Geländewagen (cross-country vehicle), is characterised by its boxy styling and body-on-frame construction. It uses three fully locking differentials, one of the...

The Fiat 124 Vignale Coupé Eveline is a limited edition car produced by Vignale from 1967 to 1969 based on the Fiat 124 chassis. Vignale’s goal was to...

Bubblecar manufacturer Iso joined the ranks of supercar constructors in 1962 with the launch of the Giotto Bizzarrini-designed Rivolta coupé at the Turin Motor Show. Renzo Rivolta’s Isothermos...

The elegant CS-Coupés are among the milestones of the BMW - not least because of the fantastic silky smooth six-cylinder engine. The vehicles were built between December 1968...

As its nomenclature suggests, the XK150 was a progressive development of the XK120 and XK140, retaining the same basic chassis, 3.4-litre engine and 4-speed Moss transmission of its...

The Adler Trumpf Junior is a small family car introduced by the Frankfurt based manufacturer early in 1934. The Adler Trumpf had by now been available for two...

The 328 succeeded the vaunted Ferrari 308 line-up, and when it appeared in 1985, it quickly became an icon of the roaring 1980s. Even though it was based...

Intended primarily for racing, though still road legal, the Porsche 911 GT3 - first introduced in 1999 - can trace its ancestry all the way back through a...

The first generation of Volkswagen buses were built from 1949 to 1967 and are known as split-window buses or ‘splitties’. The splitties sported a split windscreen along with...

The Giulia was an absolute design icon of their time and was virtually unrivaled in terms of space and performance. The body was not only unmistakably charismatic, but...

For those insufficiently wealthy to afford its hyper-expensive, race-bred sports car - the 300SL - Mercedes-Benz offered the less exotic but no less refined 190SL. Announced in 1954...

The 1955 Chevrolet offered many firsts for Chevrolet, including a change from a 6-volt to a 12-volt electrical system. The ‘55 offered new options like air conditioning, power...

993 is the company’s internal name for the version of the Porsche 911 model manufactured and sold between late 1993 and early 1998, replacing the 964. Its discontinuation...

With the launch of both the SS100 and the XK120, Jaguar had shocked the automotive world. However, sometimes the impact of its cars reached beyond the showrooms and...

Founded in 1965 by Burkard Bovensiepen in Kaufbeuren, Bavaria, the German firm of Alpina began producing tuned versions of BMW models in the 1960s before BMW’s own Motorsport...

The Porsche 924 is a luxury sports car which was produced by Porsche AG of Germany from 1976 to 1988. A two-door, 2+2 coupé, the 924 replaced...

Czechoslovakia’s Tatra stands out from the rest of the badge-engineered Third World cars. Founded in 1850 as a producer of horse-drawn carriages, Tatra eventually branched out into railroad...

The Mercedes-Benz 280 SE 3.5 coupe had its foundation in the W111 sedan that was introduced for 1960. Famous for their front and rear crumple zones and patented...

Maintaining Lancia’s unparalleled reputation for innovation in automobile design, the Fulvia saloon arrived in 1963, and two years later was followed by a 2+2 coupé on a shorter...

Although the much-loved Ferrari Dino 246 GT was replaced in 1973 by the all new Dino 308 GT4 – Ferrari’s first ever V8 engined production model – its...

A ‘modern classic’ if ever there was one, Porsche’s long-running 911 arrived in 1964, replacing the 356. The latter’s rear-engine layout was retained, but the 911 switched to...

The “Bayern-Express” M635 CSI debuted 1984 and is based on the E24 which came on the market in 1976. The M635 CSI being the “sporty” high-end version of...

‘We expected to find strong traces of a competition heritage in the first Maserati to be given a full Motor road test because the name of this Italian...

One of two large coupés styled by Pininfarina in the 1970’s, the other being the Rolls-Royce Camargue, the Fiat 130 Coupé was arguably the more successful design. Based...

The Maserati Mistral was introduced to the public in nov. 1963 at the Autosalone Torino Italy.

The engine and the chassis were produced by Maserati, the metal parts...

Unveiled at the Geneva Salon in 1977 and voted Car of the Year for 1978, the 928 was intended as an up-market replacement for the long-running 911, but...

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Ferrari’s first mid-engined 12-cylinder production road car, the 365 GT4 Berlinetta Boxer, was seen as early as 1971 in prototype form but did not go on...

The introduction of the Fulvia saloon in 1963 maintained Lancia’s reputation for innovation in automobile design. Designed by Antonio Fessia, the boxy-styled Appia replacement featured an all-new, narrow-angle,...

Like most great Alfa Romeos, the 6C 2500 was designed by Vittorio Jano, one of the greatest automotive engineers in history, and it derives from the 6C 2300...

Introduced at the Frankfurt Auto Show in April 1951, the 220 was in effect a six-cylinder cousin to the four-cylinder 170S on the same 2,845mm wheelbase chassis. Although...

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‘At the top - at the absolute top - in the automotive enthusiasts’ hierarchy of the cars of the world, there is only one. Ferrari. Is...

Unveiled at the Geneva Salon in 1977, and voted Car of the Year for 1978, the 928 was intended as an upmarket replacement for the long-running 911, but...

‘Every driver who has more than a purely utilitarian interest in automobiles should drive a Mercedes-Benz 250SL at least once in his life. The car is an almost...

Born out of a skunkworks project by Italian-Brazilian designer César Pieri, the Project 7 almost never happened at all. The design was discovered by chance when Pieri accidentally...

The Alpina B10 Bi-Turbo was designed as a high-performance alternative to the BMW 5-series E34. Production began in 1989 and ended in 1994 with just 507 examples produced,...

The Jaguar XK8 (project code X100) is a grand tourer car that was launched by Jaguar Cars in 1996, and was the first generation of a new XK...

Mercedes-Benz introduced the W123 four-door versions on 29 January 1976. While there were some technical similarities to their predecessors, the new models were larger in wheelbase and exterior...

Introduced in 1948, the Porsche Type 356 is acknowledged to be one of the world’s greatest sports cars. Over a 15-year production run, the handsome and durable 356...

The Bentley Turbo R is a high-performance car which was produced from 1985 to 1999. The “R” stood for “Roadholding”, to set it apart from its predecessor. It...

The fifth Rolls-Royce to bear the Corniche name made its debut in January 2000. At the time of its release, it was the most expensive vehicle offered by...

What set the 930 Turbo apart from its peers was the relaxed way this stupefying performance was delivered. Comparing the Turbo to similarly quick ‘he-man’ cars such as...

Porsche’s strong historical links with Volkswagen were re-affirmed in 1969 with the launch of the Porsche-designed 914, a mid-engined, Targa-top sports car to be assembled by Karmann of...

The Studebaker Hawk Gran Turismo was a sporty coupé produced by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation from 1962 to 1964. The styling of the GT Hawk was a rather radical...

When Ferrari reintroduced the two-place, front-engined grand touring cars into their lineup in 1996 with the 550 Maranello as the spiritual successor to the Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona,...

More than any of its previous models, the Interceptor of the Sixties firmly established Jensen as a producer of stylish, high performance and hand-built cars. The prototype Interceptor...

To BMW, the “ Series 2 “ was rather like the Giulia was to Alfa Romeo or the 250 GT to Ferrari. Launched in 1955, it went on...

A development of BMW’s R69, the more powerful R69 S arrived in September 1960 to stake a claim as the world’s finest sports tourer. The R69 S’ 42bhp...

The name Beta identifies a range of cars (saloon, Trevi sedan, coupe, HPE, spider, Scorpion and Monte Carlo) produced by Lancia between 1972 and 1984. Beta was the...

In 1968, it was presented to the public in Brussels for the first time. The Automobile Review wrote. “With the Type 1750, Alfa Romeo introduces a vehicle that,...

The W126 was the flagship series for Mercedes-Benz. Debuted in September 1979 as the successor to the earlier W116 range, the W126 was the second generation to officially...

Between 1987 and 1992, the Lanica Delta Integrale utterly dominated its branch of motor sport, winning 46 rallies and six consecutive World Rally Championships outright. In order to...

In 1961, the Fiat 1500 was presented at an exhibition “Italia” in Turin. Until then, Fiat had tested several prototypes on a total of more than 1.5 million...

Porsche’s strong historical links with Volkswagen were re-affirmed in 1969 with the launch of the Porsche-designed 914, a mid-engined, Targa-top sports car to be assembled by Karmann of...

Walter Chrysler started his career repairing railway locomotives and worked his way up the ladder. While ascending those steep rungs, he learned a thing or two about managing...

The name of Tatra is forever linked with that of Hans Ledwinka, one of the most original engineers ever to turn his attention to automobile design. Tatra’s chief...

Maserati revived the ‘Quattroporte’ name in 1994, applying it to the fourth series of luxury sports saloons that had begun as far back as 1963. The newcomer was...

The Giulia was produced in 12 different versions over its 15 years of production. The final version was released in 1974 as the Nuova Super  (1300 and...