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In this job, you expect to be hopping in and out of a varied selection of vehicles every month, but even by the standards of classic car publications the last few days have been unusually random. As you’ll read on page 84, it’s project car changeover

Berkeley, famed for producing sporting microcars between 1956 and 1960, is making a comeback. The company is to produce a new sports car at its original premises at the Old Warden aerodrome in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, launching in April 2021. The n

Swindon Powertrain is now taking orders for a new kit to convert a classic Mini to electric power. Following the launch of the brand’s own Swind E electric Mini, the Wiltshire firm has responded to strong demand to create the kit, which has been desi

Peugeot has celebrated its 210th anniversary by launching a new service in France to restore and sell models from its back catalogue. It will operate from the workshops of the company’s own museum – the Musée de l’Aventure in Sochaux – with engineers

Wheeler Dealers is to return across the Atlantic after six years away. Series 17 of Discovery’s hit TV series will air in late summer or autumn of 2021, but instead of being filmed in California, it will be back on UK soil with a new workshop at Bice

4 _ Opel, founder of the marque (4) 6 _ ignition, a first on the Fiat Dino (10) 8 & 22 across Cloned a car but under a different name (5,10) 9 Executive Vauxhall models introduced in 1994 (6) 10 Eastern Bloc maker of the T613 (5) 12 Daihatsu hatchbac

The Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club is giving away a sure-fire future classic to raise money for the Haemophilia Society. A £2 raffle ticket could be all it takes for a lucky winner to drive away in a desirable 2014 Jaguar XK Coupe next May. The JEC’s fundr

Just a week after its first public-facing sale since lockdown at Duxford, October 21 saw H&H Classics back in action for the firm’s regular monthly ABC online auction. It proved to be a particularly attractive sale for fans of 1980s MGs too, with sev

DVCA returned to action for its first classic car sale since March on October 22, moving to a behind-closed-doors online format to keep its clients safe. Commission and telephone bids were accepted in the normal way, with prospective purchasers able

South Western Vehicle Auctions continued to return great prices for its sellers, with 98 cars in the auction and 94 per cent sold, with several going far in excess of their estimates. The October 30 auction might not have been quite as strong as the

Slightly smaller but just as finely appointed as the famous Adenauer models, the W111 and top W112 models can be considered as the beginning of the S-Class as we know it. They introduced a new design language for the 1960s, with upright headlights an

By the 1980s, the once great British Leyland empire was in tatters. The public perception of the company was tarnished by the extensive industrial action of the 1970s and the quality of the cars they were actually producing was falling behind the com

Four seat convertibles are rather pleasant things to have. Often they’re not too sporty, they’re fun for all the family and they still allow you to enjoy the wind in your hair. It’s a formula that works well, as any number of Triumph Stag and Mercede

The sleek bodywork propelled through idyllic geography at a rate of knots by an engine – oh what an engine – that burbles, fizzes, sings. It’s what many spend their tens, hundreds, multiples of thousands of pounds on – curved metal and mechanical mar

By the mid-1960s, a pan-European programme involving Ford’s still independent research centres in the UK and Germany to replace the 105E Anglia was starting to gather pace. Although Ford’s then Birmingham-based research centre had explored a front-wh

The XJ-S may be accepted without question as a fully fledged classic Jaguar today, yet for much of its lifespan it lived in the shadow of the E-Type. The boldly modern, forwardlooking XJ-S may have been technically superior to the E-Type in every way

The Silverstone special edition was released in 2000 just before the British Grand Prix at the circuit which saw Jaguar’s short-lived entry into the Formula One scene having rebranded the Stewart Racing team. The idea was that the limited edition wou

Last month saw us tidying up the interior of the Escort but with the mysterious rough running having returned. As before, I suspected a misfire and that’s definitely how it felt, but chatting to the professionals in the shape of my local garage sugge

(1990-1998) Be it patriotic enthusiasm or a rose-tinted affection for a lost British brand, there’s a lot of Rover love out there at the moment and that’s finally starting to be reflected in the prices, with the best examples of ’90s Rovers finally a

The P38 is in a good place right now: a quarter century after its release in 1994, it’s becoming a classic. It’s been a tough road to follow in the path of its original predecessor, later literally called the Classic, but with enough subsequent gener

Ford didn’t really enjoy the best of starts to the 1990s, beginning the decade with the Mk5 Escort that was roundly slated by just about every journalist and his dog. But such stinging criticism proved to be the kick up the behind Ford needed, and it

Once a staple of the UK’s sports car scene, the last Celica rolled off the production line in April 2006 and it’s that final seventh generation that interests us here. Where some previous iterations had drawn on Toyota’s rally heritage the T230 inste

When BMW’s second-generation ‘E30’ 3-Series was launched in late 1982, it represented a significant improvement over the original ‘E21’ model without diluting the essential BMW character. Over its ten year life (12 if you take the last Touring estate

All good things come to an end and it’s no less true in the case of our 2020 project cars. Check our Classics World YouTube channel and you’ll see the editorial team drawing their project car budgets out of the hat back in the new year, but with all

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