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Jaguar once built the best sports saloon in the world and if the new S-Type is to succeed it must…

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I have been reading High Driver's book on that keen Rolls-Royce fan, Lord Northcliffe. One of his suggestions in 1913…

Last July what was described as the ex-Brooklands Straker-Squire was entered for the Brooks auction at Beaulieu. The catalogue quoted…

It started as an Allard occasion. The car's owner had had his trials Allard at the works for overhaul and…

To celebrate a century of Lagonda, the Lagonda Club has issued a most attractive 28 page book about plans for…

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The Henry I am referring to is the great Henry Ford, who virtually invented mass-production and whose automotive empire is,…