Author: Giles Chapman

It''s easy to forget that the original Range Rover, launched in 1970, created the luxury sport-utility vehicle market from scratch. A marvel of Bri...

Sixty diverse cars, sixty fascinating stories, sixty contrasting specifications, just one uniting factor: theyre all forgotten, neglected or misund...

Sixty diverse cars, sixty fascinating stories, sixty contrasting specifications, just one uniting factor: theyre all forgotten, neglected or misund...

The original Land Rover evolved for almost seventy years, from the ground breaking Series I model in 1948 to the final Defender in 2016. Now there ...

The Jaguar name is synonymous with style, power, performance, luxury and an intangible element of Britishness. Its hard to imagine its humble origi...

Mini celebrates 60 amazing years of this iconic car, from its revolutionary introduction to the popularity of its new-generation models. The first ...

JaguarCentury chronicles one of the auto industrys most revered car brands, from the Jaguar SS sporting saloon to todays F-Type sports cars, F-PACE...

If you owned a car in 1960s Britain, then youll love this blast back in time to when driving was still fun, highway speed limits were unheard-of (w...

For fifty years, Britain made the best toy cars in the world, expertly shrinking every kind of reallife vehicle and producing them in their countle...

The KdF car, a German acronym for Strength Through Joy, was conceived by Adolf Hitlers Third Reich as a true German peoples car. There is precious ...

Very few cars inspire as much affection as the original Mini. Its the small car everyone loves to eulogise because it oozes energetic fun, classles...

From Ace to Zodiac - via the world-beating Land Rover, the thrilling Morgan Aeromax, the eternally young Mini Cooper and the unique London taxi - t...

What Europe needed after the Second World War was an ultra-reliable workhorse to get small businesses on the move again. And, with a little nudge f...

Very few cars inspire as much affection as the original Mini. It's the small car everyone loves to eulogise because it oozes energetic fun, classle...

White Van Man' is a larger-than-life presence on Britain's road, but he's no fool. Given the choice, he inevitably opts for a Ford Transit... and i...

Before the Ford Capri arrived in 1969, GT cars had tended to be expensive, temperamental, impractical and rarefied. Ford decided there was no reaso...

The very first Land Rover, launched in 1948, owed its low-key existence to shoestring British ingenuity and literally odds and ends left over fro...

The 1970s saw some ground-breaking new metal in British showrooms: the Renault 5 established the new supermini class, the Volkswagen Golf gave the ...

What Europe needed after the Second World War was an ultra-reliable workhorse to get small businesses on the move again. And, with a little nudge f...

White Van Man is a larger-than-life presence on Britains road, but hes no fool. Given the choice, he inevitably opts for a Ford Transit and indeed ...

It was brash and it was loud the 1980s put paid to the glumness of the 70s and nowhere was that more obvious than in the cars we drove, which took...

Meccano was first on the scene with its die-cast Dinky Toys of 1933. Lesney''s Matchbox series arrived twenty years later, at genuine pocket-money ...