Malcolm Jr Fortnam
TVR 390SE Test-Drive
TVR 390SE 1984 Test-Drive. Hammering along high-speed straights in the TVR 390SE makes for a striking contrast with the Toyota MR2. Whereas the MR2...
BMW M535i E28 Test-Drive
BMW M535i E28 1984 Test-Drive. Of all the cars here, the M535i most strongly demonstrates the difference in tastes between the Seventies and Eighties....
Buick Grand National Turbo Test-Drive
Buick Grand National Turbo 1984 Test-Drive. This is the car that finally ended a decade without true muscle cars. In 1982, with the US...
Aston-Martin DB4 potential £250,000 bill for a rebuild
Super-desirable Aston-Martin DB4 tempts collectors at Monterey. If you had to come up with a discovery to make the knees of a DB-Aston fan tremble, you couldn’t do a lot better than this 1961 Aston Martin DIM. It’s to be sold at RM’s Monterey auction on August 15-16 and should fetch a price out of any reasonable proportion to the restoration work required.
Toyota MR2 Test-Drive
Toyota MR2 Test-Drive. Popular opinion has it that the hot hatch killed the sports car in the Eighties, but the Toyota MR2 not only...
Ferrari 288 GTO 1984 Test-Drive
Ferrari 288 GTO 1984 Test-Drive. It’s odd to think that one of 1984’s most advanced cars also looked so familiar, but Ferrari had been...
Austin-Healey 3000
The list – it would be wonderful to own a car like this. Drive-My reader Malcolm Fortnam sent us a wishlist packed with multi-cylindered...
Giant Test – Ferrari 288 GTO, Toyota MR2, Peugeot 205 GTi, TVR 390SE, BMW M535i E28 and Buick Grand National Turbo
Stars of 1984. It was The Year of the Scalded Cat; the year when high-performance cars ruled supreme. We drive six classics that really...

