Cars

Back in the early 1900s, a ‘Roi-des-Belges’ was a luxurious style of car – a double phaeton with exaggerated rear bulges. In 2018, this wide-hipped E46 is what the King of Belgium has evolved into… Words: Daniel Bevis. Photos: Sebas Mol.

Wide-Body F13 M6 Jaw-dropping, show-stopping carbon beast. With vast carbon fibre arches, monster 21s and some serious power on board, this is one M6 you don’t want to mess with. Words: Elizabeth de Latour. Photos: Viktor Benyi.

Jaguar E-Type Series 3 Jaguar E-Type V12 our top Buying Tips. The last hurrah of this British icon is a fine machine, but costly and complex to restore. Words Malcolm Mckay. Photography Tony Baker.

If you fancy running an idiosyncratic car that’s going to turn heads wherever it goes, then a two-stroke or even a V4 powered Saab 96 may fit the bill rather well. Iain Wakefield Senior Contributor. Facts and figures on the quirky but unburstable Swede, from the early two-stroke cars to the Ford V4-powered models.

Future classic Alpine A110 There was nothing like the original A110 in the ’60s, and there’s nothing like it today… Words Greg Macleman. Photography Neil Williams.

Few car makers are as distinctive and almost wilfully different as Citroën, which didn’t so much break the mould as cast a completely fresh one all for itself when it launched the ground-breaking Traction Avant in 1934. With front-wheel drive, independent front suspension, unitary construction, rack and pinion steering and a host of other cutting-edge features the Traction was one of the most advanced cars of its day. After the Second World War Citroën kept ploughing its own furrow (to use a suitably agricultural phrase) with the 2CV, which introduced motoring to the French masses and bemused everyone else with its out-of-the-box ideas such as an air-cooled flat-twin engine, corrugated body panels, dash-mounted gear lever, fabric rolling roof, spindly wheels, absurdly soft suspension and off-putting mix of extreme body roll and almost unlimited grip.

Lotus Elite rebuilt from a box of bits. The second generation Elite was designed to launch Lotus into new market sector and this fine example has been lovingly revived from a part finished project. Words & Photography Ivan Ostroff.

Equipped with a 911 SC’s three-litre flat-six, this wide-arched 914 has the power to shift opinion Words Dan Furr. Photography Dan Sherwood.

If you think BMW racing is dear, Tiff reckons you're wrong, as he recalls a lot of cheap fun in an E30 320i.

The car industry loves firsts. The first car with standard seat belts, the first with four-wheel disc brakes, the first with sat-nav as standard – the list is immense. We car lovers enjoy these breakthroughs, too. Sometimes that’s because we get to experience the breakthrough first-hand when it’s new, or because the innovation in question is indisputably useful and rapidly spreads to other models.

Beat this! 902bhp 8J TTRS Storm Developments’ Veyron-toppling coupé takes 2.5 TFSI tuning to the extreme. Exactly how far can you go when tuning a hot Audi powered by that celebrated 2.5 TFSI engine? Storm Developments made it its personal mission to find out with this TTRS. Words Sam Preston. Photography Adam Walker.

‘It’s the most fun I’ve had in a car in years’ Austin A35 Turbo… They’re not words you hear in the same sentence very often, are they? Ideally we’d all build our perfect car at home from scratch, but if you find someone else has already done all that hard work you might as well take advantage… Words Mike Renaut. Photography Matt Richardson.