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1953 Cooper Bristol MkII 3/53
The Beast – Cooper Bristol MkII 3/53. After a first life of Fifties grand prix action this Cooper Bristol is tearing up the tracks...
1973 Porsche 911 group test – the full S.E.T
1973 Porsche 911 group test - the full S.E.T. The E- and F-programme 2.4-litre 911s from 1972 and 1973 were graded into three specifications:...
Peugeot 205GTi Test-Drive
Peugeot 205GTi 1984 Test-Drive. It’s difficult to adopt the correct mind-set to recreate the impact the 205 GTi first had, given how familiar the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Borgward Isabella TS vs Volvo PV544 Special II
Borgward Isabella TS vs Volvo PV544 Special II – how the west was won. What does your car say about you? Young, upwardly mobile...
1935 Peugeot 401 D Eclipse
Think the coupe convertible is a modern invention? Then think again - the first was built in the Thirties by a French dentist. Join...
