Four fast BMWs are the cover stars of the December 2025 Classic & Sports Car – and they’re just the tip of the iceberg.

Take Porsche’s 928. With a state-of-the-art, all-alloy, 240bhp V8 engine, a clever rear-mounted transaxle and captivating ...

Like so many of the most memorable cars, the Studebaker Avanti was the vision of one man. That was Raymond Loewy, the ...

As for the Mulliner-built car, Coombs of Guildford ran an advert for it in The Autocar in 1955, offering the ‘special foursome drophead’ for £1575, which was roughly the going rate for a new Rover 90 ...

The neat 500cc powerplant would become the renowned ‘Square Four’ – in effect, two vertical V-twins laid out one behind the ...

The Aero 8 chassis was the world’s first to use Alcan pre-coated aluminium, laser-cut and bonded in Birmingham by Radshape. The panels weren’t hand-beaten, either – they were pressed at Superform in ...

There is little doubt that in either Competizione or Spider form the 8C is a fabulous-looking car. It first appeared as a ...

When he was at university in the early ’70s, he had an MG TC and remembers: “One of the girls on my course said to me one day ...

The E21 never sold in great numbers in the UK due to its high price: if you threw a few extras on a basic 323i, it cost more than a Rover 3500 SD1. Considering that, the ones that have been looked ...

The 2088cc ‘four’ from Standard’s Vanguard was chosen after a little smoke-and-mirrors by Peter Morgan, circumventing his father’s dictat – that the new engine must be less than 1750cc to mitigate any ...

The idea of two stylish open-top sports cars entering this chaos and making it through to production appeared to be an almost impossible ambition. Yet the Fiat Barchetta and Alfa Romeo 916 Spider ...

Under the bonnet, the final development of WO Bentley’s handsome overhead-cam, twin-plug ‘four’ was tuned with a lightened flywheel, increased 6.3:1 compression, drilled valve-spring caps, lighter ...