After 21 years of producing the Seven, he took the design over from Lotus in 1973 Caterham Cars boss Graham Nearn finally decided that the company was in a position to build a new car from the ground up. It wasn’t intended as a replacement for the classic, sketchy, two seater fun car, but as [...]

The JPE was the ultimate Lotus Seven. Stripped of all unnecessary weight, it was designed to give the sensation of Formula One driving on the road. For once, cost irrelevant, giving Caterham’s engineers a chance to use the best of everything in the name of ultimate performance. At the car’s heart was a $13,000 Group [...]

Cadillac’s quest to expand outside North America and a few eastern markets didn’t die with the Allante. Once again it tried to conceive a car that would attract the professional classes of the USA’s eastern and western seaboards, which are son keen on ‘imports’ as well translate overseas. Cadillac also went to the trouble of [...]

The Seville was Cadillac’s answer to the similar, more efficient European luxury cars of the mid 1970s that were eating significantly into its market. In the midst of a fuel crisis, it signaled a move away from the dinosaurs of the past. The Seville was notably shorter than any of its predecessors, and was styled [...]

Buick’s flagship Riviera line, once a styling leader, had begun to lose its way in the late 1960s with slick, smooth looks that seemed much like every other bag American luxury coupe of the period. It also failed to capture the unique sense of class possessed at an earlier point in the history. Ford’s Thunderbird [...]

The Bugatti is probably the ultimate expression of automotive engineering and in the view of many experts makes a high point of road legal performance that will never be challenged. Bugatti was founded by Italian engineer Ettore Bugatti who built his first in 1900. his cars became known for being light and were engineered to [...]

The V8 Bristol has outlived all its Euro hybrid competitors. While American engined exotic such as Jensen, Gordon Keeble, Iso and Monteverdi floundered, Bristol have ridden out every storm. They have managed to achieve this minor miracle by keeping and selling cars still alloy bodied and separately chassised, to a discreet discerning few. Today’s Bristol [...]

As you would expect of a car built by an aeroplane maker, there was no room for penny pinching compromise in the design or construction of the Bristol 401. even at a Purchase Tax inflated $3112 in Britain three times the cost of an ‘equivalent’ 1949 Jaguar, it’s unlikely that Bristol’s car division, which split [...]

Borgward had luxury car ambitions in the late fifties and desperately wanted a slice of the German big car market dominated by Mercedes. Its challenger was the P100 ‘Big Six’ a faster, cheaper and better equipped foil to Stuttgart’s important new ‘Fintail’ 190/ 220 range. With its restrained tail fins and wrap around screens front [...]