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Renault Turbo

Put on those rose-tinted glasses and think back to the glory days of turbocharged Renault cars competing on the track and tearing it up on the roads. The company was the first to win in Formula One using a turbocharged engine, fittingly, at the French Grand Prix at Dijon in 1979. Jean-Pierre Jambouille brought the […]

Alfa Romeo coupés: the power of three

It’s a sad state of affairs when a coupé is glaringly absent from Alfa Romeo’s model range, particularly in light of the marque’s track record of producing sporting cars with an abundance of brio. Thankfully, Alfa Romeo has announced that a coupé version of the much-admired Giulia saloon will be launched this year. So whilst […]

Lamborghini Diablo

It’s just about to tick over into a new decade, the 1990s, and Italian ego-masseur Lamborghini is getting ready to take the silly blanket off of its brand new car. Expectations are high, the new car is going to be the successor to the Countach, a wedge-shaped Speedball of a machine that could bring you […]

Great Shakes: Bertone’s Beach Buggy

The 1960s: mini-skirts, moon landings, music and a Missile Crisis… And beach buggies. A broad bevvy of buggies, each with balloon-bloated tyres seemingly capable of taking on a lunar landscape. Lamborghinis Miura and Countach, Lancia Stratos, Fiat Abarth 131 Rally, the Alfa BAT cars and Giulietta Sprint – these are the cars associated with now […]

Super Cinqs: the small Renaults 5s of the 70s and 80s

It’s 1976. ABBA, Elton John and Queen are riding high in the charts, the Queen opens Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre, and when kids weren’t riding their Raleigh Choppers up and down the streets of Britain, they were glued to the Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (the rest of us had George and Mildred and The New Avengers). […]

Miura: Ghostly beginnings of the supercar

The Lamborghini Miura is almost a ghostly presence in the motoring world. Vanishingly rare, closer to VE Day than it is to us, it was the first, true, modern supercar. The first mid-engined car designed for road, not for race. The first to bear the name of a famous fighting bull. And yet it all […]

Alfa Giulia Heritage

The Museo Storico Alfa Romeo is Alfa Romeo’s official museum, located in Arese, Italy. It displays a permanent collection of the brand’s cars, and after being closed-down in 2011, the museum reopened in June 2015. I dropped in on it recently while in Milan testing the latest Giulia Veloce. The Veloce, by the way, plugs […]

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