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It was one of the most technologically advanced cars of its era, and this one has an extraordinary back-story to tell: John Simister fulfils a long-held ambition and drives a Lancia Lambda.

VW’s reborn icon challenges the car BMW said it would never build. The latest incarnation of VW’s hot-hatch icon is now sufficiently upmarket to take a swing at the 1 Series BMW once said it would never build. They’ve got a lot of front, this pair...

Crafty competition plans resulted in the wickedly fast and noisy SLR 722 GT – but sadly not a suitably evocative race series, as James Page discovers

I’m kicking myself. The boys from McLaren Special Operations have just rocked up to the test track in a sun-bleached So-Cal VW ‘Squareback’ – the VW Variant, to us Brits – and I’m looking distinctly underdressed in my plain-Jane Volvo estate. If only I’d brought the Mustang instead.

He was called ‘The King of Stop and Go’, although, to be chronologically precise, he should have been the ‘King of Go and Stop’ – his ‘go’ invention preceding the ‘stop’. Vincent Bendix’s whole life seemed to evolve on a stop-and-go basis. He was a big man, bighearted and a big spender. He made a fortune, spent a fortune and was no stranger to bankruptcy, divorce and ill-judged investments.

While I’m aware that driving £10million cars is part of my job at Octane, I’m usually quite relieved to hand them back. And if I’m not then driving home in my 1989 BMW3 20i Convertible E30 (precious tome, if not quite so valuable), I may well be in our ten-year-old family Skoda Yeti.

E-type UK is a company known for its restorations, but it is now branching out into something a little more specialised. Via its Unleashed sub-brand, it is taking Series 3 E-types down the ‘restomod’ route.

Touring Superleggera’s latest stunner re-wraps the guts of an undisclosed ‘wellknown, mid-engined exotic’. Dale Drinnon discovers that the result is even more exotic.

Access for Aussies to American oversize utes took on a whole new scope a few years ago when factory-backed offerings became available through RAM Trucks Australia (RTA) and HSV/GMSV for Chevrolet products.

It may have arrived to a cool reception, but this Merc’s appeal is timeless

A quirky outlier that managed to find a mainstream audience, and justified Citroen’s existence to its new masters

Having promised to care for his mother’s beloved MG, Darren Woods found a restoration case on his hands

After 20 years exploring the ragged edges of mechanical fatigue and evolving engine technology, Bruce Morehouse’s 2100whp twin-VR6T GTI has the world’s fastest Volkswagens in its crosshair

The last known surviving pre-production MG VA is itself a rarity amongst the rare but Ian Burton is determined to experience and share its history

How do you top an immaculate, Florida blue series 1 VW Golf? For Richard Stringer, the answer lay in this uber-rare, 1975 Lofoten Green swallowtail