Memory

​Geoff Carverhill looks back on the life of the man who made Pontiac the GreaT One of the Sixties…

​Versatile designer was as well-known outside of the motoring world as he was for his unmistakable vehicles

​It is hard to imagine that any designer can claim more touchpoints with British children of the 1970s and ’80s than the late

​Hoonigan Industries confirmed that motorsport celebrity Ken Block died in a snowmobile accident near his home in Utah in January

Despite recording only two wins in a nine-year, 123-race F1 career, the Frenchman (who died on 4 December) will be remembered as one of the most popular both on and off track.

​Known for his major contributions to Ferrari’s racing cars from the 1960s to 1980s, engineer Mauro Forghieri died on 2 November 2022, aged 87. Born on 13 January 1935 in Modena, he was hired by Ferrari in 1960

​Italian car collector and past President of the Maserati Club, Alexander Fyshe, has passed away after a long illness. Over his lifetime, Alex assembled a collection of 20 Italian cars including such exotics as a Ferrari 250 GT Lusso

​One of the biggest names in world rallying, and one of the motorsport stars of the 1960s to most effortlessly cross over to becoming a household name

While this is the first M3 Touring it also isn't. In 2000 BMW built an M3 Touring based on the E46 platform,

​Karl Probst …without whom the US Army Jeep might never have existed.

​The man who might have been the inspiration for the phrase ‘lovable rogue’ was also the embodiment of charm and charisma

​Britain’s oldest sporting motor club for cars and bikes, the Motor Cycling Club (MCC)

The man who saved Land Rover from oblivion in the 1980s – and who you've almost certainly never heard of – has died, aged 85. His name was Tony Gilroy

​A collection of original Russell Brookes cars, all in the famous yellow-and- blue livery of his long-standing sponsor Andrews Heat For Hire, will be the centrepiece of Firle Beacon, a new rally

​Born in Hungary on the 7th April 1942, Helmut Flegl was responsible, among other things, for the success of the 917. He joined Porsche in 1966. Just three years later, the graduate engineer

Renowned motoring writer Roger Bell died on 6 March. He was 85. An accomplished technical author, he rose through the ranks to become editor of Motor

​The former racing driver and high-performance piston supplier has died at the age of 88

Born into a wealthy, politically active family in Patterton, Renfrewshire, on 26 July 1909, Margaret Allan attended the famously liberal Hampshire school, Bedales