

Light Fantastic
As everyday cars get ever porkier, lightweight classics provide the antidote for pure driving joy. This is our pick of the cars that do more with less
[Epic Restoration] ‘Let’s restore the 308 like a 250SWB’
You’re the boss of a Ferrari specialist, and your wife remarks that your own 308GTS is looking tatty. Hide it away, or go to town on the restoration?
1975 THE GREATEST CAR YEAR?
From the depths of the malaise era came five cars that changed the fortunes of their makers. Now, 50 years after their debuts, they make the case for 1975 being an automotive peak
‘We put 1000 hours into it, this makes no commercial sense’
In a world of restomods, AutoRara decided to perfect a Peugeot 205GTi. What had it let itself in for?
BONDING AGENTS
In the mid-Sixties, could the everyman MGB share even a glimmer of the Aston Martin DB5’s limelight?
The COMEBACK KIDS
From the depths of uncoolness, these four cars are bouncing back. Our resident arbiter of retro style finds out why they have – and others haven’t
Light Fantastic
As everyday cars get ever porkier, lightweight classics provide the antidote for pure driving joy. This is our pick of the cars that do more with less
[Epic Restoration] ‘Let’s restore the 308 like a 250SWB’
You’re the boss of a Ferrari specialist, and your wife remarks that your own 308GTS is looking tatty. Hide it away, or go to town on the restoration?
1975 THE GREATEST CAR YEAR?
From the depths of the malaise era came five cars that changed the fortunes of their makers. Now, 50 years after their debuts, they make the case for 1975 being an automotive peak
‘We put 1000 hours into it, this makes no commercial sense’
In a world of restomods, AutoRara decided to perfect a Peugeot 205GTi. What had it let itself in for?