How a model car inspired Dr Ulrich Eichhorn to buy an old Bentley, and how it in turn inspired the creation of a modern car

Home to some of the world’s greatest automotive marques, Modena is a motor city like no other, writes Gavin Green

You might be surprised at some of the measures car manufacturers adopt to engineer cost out of an affordable car. Richard Porter is your guide

It is one of few cars truly deserving to be called ‘iconic’, and values have tumbled of late. How tempted should we really be, asks Andrew Frankel

The year's best rear-drive, four-seat sports coupé comes either from Germany or the US. Dan Prosser heads to Wales to find out which

Discerning genuine points of difference between cars is far harder than it once was. And that, says our young writer Max Taylor, is a real problem

Had your fill of conventional piston engines? Perhaps it’s time to try something completely different, if you’re feeling bold enough, says Lewis Kingston

You can spend six figures on a new M2, but an older version will provide most of the fun for a fraction of the money, says Dan Prosser

Some cars will appreciate over the next decade, others will not. Steve Sutcliffe suggests 10 of the former, and five of the latter

We’ve all done it: hired an anonymous box, thrashed it, handed it back and never thought of it again. But just occasionally, they can leave a mark. By Andrew Frankel