There’s nothing quite like the NEC Classic Motor Show; with five halls packed full of over 2500 classic cars, clubs, traders and collectors, navigating its many pathways can almost be a little overwhelming. There’s just so much to see. On our travels at the event, we took note of a small handful of cars whose…
Every so often, a deal comes along that presents an opportunity almost too good to miss. This 1991 Mercedes-Benz SL500, currently for sale via online auction with The Market, might just be that car. This is not a pristine example of Mercedes’ luxury touring roadster, but with enough love and a little elbow grease, it…
Historically it has always been the ‘ugly duckling’, quirky or obscure classics that tend to be a safe bet for making money in the car market. Many of history’s oddballs have typically been produced in low numbers or featured a design so unique that we only see their likes once in a lifetime. As such many of…
Silverstone Auctions have rounded up an impressive collection of extreme low mileage fast Fords, to be sold at their NEC Classic Motor Show sale on November 11-12. Affordable performance cars don’t typically have an easy life, and as a consequence there are often not many of the older ones around anymore. They get thrashed mercilessly,…
Porsche has recently revealed the Carrera T or Touring edition – the 22nd variant of thePorsche 911 available on the UK market. So, what sets the 911 T apart from the rest? This Porsche, bar a few minor body alterations, could easily be mistaken for the new 991 R. It’s once we get under the…
If you’ve always had a soft spot for Mercedes-Benz’s eighties DTM-honed small saloon, the 190E Cosworth, and had filed it away in that part of the brain which acts as a cerebral garage for all of your ‘one day’ cars, then a perusal of the current classifieds – and the prices now being asked –…
The Jaguar XJ220 needs little introduction. The car that promised so much and delivered relatively little at launch has lived an existence overshadowed by its failings. A tough rock for any supercar to live under despite its incredible looks, low volume production and menacing road presence. Time, however, heals all wounds and the public love an underdog….
The Mercedes G-Wagen started life as a military vehicle for the sort of people for whom a Land Rover Defender wasn’t robust enough and ended life as the preferred mode of transport for whom a Bentley Bentayga is just too discreet. The transition from battlefield to Battersea was only possible because the G-Wagen is possibly…
It’s hard not to love an AMG, especially one that packs the now-synonymous V8 – an engine configuration that Mercedes-AMG has, in recent decades, made its own. More so than Audi, Ford or Jaguar? Yes, I’d say; Ferrari too, even… Perhaps the one downside of the Affalterbach-based performance powerhouse’s rise to global prominence under Mercedes-Benz’s…
It’s not every day that you open up an auction listing and see a Peel P50 next to an Aston Martin DBR9. Two special cars in their own right, and for die hard fans of the ‘Old New Top Gear’ ones that both had memorable features on the show, but two cars that have absolutely…