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A decade ago, Andrew Frankel took Sir Stirling Moss and Norman Dewis back to Brescia, to the place where they risked their lives to prove that disc brakes worked
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Why did Merlin engines built in Detroit fail more often than those made in Crewe? Bizarre as it sounds, the answer came from the canteen. David Twohig explains
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First it was the Countach. Now, in the second of Andrew Frankel’s Icon series, the famed Anglo-American is re-appraised
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Is reducing mass merely a case of using the lightest components possible? If only it were that simple, says David Twohig, the Alpine A110’s Chief Engineer
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Mel Nichols asks Giorgetto Giugiaro to recall the rapid conception and delivery of one of his cheapest, most basic but brilliant designs
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Ever wonder how those high-speed chases are filmed? By using some of the most highly adapted, cleverly conceived cars in existence, says Joana Fidalgo
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Jacques Laffite's career-ending accident, Nigel Mansell's fine win and the quick thinking of Jonathan Palmer. Colin Goodwin was at Brands Hatch to see it all
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Fifty years ago, Car magazine launched the most blunt, trenchant, honest and funny listings guide there has been. Its author, Mel Nichols, recalls its creation