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  Classics face £10 charge to enter London 12 Jul 2016 (News)
  Classic cars could be forced to pay a tax to enter central London next year in a bid to improve the capital’s air quality. Mayor of London Sadiq Kahn wants to discourage polluting older vehicles from the city by forcing drivers to pay an additional £10 charge.
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  Trio of Grand Prix legends set for Silverstone Classic 16 Jun 2016 (News)
  Three of the most successful Grand Prix cars of recent Formula One history will take part in this summer’s Silverstone Classic. All three head-turners are known winners, having been raced by world champions, and will appear at the Northamptonshire event on 29-31 July.
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  Get ready for motorsport at the Palace 18 May 2016 (News)
  Consequently, Motorsport at the Palace attracts racing drivers from all over the world and show cases a range of historic vehicles. Around 200 cars from racing and rallying spanning more than 100 years of motoring will be at this year’s show, with classes ranging from pre-war vintage to modern day, delivering high-octane competition with around 100 cars running each day.
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  A Grand Monday: BMW 3-series Touring £850 7 Mar 2016 (News)
  If it continues to be well looked after, this E36 will very soon become a desirable and cherished classic. As it is, it’s an interesting car that’s more than capable of delivering everyday duties, making it the perfect modern classic for families. And for £850, it’s a decent amount of premium-badged German car for the money, too.
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  A Grand Monday: Low-mileage Metro, £999 8 Feb 2016 (News)
  All of which makes this particular car an attractive proposition. There’s suddenly quite a following for Metros, with the earliest examples selling for upwards of £3000-£4000 in excellent condition. The later, Rover-badged cars are less collectable but are, by contrast, much better cars to drive.
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  Rolling Stones’ Bentley sells for £750,000 at Bonhams' Revival auction 14 Sep 2015 (News)
  Richards bought the Bentley, which was one of a limited edition of 87, from HR Owen in London in 1965. He nicknamed the car Blue Lena after the legendary jazz musician Lena Horne. It was apparently later modified at his request to have a secret compartment fitted where he and the band could hide their drugs. Among other hedonistic road trips, Blue Lena is the car that was driven to Marrakech by Richards and Anita Pallenberg in 1967 prior to Richards’ court appearance for possession of drugs.
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  Jaguar Land Rover fights back on potholes 10 Jun 2015 (News)
  "We are also researching how we could improve the measurement and accuracy of pothole detection by scanning the road ahead, so the car could predict how severe they are before the vehicle gets near them.” Dr. Bell continues by explaining that the company is working on a system that will automatically guide a car around a pothole – or even stop the car if the pothole was big enough. 
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  Four Million Euro 300SLs in Bonham's Mercedes-Benz Auction 11 Mar 2015 (News)
  The evolution of the 300 SL began when Mercedes-Benz won the 1952 Carrera Panamericana with a W194 300 SL coupé. The racing derived tube frame car with its high performance 3-liter engine was then developed into a road-going sports car aimed at the upper-end of the aspiring US sports car market.  Several changes were made to improve the 300 SL's usability.
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  Aladdin’s cave of 60 classics worth £12m unearthed in France 7 Dec 2014 (News)
  A barn find collection of more than 60 classic cars worth £12 million will go under the hammer at auction next year. The collection, which ranges from the early days of motoring through to the 1970s, has been left untouched for 50 years. Bugatti, Hispano-Suiza, Talbot-Lago, Panhard-Levassor, Maserati, Ferrari, Delahaye, Delage – the collection includes cars from all these famous marques.
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  London gears up for classic spectacular 29 Oct 2014 (News)
  Cars on display in Regent Street will range from the earliest pioneering vehicles in the history of the motor car through to some of today’s most futuristic designs. Hundreds of veteran cars – already in preparation for Sunday’s London to Brighton Run – will be taking part in the EFG International Concours d’Elegance, giving visitors a chance to see perfectly restored examples of some of the world’s oldest designs.
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  Low mileage Austin Maestro makes £3260 at auction 12 Sep 2014 (News)
  Barons had nine Cheeseman collection cars in the sale, and every one sold. The XK150 Roadster topped the price list, making £50,000, the XK120 FHC achieved £43,692, the Mk2 3.8 £15,132, the rare Series One XJ6 manual £9084, the 1978 Triumph Stag £9868 and the three no reserve cars selling for around £2500.
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  Jaguar to build new lightweight E-type specials 13 Aug 2014 (News)
  The cars will be sold as period competition vehicles and all will be suitable for FIA homologation for historic motorsport purposes. The new cars are the 'missing' six vehicles from the 'Special GT E-type' project, which originally started in February 1963 with the objective of building 18 cars.
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  Ford Model A sets new world record 10 Jun 2014 (News)
  An Australian classic car owner has set a new world record for driving across Australia and back again in a pre-WWII car. Rod Wade, aged 71, and his team covered 5592 miles in a 1930 Ford Model A in a fundraising challenge for Kidney Health Australia.
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  The MoT Files: FAQs 6 May 2014 (News)
  With 355 million records and 40GB of data, there always will be. There were steam-powered Renault Clios and plenty of cars registered in the 1800s. Make sure you check what's on your MoT certificate before you leave the testing station. Does this tell me how reliable my car is? This data will tell you what your car is likely to fail its MoT on.
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  Bonhams announces new auction at the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart 1 Mar 2014 (News)
  Worldwide consignments are anticipated and this Sale will celebrate the Mercedes-Benz marque's unrivalled entire history as one of the world's most forward-thinking motor car manufacturers. This world-class Sale will also celebrate the great German marque's strong relationship with Bonhams – the international motor car and fine art auctioneer. The Bonhams motoring team has enjoyed excellent relations with Mercedes-Benz since the early 1990s.
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  A Grand Monday: Fiat Uno 60S 24 Feb 2014 (News)
  And even though it was replaced by the Punto 10 years later, they kept building Unos in South America - where they only just went out of production .   But in the classic car world, for some reason, the brilliant Uno doesn't get the recognition it deserves. Survival rate is low, and most people incorrectly associate them with body rust. But then, the Uno's biggest problem for retro car fans isn't anything to do with the car itself, but the cult status its supermini contemporary, the Peugeot 205, achieved during the same time.
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  Coys to sell Brian Epstein's Bentley 13 Feb 2014 (News)
  Q : 'Doesn't he (Brian Epstein) give any to you?' GEORGE : 'No, no. Have you seen that car of his?' (laughter) George was referring to Brian’s new Bentley S3 which was sitting outside the airport's Kingsford-Smith VIP suite. In October 1965, Epstein sold the car and it passed into the hands of Sidney J Dicks Ltd.
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  Diesel Particulate Filters to be Tested in MoT from February 6 Dec 2013 (News)
  This has led to some diesel vehicle owners opting to remove the filter, which makes their car illegal for road use. DPFs of HGVs are regularly cleaned by the Ceramex process that restores their functionality to more than 90%, and this service is now being offered to car owners via Unipart and Alliance Car Centres and is on trial at six branches of KwikFit.
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  Stunning lots line up for RM and Sotheby's new sale in Manhattan 8 Nov 2013 (News)
  RM Auctions has confirmed that its new Art of the Automobile sale and exhibition, which takes place at Sotheby's New York in Manhattan, will featuring one of the most significant car collections to be offered in auction history. The catalogue spans a Brewster-built Vanderbilt family carriage to one-off Bugatti Veyron, and 18 of the 21 cars on offer are expected to fitch more than one million dollars.
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  Preview: Artcurial classic car auction, Paris, 20 October 27 Sep 2013 (News)
  It's an American-spec car with four previous owners, and that estimate is spot-on. Rememer when these were under £75K? It wasn't that long ago. For anyone who might think the Dino 246GT was a mid-engined pioneer, we give you the Matra Jet - the first mid-engined production sports car, introduced in 1965.