The Range Rover, Land Rover’s plush off-road masterpiece
While it may not look like a typical choice for the enthusiast, the Land Rover Range Rover is one of the easiest and most versatile classics to own and enjoy…every day of the year.
View ArticleThe Esprit, Lotus’ genre-defining sports car
The Lotus Esprit remained in production for 28 years, a staggering achievement. Just 10,675 were built over that time, making the Esprit a quickly-rising star on the classic car scene and a compelling...
View ArticleThe 205, Peugeot’s world-beating hot hatchback
With a family tree large enough to fill an Ikea car park, it’ll be difficult to talk about every single version of the Peugeot 205. That’s OK, because the ones we’ll be talking about are the more...
View ArticleRedefining Rallying – The Audi Quattro
The original (or ‘ur’) Audi Quattro redefined what high-performance motoring meant to the general public: four-wheel-drive was no longer about mud, ruts and farm tracks; quattro – and by extension, any...
View ArticleJaguar E-Type – The definitive British Sports Car
The XKE, or E-type in the UK, contender for most beautiful car in the world
View ArticleThe Citroen 2CV – the Car that Refused to Die
The Citroen 2CV is, like the VW Beetle, Porsche 911, and Austin Mini, a car so perfect in its execution that it simply refused to die; despite Citroen’s attempts to modernize it over the years with the...
View ArticleVW Corrado – A Glorified Golf or Halo Hatch?
You could consider Volkswagen’s Corrado a glorified Golf. Or, a less celebrated successor to the revered Scirocco. Or, in G60 trim anyway, an unreliable mass of problematic superchargers and finicky...
View ArticleFord Granada MK I – 70s Britain at its best?
Launched in 1972, the early cars were called the Consul thanks to a threatened lawsuit from the Granada Group. The problem eventually resolved itself in 1975 but until then the Consul name was used for...
View ArticleHonda NSX – The Theory
Pininfarina designed the body, using the F-16 fighter plane as inspiration. Ayrton Senna helped to develop the chassis. Gordon Murray had one as his company car and used it as the benchmark for the...
View ArticleMercedes Pagoda – The most sensible dream car in the world?
Acts don’t get much harder to follow than the venerable 300SL. Nothing screams exotic quite as loudly as a set of gullwing doors, and, even in roadster trim, those sultry lines and huge (for the time)...
View ArticleJaguar MKII – The Perfect Getaway Car?
If you were a criminal in the early 1950s, your planning generally wouldn’t have included an escape by car. Well, not a high-speed escape, anyway. Sure, quick cars were available, but not fast cars....
View ArticleThe Best Porsche for £15k?
Have you seen the price of classic Porsches lately? Bonkers, utterly bonkers: that old 1977 911 Carrera 3.0-litre I sold six years ago for £12,000 has recently been sold on again, this time for a...
View ArticleClassic Car and Motorcycle Insurance
Get a quote from Patina Partner and leading classic insurance specialist, Footman James The post Classic Car and Motorcycle Insurance appeared first on Patina's Picks.
View ArticleAlfa Romeo 105 GT/GTV – Affordable(ish) Beauty?
If asked to think of the prettiest classic car ever built, then most people would include the Lamborghini Miura, surely? The Jaguar E-Type would be able to stake a claim on most people’s list too, The...
View ArticleVolkswagen Camper – The Definitive Love Bus?
I’ve spent many, many hours day-dreaming about chucking it all in and driving off into the sunset in a VW camper. I’ll tour Europe and the ‘States with a Canon 6D in one hand and a MacBook in the other...
View ArticleNissan 300ZX – The ‘almost’ exotic sportscar
Or was it a GT? Or was it a supercar? Or was it all of the above?Ah yes, 1983… what a great time to be alive. Michael Jackson’s battling it out with every other recording artist in the world for radio...
View ArticleMGB – Is this the most practical classic car in the world?
The MGB might not be the fastest classic car in the world. It might not be the prettiest, either. Or the most economical, the best handling, the most rewarding to drive, or the cheapest to run. The...
View ArticleLiving with an NSX – Part 2
I’m a worrier, so the first job on my newly purchased Honda NSX was a full service and inspection by Kenrick Motors, my local garage. Not only are they old school engineers rather than the fitters you...
View ArticleProof that Patina adds value to your car
We’ve always known it intuitively but could never prove it, the fact that Patina adds value to your car by having a rich comprehensive history that increasers buyer confidence. Well this weekend we...
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