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17th February 2017
The Opel Ascona B provided the foundation for the UK’s badge-engineered Escort contender, albeit with a different ‘drooping’ snout designed by Wayne Cherry. The original Ascona A (Viva over here) had competed very well against…
17th February 2017
The T1 was launched in 1956 as a Bentley-badged version of the totally redesigned Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, the company’s first unitary-built model. Apart from a different style grille, the Bentley version is identified by a…
17th February 2017
The Seven was very much a product of Austin the man rather than Austin the company: In the immediate post-First World War period Austin – by then a public company – needed something other than…
17th February 2017
By the mid-‘Fifties these two quasi-British brands were almost meeting in the middle, but you only have to compare the PA Cresta with a Ford Zephyr to see that the target buyers still moved in…
17th February 2017
Of course Rootes was no stranger to badge engineering and like BMC it had a whole catalogue of brands it could slap onto the Imp. The first was a Singer version and as was expected…
17th February 2017
Manufactured by German coachbuilder Karmann (these days itself a part of the Volkswagen group), the Beetle Cabriolet (it was always ‘cabriolet’ rather than convertible) was about as far from being a simple roof chop as…
17th February 2017
Launched in 1953, the 100E was a replacement for the upright-looking E494 Anglia, which was essentially derived from a pre-war design and by the late ’Forties was looking desperately old-fashioned – especially next to Ford’s…
17th February 2017
Developed by Ford’s Special Vehicle Engineering team at Dunton, the Supersport was a toe-in-the-water exercise to test demand for a sporty small hatchback and as history has since shown, the idea proved to be a…
17th February 2017
The P4 comes from an era when the Rover badge really stood for something and it oozes quality in a very restrained way. Unlike a contemporary Jaguar, which looked and felt good where it mattered…
17th February 2017
Yes, it is still possible to pick a tatty, high-mileage example up for less than £10k, but at that level you really do need to know your way around the cars and be on your guard…
17th February 2017
It would have been one of the first of the F28’ series of Oldsmobiles to be seen on that continent, powered by a new 55 horsepower sidevalve straight six and with a range of steel…
