Ian Callum’s design company has teamed up with Wood & Pickett to reimagine the Classic Mini. Costs from £75,000. The love for the Classic Mini still runs strong in the British psyche, with almost every car lover either having owned a Mini in their youth or having had one in the family and evoking nostalgic […]
Land Rover Series EV Conversions from Inverted START at £150k – New Land Rover Defender EV Kit too.
Range Rover EV conversion specialists launch EV conversions for Series I, II, and III Land Rovers, with prices starting at £150,000. Like it or not, EV conversions for Classic Cars are very much in vogue at the moment, and although many decry it as sacrilege (including FIVA), it can make a classic car fit for […]
‘New’ Classic Land Rover Defender V8 Soft Top REVEALED – with a very chunky price tag
Land Rover Classic reveals its latest offering – the Classic Land Rover Defender V8 Soft Top – costing from a very chunky £234,000. The current Land Rover Defender is a real cash-cow for JLR, accounting for a big chunk of JLR’s profits despite (or probably because of) prices starting at £61k for the entry-level Defender […]
Classic Mini Cooper S RESTOMOD by Tolman looks a hoot
Classic restomod experts Tolman have worked their magic on a 1968 Mini Cooper S, with more power and modern tech. We already know that Tolman does a great restomod job having seen what they are doing with the Peugeot 205 GTI, still an ongoing project with four cars currently in build. But Tolman doesn’t just deliver […]
Classic Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow gets 400bhp ELECTRIC conversion
Evice, a ‘British specialist in heritage remastering’ has created an electric Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow boasting a restomod and 400bhp. Restomods and EV conversions of classic cars are a growing part of the car landscape and, as we’ve said before, if the restomod is tasteful and the car being converted to an EV isn’t defined by […]
Rare Ford RS200 S expected to fetch up to £350,000
A rare Ford RS200 S – Ford’s 19080s Group B Rally Special – in ‘Ferrari Red’ is up for auction and expected to make £350,000. We’ve become used to seeing what were considered almost prosaic fast Fords until quite recently going for silly money, especially Cosworth and RS versions of 1980s models fetching six figures. […]
Mazda MX-5 Electric joins Electrogenic’s ‘Drop-in’ EV Conversion offerings
Electrogenic – purveyors of EV conversion kits for classic cars – launch a drop-in EV conversion for the early Mazda MX-5. Many of us are on the fence about converting classic cars to EVs. Some see it as the answer to making classics future-proof, but just as many feel it destroys a classic. This includes […]
Jaguar E-Type goes back in to PRODUCTION 50 years on
Jaguar Classic has built two Jaguar E-Type Roadsters from scratch for a client, 50 years after E-Type production ended. Whatever you think about Jaguar’s decision to stop producing all its cars a year before the new wave of electric Jaguars is ready for the market, it’s good to see Jaguar can still build ICE cars […]
AC Ace RETURNS with 300bhp Ford Focus ST power – but it’s not cheap
AC Cars Classics division reveals a new AC Ace that looks much like the original but with a new powertrain and underpinnings. Ask almost anyone what they know about AC Cars and the answer will almost certainly be the AC Cobra and nothing else. But the AC Cobra—recently recreated by AC—had an immediate predecessor in […]
Henry Ford II’s Ford Escort RS2000 up for grabs
A MK2 Ford Escort RS2000, built for the personal use of Henry Ford II, is up for grabs with a guide price of £50,000 to £60,000. It’s not long ago that fast Fords from the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s headed for the scrapyard as you couldn’t give them away. But things have changed. No longer […]