The newly reborn Alvis Car Company reveals the first Alvis Graber Super Coupé Continuation, heading for Japan and costing £323k. You need to be of a certain age to remember Alvis cars – or a classic car specialist – but in the 1950s they produced cars to rival the very best on sale. One of […]
1972 Range Rover ‘SHOOTING BRAKE’ expected to fetch circa £100k
A very rare 1972 Range Rover Shooting Brake – originally built by Land Rover – is up for grabs at Bonhams for around £100k. It’s more than 50 years since the Land Rover Range Rover (to give it its full title) arrived as a more upmarket, although still ‘hose-out’ practical, 4×4 as Land Rover sought […]
Fancy a rare, Limited Edition Lotus Esprit? Here’s a choice of SIX
A collection of six rare, limited edition Lotus Esprit goes up for auction on The Market, with estimates from £35k to £150k. The Lotus Esprit was, in its time, a proper supercar, before Hethel lowered its sights and went back to more compact and affordable (relatively speaking) sports cars. Perhaps best-known by most as the […]
‘New’ Electric Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa costs just £95k – but there is a catch
Ferrari teams up with The Little Car Company to deliver the Testa Rossa J, an electric 75 per cent scale replica of the 1957 250 Testa Rossa. We thought we’d be waiting a few years yet for the first electric Ferrari, but thanks to a collaboration between Ferrari and The Little Car Company it’s here […]
Classic Citroen DS goes ELECTRIC with new EV conversion
British EV specialists Electrogenic has taken the classic Citroen DS and turned it into an EV, with a new 120bhp electric motor and 48.5kWh battery. The move to electrify classic cars seems unstoppable as we move into a world of EVs, but we do have a problem with cars where the engine is the star […]
How much is a 1987 Toyota Corolla GT worth? The thick end of £50k, it seems.
A 1987 AE86 Toyota Corolla GT is sold by Car & Classics for a whopping £46,250, showing it’s not just fast Fords from the 1980s fetching serious money. We’ve seen the rise and rise of 1980s cars as modern classics, with cars like the Ford Sierra Cosworth fetching the sort of money you could buy […]
Ferrari F40 BREAKS online auction record with £1 MILLION sale
A Ferrari F40, in a unique shade of blue and owned by an interweb influencer, sells for over £1 million on the online auction site The Market. As the car world moves online – massively at first because of Covid, but now unstoppable – it’s not just new cars up for grabs at the click […]
Ford GT40 going ELECTRIC – perfect for short, woke, tech millionaires
The original Ford GT40 is going electric, with EV specialists Everrati teaming with Superformance to deliver a GT40 powered by electricity. We’re quite ambivalent about the increasing move to electrify classic cars, unlike some, and if it keeps classic cars relevant for this new woke age it has to be liveable with. But plans by […]
Bono’s 1980 Mercedes 450 SEL up for grabs – but it needs work
A 1980 Mercedes 450 SEL first owned by U2 frontman Bono, is up for grabs with a low estimate of just £15,000. When you’re a successful Rock star, you’re expected to go out and buy a Rolls-Royce and drive it into a swimming pool (like Keith Moon) or start a collection of Ferraris and other […]
Jaguar E-Type ‘UNLEASHED’ – a V12 E-Type with 400bhp 6.1-litre V12
E-Type UK, top Jaguar E-Type specialists, launch the ‘Unleashed’ brand to deliver modern performance and comfort, starting with a 6.1-litre, 400bhp V12 E-Type. Talk to classic car specialists and you’ll get a mix of opinions about whether classic cars should be kept as is – original patina included – sympathetically restored, back to new, a […]