Glenn Rowswell on 4th November 2020
It was the release of the E30 3-Series in the early 1980s that put BMW firmly on the map of the UK tuning scene. Light, good looking, tunable, rear-wheel drive, reliable and fun...
Glenn Rowswell on 26th August 2020
What was initially a stop-gap car for Ford Motorsport while the RS500 was developed actually became a surprise success. We take a look at the Merkur XR4Ti...
Glenn Rowswell on 29th July 2020
Rallying has always taken road cars to the extremes of tuning. Today’s WRC machines cost hundreds of thousands of pounds and share few components with the road cars they’re based on. But in the 1980s, Group B rallying made today’s WRC look tame...
Glenn Rowswell on 3rd April 2020
Australia has brought us some of the most legendary machines, drivers, and indeed races, ever. One of them is the Bathurst 1000 race at Mount Panorama...
Glenn Rowswell on 19th February 2020
Jean Ragnotti, the man who makes front-wheel drive hot hatches dance...
Glenn Rowswell on 22nd January 2020
Huge power, wild bodywork, insane engine conversions...
Glenn Rowswell on 20th November 2019
The original M-powered saloon, the E28 M5...
Glenn Rowswell on 30th October 2019
It wasn’t all about the Cossie, the RS2000 was a bit handy too...
Glenn Rowswell on 16th October 2019
It may be outgunned today by some of the most powerful hot hatches, but the DC2 is still so fast it can still easily show most of them the way home on a twisty road or race track. A true legend...
Glenn Rowswell on 28th August 2019
With a body made of carbon-kevlar, a wheelbase over 12in shorter than the original, even wider arches and a more steeply raked windscreen from an Audi 80, the Sport quattro was an awesome-looking car...
Glenn Rowswell on 24th July 2019
The mighty Toyota AE86 Corolla is a legendary drift car the world over...
Glenn Rowswell on 10th July 2019
Tuneable, fun and seriously cool, the Mk2 Escort RS2000 ticks all the boxes...
Glenn Rowswell on 15th February 2019
With a mixture of RS1600i parts blended together with brand new parts such as an aggressive bodykit, arch extensions, a limited slip diff and, of course, turbo power, the new Escort RS Turbo was one of the most advanced FWD hot hatches ever seen...
Glenn Rowswell on 30th January 2019
On its first release in 1990, the Lotus Carlton caused uproar among road safety campaigners due to what appeared to them, to be a family four-door saloon with an absolutely huge top speed...