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The KdF car, a German acronym for Strength Through Joy, was conceived by Adolf Hitlers Third Reich as a true German peoples car. There is precious little in the legacy of 1930s Nazi Germany that is positive, but after the Second World war and with a litt
What Europe needed after the Second World War was an ultra-reliable workhorse to get small businesses on the move again. And, with a little nudge from the Dutch, thats what Volkswagen provided in 1950 with its Transporter van. It was no fireball, but rock
Before the Ford Capri arrived in 1969, GT cars had tended to be expensive, temperamental, impractical and rarefied. Ford decided there was no reason why a four-seater coupe couldnt look stunning and go like a rocket (with the right engine) yet be as easy
The very first Land Rover, launched in 1948, owed its low-key existence to shoestring British ingenuity and literally odds and ends left over from World War II. Rover thought it could keep its factory ticking over as the companys post-war fortunes slowl
After the Second World War, cars in Britain were very hard to come by. Most new models had to go for export or were reserved for those drivers who needed them the most, such as doctors. Petrol was still rationed, roads inadequate and modern technology lac
An intriguing series of tales about love affairs with cars which, like human relationships, can go badly wrong. Christian Wolmar, best-selling author of The Subterranean Railway and Fire & Steam Three Million Miles in a Volvo and Other Curious Car Storie
For fifty years, Britain made the best toy cars in the world, expertly shrinking every kind of reallife vehicle and producing them in their countless, die-cast millions. Dinky Toys were the 1930s pioneers, then in the 1950s came the pocket-money Matchbox
The original Land Rover evolved for almost seventy years, from the ground breaking Series I model in 1948 to the final Defender in 2016. Now there is a totally new Defender for the 2020s. Land Rover charts the history of the authentic bloodline in strikin
Sixty diverse cars, sixty fascinating stories, sixty contrasting specifications, just one uniting factor: theyre all forgotten, neglected or misunderstood classics. Motoring in the 1940s and 50s spanned from post-war austerity to the youve-never-had-it-so
Mini celebrates 60 amazing years of this iconic car, from its revolutionary introduction to the popularity of its new-generation models. The first two-door Mini, introduced in 1959 and built until 2000, revolutionized automotive design with its innovative