Poor subscription levels herald the closure of The Classic Motoring Review Regrettably, after just five issues of Britain’s most distinctive classic car periodical, this email marks the end of the road for The Classic Motoring Review. Subscription Renewals following...

The Autumn issue of Classic Motoring Review will be through subscriber’s letterboxes later this week and it’s actually our biggest one yet – 40,000 words 14 full-length, long-form features. But ignoring the gratuitous alliteration for a moment, the Autumn issue really...

The European Commission is proposing to seriously deter classic car ownership The future of historic motor racing may well be in the balance, but for reasons that have nothing to do with the state of the market, emissions legislation or any of the other issues that...

Is simplicity a qualification for classic car status? My current classic car is a Citroen XM – but is it? There are of course no hard and fast rules about what qualifies as a classic, although as a rule of thumb I’ve always considered a car as being no longer in...

James May’s Adventures in Politically Motivated Cars Although there are any number of shows that have come along in their wake, cars on television are most famously associated with Top Gear, about which I’m sure we all have strong views… at least about its...

Why We Love Auctions (And Yet Hate Them!) The entire classic motoring world has in the last decade or so become hugely affected by the auction business. Hardly a week goes by without a specialist website, newspaper or magazine headlining the sale of this or that...

Governments are increasingly intolerant of the classic machinery we love – time to make a stand According to research by the Adams Group, in terms of sales the classic car trade was worth about £5.5billion to the British economy but the Federation of British Historic...