

V8s TO DRIVE BEFORE YOU DIE
Some V8 thunder makes any car exciting, but this selection has it all – drama, luxury, performance, prestige, and great value. Which one needs to fill your garage with joy?
‘Lots of holes had been drilled into it, and the wiring was a rat’s nest’
Fate presented Andy Middlehurst with the opportunity to restore the very Nissan Skyline GT-R he built and drove to victory in the Nineties. But could a hacked-about racer ever be as-original again?
‘It lived the life of a packhorse, then spent 16 years laid up’
After being turned into a rally service barge by Ford Motorsport, this Granada MkII trudged the special-stage service parks before being confined to a dingy council lock-up, unused for nearly two decades. Its bespoke features and tired state meant it would test the abilities of even a model-specialist restorer, but it had potential…
THE LION and The Stallion
Marking 40 years of Ferrari’s misunderstood road car, we go for a drive in a Testarossa that was originally Nigel Mansell’s company wheels
V8s TO DRIVE BEFORE YOU DIE
Some V8 thunder makes any car exciting, but this selection has it all – drama, luxury, performance, prestige, and great value. Which one needs to fill your garage with joy?
‘Lots of holes had been drilled into it, and the wiring was a rat’s nest’
Fate presented Andy Middlehurst with the opportunity to restore the very Nissan Skyline GT-R he built and drove to victory in the Nineties. But could a hacked-about racer ever be as-original again?
‘It lived the life of a packhorse, then spent 16 years laid up’
After being turned into a rally service barge by Ford Motorsport, this Granada MkII trudged the special-stage service parks before being confined to a dingy council lock-up, unused for nearly two decades. Its bespoke features and tired state meant it would test the abilities of even a model-specialist restorer, but it had potential…
THE LION and The Stallion
Marking 40 years of Ferrari’s misunderstood road car, we go for a drive in a Testarossa that was originally Nigel Mansell’s company wheels