Classic Cars

Classic Cars is the original classic car magazine. It defined the world of classic motoring 40 years ago and still does it today. Every issue is put together by our team of classic car experts and enthusiasts. Using the best expert writing and photography, the magazine helps you experience what it's like to drive, keep and restore the classic cars of days gone by. We bring the stories and people behind the cars to life - showing you how to buy, keep and enjoy your cars. Every issue of Classic Cars is packed with: - Road tests - Drive stories - Expert buying advice - News and events coverage Classic Cars is the original classic car magazine.

Welcome • Car designers have a different way of looking at the world, and how cars interact with it, so I’m delighted to welcome Julian Thomson as our new columnist

‘It has perfect proportions, it was so modern for its time’ • Automotive design legend Julian Thomson submitted a list of the cars which inspired him – so we secured him a drive in a Lamborghini Miura SV originally owned by Rod Stewart

Performance plus posing value • Are the rarest and hairiest Bentley Turbos now gaining enough credibility to rise?

Bidders revel in Renault-ism • The status of factory ownership adds value as museum contents are sold

Market indicators • Unpredictable result Italians, a pair of bang-on-the-money Brits, and a slowly rising German modern

PRICE GUIDE MOVERS

Boost for lightweight 911 values? • Rare-breed 911s are eclipsing much more ‘special’ Porsches – for now, anyway

Bonhams Online reverts to The Market • Management buy-out in a need to ‘be independent again’

Forecourt View

IN THE TRADE

Roger Albert reigns supreme • RAC Rally cemented its status as the historic event the professionals all want to win

Rally machines hit Wiltshire tarmac • 2025 Castle Combe Stage Rally hosts a truly eclectic entry list for season-ending event

January-May highlights • Start planning the first half of a classic 2026

‘King of the Road’ emerges in US • Shelby Mustang GT500KR surfaces in Kansas after two-decade hibernation

Our January sale is now LIVE! • Drive into 2026 with Classic Cars, a magazine that brings to you a lifetime of compelling, original stories of buying, owning, driving and living with great cars of the past. Enjoy the latest and sharpest coverage of market trends, events and news, PLUS a price guide every three issues.

Next Month • The April issue of Classic Cars is looking strident

Cobra not really a kit

Classic Cars

JULIAN THOMSON • Designing a new sports car is all about timing, not just for the company and the market, but for the life stages of team members tasked with making it

ALEX RILEY • Once upon a time you knew where you stood, with Alpina hooked on silky six-cylinder engines and Zagato delivering surprise, delight and often shock

BLOWN AWAY • Forget any assumptions about old Corvettes being lazy cruisers. This Callaway eats European rivals for breakfast, sunny side up

‘The floor was plywood… the seats and belts bolted through it’ • Using creative techniques, the restoration of this Australian-built racing special deeply challenged its rebuild team every step of the way

EUROPE vs AMERICA DAYS OF THUNDER • High-performance came in very different forms during the 2010s; more than 1100bhp of American muscle takes on two of the most sophisticated European sports cars for an epic five-day US road trip

LEG ONE LOS ANGELES

LEG TWO BARSTOW TO LAS VEGAS

SHELBY vs FERRARI

LEG THREE LAS VEGAS TO LOS ANGELES

LIFE STORY OF A Renault 5 GT Turbo • For more than 35 years and from the UK to The Netherlands and back, this Renault 5GT...