Highlights

A team of Caterham engineers has celebrated the launch of its lightest ever production car – the Seven 170 – by building it from scratch 450ft in the air on Brighton seafront.

Aston Martin specialists, McGurk Performance Cars, has undertaken a full, bare-metal restoration of a 1964 Aston Martin DB5 during the 2020 lockdown.

Today it was announced that Holden Vintage and Classic has been acquired by SNG Barratt Group, the world’s largest independent manufacturer and supplier of classic Jaguar parts and accessories.

Bespoke craftsmanship lies at the very heart of Rolls-Royce, with creativity nurtured and expressed at every turn. A highly skilled artisan from Rolls-Royce has created a one-of-a-kind bee-adorned bonnet in honor of London Craft Week.

In a historic announcement, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars announced today, that on-road testing of its first fully electric motor car, named ‘Spectre’, is imminent. By 2030 all Rolls-Royce products will be fully electric.

This years’ 10 selections for induction into the British Sports Car Hall of Fame (BSCHoF) are all significant contributors to the history and legacy of the British sports car.

The Pure McLaren GT Series returned to action at Portugal’s Portimão circuit on September 23-26, with two sprint races and a mini-endurance contest celebrating McLaren Automotive’s first decade of innovation.

In April 1900, our founding forefather, Charles Rolls, made a prescient prophecy about automotive electrification. Move forward over 120 years to when I made a public promise, on the record, that we would bring the first fully electric Rolls‑Royce to market within the current decade.

Bespoke Rallies is offering classic car owners the chance to enjoy a unique day’s driving on the highways and byways of the incomparable Cotswolds. The day will not only include breakfast and lunch but a private tour of the British Motor Heritage (BMH) factory in Witney, Oxfordshire.

Jaguar Land Rover employees at Solihull are producing honey as well as vehicles, with the first harvest from their on-site hives.

The first post-war Continuation Series model, a 3.0-liter Graber Super Coupé from The Alvis Car Company, has been finished. The Graber Super Coupé is one of six models offered in the expanded Alvis’ Continuation Series with both pre and post-war derivatives.

British Motor Heritage (BMH), the company best known for the manufacture of replacement bodyshells and individual panels for such classic British cars as the Mini and MGB, has now added replacement carpet sets to its already extensive portfolio of parts and accessories.

Aston Martin’s Vantage GT3 made a victorious return to the Nürburgring Nordschleife, as the British luxury sportscar brand secured its first-ever win on the famous German circuit in Round 8 of the high-profile Nürburgring Langstrecken Serie (NLS).

History literally repeated itself recently, as Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost 1701 re-enacted its astonishing run in the 1911 London-Edinburgh Trial.

Our video this week is a short informational video on the MG XPower which ran at Le Mans – MG-Lola EX257 (sometimes referred to as simply MG EX257). These cars were created out of a partnership between MG and Lola back in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Caterham® has unveiled the new Seven 170, its lightest ever production car and measuring 1470mm in width, it’s 105mm narrower than anything else within its current range, making it the smallest Seven as well.

In addition to the MG MAZE reported yesterday, SAIC DESIGN has revealed R RYZR, a vision of future mobility that explores the boundaries between urban mobility and wearable technology. SAIC is, of course, the current parent company of the modern-day MG brand as well as ‘R’, Rowe, and others.

Bentley Motors is celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of its own Design department at Crewe. The first Crewe-designed Bentley was the R-Type Continental in 1951, and was the responsibility of John Blatchley, the Head of Styling.