Classic & Sports Car

Classic & Sports Car is the world's best-selling classic car magazine and the undisputed authority for all owners and enthusiasts. Whether your interest is Italian Exotica, British sports cars of the 1950s and 1960s or modern classics, every issue of Classic & Sports Car perfectly complements the sheer joy and nostalgia of owning a classic car.

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Welcome

Classic & Sports Car • APRIL 2026 • VOLUME 45, NO 1

RÉTROSHOW CELEBRATES 50 NOT OUT • Our favourite Gallic indoor classic gathering celebrated its half century in record-breaking style – and scale

CAVALLINO’S GREATESTHITS

Hypercars invade Miami

Teardrop lands on ICE

Four-wheel-drive appeal for Bremen extravaganza

Kings of the Castle named

Pristine Miura wins in Arizona

Hottest of hot rods

OBITUARIES

MONTE-CARLO CLIFFHANGER

HERBIE’S CO-STAR AWAITSREVIVAL

CHRISTOPHE MERLIN • This illustrator’s dynamic style brings the speed and sound of motorsport vividly to life in his drawings

Book of the month

Model of the month • GRÉGOIRE TORPILLE

Pick of the month

Mick WALSH

Simon TAYLOR

Martin BUCKLEY

Letter of the month

BABY BOOMERS • Rootes Group faces BMC and BL in a showdown of Imp and Mini variants

Anything you can do… • Ken Costello’s road-burning MGB V8 conversions prompted Abingdon to follow suit, but both have found more success as classics than when new

HOW THE RV8 KEPT MG MOVING

Destination: Le Mans • The Porsche 917 would win at Le Mans in 1970 and on celluloid a year later, but its co-star Steve McQueen fell for a rather more humble Stuttgart icon

THE WORLD’S FASTEST CAMERA CAR

KEEPING AN EYE ON THE TIME

An English man abroad • Humber’s Super Snipe was created for the British upper classes, but in the USA it lived a different life – as this unrestored survivor reveals

THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS • The Traversée de Paris is a hands-on celebration of the city’s long history as a cradle of motoring innovation

Points to prove • The wedge-shaped AC 3000ME and TVR Tasmin were quietly transformative, but bestowed different fortunes on their makers

ARCHIVE • Unlock the legacy of Classic & Sports Car

THE NEUE STATESMAN • An epic trip across Asia took in some of the world’s most challenging roads and least friendly nations – in an ageing BMW that became an unlikely ambassador for peace

For the LONG HAUL • This 1903 Gladiator 10hp Rear Entrance Tonneau has charmed London to Brighton run spectators and its owners for generations

MOVE OVER, LAND-ROVER • This confirmed Toyota Land Cruiser obsessive is convinced that the best 4x4xfar comes not from Solihull, but Japan

THE RISE OF A TITAN • The Toyota Collection in Cologne charts the Japanese car maker’s ascendancy, on road, track and rally stage

BRISTOL REFASHIONED • The Zagato-styled 412 was an angular shock after the traditional curves of its Bristol forebears, as an encounter with the surviving prototype reveals

ULTIMATE BUYER’SGUIDE

Invest in aclassic

I’VE STARTED SO I’LL FINISH

MY WEEK IN CARS

REALISING THE FERRARI DREAM

SIMONDWYER • This custodian of a well-known cop car has a sideline in period movie artworks

APRIL 2025-MARCH 2026 • If you’ve missed one of our issues, here’s a guide to all the stories that have appeared inClassic&SportsCar across the past 12 months

ROLLS-ROYCE SPECTRE • The first electric car to wear a pantheon grille melds core values with modernity