Few manufacturers have progressed further in a shorter space of time than Subaru. During the 1970s and '80s, the brand's major supporters were farmers and beach fishermen...

Like many British armaments manufacturers, the Bristol Aircraft Company faced losing hundreds of highly-skilled employees as World War II hostilities drew to a close. Instead, Bristol elected to apply the techniques of aircraft construction to motor vehicle manufacturing, creating a car that was based - ironically - on a pre-war BMW.

Most enthusiasts know of, or have dreamt about, Porsche's recent 600HP, 330km/h V10-engined Carrera GT supercar. But its true predecessor by name was not the 356 Carrera GT of 1959, but the lesser-known and almost as rare 924 Carrera GT first shown to the public at the 1979 Frankfurt Motor.

TIME magazine infamously rated it as 'one of the worst 50 cars of all time', but the edgy, angular and electronically adventurous Aston Martin Lagonda that has sharply polarised the opinion of enthusiasts for more than 30 years today has a cult following that ensures its future as one of the most interesting collectable classics of the 1970s and '80s.

Forty years ago in March 1968, Daimler-Benz presented a new car at the Geneva Motor Show that caused many jaws to drop.

50 years after it first appeared the Goggomobil Dart in 2008 can truly be called an Aussie automotive icon, rather than an oddity.

When car talk turns to Citroen, the focus invariably is on the ubiquitous 2CV (Deux Chevaux) or the radical DS (Goddess) models. But the most groundbreaking Citroen model, which is celebrating its 70th birthday this year, is the Traction Avant.