2002 Bentley Azure (First Gen)
When Pininfarina agreed to build the bodyshell of a British luxury car in a factory outside Florence, it was quietly acknowledging something Bentley's own workforce could not: that Crewe simply lacked the space...
2007 Bentley Azure (2nd Gen)
The Bentley Azure stands as a testament to timeless luxury, engineering prowess, and bespoke craftsmanship. As one of the most iconic fourseater convertible grand tourers ever produced, it has left an indelible...
1989 Aston Martin V8 Vantage Volante
Aston Martin V8 Vantage Volante: The HandBuilt British Supercar That Refused to Compromise The problem with the Vantage Volante isn't one of speed, or beauty, or ambition it's one of contradiction. Newport Pagn...
1976 Aston Martin V8 Series III
In the tumultuous landscape of 1970s automotive design, the Aston Martin V8 Series III emerged as a defiant celebration of handcrafted grandeur. Produced from 1973 to 1978, this model bridged the gap between As...
1986 Aston Martin V8 Volante
When Roger Moore's 007 handed back the keys for good, the Aston Martin V8 Volante almost went with him and then Timothy Dalton saved it. Victor Gauntlett, Aston Martin Lagonda's chairman, personally lent his ow...
1966 Aston Martin DB6 Vantage
The Aston Martin DB6 Vantage, produced from 1965 to 1971, stands as a masterpiece of British automotive engineering, blending refined luxury with raw performance. As the successor to the legendary DB5, the DB6...
1959 Aston Martin DB4 Series I
When the Aston Martin DB4 Series I debuted at the 1958 London Motor Show, it marked a transformative moment for the British marque and the grand touring segment. Emerging from the creative vision of Sir David B...
1953 Aston Martin DB2-4 Drophead Coupe by Bertone
When sixty sales managers of a Minneapolis greeting card company each pool $200 to buy their boss a Christmas present, and that present turns out to be a oneoftwo coachbuilt Aston Martin designed by Giovanni Mi...
1954 Aston Martin DB2-4 Coupe by Bertone
In the realm of grand touring cars, the Aston Martin DB2/4 Coupe by Bertone stands as a distinguished symbol of mid20th century automotive sophistication. Produced from 1953 to 1957, the DB2/4 was a significant...
1998 Aston Martin V8 LWB Volante
When the engineers at Newport Pagnell grafted an extra 200 millimetres into the wheelbase of the V8 Volante, they were doing something that felt almost against the grain of Aston Martin's DNA making a car more...
2018 Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Speedster
Twentyeight. That is the entire global production run of the Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Speedster and every last one was committed to a buyer before a single carbon fibre panel had been laid up, let alone del...
2018 Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Volante
Nineteen. It's a number that follows Zagato around like a phantom, encoded into the very DNA of the Italian carrozzeria. Founded in Milan on 19 April 1919 by Ugo Zagato, the house built only 19 examples of its...
2018 McLaren 720S
The McLaren 720S stands as a testament to British automotive excellence, redefining what a modern supercar can achieve. Combining breathtaking performance with surprising everyday usability, this McLaren model...
1989 Aston Martin V8 Vantage Volante 'X-Pack'
Four hundred and ten brake horsepower, in 1989, from a naturally aspirated engine that first saw light in a gentleman's road car. Pause on that number for a moment, because the engineers at Newport Pagnell arri...
1965 Sunbeam Tiger Mk I
The Sunbeam Tiger Mark I represents one of automotive history's most fascinating examples of international collaboration and engineering audacity. What started as a British roadster's need for more power evolve...
1966 Bristol 409
If you wanted to buy a Bristol in 1966, the car didn't come to you you came, by appointment, to the small showroom at Kensington High Street, where the proprietor Tony Crook might personally assess whether you...
1969 Innocenti Mini Cooper MkII 1000
When Sir Leonard Lord announced on the sixth of August 1959 that Innocenti of Milan would build British Motor Corporation cars for the Italian market, he listed the Austin A40, the A55, and the Morris Oxford. H...
1972 Rolls-Royce Phantom VI Limousine by Mulliner Park Ward
Between 1968 and 1991, RollsRoyce created just 374 examples of the Phantom VI, marking the company's last model built around a separate chassis frame. This approach to constructiononce universal among luxury au...
1982 Aston Martin V8 Vantage '6.3-Litre Conversion'
The engine that powered Aston Martin's most exotic and coachbuilt 1980s creation the razoredged, Zagatobodied V8 was also available, quietly and without fanfare, as a factory conversion for the Vantage sitting...
1965 Aston Martin DB5 Convertible
The open car occupied the summit of the DB5 range throughout its production life, offered without the "Volante" designation that name would arrive only with the subsequent Short Chassis Volante of 196566, which...
1965 Rolls-Royce Phantom V Limousine by James Young
When the chairman of a New York brokerage firm ordered a new motorcar in 1965, he didn't simply visit a showroom. He went to J.S. Inskip RollsRoyce's prestige Manhattan dealership and commissioned something tha...
1964 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III Drophead Coupé by Mulliner Park Ward
In the early 1960s, as the automotive world teetered on the brink of modernity, the RollsRoyce Silver Cloud III Drophead Coupé by Mulliner Park Ward emerged as a definitive statement of luxury and craftsmanship...
1962 Bentley S2 Continental Drophead Coupé by Park Ward
In the twilight of the coachbuilding era, the Bentley S2 Continental Drophead Coupé by Park Ward emerged as a defining statement of British automotive artistry. Unveiled in 1959, this grand tourer encapsulated...
1962 Jaguar E-Type Series 1 3.8-Litre Roadster
Few cars in automotive history have captured the imagination and adoration of enthusiasts like the Jaguar EType. Introduced in 1961, the EType,or XKE as it was known in North America,redefined what a sports car...
1962 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II Drophead Coupe Adaptation by H.J. Mulliner
The RollsRoyce Silver Cloud II Drophead Coupe by H.J. Mulliner stands as one of the most sophisticated, refined, and elegant automotive creations of the postwar era, embodying the very essence of luxury motorin...
1963 Bentley S3 Continental Drophead Coupé by Mulliner Park Ward
The early 1960s marked a fascinating moment in automotive history,a time when jetage styling met oldworld craftsmanship, when technology began to transform luxury, yet traditional methods still prevailed. At th...
1958 Bentley S1 Continental 'Flying Spur' Sports Saloon by H.J. Mulliner
The Bentley S1 Continental ‘Flying Spur’ Sports Saloon by H.J. Mulliner is one of the most revered coachbuilt cars of the postwar era, epitomising the unique blend of British luxury and engineering excellence....
1959 Jaguar XK 150 S 3.4-Litre Fixed Head Coupe
Pop the bonnet of an XK150 S and you're confronted with something that doesn't quite belong in a road car: a cylinder head painted pumpkin orange, the same shade worn by units that spent their developmental yea...
1959 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud I Drophead Coupé Adaptation 'Prototype' by H.J. Mulliner
In the pantheon of postwar automotive design, few cars embody the tension between tradition and modernity as elegantly as the RollsRoyce Silver Cloud I Drophead Coupé Adaptation by H.J. Mulliner. Born at a time...
1961 Bentley S2 Saloon
Somewhere between the last gasps of Britain's postwar industrial confidence and the dawning realisation that American V8 muscle had fundamentally redrawn the world's expectations of performance luxury, Bentley...
1951 Allard K2
Perry B. Fina's speed shop on West 54th Street in Manhattan was not, on any given day in early 1951, what you would call a quiet place. New Allards arrived off the docks at regular intervals, crated and halffin...
1953 Allard K3
Sydney Allard built cars for people who wanted to win arguments. Not the polite, pointsscoredoverdinner kind the kind settled at traffic lights or, ideally, at Pebble Beach concours where a British roadster wit...
1956 Bentley S1 Saloon by James Young
To order a Bentley S1 in 1955 was already to make a point about how you chose to move through the world. To then direct that order to a modest workshop on London Road in Bromley bypassing the factory steel body...
1956 Jaguar XK 140 MC Coupe by Ghia
Turin has a particular talent for looking at something already beautiful and deciding it isn't quite finished. In the mid1950s, when Jaguar's XK 140 arrived as a rolling chassis at the gates of Carrozzeria Ghia...
1929 Bentley 6½-Litre Sedanca de Ville by H.J. Mulliner
Presented at the Olympia Motor Show in October 1929, the Bentley 6½Litre Sedanca de Ville by H.J. Mulliner arrived at a peculiar intersection of two entirely different Bentleys the one W.O. believed in and the...
1930 Bentley 6½-Litre Le Mans Tourer in the style of Vanden Plas
W. O. Bentley was trying to keep a secret somewhere near Lyon in the summer of 1924, and failing spectacularly. His development mule a disguised prototype registered as a "Sun," fitted with a large, wedgeshaped...
1934 Aston Martin Ulster
When a manufacturer puts a guaranteed top speed in writing and stakes its reputation on the promise, the car carrying that claim had better be honest. In 1934, Aston Martin signed its name to exactly that kind...