Test Drive

Peugeot 205GTi Test-Drive

Peugeot 205GTi 1984 Test-Drive. It’s difficult to adopt the correct mind-set to recreate the impact the 205 GTi first had, given how familiar the...

TVR 390SE Test-Drive

TVR 390SE 1984 Test-Drive. Hammering along high-speed straights in the TVR 390SE makes for a striking contrast with the Toyota MR2. Whereas the MR2...

BMW M535i E28 Test-Drive

BMW M535i E28 1984 Test-Drive. Of all the cars here, the M535i most strongly demonstrates the difference in tastes between the Seventies and Eighties....

Buick Grand National Turbo Test-Drive

Buick Grand National Turbo 1984 Test-Drive. This is the car that finally ended a decade without true muscle cars. In 1982, with the US...

Ferrari 288 GTO 1984 Test-Drive

Ferrari 288 GTO 1984 Test-Drive. It’s odd to think that one of 1984’s most advanced cars also looked so familiar, but Ferrari had been...

Toyota MR2 Test-Drive

Toyota MR2 Test-Drive. Popular opinion has it that the hot hatch killed the sports car in the Eighties, but the Toyota MR2 not only...

Austin-Healey 3000

The list – it would be wonderful to own a car like this. Drive-My reader Malcolm Fortnam sent us a wishlist packed with multi-cylindered...

Giant Test – Ferrari 288 GTO, Toyota MR2, Peugeot 205 GTi, TVR 390SE, BMW M535i E28 and Buick Grand National Turbo

Stars of 1984. It was The Year of the Scalded Cat; the year when high-performance cars ruled supreme. We drive six classics that really...

Borgward Isabella TS vs Volvo PV544 Special II

Borgward Isabella TS vs Volvo PV544 Special II – how the west was won. What does your car say about you? Young, upwardly mobile...

1935 Peugeot 401 D Eclipse

Think the coupe convertible is a modern invention? Then think again - the first was built in the Thirties by a French dentist. Join...

Fiat 130 Coupe test-drive

Fiat 130 Coupe test-drive. Received wisdom has it that the Fiat 130 Coupe is a beautiful car. It was designed at Pininfarina by Paolo...

Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC R107 test-drive

Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC R107 test-drive. Is it an SL with a hardtop? Or is it something different? I do a double-take when I see...
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