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No doubt, your vehicle has got good speed, good torque, good horsepower. But what about controlling the vehicle? Isn’t that important too?  Your ride might be fast as compared to others, but you need to keep a check on the brake pads too.

Super-desirable Aston-Martin DB4 tempts collectors at Monterey. If you had to come up with a discovery to make the knees of a DB-Aston fan tremble, you couldn’t do a lot better than this 1961 Aston Martin DIM. It’s to be sold at RM’s Monterey auction on August 15-16 and should fetch a price out of any reasonable proportion to the restoration work required.

Tread carefully. As an owner of both a Mercedes-Benz 300SEL 6.3 W109 and a 450SEL 6.9 W116 enjoyed your articles on ‘hot saloons’ in the Winter edition that featured these models. However, I noted that the New Zealand owner of the 6.9 seemed to recommend “budget" Chinese tyres as a suitable alternative to the correct Michelins. He also stated that he drove his 6.9 at over 100mph “on occasions".

World war Z. Serial slammer, Niall O’Dowd, kills it yet again with this super stanced and rather dapper BMW Z4 E85... You may be looking at these pages thinking this dude and his number plate look familiar, and you would be right. Yes, Niall O'Dowd has been here twice before with a fine little Lupo and a grid-look Mini. Each car was blessed with the S24NCD number plate and he built them to live up to the name - or rather down to it.