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Abarth: Simca 1300

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"written by Neil Siner The pretty and explosively performing Simca 1300 is the essential Abarth collaboration. It is 1961 and there are rumours of a new and exciting motoring collaboration taking place between two of the industry’s most colourful figures. When "

Simca 1000 Rallye

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" With fuel prices soaring and the daily necessities of negotiating town traffic, a person's thoughts often turn to small, nippy, affordable motors. But the current crop of pocket rockets, apart from, perhaps, the Fiat 500, are so uninspiring. There is of "

Matra Simca Bagheera Love

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"  When I was growing up a neighbour had a Matra Simca Bagheera. This neighbour was a vaguely bohemian PE teacher - a strange combo of things if ever there was one. Our neighbour's Bagheera had been named after the "

The Originals

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"Having an idea is one thing. Turning it into reality is, however, apt to be somewhat more challenging. But for anyone or anything that succeeds in breaking new ground, enduring fame is assured. Or is it? We look at four "

Matra Rancho: the green car

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"Its makers considered it to be a voiture verte and marketed it accordingly, but if you were to look at the Matra Rancho with 21st century eyes you'd probably conclude it is no more a green car than it is "

Great Shakes: Bertone’s Beach Buggy

Cars Culture

"The 1960s: mini-skirts, moon landings, music and a Missile Crisis... And beach buggies. A broad bevvy of buggies, each with balloon-bloated tyres seemingly capable of taking on a lunar landscape. Lamborghinis Miura and Countach, Lancia Stratos, Fiat Abarth 131 Rally, the "

Remembering the Morris Marina

Cars Culture

"My dad had a sky-blue Marina estate. No doubt it went to the crusher years ago, but I still remember its registration – CNG 453T. It was a 1.3-litre series three model, built in 1979 and bought from Mann Egerton (remember them?) "

Matra: Sports Car Innovators

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"Which company won the European F2 Championship, F1 World Championship (drivers and constructors), 24 Heures du Mans, the World Sportscar Championship, built its own racing V12 engine AND was involved in the production, first as a supplier then as a manufacturer, "