14/05/2026
In the latest issue of The Automobile:
Bentley’s best all-rounder?
Only a handful of Bentley’s Three Litre Speed Models received saloon coachwork, but it’s an
enticing combination, says Scott Barrett after being charmed by a rare survivor
83MM
Matt Shepherd travels to Sussex to bring us his highlights from another action-packed
Goodwood Members’ Meeting
The short flight of the Humming Bird
A mystery, once called a hoax, became tangled up in a criminal conspiracy and then vanished
without trace. The Austin Seven Humming Bird was more than your average special, says
Laurence Jackson
Auto-biography: Sue Darbyshire
Peter McFadyen meets one of the most enthusiastic historic racers, best known for driving
her Morgan Super Aero, to learn about her life on and off the track
The model Mercedes missed
Madness or a viable vision? Sixty years ago, Daimler-Benz authorised brilliant engineer Béla
Barényi to design and build the ‘everyday car of tomorrow’. Regrettably, it was realised only
as a beguiling prototype, says Karl Ludvigsen
Dual identity
American underpinnings and Italian coachwork were brought together in the short-lived
Dual-Ghia, which for a brief moment became the most exclusive car in the USA. Zack Stiling
is starstruck by a rare 1957 example
Heart transplants
Simon Moore investigates the strange phenomenon of Bugatti and Maserati racing cars which
were fitted with Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 engines in Italy during the 1930s and ’40s
Back on the Road
We report on the restoration of a 1925 Darracq 12/32
