This time last year a 1957 Ferrari 335 S Spider Scaglietti, pictured, would have only cost you 583,400 barrels of oil. This year, at the Artcurial Motorcars Retromobile 2016 auction, you would have paid 1.17 million barrels

About 14 years ago the good folks running Chicago had a great idea. “Let’s get on to the red-light camera caper,” they said. “We can pretend we’re doing good while raising a shedload of money.

Stop! Don’t buy a car. You have to wait. It’s coming back from the future. Yes, the 1981 DeLorean will be on sale again in 2017

The petrol pirates’ propaganda people have been at it again. Despite all the evidence they and their allies in the motoring organisations are still trying to argue those of us in driving land are wrong and fuel prices are all kosher