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National Motor Museum Exhibition Now Open

Alastair — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:46:11 +0000

The National Motor Museum has opened its new exhibition gallery, Driven: Britain’s Motoring Story. The exhibition focuses on how Britain has changed over the decades, delving into the social and cultural impact of motoring. It features stories, artefacts and images to surprise, engage and inspire visitors, plus of course, vehicles from five eras of UK […]

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Škoda Museum opens Concept Car Gallery

Alastair — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:45:44 +0000

The Škoda Museum in Mladá Boleslav, Czechia, has opened a new gallery in the former car plant buildings, featuring 31 ‘concept cars’, design studies and prototypes from the late 1950s to the present day. The museum, which opened in 1995 in the original factory building and underwent a complete refurbishment in 2012, is now expanding […]

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Goodwood Events will reunite the legendary 1966 Le Mans 1-2-3 Ford GT MkIIs

Alastair — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:35:43 +0000

This summer, the three Ford GT Mk IIs that crossed the Le Mans 24hr finishing line (virtually) together in that landmark 1966 race, will appear together once more at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July and the Goodwood Revival in September. Hands up, who loves the 2019 movie Le Mans ’66 starring Christian Bale […]

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Update on the Sunbeam 1000hp engine rebuild at the National Motor Museum

Alastair — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 08:04:28 +0000

Engineers at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu are working hard to bring one of the classic cars in their collection back to life – the extraordinary record-breaking Sunbeam 1000hp. See: The car and the story so far – Back in January the museum began fund-raising for the project. Everything on Sunbeam 1,000hp was bespoke, […]

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Historic Alvis Grand Prix race car resurrected

Alastair — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:21:40 +0000

The sole surviving Alvis Grand Prix racing car, once abandoned in a scrapyard in Coventry, is being revived by The Alvis Car Company, and will be making its first public appearance tomorrow (14 April) in Chiba City, Japan at Automobile Council 2023. Its unveiling comes 96 years after its race debut at the 1927 Junior […]

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The Lamborghini Museum has reopened

Alastair — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 16:36:45 +0000

The Automobili Lamborghini Museum, just outside Bologna, officially reopened on the weekend following a redesign and new layout. The reopening marks the start, of Lamborghini’s 60th anniversary celebrations. The museum has changed its name and been entirely remodelled, both in its layout and design, and in its exhibits. A newly-created exhibition “THE FUTURE BEGAN IN […]

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Review: Aston Martin Museum

Alastair — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 13:59:01 +0000

The Aston Martin Heritage Trust museum is home to some classic, and beautiful, examples of auto engineering excellence. The museum tells the story of the brand’s luxury sports cars and grand tourers – their amazing engine design, development and manufacturing, and their motor racing history. I went last week to take a look. The History […]

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