Reference

The records held by British cars, with the verified numbers behind each one. The smallest production car ever made, the fastest, the longest-lived and the most expensive at auction.

Britain's best-selling cars ranked by the real production and sales figures, from the Mini's 5.38 million down, with the awkward Ford question answered along the way.

The landmark British motoring firsts on one page, each with a date. The first British car, the first speeding fine, the first motorway, and the first through the sound barrier.

A working reference for the parallel vocabularies British and American motoring have used for the same components, tools, and concepts. With the cases where the translation isn't quite straight.

A reference glossary of British classic car terms covering DVLA paperwork, the 40-year rule, insurance categories, storage standards, and condition grading.

A decade-by-decade guide to the British classic cars that defined each era, from the vintage Bentleys and Austin Sevens of the 1920s and the pre-war MGs of the 1930s, through the post-war "Export or Die" launches and the swinging-sixties sports-car peak, to the McLaren F1 era of the 1990s.