Classic Retro Modern Magazine April 2022 Retour à l'édition précédente

Wait a minute. Are we telling you we’ve produced a new front cover… out of a DeLorean? Great Scott, we have, and it's on sale today.

Contrary to the words of Doc Brown, we required the use of some roads to, er, road test the DeLorean DMC-12, and it was Richard Heseltine who went back to the future to tell the story of the famous Belfast Child. “As with any low-slung car, the impression of speed builds quickly, even if you’re not actually travelling that fast,” he says, while avoiding the temptation to push the needle to 88mph. He wasn’t in the mood to see some serious s***.

Our publisher reckons this is the best issue to date, but we’ll let you be the judge of that. Among his favourite features he lists the photos from the Sainsbury Archive, an ode to Giovanni Michelotti and the revamped Ignition. In fact, our ace art director Roy McCarthy has given the design of the mag a little tickle this month, so we hope you like the subtle changes.

In a Classic.Retro.Modern. exclusive, we reveal the Car & Classic website’s most searched for cars in 2021. Unfortunately, there’s no place in the top ten for the Proton Impian, but you’ll never guess what finished top.

Elsewhere, reader Adam White takes his Land Rover Defender on an epic adventure to Scotland, while Gavin shares his love of the Chevrolet Epica. There’s more ‘epicness’ in the form of an Innocenti Mini 120L restoration. The Porsche 944 is the subject of this month’s Ultimate Guide, while we tell you how to buy the best Subaru Impreza Turbo. We also explain why the Mk2 is the Mazda MX-5 to buy now and how to add power steering to your classic car. There’s even room for the ‘fangtastic’ Skoda 1100 Super Sport, the Airbump-clad Citroën C4 Cactus, a federalised Fiat 124 Spider and Sam Glover’s Citroën BX. Our publisher might have a point; maybe this is the best of the nine issues.