Yes, the Japanese, Americans and Italians have had their moment at 100th Sunday. But to celebrate a centenary of early morning tea runs, we have to spend some time focusing on the cars that our little island has produced.
We do the British car industry down at times, and a lot of that is down to two words, British and Leyland, but when you walk around the Best of British section at Goodwood today, you see that we also produced a lot of really good stuff.
You can start with the slightly mad things, like the Lotus Carlton, a car so fast that it was debated in parliament at the time, or perhaps the ultra-hardcore Ariel Atom. Or there’s something a little more stylish and sonorous – an Aston Martin Vanquish.
For something really brand new, but mixed with an element of the past, we’ve got a brilliant Morgan Super 3 in a stunning shade of mustard yellow, which we think is absolutely cracking.
From Rolls-Royce to MG via Bentley and Aston Martin, we’ve got it all. A reminder that the UK has made some really astonishing machines over the past century or so of motoring. So let’s raise a glass of English Sparkling, a snifter of Scotch or some good Welsh bitter to the cars that our sceptred isle has nailed together.
Photography by Toby Whales.
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