Classic & Sports Car

Classic & Sports Car is the world's best-selling classic car magazine and the undisputed authority for all owners and enthusiasts. Whether your interest is Italian Exotica, British sports cars of the 1950s and 1960s or modern classics, every issue of Classic & Sports Car perfectly complements the sheer joy and nostalgia of owning a classic car.

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White spirit • Mercedes arrived at the 1908 French Grand Prix with a dazzling new race design. The most original survivor of the greatest GP titan is always worth revisiting

CUPID’S CHARIOT • The Land Speed Record Benz is long gone, but its memory lives on in a magnificent roadgoing recreation

In the thrall of the mountain king • Jochen Mass storms Klausen in Caracciola’s S-type

Supercharged sensation

Spezial K • The rarest of Mercedes’ stunning 540Ks is the factory-bodied Coupé. The first example remains a magnificent testament to the seven built

ATTACK of the CLONE • Discovering the charms of a rare Mercedes-Benz 370S Mannheim, the exquisite SS-lookalike 1930s tourer, named after the city where it was built

Intimidation game • The Mercedes-Benz 770K lives in the shadow of its political associations, yet it’s a magnificent piece of engineering

FULL FLOW FANTASY • The sensational Mercedes-Benz W196 streamliner roars again, for an exclusive test with Grand Prix ace Jochen Mass

Mass appeal

PEACE MAKERS • Gliding into the post-war years with chrome-plated confidence, the Mercedes-Benz 300 and Bentley S-series follow two distinct paths to luxury

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Starlets’ EXPRESS • The chic Mercedes-Benz 220S was a Ponton posh enough to be beloved by Ava Gardner and Anita Ekberg

SLOW BURNERS • In the mid-’50s, Mercedes and GM took on the Brits with sports cars that had style, but over speed and substance?

STAR QUALITY • With stunning specification and dazzling looks, the Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing is the ultimate 1950s GT for a dream road trip through the Swiss Alps

Buying a 300SL

Angels of the south • The BMW 507 took a forecourt battering from its Mercedes 300SL Roadster rival when new. Decades on, can Munich’s most vaunted redress the balance in the battle of the ultimate ’50s supercruisers?

Devil in disguise • Mercedes’ W112 300SE might have looked like a lowly diesel, but the air-suspended, fuel-injected flagship is a secret Q-car

Beautifully functional • Handbuilt for discerning buyers, the Mercedes Universal and Vanden Plas Countryman are the zenith of ’60s estates

ENJOYING MERCEDES LEGENDS?

BLUE-SKY THINKING • There were no glass ceilings for millionaire playboy and oil magnate Nubar Gulbenkian, but that didn’t stop him having one installed in his Mercedes W100

Maximum size for the greatest impact • There’s no point being a dictator if you pass unnoticed, as personified by the Mercedes 600 Laundalet delivered new to Marshal Tito

Mercedes Laundalet production history

If you could have only one Mercedes… • …then, says our resident Stuttgart aficionado, nothing comes close to matching the superb 280SE 3.5 – the firm’s finest post-war car

Glamour COMES TO RALLYING • The Silvretta Classic gives a chance to relive the Mercedes Pagoda’s sole competition victory

THE LEGENDS SERIES

Who wants a CHAUFFEUR? • With monstrous V8 power, the Mercedes 300SEL 6.3 and Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow were the finest owner-driver luxury saloons of the ’60s

Battle of the barge

PAGODA: THE TRUTH • The W113 has long been dismissed by many as a mere boulevardier, but a dream road trip reveals that the beauty of the 280SL is...