The MG Car Company had a perfectly good sports car in the seven year old MGA. It was popular, it sold well especially in the USA, and offered great performance linked with the joys of fresh air sports car motoring. So, in 1962 when MG announced its successor, the logically styled MGB, it had to be, not just a good car, but one that was even better.
In fact, the MGB was not just better, it was, in most respects, streets ahead and the design was so popular and so advanced that, in a variety of incarnations, it lasted some 18 years until production stopped in 1980. In the process it became one of the most easily recognised and loved sports car on the roads of both Britain and America.
The Giulia was unashamedly developed at the expense of the Alfa Romeo 2600, a fact I covered in my article on the 2600 which you will find 
I like Alfa Romeos, I think I always have, and I like big cars too, ones with plenty of engine and some lively right foot action. So, fifty years on, would I have liked this one?
The 1950s and 60s saw a perfusion of fast, hairy-chested but at the same time fun, sports cars roll out of the many car manufacturers in the British Isles. All of them were individual and all of them were statements of intention as much as they were designed as transport and the Triumph TR4 was no exception. 
Introduced originally before the war, the Special was one of Buick’s lower priced models in America, although it was not, it has to be said, a cheap car over here.
In the last few years of the 1960s, Volkswagen had just taken over the large Auto Union concern and, as with all new acquisitions, they wanted a new car to put on their shelves. The Audi 100 may not have been their first choice but it was to prove to be a good one.
The forerunner of the James Bond car (that car was this car’s successor, the DB5), you would expect this model to be something rather special.