Classic.Retro.Modern. Magazine

The big news this week is the long-awaited Oasis reunion, with the Gallagher brothers embarking on a tour this summer. If you can’t get your hands on a ticket, stop crying your heart out, because there’s a new issue of Classic.Retro.Modern. magazine on sale today. It was all part of the masterplan…

We’re celebrating our third birthday, which means we should be driven into an MoT testing bay and subjected to our first thorough inspection. There’s a little wear and tear on the body, but the structure is solid enough and our emissions are nothing to worry about, so we won’t look back in anger. Instead, we’ll give ourselves a pass with a few advisories. With a little luck, and some welding further down the line, we’ll live forever…

What can you expect in issue 30? Well, the cover provides a big clue, as our editor spent a week in the company of a Honda S2000. To think that he was happy to slip into later life with a wafty four-door saloon and a bag of Werther’s Originals. The S2000 proves that there’s life in the old dog yet, which is uncanny, as that’s the phrase we’d use to describe the contents of his shed of nightmares. See this issue’s Autobarn for the latest fleet update.

Elsewhere, Sarah Crabtree interviews a very important man with a very impressive collection of Mitsubishis, Richard Dredge tells you nearly everything you need to know about buying a Morris Minor, while Andreas Zacharia tells us why he loves the BMW Z3.

Classic.Retro.Modern. was delighted to support Connor Heath and Daniel Beany’s Czech on a Trek charity road trip in a Škoda Favorit. Find out how they got on in this issue.

Elsewhere, we’ve got a smorgasbord of ’90s coupés, postcards from the Festival of the Unexceptional and Roscoff, three generations of Jaguar, the Volvo 164, the Ford Eltec, and a celebration of the aerodynamic Vauxhall Calibra. There’s even room for our ace art director, Roy McCarthy, to showcase his writing skills. He’s a man of many talents.