About British Classic Cars

British Classic Cars is an independent guide to the cars Britain built and to owning one here. It is researched and written in-house, nothing on it is sponsored, and it sells no cars: no classifieds and no paid listings.

People who own a British classic tend to keep on owning one, and people who don't yet often spend years thinking about it. The site is for both: marque histories and model buyer's guides, the practical side of storage and transport, the insurance and regulatory questions every owner ends up with, and the small details that keep a car on the road instead of off it.

If a page here helps you buy the right car, or keep the one you have, it has done its job.

What the site covers

Our scope is British classic cars, broadly defined: cars built in the UK or for the UK market, generally before the late 1990s, from the household names through to the smaller marques most people have heard of and a fair few they probably haven't. Jaguar, Ford UK (Capri, Escort, Cortina), Triumph, MG, Mini, Land Rover, Austin-Healey, Aston Martin, Lotus, Morgan, Bentley, Rolls-Royce, TVR, Jensen, Daimler, Wolseley, Riley, Sunbeam and the rest of the British classic world all sit in scope.

Alongside the marques, we cover the practical infrastructure around owning a classic: storage and transport, insurance and valuations, MOT and tax exemption, restoration trades, parts sourcing, clubs and registers, events and shows, driving experiences and wedding hire. The aim is one place you can start, regardless of which corner of the hobby brought you in.

How we work

Every page is written or reviewed against published sources we can point at: workshop manuals, period road tests, marque-club registers, manufacturer records, DVLA and HMRC guidance, auction results, and the deep back catalogue of the British classic-car press. Production figures are checked against the published records, values against the auction dataset described below, and the regulatory detail against the current gov.uk, DVLA and HMRC guidance, read at source rather than summarised from elsewhere. Where a claim rests on a specific source, we point at it. Where the honest answer is "it depends" or "nobody really knows for sure," we say that too.

Each page carries the date it was last read through in full ("Last reviewed", next to the byline), and that date only moves when someone has actually re-read the page. Corrections come in through the contact page; material ones are noted at the foot of the page they change. The full detail is on the editorial standards page.

Where the prices come from

The auction figures on the model pages, the marque pages and the front page all come from one dataset: more than 600,000 public auction listings for classic cars, with results to 10 August 2026. For each model we report the median sold price, the usual range (the middle half of recorded sales), the number of sales behind those figures, and a year-by-year trend, with a second line adjusted for inflation using the ONS CPIH index. The sold-price pages gather all of it in one place, marque by marque, and explain how to read the figures.

They are sold prices, not valuations. A car's condition, history and specification move it well outside the usual range, and where a market is thin (a few dozen sales in thirty years) the page says so and shows the count rather than a median built on too little. No auction house is named or linked, and no lot photographs are used.

The editor