Rally

The Mini Cooper turned Alec Issigonis's economy car into a giant-killer, and the Cooper S won the Monte Carlo Rally three times. A guide to the 1960s Cooper and Cooper S, the 1990s revival, how to tell a genuine car from a clone, what to look for, and what they are worth.

The classic Ford Escort ran across six generations from 1968 to 2000, from the rear-drive rally cars to the front-drive hot hatches and the mighty RS Cosworth. A guide to the Mk1 to Mk6, how the generations differ, the everyman saloons and the celebrated fast Escorts, what to look for, and what they are worth.

The squared-off Escort Mk2 of 1975 was a humble rear-drive family car that doubled as one of the most successful rally cars of all time. The RS1800, RS2000 and Mexico turned the badge into a legend while millions of ordinary Escorts did the school run. The development story, the rally cars, and the survivors.

The Hillman Avenger was Rootes Group's last clean-sheet small saloon, sold as a Hillman, then a Chrysler, then a Talbot, with a yellow rally homologation Tiger in the middle of it. A guide to the lineage, the Tiger, what to look for, and what they're worth.

The Vauxhall Chevette was Britain's best-selling hatchback for parts of 1978, the rally homologation HS won the 1979 British Rally Championship, and almost all of them are now scrapped. A guide to the variants, the HS, what to look for, and what they're worth.