An island that ran the world and has been adjusting ever since.
The DB7 is a grand tourer designed by Ian Callum and Keith Helfet. It was produced by Aston Martin from September 1994 to December 2004. It was offered in coupé and convertible bodystyles. More than 7,000 were built. It was made mostly with resources from Jaguar Cars and had the financial backing of the Ford Motor Company. Ian Callum received the Jim Clark Memorial Award in 1995 for his styling work on the DB7.
The Ford Escort (Europe) was a small family car manufactured by Ford of Europe from 1968 to 2004. It launched in the UK and Ireland at the end of 1967 and debuted at the Brussels Motor Show in January 1968. Six generations spanned three platforms: rear-wheel-drive Mk.1/Mk.2 (1968–1980), front-wheel-drive 'Erika' Mk.3/Mk.4 (1980–1992), and CE-14 Mk.5/Mk.6 (1990–2002). It was frequently Britain’s best-selling car in the 1980s and 1990s, with over 4.1 million units sold there. Its successor was the Ford Focus, released in 1998. Ford revived the Escort name in 2014 for a China-market car based on the second-generation Ford Focus. The name first appeared on a reduced-specification version of the Ford Squire, an estate-car version of the Ford Anglia 100E.
The Defender is a British off-road vehicle lineage developed in the 1980s from the original Land Rover series launched in April 1948. It was initially sold as the Land Rover One Ten (1983), Land Rover Ninety (1984), and Land Rover One Two Seven (1985), before being renamed Defender 90/110/130 in 1990 following the Discovery's introduction. It features four-wheel drive, a steel ladder chassis, aluminium alloy bodywork, coil springs front and rear, and permanent four-wheel drive enabled by a centre differential in the transfer case. It gained a worldwide reputation for ruggedness and versatility.
The Silver Cloud is Rolls-Royce’s decisive post-war statement: a large, rigid, body-on-frame saloon that abandoned pre-war cues and shared its architecture with Bentley for the first time. It prioritises presence, coachbuilding flexibility, and dimensional authority over agility or innovation.