Dr. Andrew Roberts is a cinema and motoring historian whose writing reflects a lifelong fascination with all cars. His love of post-war crime films led him to buy a 1960 police Wolseley, complete with ...

Of all the post-war solutions to affordable, working-man's transportation, the Citroën 2CV (known as the Deux Chevaux) is perhaps the most charismatic. Looking like something that might have been ...

When an astute Frenchman named Pierre Boulanger wrote the design brief for what would become one of the world's most iconic cars, the requirements were simple: It had to carry two people and a ...

Some things could only come from France. The bidet, for example. The guillotine. And Gerard Depardieu, the actor who has admitted to drinking more than a dozen bottles of wine per day. Then there's ...