During its heyday, the Bagheera offered an affordable, practical, and genuinely creative take on the motorsport-derived, mid-engine formula. Yet its lackluster performance, lack of brand prestige, and ...

Good morning to all of you out there in Greater Autopia! The Craigslist gods have smiled upon me today. I have stumbled upon, without actually looking for them, two wonderfully weird old French cars ...

Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path. . . Thus Rudyard Kipling introduced the jungle cat who became Mowgli's chief protector. Today, Nice Price or Crack Pipe has his namesake- ...

You’ve heard of a V8, but how about a U8? When engineers at ever enigmatic French automaker Matra Simca were told they couldn't build a bigger engine, they solved the problem by bolting two small ...

French automakers of the 1980s had no shortage of cars described as "quirky" in various reviews of the time, and you'd have to go through a long list of the usual suspects from Peugeot, Renault, ...

Retired coach firm owner Colin Wint was stunned to see the car he spent 10 years bringing back to life sat aboard a raft on national television. The 78-year-old had sold his Matra Bagheera in August ...

Matra was founded as a sports car company when Mechanique Avion Traction bought out the small racing car firm of Rene Bonnet - it had been supplying the fibreflass body of that company's D'Jet since ...