Touring Car Rewind: South brought an array of retro tin-top machinery to Brands Hatch last weekend. Amid the nostalgia, 2013 British Touring Car champion Andrew Jordan in a Super Touring BMW and Ford Capri-mounted current BTCC star Charles Rainford were among those to catch the eye.

Star Car: BMW 318i E36

Few Super Touring cars were as successful – or numerous – in period as BMW’s E36-model 3 Series, which became the car to beat as the two-litre formula gathered momentum from 1992.

But, while rooted in the same base model, the pace of development meant that later examples had very little in common with cars from

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