Brendan Cormier doesn’t have a driving licence, yet he’s the first curator to put on a show about automobiles in the 167-year history of the V&A.

His new exhibition, Cars: Accelerating the Modern World, runs until 19 April 2020, and investigates these unique machines that revolutionised personal transport in the 20th century, driving fundamental societal, industrial and cultural change.

‘You don’t need to drive to say that the car arguably changed the 20th century more than any other single object,’