In this issue

PARIS-DAKAR SPECIAL
One privateer’s quest to win in the desert.

ASTON ON THE GP NUVOLARI
Italian road race in a 1936 2 Litre Speed.

THE OCTANE INTERVIEW
Jenson Button on Brawn championship win..

JAY LENO The Collector

There’s nothing quite like opening the throttle of a steam-powered vehicle and feeling the massive torque pushing you forward, like the hand of God.

3 mins

DEREK BELL The Legend

Just so you know, this column is being lovingly crafted on my birthday.

3 mins

STEPHEN BAYLEY The Aesthete

Prometheus stole fire from the gods, who punished him for his creative impertinence.

3 mins

ROBERT COUCHER The Driver

The expression giant killer’ has become hackneyed these days, but back in the mid-Sixties it certainly applied to John Cooper's reimagining’ of his friend Alec Issigonis’ revolutionary small car.

3 mins

The friendlier face of Ferrari

AN OLD MATE of mine, whose parents were Worcestershire farmers in a village just a few miles from where I live, tells a wonderful story from the early 1960s. Knowing him as I do, m absolutely certain it’s true.

6 mins

The factor

2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the Mini Cooper S and this example is the oldest survivor. Mark Dixon tells the story of a Mini that has truly lived a life

10+ mins

Heat & light

The Maserati A6G/54 is a thinly disguised racer with just enough civility for the road - beautifully wrapped in ultra-lightweight Zagato bodywork. Peter Tomalin is treated to a rare thrill

9 mins

DESERT RIDER

In 1986, one privateer tackled the Paris-Dakar in his own very special Range Rover Audi Quattro Proto. This is its story

7 mins

DREAM INTO ACTION

For one entrepreneur, the lure of Italian beauty with American power was not enough: it needed German build quality, too. The result was the Bitter CD

8 mins

FLYING WITH MANTUANS

Is anything more idyllic than three days of spirited driving in Italy in a pre-war Aston Martin? That might depend on the weather, says James Elliott

9 mins

Jenson Button

The 2009 Formula 1 season is the stuff of legend, and it certainly made one of Button. Time to look back at how it happened, and ahead to what's still in store

8 mins

FLIPPING ITS LID

The Ferrari 575M was a watershed modern-era Ferrari. But it was the Leonardo Fioravanti-developed Superamerica that really opened it up

8 mins

A class of its own

As insurance partner to Octane, Classic Insurance Services is delighted to be the headline sponsors of the Historic Motoring Awards, celebrating excellence throughout the classic and performance car sector.

2 mins

OCTANE CARS OWNING+ DRIVING + MAINTAINING

I HAVE FORM when it comes to Lotus Elans. The reason is simple. It is a sports car so good that it makes even a tepid shoe like me resemble a highly competent driver, and it’s the best of its generation by a country mile.

9 mins

OVERDRIVE

Other interesting cars we've been driving, Art of the estate

8 mins

Gone but not forgotten

Sir Roy Fedden, Celebrated aero engineer and workaholic who twice tried, and failed, to trigger a revolution in car design

4 mins

The baseball

It's a simple, stitched, leather-covered and who has propelled it - matters a lot. So does the mud sphere, but what's inside -

3 mins

Air of accuracy

Rare World War Two survivor seeks new owner - and there's a heroic tale behind it

3 mins

Fresh from the museum

RM Sotheby's, Munich, Germany 26 November

1 min

1969 Ferrari 365 GTC

$750,000 from Tom Hartley Jnr, Leicestershire, UK

1 min

Buick Roadmaster Wagon

This eight-seater, Corvette-engined wagon is an affordable cult classic

2 mins

Nigel Lempriere

Founder of Tecniq, leaders in automotive design and manufacture and classic racing and restoration, too -

3 mins

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