Automotive
Octane
THE OTHER GT3 RACERS
GT3 Legends is open to any car that was originally homologated for GT3 racing before 2012. Here are your choices
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November 2025
Octane
Variety pack
THE MAYHEAD 'FLEET' of classic cars isn't what it once was. I'd just achieved the motoring nirvana of having all five cars - more a grouping of waifs and strays than a collection - roadworthy in May last year when an unexpected medical diagnosis made me reassess my life choices. Since then, two cars have left Scuderia Mayhead.
2 min |
November 2025
Octane
Monterey Car Week sales hit a huge $432.8million
Ferraris shine in California, as RM Sotheby's leads with $26,000,000 charity lot
1 min |
November 2025
Octane
Jay Leno
Living with the genius of Gordon Murray
4 min |
November 2025
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Robert Coucher
The alpha-male appeal of the Alfa Romeo
3 min |
November 2025
Octane
FIRST BEFORE EQUALS
Porsche redefined the 911 in 1968, with a longer wheelbase and fuel injection. This ex-Jo Siffert 911 E is the very first of them
9 min |
November 2025
Octane
Levison Wood
Author, explorer and former Army officer
4 min |
November 2025
Octane
I LIKE BIG BOOTS AND I CANNOT LIE
Super-estates were once all the rage and are now under threat. Are we missing out? Octane takes six of the best to the Peak District to find out
10+ min |
November 2025
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Stephen Bayley
Why driving needs to become as fashionable as smoking
3 min |
November 2025
Octane
CLASSIC HEART
John Mayhead visits Lamborghini's Polo Storico division, as it celebrates its tenth anniversary
5 min |
November 2025
Octane
GOOD WOOD
This fabulous Tulipwood' 1924 Hispano-Suiza H6C has just won the Pebble Beach Concours. David Burgess-Wise recounts its remarkable life story
10 min |
November 2025
Octane
THE DEFINITION OF SPEED
First owned by racing driver Pierluigi Martini, his Countach 5000 Quattrovalvole proved Lamborghini's reputation for building the fastest car of the day
8 min |
November 2025
Octane
Convenience shopping - 2005 BMW 330Ci Glen Waddington
THAT PORTAL TO everything that could be delivered to your door - eBay - commissioned a survey, asking motorists which technologies they couldn't live without.
2 min |
September 2025
Octane
Overdrive
Other interesting cars we've been driving
2 min |
September 2025
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A watch fit for a hero
The price you paid for an IWC MKXI navigators' watch was to lay your life on the line
2 min |
September 2025
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Is modified the new original?
Traditionally, upgraded classics were less desirable – today the data suggests otherwise
3 min |
September 2025
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Trolleybuses
More versatile than what came before, cleaner than what came next
3 min |
September 2025
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DON'T LOOK BACK
Pondering 60 years of cars, music, design and ambition with the king of lightweight, Gordon Murray
10+ min |
September 2025
Octane
THIS GIRL CAN
An altruistic dream and a display of incredible fortitude saw this eight-year- old and her pedal car set a new Goodwood lap record
4 min |
September 2025
Octane
All his own work
From city-cars to supercars via Grand Prix racers and a mini-truck, Gordon Murray has applied the same depth of thought to every vehicle he's designed
5 min |
September 2025
Octane
SUPER CHARGER
One man's passion project for the past 45 years, this Frazer Nash SS is now a highly competitive racer in historic events
9 min |
September 2025
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Mark Roberts
Originally a technical illustrator at Lotus, who moved to McLaren and ran the design studio for 30 years, and is now a creative consultant
2 min |
September 2025
Octane
Saab 99 Turbo
It might not have invented it, but Saab proved that turbocharging was the way forward
2 min |
September 2025
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£2.6m Ferrari 275 GTB/4 tops flat season of European sales
Online auction results dominate in a quiet month for live sales – has the tide turned?
1 min |
September 2025
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Salon Privé's garden of delights
20th anniversary party promises top cars and much more over five days
2 min |
September 2025
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The Aesthete Stephen Bayley
An uncomfortable truth: beauty has died
3 min |
September 2025
Octane
2002 TVR Tuscan S 4.0 Targa - £43,000 from Str8six, Oxfordshire, UK
THE EARLY YEARS of TVR's homegrown Speed Six engine were not shrouded with glory, but you have to applaud the small UK manufacturer's bravery when designing and building its own engine.
1 min |
September 2025
Octane
Dick Teague
This stylist got off to a shaky start before discovering the magic of platform sharing
3 min |
September 2025
Octane
A rather Specialised F50
REGARDING your cover story in Octane 265 about the Ferrari F50, in the 1990s I worked for a Ferrari garage (Specialised Cars of Knutsford) that race-prepared an F50 for the Maranello Ferrari Challenge.
5 min |
September 2025
Octane
F1 set to sizzle at Silverstone
NO FEWER than five legendary Williams single-seaters will be at the Silverstone Festival on 22-24 August, when it marks the birth of the Formula 1 World Championship at the Northamptonshire circuit with an unprecedented collection of British (and other) winners.
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