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IGNITION • EVENTS + NEWS + OPINION

COMING UP… • Film stars grace the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, and indoor shows pack exhibition centres around Europe

Uncertainty drives UK market jitters • John Mayhead examines whether a seemingly docile UK market is a blip or a ‘correction’

HCVA investigates sustainable fuels

NEWS FEED

Awards welcome new title sponsor • Historic Motoring Awards tickets are selling fast – buy yours now!

PeterMullin b.1941

French folly • Patrick Teague cycled through France to buy his Peugeot

Beaulieu Autojumble

John Simister • Veteran motoring journalist who quit the civil service – ‘it was all very Yes Minister’ – in order to join Motor in 1984

JAY LENO • The Collector

DEREK BELL • The Legend

STEPHEN BAYLEY • The Aesthete

ROBERT COUCHER • The Driver

History repeats itself

‘I liked the poster so much, Ibought the car’ • This very Ferrari 512BB appeared on a poster to advertise its 188mph top speed. Can it still promise such thrills today? Robert Coucher drives the star of many a bedroom wall

BACK IN BLACK • The streamlined Count Trossi SSK is one of the most fabled of 1930s Mercedes-Benzes. Massimo Delbò delves into its fascinating history

BLOOD TRANSFUSION • Alejandro de Tomaso rescued Maserati from the wreckage of the Fuel Crisis and based the new Kyalami on a car of his own marque. Richard Heseltine says the surgery worked

Rainbow Warrior • Fresh from restoration and wearing its seventh different primary colour, this Lotus Eleven S2 is the ideal Goodwood weapon, says James Elliott

PUNCHING ABOVE ITS WEIGHT • The pugilistic 1M Coupé was BMW M Division’s first turbocharged car. Glen Waddington reckons it turned out to be quite the gamechanger

FOR A FEW DOLLARS LESS • Big six into smallish car will go – and you might even consider a brand new alternative

Phillip Sarofim • Meet the petrolhead venture capitalist who’s one of the good guys – passionate about the future of our planet as well as our classics

WAGON’S ROLLED • Volvo has announced the death of its estate cars in the UK. Stephen Bayley laments that loss with the iconically evergreen 245 wagon

WHAT WE’RE MISSING • Glen Waddington examines the essence of the big Volvo’s appeal

A Triumph of optimism • 1965 TRIUMPH 2000/2.5PI

OCTANE’S FLEET • These are the cars – and ’bikes – run by Octane’s staff and contributors

Soggy Moggy • 1982 MORGAN 4/4

Rain stopped play • 1999 PORSCHE BOXSTER & 1989 BMW 320i

Just enough of what youneed • 2001 AUDI TT QUATTRO

OTHER NEWS

Once more around Goodwood, with Mike • 1958 TRIUMPH TR3A

Buckingthe trend • 1970 VELOCITY FORD BRONCO

The bigger they come • 20 YEARS OF BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GT

A bit less Twisted • 2023 TWISTED JIMNY

Harry Weslake • A chippy character, but also a gas-flow genius

The barcode • Some people believe they are the devil’s data mine

You don’t need to raid Fort Knox to snag a Bond watch • A bargain bit of Bond history that was ahead of its time

Elliot Brown Holton Professional • Tough enough for people who like to cause explosions

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OCTANE GIFT GUIDE • Pages packed with stuff we’d love to find under the tree this year

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FIRE ENGINE • by Chibi of Argentina

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