Tester’s notes

IN MY JOB as a freelance photographer, I’d been on the 2012 press launch of the L405 Range Rover in Morocco, where ‘Mr Land Rover’, Roger Crathorne, had brought over a couple of original 1970 Velar pr

IF you live in the UK, you know the feeling well. The relentless grey skies, the damp roads and the oppressive weight of a long winter can take its toll. But Maserati believes it has the cure in the s

THERE’S CLEARLY a love for Gordon Murray and his obsession with lightweight and fit-for-purpose cars among Octane writers and readers alike. There has also been a bit of coverage of the first hybrid c

Something is not right. Racing cars are meant to be more difficult to drive than road cars; extra power and performance but less harnessed, so trickier to access and control than with the engineering

Martin Brundle, Derek Warwick and David Brabham all pick out the 3.5-litre V8 Jaguar XJR-14 among the finest racing cars they ever drove. Ross Brawn’s design for Tom Walkinshaw Racing ‘only’ won three

T here’s some beef here. Or rather, pork. When the current 911 GT3 RS landed, it appeared Porsche – Zuffenhausen, the mothership – had finally pinned motorsport satellite Manthey into a development de