Steve cropley

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

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

Clear the highway! A Citroën Ami with 10 times its usual power could be coming at any moment! An engineering-obsessed friend, Julian Fack, recently got involved in a village project to equip a stray e

WHAT does the future hold for those of us that love practical performance cars? The arrival of a 630bhp load-lugger this week left me pondering how much brands are struggling to entertain drivers whil

WE HAVEN’T EVEN sat down and Will Pembroke is already infecting us with his enthusiasm. He is in his office at Wilton House, the Wiltshire stately home that, as William Alexander Sidney Herbert, 18th

The excellent article on Leyton House F1 [The team that fired Adrian Newey, March] brought back memories. I was their insurance broker at the time along with many other F1 teams and their principals.