I needed this car to go with my scooter

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

I’VE MET THIS ONE A FAIR BIT BEFORE. In fact 20 years ago I seemed to be driving a Type R pretty much every week in yet another battle to establish the best hot hatch. Ah, hot hatches, remember them?

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

RETRO revivals are one of the biggest trends in the car industry right now – along with the seemingly obligatory LED lightbars, and a renewed focus on hybridisation as buyer interest for EVs lags behi

One movie car that made a lasting impression on a whole generation was Walt Disney’s ‘Herbie’, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own. The film proved such a hit that it resulted in several sequ

WE COULD ALL USE A TIME MACHINE right about now. Whatever state the world finds itself in when this issue falls into your hands – and whatever your own perspective amongst it all – I doubt many of us