How close we came to a volkswagen supercar

All engines make some noises. If you’re lucky they make noises you’d consider welcome, but most of them only make a couple of different types of noise – and it’s not like you have a great deal of cont

Before I could see it, I heard it. The venue was Boughton House, a summer weekend car meet in the beautiful, manicured grounds of this Northamptonshire stately home, built originally in the 17th Centu

Power/engine size: 118bhp/1.8 litre Engine/gearbox: V6/four-speed manual 0-60/top speed: 11.5 seconds/115mph Price new: £3,173 price now: from £750,000-£1m I'VE had a model of the Lancia Aurelia for m

1939 Alvis 12/70 Special, 1958 Austin-Healey Sprite, 1972 Porsche 911T Berthold Dörrich WHEN MY BRITISH colleagues approached me as the publisher of Octane’s German edition to contribute to this secti

We’ve landed in North Wales for a bit of car- and train-spotting, where the Griffins and Blue Ovals face a Bavarian interloper

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