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

I guess the matter is proven by now: I get a big kick out of writing Autocar columns. I’ve written one every week since 19 February 1992 – 34 years ago this week. And unless the editor says something

It was interesting to see Steve Cropley’s robust defence of the Ford Capri SUV and his criticism of the previous model to hold this name. I’m old enough to remember the original European Capri from 19

The parking for Presto, where suddenly your pound is worth more with McVitie’s Swiss Rolls available for only 17½p each. Bargain!

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