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

DRIVING well over 300 miles for our recent EV range test (p40) got me thinking about how easy – or not – it is to take an electric city-car on a cross-country drive. While the models featured in the t

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