Great expectations

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Occasionally, there was the chance to use one of the newfangled automatic car washes that pulled off your windscreen wipers and wing mirrors, but most 1970s people still washed the family Cortina or 1

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

‘IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES, IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES… we had everything before us, we had nothing before us…’ The opening line from Charles Dickens’ novel A Tale of Two Cities. The 2000s promised to b

I spoke to Russ Knudsen, the guy who built it, and I called bullsh*t on the 206mph claim,” says Paul Cowland, TV presenter and this Pontiac Tojan’s owner. “At about 140mph it generates enormous amount

Detroit muscle and European saloon-car racing were once intertwined. However, AMC was rarely represented on track, which made the arrival of the Spirit AMX all the more unexpected. Team Highball built