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

This is our most revealing look yet at Mercedes-Benz’s incoming junior G-Class, as the 4x4 undergoes winter testing near the Arctic. Known internally as the ‘Little G’ and due to be launched next year

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

‘I WENT A little deep into that corner – ended up in the kitty litter,’ laughs Steve Nichols. I’m sitting in the back seat of a Range Rover Velar, shoulder-to-shoulder with the design maestro behind t

Lying in the bath one morning last March, Eric Troestler, a Frenchman living in London, read a story in a car magazine about the annual Twing Raid, a rally for first-generation Renault Twingos. “It so

IT feels like a new electric SUV arrives every other week, whereas electric estate cars remain a rare breed. However, more have steadily been introduced in recent years by BMW, Audi and Volkswagen, pl