Simon taylor

By all accounts, Terrence Stephen McQueen didn’t like losing. In the late ’60s he was arguably the biggest male star in Hollywood; his production company was riding high on the success of Bullitt, and

Few things have split opinion in the Autocar office in recent memory like the 2025 movie F1. While some of my colleagues enjoyed the whimsical, engagingly dramatised nature of Brad Pitt’s motorsport b

I enjoyed Martin Buckleyʼs article on the BMW 328 and SS Jaguar 100 (February). The rear view of the 328 was especially evocative for me, because it revived memories of when my dad entered his 1934 M4

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

One movie car that made a lasting impression on a whole generation was Walt Disney’s ‘Herbie’, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own. The film proved such a hit that it resulted in several sequ

Rétromobile is Europe’s finest indoor classic car show, and as I nosed happily around this year’s three floors it seemed better than ever. Among the money-drenched dealers’ stands, favourites included