Anthem for the phantom

The Cartier Style et Luxe at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed celebrated four special anniversaries. They included Invicta, Alpina and the Ford Transit, but at 100 years old the Rolls-Royce Phan

Everyone’s looking. Million pound cars nearing Harrods on the Brompton Road invite an audience. But up front, splay legged under the hula hoop steering wheel, I’m invisible. That’s the thing about cha

(1965-1980)

IN MORE THAN 20 years of writing for Octane, one of the cars I remember most covetously was not a Ferrari, a Lamborghini or even a Jaguar (although a D-type is a good contender). No, it was a comparat

Imagine the proposition of a 54bhp MG TD clothed in full-width Bertone bodywork and you would be right to not only be intrigued, but also expect something relatively staid to drive. And yet, thanks to

The ‘Blue Train’ Bentley is not blue. It is also not a train. It’s a car named after a race that it did not compete in. An illegal street race no less. And yet it is – with the possible exception of o