‘i frightened myself more than the car’

No right-hand drive Golf GTIs until July 1979 ...

Peugeot’s original GTIs are among the greatest performance cars ever built. Now, the badge is back. But is the magic?

We’ve landed in North Wales for a bit of car- and train-spotting, where the Griffins and Blue Ovals face a Bavarian interloper

Road users had best be careful if they don’t want to incur the wrath of that police constable for over-revving their engines

If it hadn’t been for a keen online rival bidder, you would now be reading about how I’d just bought a Renault Avantime and how I was embarking on an ill-judged foray into weird French car ownership.

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