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THE FORECAST IS FOR HEAVY RAIN. Of course it is. After weeks of wall-to-wall sunshine that has bleached the lawn and almost tempted us into booking a summer holiday in Skeg Vegas, it’s going to chuck

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

Here’s a motor we all should have bought: this 1976 Ford Escort RS 1800, priced at a bit over £3000 when new, has just sold at a Historics auction in Berkshire for £279,000. Apparently this was Ford’s

From the depths of uncoolness, these four cars are bouncing back. Our resident arbiter of retro style finds out why they have – and others haven’t

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‘WHERE’S YOUSUF?’ THE NIGHT IS DRAWING IN, AND SO IS the weather. Rain is blowing sideways across the North York Moors and lashing the White Horse Inn’s windowpanes as we assemble on the eve of this p