Alex riley

Classic emails, letters, tweets, posts & threads

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

Design is not a democracy.” Such a bold statement, wonderfully out of tune with modern group-think, could only apply to a car as radical as the Lotus Esprit. These words were only uttered today by Gio

Driving a performance car in the real world can make you feel like public enemy number one. Maybe it’s the overly aggressive styling of most modern driver’s cars, or perhaps it’s simply jealousy. But

I wonder if any readers recall, or attended, the British Leyland Special Tuning Day at Mallory Park in June 1972. The idea was to showcase the Special Tuning performance upgrades, as well as some more

We find out if MG captured the spirit of its illustrious sports car past by driving three very different examples of the breed