The three Defenders that tackled this year’s Dakar Rally (p48) represented the first works entry on the gruelling rally raid from JLR or its predecessors. But it wasn’t the first time a manufacturer-o

The Dakar Rally bivouac is a vast, sprawling, transient community, a ragtag collection of vans, trucks and tents sprouting from the hardscrabble Arabian Desert. Walking through the camp is like steppi

I HAVE HAD a subscription to Octane for over 20 years, but I read with even more pleasure than usual your feature on driving a Lancia Lambda to Varallo in North Italy. It brought back many marvellous

HAGERTY HAS announced its annual list of what it considers the current ‘best buys’ in the classic car market, catering for budgets of just a few thousand pounds to £100,000. Hagerty’s valuation specia

Our rally correspondent Gerry Phillips mourned the deaths of Toyota team manager Henry Liddon and leading co-driver Nigel Harris in a light aircraft accident on Africa’s ‘other’ WRC round. The Japanes

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