David twohig automotive engineer

THERE’S CLEARLY a love for Gordon Murray and his obsession with lightweight and fit-for-purpose cars among Octane writers and readers alike. There has also been a bit of coverage of the first hybrid c

IN MY JOB as a freelance photographer, I’d been on the 2012 press launch of the L405 Range Rover in Morocco, where ‘Mr Land Rover’, Roger Crathorne, had brought over a couple of original 1970 Velar pr

When I was 19, I was carrying out my nightly duty of taking my then girlfriend’s dog for a summer evening’s stroll along a certain Warwickshire high street. I happened on a Rosso Corsa Ferrari Testaro

‘I WENT A little deep into that corner – ended up in the kitty litter,’ laughs Steve Nichols. I’m sitting in the back seat of a Range Rover Velar, shoulder-to-shoulder with the design maestro behind t

My right arm rises to chest height, my forearm and wrist on the diagonal, fingers bent forwards at 45 degrees. I push my elbow forward to simulate rotation; the internationally approved representation

AT THE AGE of 21, Jenson Brickley’s motorsport CV would make any seasoned campaigner proud. The TCR Europe champion has been winning titles in cars since he was 14. In fact, in only three of the past