Sweet but unsung sixteen

‘V12 engines don’t make much sense, but so ...

Caterham has been at a set of figurative crossroads for some time, pondering what will replace the Ford Sigma and Duratec engines it has been using for yonks. Neither the Sigma, a 1.6-litre used in Ca

Our recent British V8s test (July) got me thinking about the failed attempts to give British saloons of the ’60s eight-pot power. No true barge was not improved by a V8, but only Rover had the momentu

SO FAR AS GRAND PRIX RACING IS CONCERNED the noughties were all about revs. F1’s screamer era was defined by the piercing wail of V10s and caustic howl of the even higher-revving 2.4-litre V8s that fo

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

IN A WORLD OF EVER-TIGHTER REGULATION, THE comparative lack of regulations when it comes to bespoke-built hill climb cars is one of the sport’s main attractions. That and the utterly staggering speeds