Sweet but unsung sixteen

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

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

Before I could see it, I heard it. The venue was Boughton House, a summer weekend car meet in the beautiful, manicured grounds of this Northamptonshire stately home, built originally in the 17th Centu

Three slipcased volumes, 1960 pages, 665,000 words and 3584 images – now you know why you’re being asked to stump up £395 for a work on supercharging and turbocharging. In its simplest terms, both the

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