Gentle giant

The ‘Blue Train’ Bentley is not blue. It is also not a train. It’s a car named after a race that it did not compete in. An illegal street race no less. And yet it is – with the possible exception of o

Imagine the proposition of a 54bhp MG TD clothed in full-width Bertone bodywork and you would be right to not only be intrigued, but also expect something relatively staid to drive. And yet, thanks to

IN MORE THAN 20 years of writing for Octane, one of the cars I remember most covetously was not a Ferrari, a Lamborghini or even a Jaguar (although a D-type is a good contender). No, it was a comparat

BENTLEY TOOK A DIFFERENT APPROACH when it launched the fourth generation of the Continental GT, the car that reestablished the brand a quarter of a century ago and has been a mainstay of the company e

It takes a certain confidence to challenge genius. Francesco del Giocondo, aka Mr Mona Lisa, may have been sublimely wealthy, but there’s no record of him asking Leonardo da Vinci to level up the hori

The year 1948 was a significant one for British motoring and motorsport: on 18 September, racing was re-established with the inaugural fixture at Goodwood, and on 27 October the Earls Court Motor Show