THE CLASSIC CAR world sometimes behaves as if Friedhelm Loh has come out of nowhere, an unheard-of collector who has burst onto the scene since Covid, waving around wads of cash and buying up all the

HE WAS A man who was going places, often several places at once. Few racing drivers jousted with jeopardy with such regularity as Willy Mairesse. He was fast and he was committed but all too often he

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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

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

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