A ghostly presence

You could never have accused Rolls-Royce of flooding the market with new models. In the 20 years preceding the New Phantom’s arrival in 1925, the Twenty had been the only new production Rolls to join

Everyone’s looking. Million pound cars nearing Harrods on the Brompton Road invite an audience. But up front, splay legged under the hula hoop steering wheel, I’m invisible. That’s the thing about cha

The Cartier Style et Luxe at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed celebrated four special anniversaries. They included Invicta, Alpina and the Ford Transit, but at 100 years old the Rolls-Royce Phan

(1965-1980)

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

A few minutes ago you had flung yourself into its spell. You were about to realise adolescent fantasies aboard a Monteverdi 375L, but that was then. A sense of anxiety has since descended, one perhaps