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WHAT IS BEING billed as the most decadent motor car ever created is expected to be one of the star cars as Concours of Elegance returns to Hampton Court on 5-7 September. The one-off 1926 Rolls-Royce

Producing a large-format and premium-priced book about a single car is never an easy task, however meritorious the subject. Porter Press has plenty of experience with this genre, however, and the team

TWO LETTERS in Octane 267 have prompted me to write: the first from Rody O’Grady about his £2400 Renault Megane 225, which highlights the broad range of cars that you feature, and Gerard McCartney’s a

A Garagisti & Co. Nope, we’ve never heard of it either, and it’s already an autocorrect nightmare – ‘garaging’, ‘gargling’ and even ‘garbage’ have been unwanted substitutes. It certainly does not, but

Monterey Car Week culminated with its traditional closer on 17 August, as the 2025 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance crowned a 1924 Hispano-Suiza H6C Nieuport-Astra Torpedo as its Best of Show. What is

Rubber products manufacturer Checkmate Flexible Engineering has been creating bespoke, heavy-duty goods for shipping and defence companies for more than 40 years, but recently it has been approached b