Under pressure

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

n 1948, Harley Earl, Detroit’s influential wizard of kitsch, put tail-fins on a Cadillac and set General Motors on the road to becoming the world’s largest and most profitable corporation. Earl’s magi

It has become an all too familiar tale in this era of new technology: a new company emerges from nowhere, boasts of an amazing car and promises that production will begin very soon – and then goes sus

When editor Joe Dunn messages to ask if it is OK to share your email address with Mercedes-Benz, it is intriguing to know why. Then when Mercedes-Benz Heritage almost immediately gets in touch to ask

Looking back now, it seems so serendipitous. When Mike Gibbs got in touch to offer his Frazer Nash SS racer for a feature in Octane, he suggested that the nice people at Castle Combe circuit might be

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