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Between all the talk of more layoffs and even a UK factory closure, Lotus Cars Ltd could do with a good news story right now. And it just so happens that the headline performance car project that Heth

A French fancy that you’ve probably never heard of…

What’s the price of indifference? In the case of TWR’s Tom Walkinshaw, it was the development of an alternative to Jaguar’s XJ220, the prototype of which he’d just surveyed at the 1988 British Motor S

RATINGS = Thrill-free zone = Tepid = Interesting = Seriously good = A truly great car = new entry this month. Cars in italics are no longer on sale. Issue no. is for our most recent major test of the

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

SINCE THE DEMISE OF THE E-TYPE IN THE MID- ’70s, there had been a desire among enthusiasts, including many at Jaguar, to see a replacement, an F-type. It nearly happened in the mid-’80s, but for a num