Bugatti in numbers

In last week’s magazine you may have read Matt Prior’s review of the new Bugatti Mistral – an open-air take on the Chiron, and the very last model to carry the four-turbo W16 engine that had its debut

What with the Ferrari F80 and Bugatti W16 Mistral tested on these pages last week and a Lotus Evija road test due next week, it feels like it might be time to revisit the question: ‘How fast is too fa

Price new: £265,937 Price now: £800,000 Engine: 6.5-litre V12 Transmission: Six-speed manual, four-wheel drive Power/torque: 661bhp/660Nm 0-62mph: 3.2 seconds Top speed: 212mph (209mph with aero kit)

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

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

The ‘Blue Train’ Bentley is not blue. It is also not a train. It’s a car named after a race that it did not compete in. An illegal street race no less. And yet it is – with the possible exception of o