Octane

Octane is a premium monthly magazine celebrating over 100 years of automotive design, from classic Bentleys to the latest BMW. We have been at the heart of the motoring industry for seventeen years, so we know our stuff when it comes to classic cars. Written by enthusiasts for enthusiasts, the magazine captures the exclusivity and excitement of the classic car world so you can experience it all wherever you are.

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Ignition • EVENTS + NEWS + OPINION

Dates for your diary

BOOK NOW! • Secure your place; make travel plans

Racing festivals • Hardcore historic motorsport is at its best and most fierce at these must-see events

New UK concours to bring history to life • Wiltshire in June is 2026’s hot ticket for enthusiasts

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Jay Leno • A lesson in the perils of having a vintage accident

Derek Bell • Looking back and enjoying a more poetic life

Stephen Bayley • Time for professional upsets among car designers

Robert Coucher • Incredible memories of special drives in the Lamborghini Miura

Long drives in Lambdas

THE ITALIAN JOB • Where do you take a Lamborghini Miura if you want it restoring to Pebble Beach standards? To Italy’s ‘motor valley’, of course

BRINGING THE DREAM TO LIFE • Massimo Delbò talks with Giampaolo Dallara and recalls his conversations with the late Paolo Stanzani on the car that made their reputations

CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE • Marzia Gandini Provera on how her father dealt with tittle-tattle over the Miura’s authorship

VIRGIN BERTH • Despite driving and writing about classics for nearly 40 years, Mark Dixon had never driven a Miura – until now

ALL THE MIURAS • Wonder which one’s which and how to tell? Matthew Hayward is your guide

MIURA THE BLUECHIP INVESTMENT • John Mayhead compares the Miura’s stratospheric market climb with that of its rivals

MAKING A DIFFERENCE • This unique boat-tailed 1927 Bentley 3 Litre has undergone a near-four-year restoration, resulting in concours fanfare. David Burgess-Wise recounts its remarkable life

Venturi capitalist • Formerly a French supercar builder, now on a mission to the moon, Venturi was once on course for a rescue by Aston Martin specialist Nicholas Mee

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hot stuff • When premier historic vehicle specialist Crosthwaite & Gardiner was set to lose its supplier of essential castings, it bought the foundry. John Simister steals a crucible-side view

Seeing the light • Known as ‘The Portuguese GTA’, this rarely seen example of Alfa Romeo’s race-bred Giulia is the most original of its type. Richard Heseltine enters the gates of heaven

Friedhelm Loh • James Elliott travels to a quiet corner of Germany to meet the biggest car collector you’ve never heard of

THE BOX OF DELIGHTS • Inside the Nationales Automuseum – The Loh Collection, the mind-blowing German classic car showcase that opened in 2023

THE UNLIKELY CHAMPION • Lincoln didn’t expect to win the Carrera Panamericana,...