In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Octane UK

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• Ignition
  EVENTS + NEWS + OPINION
• BOOK NOW!
  Some of these events may seem a long way off, but you need to secure your place and travel plans now to take part
• Get out there!
  There are dozens of tours and rallies on the calendar for 2025. We’ve done the easy bit by listing some here; you have the trickier task of choosing between them all
• Further ahead
  Intrepid adventurers, start preparing now for these overseas tours and rallies, all set to take place in 2026
• Museum to sell $100m of its non-Indy cars
  Three sales, packed with super-rare treasures, to include Silver Arrow (see p110), GT40 and Ferrari 250LM
• ECCLESTONE SELLS £300M OF FI CARS
  Mr F1 will part with 69 single-seaters collected over 50 years
• The Collector Jay Leno
  Petrolhead farming: not the sole preserve of Harry and Clarkson
• The Legend Derek Bell
  Like father, like son? It’s all about being there for support
• The Aesthete Stephen Bayley
  Why speed means more than merely distance covered in a given time
• The Driver Robert Coucher
  Our resident XK owner might not be best pleased by recent news
• REWRITING THE RULEBOOK
  This Jaguar D-type had been raced, crashed and repaired before a second life as a Pebble Beach class winner. Octane investigates its groundbreaking transformation
• JAGUAR THE REBIRTH
  David Lillywhite guides us through Jaguar’s death or glory relaunch before four marque experts have their say on both the car and campaign
• VICTORY AT LAST
  After two attempts at Le Mans, this fabulous 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 finally took the endurance laurels at Spa in 1933. Massimo Delbò tells its stellar story
• USING THE FORCE
  It’s 50 years since Porsche launched the 911 Turbo. Octane takes a five-decade joyride
• AN AMERICAN MILLE MIGLIA
  More than that, in fact. Octane undertakes a road trip from Minneapolis to Monterey, to add another 3000 miles to a very well-used Porsche 911 turbo
• Sylviane and Patrick Peter
  They became involved in historic motoring by chance, but last month the power couple behind the Tour Auto and Le Mans Classic took the Lifetime Achievement trophy at the International Historic Motoring Awards
• FULL SERVICE HISTORY
  This uniquely storied ex-Fangio and Moss Mercedes-Benz W196R Streamliner is soon to be sold. Glen Waddington visits Stuttgart for an exclusive insight into its past
• THE SILVER MACHINES
  Motorheads have long been fascinated by the racing cars of Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union – and where they ended up
• WITHIN THESE WALLS, MAGIC HAPPENS
  Behind the unprepossessing façade of a former dance hall, for five decades Ric Wood Motorsport has been turning Capris, Calibras, Holdens and GT-Rs into winners
• BLOWN AWAY
  Force-fed hot hatches are ten-a-penny – but not this super-rare, supercharged trio. Octane hangs on tight to the wheels of the Mini Cooper S Works GP, Toyota Yaris GRMN and the VW Polo G40
• Fifty years a supercar
  1987 Lamborghini Countach 5000 QV
• OCTANE’S FLEET
  These are the cars – and ’bikes – run by Octane’s staff and contributors
• Range finder
  1978 & 1980 Range Rovers
• So long, Subaru
  1996 Subaru Prodrive Impreza Turbo
• Four to the fore
  1994 Toyota Celica GT-Four
• Par for the course
  1954 Daimler Conquest & 2008 Alfa Romeo Brera Prodrive SE
• Perfect for tweedy types
  2024 Morgan Plus Four
• Hot hatch sitrep
  VW Golfs and BMW 135
• Gary Gabelich
  Record-breaking speed-junkie whose passion for living on the limit inevitably caught up with him
• Geraint Owen
  Retired engineering academic, historic racer, and curator of record-breaker Babs
• The Wimpy Bar
  The burger that begat our culinary Americanisation, though not at the expense of plates and cutlery – we’re not savages!
• Good vibrations
  The enduring art of resonance, a fascinating 370-year horological journe(y)
• Citizen Tsuyosa ‘small seconds’
  An exciting and stylish automatic for under £370
• $11m Pagani Zonda LM breaks records in Dubai
  One-off Zonda and other modern supercars lead the way in UAE auction
• Why valuing historic racing cars can be a guessing game
  We know that big-name drivers and provenance are huge factors when selling single-seaters, but even without them eligibility can boost interest
• The Academy of Art
  Broad Arrow Auctions, San Francisco, USA 15 February
• Miller’s Landy
  Bonhams, Scottsdale, USA 24 Jan
• Ferrari 365 California Spyder
  Can you call an ultra-rare Pininfarina convertible for the elite a bargain at $2.2m?
• 1974 Lancia Fulvia Monte Carlo
  £27,495 from Percival Motor Company, Maidstone, Kent, UK
• Citroën SM
  A Maserati V6 and wild Robert Opron styling make this Citroën a true exotic
• Andrea Zagato
  The grandson of founder Ugo Zagato talks us through his path to saving the illustrious coachbuilder