In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Octane UK

• Ignition
  EVENTS + NEWS + OPINION
• BOOK NOW!
  Secure your place; make travel plans
• Comebacks and collapses: what on Earth is going on with UK car-makers?
  After a flurry of eyebrow-raising announcements and disturbing rumours of major closures and job losses in the UK, it’s time to find out what’s really going on with long-dead Marcos and Jensen, as well as Lotus, Morgan, McLaren et al
• Salon Privé’s garden of delights
  20th anniversary party promises top cars and much more over five days
• The Collector Jay Leno
  Revealing the peculiarities of The British Experience
• The Legend Derek Bell
  Living a charmed life among charming people
• The Aesthete Stephen Bayley
  An uncomfortable truth: beauty has died
• The Driver Robert Coucher
  The appeal and otherwise of driving American cars – outside the US
• Gordon Murray
  We celebrate the 60-year career of Professor Gordon Murray over the next 30 pages; these exclusive tributes from true legends of motoring show why he’s worth it
• DON’T LOOK BACK
  Pondering 60 years of cars, music, design and ambition with the king of lightweight, Gordon Murray
• Gordon Murray’s Pretty Little Things
  The cars that enchant this re-inventor of hypercars are smaller, lighter and daintier than you might expect
• The pursuit of perfection
  ‘Uncompromising’ perhaps best describes Gordon Murray’s approach to engineering the epochal McLaren F1. Here’s why…
• SECOND TO NONE
  John Mayhead on why the F1 is the world’s most collectable car
• SPECIAL SERVICE
  The F1 you see here has been restored by MSO Heritage – and may well be better than new
• Beyond Perfection
  Murray returned to improve on the McLaren F1 with his own GMA T.50 – and a little insight from three-time Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti
• Only fans
  Murray’s glorious Brabham BT46B ‘fan car’ proved that, if being a little bit naughty was wrong, he didn’t want to be right
• All his own work
  From city-cars to supercars via Grand Prix racers and a mini-truck, Gordon Murray has applied the same depth of thought to every vehicle he’s designed
• All roads lead to Rome
  Octane joins Mercedes-Benz and the son of Stirling Moss for a special 70th anniversary celebration of Moss and Jenks’ historic Mille Miglia victory
• TORPEDOED!
  This stunning car was known for advanced engineering and controversy that sank the company – but the Tucker should have been a surefire style icon, as Stephen Bayley uncovers
• KING OF 308S
  German tuner Willy König found his Ferrari 308 a little underwhelming, so he doubled its power and created a 1980s icon
• THIS GIRL CAN
  An altruistic dream and a display of incredible fortitude saw this eight-year-old and her pedal car set a new Goodwood lap record
• SUPER CHARGER
  One man’s passion project for the past 45 years, this Frazer Nash SS is now a highly competitive racer in historic events
• Location, location, location
  2004 BMW Z4 3.0i
• OCTANE’S FLEET
  These are the cars – and ’bikes – run by Octane’s staff and contributors
• Shopping trip
  1927 Ford Model T
• Raleigh school
  1983 Ti Raleigh Professional
• Rat Rod gets rattier
  1937 Studebaker Dictator
• The only classic you’ll ever need
  1969 Alfa Romeo 1750 GTV
• Convenience shopping
  2005 BMW 330Ci
• Flying high
  2025 Aston Martin Vanquish Volante
• Dick Teague
  This stylist got off to a shaky start before discovering the magic of platform sharing
• Trolleybuses
  More versatile than what came before, cleaner than what came next
• A watch fit for a hero
  The price you paid for an IWC MkXI navigators’ watch was to lay your life on the line
• IWC MkXI navigators’ watch
  The definitive watch of its type, as current values attest
• £2.6m Ferrari 275 GTB/4 tops flat season of European sales
  Online auction results dominate in a quiet month for live sales – has the tide turned?
• Is modified the new original?
  Traditionally, upgraded classics were less desirable – today the data suggests otherwise
• Preserved prototype
  Broad Arrow, Monterey, USA 13-14 August
• The ultimate Competizione
  Gooding & Co, Pebble Beach 15 Aug
• Lamborghini Diablo
  When it comes to classic Lamborghinis, a younger generation is leading the charge
• 2002 TVR Tuscan S 4.0 Targa
  £43,000 from Str8six, Oxfordshire, UK
• Saab 99 Turbo
  It might not have invented it, but Saab proved that turbocharging was the way forward
• Alban Lerailler
  A young French car designer with a sideline in automotive art