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.

WELCOME FROM THE EDITOR

1968 Lamborghini Miura P400 • Unique Specification - Bespoke Factory Build for Adrian Conan Doyle

Ignition • The Month in Pictures

Ignition The Month in Pictures

Ignition The Month in Pictures

Ignition The Month in Pictures

Ignition The Month in Pictures

Ignition The Month in Pictures

Dates for your diary

Shortlist revealed! • These are the contenders battling it out for the 2026 International Historic Motoring Awards

Ignition News

The Collector Jay Leno • Let’s raise a glass of water to the world’s fastest man

The Legend Derek Bell • Flat-chat in a Ford GT40 without a chequered flag in sight

The Aesthete • The most beautiful cars ever: can there be an answer?

The Driver • Good looks are one thing, a good engine quite another

When 275s were the price of a Ford Cortina

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CARS • ...as decided by 13 of the world’s greatest and most influential car designers

QUESTION TIME • Octane goes digging for designer detail

P FOR PERFECTION • Octane gets up close and personal with a very special car: this 275 P is the only Ferrari ever to win the Le Mans 24 Hours twice

EXCESS ALL AREAS • He was the most feared manager in rock 'n' roll, but Peter Grant had a softer side – particularly when it came to classic cars

Separated at birth • Two alloy-bodied Jaguar XK120 roadsters, three chassis numbers apart, one restored to perfection, the other a hot-rod historic racer. Robert Coucher compares and contrasts

FANFARE FOR THE SPORTING MAN • The McMurtry Spéirling is famously a fan-car EV that can sprint like F1 and suck itself to the ceiling. Octane meets the brains trust behind it

Peter Sprague • First he saved Aston Martin from bankruptcy – then he delivered the radical Lagonda!

TRANSPORTER OF DELIGHTS • One of two specially commissioned Ferrari race-car transporters belongs to collector Jon Shirley. Octane explores its unique history

THE PORSCHE THAT WENT LOCO

Octane Cars • The trials and tribulations of the cars we live with

Overdrive • Other interesting cars we've been driving

Mário Cabral • The Portuguese playboy was a talented wheelman and legendary lothario

Vince W Finaldi • New chairman of Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, former trial attorney, entrepreneur and founder of collector car atelier Finaldi Inc

Parking meters • The scourge of motorists since 1935 has created a whole new type of anxiety

The Marvel hero you’ve never heard of • The forgotten precursor to the Grand Seiko is a bargain gem

Against All the Others Porsche's Racing History, Volume 2 – 1969

OCTANE GIFT GUIDE • Eight pages packed with stuff we'd love to find under the tree this year

The Market • BUYING + SELLING + ANALYSIS

1966 Maserati Mistral Spyder

Aston Martin Lagonda • Futuristic, extravagant and unmistakable, the Lagonda remains uniquely desirable

Randeep Singh