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IGNITION • EVENTS + NEWS + OPINION

COMING UP… • Your guide to what’s left of a very busy year, plus some highlights from the first few weeks of 2023

Big progress on new fuels • Tests of synthetic fuels in historic cars suggest they could be a viable alternative to rampant electrification

Rallying on synthetic fuel

Frazer Nash marks its centenary in style

NEWS FEED • Rhode Island wonder; Beaulieu champs; Grand Prix Delages meet; Hayes’ honour; MG gears up to party; Brian Culcheth; faith of the Defender; CKL changes at the top; charity boost

Roaring start for Alpine club • Motorsport-linked Swiss village rejuvenates a prestigious past

Octane and Awards pick prime insurance partner

True Brit’s American muscle • Meet John Hogan and his daily-driven V8 Jaguar XJ6

Driving vans

Nicholas Mee • Having started in the motor trade in the 1960s and served Aston Martin from 1976, he set up his eponymous Aston business in 1991

JAY LENO • The Collector

DEREK BELL • The Legend

STEPHEN BAYLEY • The Aesthete

ROBERT COUCHER • The Driver

Looking a proper Charlie

THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LAGONDA… • …and so much more. Peter Tomalin celebrates the life and works of a remarkable design talent – with special guest stars from Aston Martin, including DBS V8 and Bulldog

HOW TO WIN PRIZES (and influence judges) • Take a rookie concours entrant, an obsessively restored Ferrari, a curious Octane editor and set them loose at Salon Privé. James Elliott reveals all

WHEELS & WAVES • A cruise along the central western coast of Portugal uncovers a unique but growing classic car scene driven by surfers, who chase the swell in vintage vehicles

SWISS HIGH-ROLLER • The Basel-based supercar-builder Monteverdi was long shrouded in mystery. After a lifetime of dreaming about it, Marc Sonnery finally gets to drive its definitive GT: the Berlinetta

Robin Shute • From the flattest corner of England to three victories at Pikes Peak, the most celebrated hillclimb in the USA: meet the new (British) King of the Mountain

CLASS ACT • Five decades have elapsed since Mercedes-Benz launched the first S-Class. Glen Waddington drives the greatest of its type: the 450SEL 6.9

FIRST of the FEW • In 1925, Bugatti offered a more customer-friendly version of its Type 35 Grand Prix car, which it named the 35A. Mark Dixon drives the prototype

Social climber • 1954 DAIMLER CONQUEST

OCTANE’S FLEET • These are the cars – and motorbikes – run by the magazine’s staff and contributors

Integrity restored • 2000 HONDA INTEGRA TYPE R

Sprint finish • 1963 TRIUMPH TR6SS TROPHY

Good wood retrieval • 1927 FORD MODEL T

Little by little • 2004 BMW Z4 3.0i SE

OTHER NEWS

Blue thunder • KINGSLEY RANGE ROVER 3.9i & ARKONIK D110

Bond’s baby brother’s wheels • 2022 LITTLE CAR COMPANY DB5 VANTAGE JUNIOR

Fritz Todt • The inventor of the Autobahn suffered a controversial fate

Marianne stamp • From wartime cultural resistance sprouted a French Presidential tradition that is only now, after 75 years of evolution, being laid to rest

Trench tough • If it can survive World War One, a trench watch will survive life on your wrist

Autodromo Prototipo • A modern mecaquartz to get in early on

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1953 FERRARI 500 • By CMR Price £84.95 Material Diecast

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