In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Octane UK

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  ISSUE 281, ON SALE 23 SEPTEMBER
• Ignition
  EVENTS + NEWS + OPINION
• BOOK NOW!
  Secure your place; make travel plans
• Museum moves on
  New home sought for National Motor Museum as time is called on its lease at Beaulieu
• Time to nominate!
  International Historic Motoring Awards open
• The Collector Jay Leno
  Why shouldn’t Ferrari branch out into something new?
• The Legend Derek Bell
  A British driver with a reputation made in Italy
• The Aesthete Stephen Bayley
  To the Aegean for a lesson in the psychology of the 21st Century car
• The Driver Robert Coucher
  Why the XJ-S is Jaguar’s under-rated GT – and racer
• A rare pleasure
  Take a choice example of the feted Ferrari 275 GTB, make it the subject of the most thorough restoration, and then enjoy it. Glen Waddington gets under the skin of this very special car
• WHICH ONE, AND WHAT’S IT WORTH?
  John Mayhead studies the 275-series range of market values
• OUT OF AFRICA
  This unlikely pairing of Lotus XV and Ferrari 275 GTB/4 earned their stripes racing in Kenya in the 1950s and 1960s. James Page finds out more
• CONTINUITY CLAWS
  A carbon body and a supercharged V12 bring this very special Jaguar XJ-S into the modern era. Ollie Marriage drives the TWR Supercat
• WILD CATS
  The TWR Supercat is far from the first attempt to carry on with the XJ-S where Jaguar left off
• EXCELLENCE CAME AS STANDARD
  The perfectionism of the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost earned it the title ‘best car in the world’. These three prove how that evolved during a lengthy career
• THE OCTANE INTERVIEW Jon Shirley
  The former Microsoft president is a two-time Pebble Beach Concours winner, yet loves cars that are fun to drive as much as those that grace the greens
• No Smokey without Firebird
  Burt Reynolds co-starred with the iconic Pontiac Firebird Trans Am in Smokey and the Bandit. This car pays homage to the lack of survivors
• ELEPHANT HUNTING DONE RIGHT
  Sam Glover buys a pre-war Sunbeam in South Africa, gets it working and takes it on a 1300-mile safari odyssey
• TASTES CATHOLIC
  Last spring’s events at the Vatican saw one door close as another opened…
• DOUBTERS BE DAMNED
  It seemed like Maserati was a spent force in the mid-1990s. The sensational Ghibli Cup would suggest otherwise, as Richard Heseltine discovers
• Playing the long game
  1989 BMW 320i Convertible
• OCTANE’S FLEET
  These are the cars run by Octane’s staff and contributors
• The end is (nearly) nigh
  1973 Porsche 911 Carrera 2.7 RS
• The great and the good
  2000 Honda Integra Type R
• The right stuff?
  1991 VW Golf GTI Mk2
• A tale of two Fiats
  1961 Fiat OSCA 1500S
• The good life
  2026 Bizzarrini 5300 Aperta Lusso
• One for the road
  2026 Maserati GT2 Stradale
• Lella Lombardi
  Taken tragically young and still the only woman to score ‘points’ in a championship F1 race
• Chris Tolman
  The founder of Tolman Motorsport and creator of the Tolman Edition 205 digs out his most prized possessions
• The Kirk magnesium bicycle
  Ultimately killed off by fire and carbonfibre, its demise has boosted its desirability
• A winning Formula
  How a diver’s watch became a driver’s watch: the story of the ultimate muscle in plastic
• TAG Heuer Formula 1 Automatic Chronograph x Gulf
  A timeless partnership
• Ferrari on top at UK and European summer auctions
  Michelotto F40 and 599XX Evo take centre-stage during continental heatwave
• Storage wars
  A low-mileage prospect is one thing, but how about a car that’s hardly been driven at all?
• From Citroën to Shelby
  Artcurial, Paris, France
• Alfa in the Apple
  Gooding Christie’s, New York, USA
• Corvette Grand Sport
  Super-rare racer that was a response to Shelby’s Cobra – and went on to win
• 1990 Aston Martin V8 Vantage Zagato
  POA from Nicholas Mee & Co, UK
• Barnato-Hassan Special
  POA from Vintage Bentley
• Land Rover Discovery 3 and 4
  Hugely capable, uber-practical and stylish, it’s even good value… if you buy carefully
• On the market
  Find these and more cars for sale at octane-magazine.com
• Romain Dumas
  French endurance racing legend, three-time Le Mans winner and Pikes Peak record holder