Octane Magazine April 2025 Issue 262

Inside this issue of Octane Magazine:

Octane is the leading classic car magazine which features the world’s greatest cars ever built.

• HOT HATCH HEROES 60 – In five decades, hot hatches have evolved beyond their humble origins. Now it’s time to look back at the very best of them

• ASTON MARTIN – ‘RAZOR BLADE’ 76 Built to break records, this one-off Aston Martin went on to enjoy a successful racing career – thanks to its ultra-slim bodywork

• UNIQUE COBRA 427 86 – Robert Coucher goes for a blast at Goodwood Circuit in the last of the dry-sump Competition Cobras

• DAKAR CLASSIC 94 – Cars from Renault 30 to Porsche 959 replica tackle this brutal 7000km desert odyssey

• THE OCTANE INTERVIEW 102 – Meeting William Heinecke, collector and founder of Anantara Concorso Roma

• GUMPERT APOLLO 106 – Braving Germany’s pure-bred 700bhp track-day monster

• E-TYPE ADVENTURE 116 – From Kuala Lumpur to South Yorkshire across land in a 1967 Jaguar E-type

• FIAT DINO SPIDER 122 – Stunning Pininfarina bodywork and a Ferrari engine make this a Fiat like no other