< DESIGN STYLE > Motors. FEATURED Land Rover Defender OCTA.The OCTA is a Defender on steroids, defining it’s own category of vehicle—that of extreme performance on and off road. It might be a beast of a motor but it’s also elegantly refined too. We were invited to its official launch at The Kennels during Goodwood's Festival of Speed to find out more […] TOURING Bentley Continental GT Speed Virtually every car manufacturer capable of building something desirable makes something you could call a GT. Today, however, there is one car that arguably stands at the top of this nebulous category. HERITAGE Porsche 930 It’s an odd thing to achieve a dream. I’m lucky enough to have owned my Athena bedroom poster car, a 1996 Black 930 4 speed. Aesthetically she was the perfect Porsche—an icon of automotive design. ACCESSORIES Snap-on 3/8 F936 rachet When a gentleman racer friend tips you off about an object of desire for men who own and race expensive classic cars around circuits like Le Mans, Goodwood and Circuit des Remparts D'Angoulême, you know you have to pay attention. SPORTSCAR Land Rover Defender 110 I’ve a split personality: half Porsche, half Land Rover Defender. After the sale of my beloved 50th Anniversary model, or ‘249’ as I called her (she was number 249 of a limited run of 500), there was a Defender-shaped hole in my life. EXECUTIVE BMW E38 740i The BMW E38 was the last car designed by Boyle Boyer—the man responsible for the effortless style BMW once had. Like the E39, it’s considered to be among the best BMW has made. OFF-ROAD Jaguar E-Type Lightweight The lightweight story begins in February 1963, when Jaguar intended to build 18 ‘Special GT E-type’ race cars. However, they only built 12 of the 18, delivering them to the Browns Lane competitions department between 1963 and 1964. This gave rise to the infamous ‘Missing Six’. HERITAGE Porsche 911 73 RS Anyone who knows anything about Porsche knows that these cars are the holy grail of 911s. One day, my dad came home from work and told us that he’d met some really cool people. What came after that is what has burnt the love of Porsche deeply into my hard drive. OFF-ROAD Land Rover Defender 50th Special Edition They squeezed a Range Rover into a Defender.It was love at first sight: it was 1998, and as I walked out of Waitrose on the Finchley Rd with my newborn daughter strapped to my chest in a Baby Björn, I saw my first 50th Edition. EXECUTIVE Jaguar XJ X350 Only a select few knew how special this car was. It didn’t sell in large numbers, which means there aren’t many prowling the roads. They are rare. So rare in fact that they’re being imported back to the UK from Japan.
