Octane January 2005
Overview
Publication Details
| Type | Magazine |
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| Publisher | Octane |
| Published date | 01/01/2005 |
| Pages | 172 |
Articles
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| 32 | Event Report - 2004 Carrera Panamericana - 75 cars gathered in Tuxtla Gutiérrez for a seven day, 3100km Mexican adventure. | Events | 1 |
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| 34 | Event Report - Rally of the Tests - Long and winding road leads from Torquay to Jodrell Bank Observatory. | Events | 1 |
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| 36 | Event Report - Tour De Espana - Serious action from Seville’s Olympic stadium right through to the Jerez circuit. | Events | 1 |
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| 38 | Event Report - VSCC Autumn Speed Trials at Goodwood - A (mostly) dry track and the usual VSCC bonhomie made for smiles all round. | Events | 1 |
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| 40 | Event Report - Bonneville World Finals 2004 - Motorsport venues don’t come any more impressive than Bonneville. | Events | 1 |
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| 54 | Cash and Cammy - Ferrari 275GTB/4 Nart & 365GTS - Two Ferraris. Both beautiful and mechanically similar. But can a couple of extra cams under the bonnet make one worth eight times more than the other? | Features | 7 |
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| 62 | Aston Martin DB3S - The DB3S was Aston Martin’s first front-line racer for four seasons, starting in 35 major races and scoring 15 outright wins, 13 seconds and seven third places. | Features | 9 |
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| 72 | Just For The Record? - Delage V12 - Delage built this V12 race car to take the land speed record, but it’s done a whole lot more than that in the intervening 80 years. | Features | 5 |
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| 78 | Roofless Efficiency - Murciélago vs Zonda - Octane gets the Pagani Zonda Roadster and Lamborghini Murciélago Roadster together for a high speed contest through the local hills. | Multi vehicle - Reviews | 6 |
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| 84 | Last of the Breed - HWM Jaguar - The last ever racing car built by Hersham and Walton Motors Ltd has led a full and active competition life, but shows no sign of retiring from the fray. | Features | 6 |
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| 92 | Austin Power - Austin A 35 - In the exotic world of Goodwood, no other car produced such cheers in the grandstands and grumblings in the paddock as this Austin A35. | Features | 5 |
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| 98 | Mad as a Hatter? Top Hat Racing - Octane’s editor is offered two drives in the same race. One is in a Renault Dauphine. Which will he take for a spin? | General interest | 4 |
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| 102 | The Hands on Approach - Alastair Caldwell - Successful race-team leader to historic rallying maverick, Alistair Caldwell has motorsport in his blood. But above all, he’s a brilliant mechanic. | General interest | 4 |
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| 106 | Glam Shock - Lamborghini Espada - With their odd styling and costly habits, Espadas have long been the neglected members of the Lamborghini family. So it’s quite a surprise to drive a good one. | Features | 6 |
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| 112 | Innovations - Monocoque Construction - It took almost half a century for unitary construction to achieve its promise of lightness, strength and refinement. But it paved the way for today’s mission to produce the stiffest structure possible and still meet crash requirements. | General interest | 2 |
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| 120 | Classic Driver - Porsche 911 SC - A sensible Porsche? No, not an oxymoron but a pragmatic reality. The 911 SC will live happily outside in all weather, start first time and still be a joy to drive. | Features | 2 |
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| 124 | Classic Bike - BMW’s R80GS quite literally took on the world when launched in 1980 and ended up spawning a whole new genre of big-capacity dual-purpose machines. | Features | 1 |
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