Octane Magazine

[JamesL]

November's version has just come out (October...)

A piece on the 230.... first para is something about "women's cars... overlooking a great rally pedigree"

I'll read the whole thing when i buy the magazine later this month (long story)

http://www.octane-magazine.com/

[Khurram Darugar]

Yup i read the article too.  One thing that to some extent appears to be recurring theme is the favour the 230sl 's have with the writers.  Here too the writer hints that the 230sl with it lighter free reving engine, tighter suspension and manual transmission was the better of the lot.

Kay

[Eryck]

Thanks for the heads up.  Will look out for the magazine.

1965 230 SL White Manual
Hong Kong

[Raymond]

I hope to be at Joe Alexander's in Blacklick next year.  Maybe we can set up a course and test a 230 against a 280.

Ray
'68 280SL 4-spd Coupe

[hauser]

Ray, if you're going then count me in for the road trip.  Hmmm... how many cars would we need to consider this a caravan???

1969 280sl 5 spd
Gainesville, Fl.

[rwmastel]

quote:Originally posted by Raymond

I hope to be at Joe Alexander's in Blacklick next year.

I believe this has become an every-other-year event, so plan for 2007.

Rodd
Powell, Ohio, USA
1966 230SL, Euro, Auto, Leather, both  tops
1994 E420

[JamesL]

Octane this month has a piece on 60 years of the SL - ostensibly the launch of the r231 (latest SL) but MB lined up for the launch in Marbella a w194, a w198 (Coupe and Roadster), 113, 107, 129 and 230... and other than the 194, Octane (and no doubt every other publication)  drove the lot (MB were not letting journos loose on the 194)... article makes hay of the Pagoda rally history (as opposed to the 198 sports car record) - so as they say, the cars range from a "pure racing car, sports cars, a sporting car, cruisers and technowagens". It concludes....

"the one to take home? Without a doubt the charming Pagoda thanks to it's good looks, high quality and rasping straight-six engine. Tough enough to win the arduous Liege-Sofia-Liegerally, the Pagoda is a superb sporting summer soft-top - or a practical winter coupe with the hardtop fitted. Truly the best of both worlds"

[Larry & Norma]

 

[Ulf]

Dammit, saw the magazine at the airport yesterday, but dismissed it as being about only new cars :-(

[JamesL]

It's my favourite of all the old car mags. Bright Yellow Lancia Integrale on the front this month...

It helps that Octane never features anything i could dream of affording so I can get off on car porn with no risk getting into trouble with the wife 

[Cees Klumper]

You no longer have to go to airports to get your Octane fix - I recently got a subscription on the Ipad which is not perfect but is good enough (and sure is a heck of a lot cheaper than getting a real subscription, what with the cost of postage outside the UK)! I also got subscriptions to two US car mags - costs next to nothing and they're easier to read than Octane. To complete the ensemble, I then got a subscription for the Ipad for a classic car mag from the Netherlands that I had been reading for many years, however stopped when I moved to Switzerland as they did not offer foreign subscriptions. So this is an Ipad feature I like.

[JamesL]

It looks like Robert Coucher - the magazine's editor - wrote the piece

Elsewhere in the magazine he writes "Waxenerger could not resist stuffing a huge 6.3litre V8 into an unsuspecting 230SL Pagoda, the upshot being a an impressive time of 10min 30 sec around the testing Nurburgring"

(Sabine can do that in a Transit van today...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KiC03_wVjc

[gerster]

Hello guys, what do you think of 'Mercedes Enthusiast'? I did take a subscription on it.