10 Years of Reading Material: "Octane" and "SwissClassics Revue" Now in the Archive
11/06/2026
Our archive has grown by 60 issues. Starting now, you'll find all issues of Octane and SwissClassics Revue from 2021 through 2025—page by page and searchable—available to Premium PRO readers as PDFs in the highest print quality.
The expansion in numbers
- 60 issues, 30 each from Octane (Nos. 50–79) and SwissClassics Revue (Nos. 83–112)
- 8,476 pages: 4,948 from Octane and 3,528 from SwissClassics Revue
- Approximately 2.7 million words of text, all searchable via full-text search
- Covering the period from January 2021 to December 2025, with six issues per year for each magazine
Octane offers the grandest stage in automotive history:
- Film and stars: the making-of feature on 50 years of “Le Mans” with Steve McQueen, a 52-page McQueen special featuring the “Bullitt” Mustang, every Bond Aston Martin since 1964, and Paul McCartney's Lamborghini 400 GT.
- Celebrity Owners: Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason and his Ferrari 250 GTO, which he's been driving for 45 years; Sophia Loren's 300 SL; Malcolm Campbell's wooden “Woodie”; and the Apollo 12 astronauts' Corvette.
- Racing legends: the No. 1 Porsche 917, which never raced; the 1984 duel between Senna and Lauda in the Mercedes 190 E; Stig Blomqvist in the Audi Sport quattro; and the Mercedes W 196 R, the most expensive Silver Arrow of all time, valued at over 51 million euros.
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Curiosities: the Bugatti Niniette racing boat, the Gyro-X gyroscopic car, and a VW bus with caterpillar tracks.
Swiss connection: the Monteverdi Berlinetta, of which only three were built, and the 100th anniversary of the Klausen Race.
SwissClassics Revue is Switzerland's classic car magazine, and it shows:
- Swiss coachbuilders: Graber, Beutler, Tüscher, and Italsuisse, right up to the Bugatti Type 57 with a Graber body.
- Forgotten Swiss Cars: the AGEA, Switzerland's first plastic sports car; the Enzmann 506 owned by a country doctor from Lucerne; Graemiger's Cheetah; the EDRA II; and the Dätwyler-Porsche 356.
- Swiss automotive history: how AMAG began with the Standard brand rather than the Beetle, the Schinznach assembly plant, and the Grisons car ban, which wasn't lifted until 1925.
- Profiles: Franco Sbarro, Ferrari factory driver Peter Schetty, Walter Brun, Markus Hotz, and Dieter Spoerry.
- Practical Advice: Each issue features a buying guide—from the Land Rover to the BMW E36—along with topics such as paint jobs, replacement parts, air conditioning, 3D printing, and vehicle valuation.
- For a laugh: a Citroën Méhari in deep snow and an electric Topolino.
Enjoy browsing!
The new issues are now available in our archive. We hope you enjoy over 8,000 pages of fresh reading material.
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