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It won’t have escaped anyone’s attention that the games industry is struggling. Analysts will theorise the reasons for years afterwards, but the more obvious factors have been the Covid pandemic, the financial crisis caused by the Covid pandemic, and the huge and unsustainable surge in gaming interest during the Covid pandemic which the money men…

It’s an electric hatchback from Aion, the Chinese (where else?) brand that gained its first foothold here with its V SUV earlier in 2026. Aion’s big play for your attention is ease of ownership: eight years’ warranty for the car and battery, eight years of roadside assistance, eight years of servicing and eight years of…

I, like most of the Top Gear office, am a sucker for an estate. Give me a fast wagon and I’m as happy as the proverbial dog with two tails that resides in the boot. Space, pace and er, a low centre of gravity. SUVs on the other hand are wallowing, cumbersome and top-heavy. Only…

If you were ever confused by VW’s number-oriented naming strategy, things are about to get a little less like a mild case of dyscalculia. Because just as the ID.2 became the ID. Polo, now the ID.4 replacement is set to hit the streets as the ID. Tiguan. So that’s a mid-sized SUV based on the…

No, not that Miura. This was a Porto Alegre-based manufacturer that launched its first car – the rather tamely titled Sport – in the late 1970s. Like so many Brazilian market cars it used a rear mounted, air-cooled VW engine under its wedgy fibreglass body. How good does the fastback L’Automobile Ventura look? And yep,…

Back in 1990, Shigeru Miyamoto’s Nintendo team were noodling around with an idea for “a fun, lighthearted game where you zip around unrealistically in cars,” as he put it in the game’s official strategy guide. “It wouldn’t be the life-or-death, dangerous world of F1 racing, but more the atmosphere of screeching wheels as you zip…

A dreamy few days that will mostly consist of driving on god’s own roads, in the Gran Sasso region of Italy, in three generations of Pagani roadsters, begins with an audience with the man himself. Horacio Pagani is letting us borrow two of his personal cars – an exposed carbon fibre Zonda F Roadster and…

This is the new Bentley Torcal, and “Torc” (torque, geddit?) is very much the operative word. It’s got 996lb ft of the stuff – that’s more than any Bentley ever. Likewise, its 875bhp exceeds any flying B before it.  It also introduces a new take on Bentley’s design language inside and out, and is even…

When you hear the name ‘Smart’ (and you probably haven’t for some years given the original company’s decline and recent rebirth) what do you naturally think of. Quirky? Clever? For me, it’s simply ‘small’. But just like Minis are no longer miniature and Land Rovers rarely rove across rough ground, Smart is now a big…

It’s the third generation Porsche Panamera. As before it’s a slinky-looking front-engined sports car with space for four adults, and a decent hatchback boot. What was new in 2023 for this iteration was a mild body redesign and astonishing active – not adaptive, active – suspension on the Turbo S E-Hybrid. Is it just us or is…