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Caterham has not spent a lot of time on roofs or concepts for that matter, peddling the same basic open-air effort in the Seven that Lotus invented in 1957. Which is why the AeroSeven is such a departure, obsessing with advanced aerodynamics in its slippery bodywork to create staggering wing-free downforce. Roofless and ruthless.  Honda’s…

Nothing demonstrates the design chutzpah of the city car world quite so proudly. The Mk1 Ford Ka launched in 1996 and lived a whole 12 years – twice the normal model cycle of a car – before being replaced by a duller Mk2, a muted twin of the reborn Fiat 500. It’s fair to say…

Resident Evil: Requiem is out now, and while we blot the viscera on our upcoming review, you can tide yourself over with this fact: Leon drives a Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT in it. We always imagined that his earnings went primarily on herbs and haircare, but apparently not – after three decades of speculation, Capcom’s revealed…

Wait… how fast? Yes, this is a standard production Corvette with 1,250bhp. It combines the 5.5-litre twin-turbocharged V8 with 1,064bhp from the ‘standard’ ZR1 with the front e-axle of the hybrid E-Ray model. The result is the most powerful US production car ever and a Corvette that, on paper at least, can stand toe-to-toe with…

Regular readers will remember that I ran a BMW i5 Touring last year. You’ll also recall that (despite my EV skepticism) I rather liked it – and even went as far as to say that BMW currently make the best EVs. The new BMW iX3, which won TG’s most recent Car of the Year Award,…

The perfect date car, apparently. The previous five generations of Honda Prelude, the most recent of which retired back in 2001, frequently topped Japanese polls as the ideal transport to shuttle prospective life partners around in. Their sophisticated mix of a comfy interior and svelte profile feels light years away from the body-kitted Saxos that…

The Bugatti Mistral is officially the world’s fastest convertible automobile, having clocked 282mph back in 2024. How then, do you elevate such a machine? Largely, this: it’s the Mistral ‘La Perle Rare’. As with every Bugatti ever built, it’s a ‘one-of-a-kind’, conceived back in 2023 when Bugatti met the owner of this W16 record-breaking leviathan…

The latest addition to Dubai’s white’n’green tourist police patrol fleet is a 900bhp Lotus Eletre R, which will be able to catch crims travelling at 62mph in less than three seconds. Hooray for electricity! In a press release, the force said that the Eletre would “bolster its security presence in key tourist sites such as…

Continent-crushing. This has, in recent years, become the descriptor of choice for a car that’ll smash big miles at big speed with minimum fuss. And, fair’s fair, it’s a pretty good descriptor. But we need to talk about degrees of crushing. Because while some continent-crushers merely give their continent a firm squeeze, others mercilessly compress…

It would be fair to say Rennsport’s launch on consoles and PC last year didn’t go, er, perfectly. Although it marked a new serious player in the sim racing space, it was also “light on content and plagued by bugs”, we remarked in our review at the time. All’s not lost, though, because Competition Company has a cunning…