Tag: topgear.com
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Want to hear a remastered, £595k V8 Ferrari F355 scream in a tunnel? Turn it up now
Remember that rather delightful, reimagined Ferrari F355 from 2024? It’s now ready, Brit company Evoluto confirming it has tested all the specifications it promised us a couple of years back. Chief among which is a re-engineered version of Ferrari’s mid-mounted, 3.5-litre naturally-aspirated V8, which now makes 414bhp and 273lb ft (up from 375bhp and 268lb…
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The small, hot Vauxhall is back: a new Corsa GSE is coming
Vauxhall has revealed plans to fill its tiny Corsa with lots of power and lots of electricity and slap a familiar (ish) badge on the back. A hot new Corsa GSE is incoming. And Vauxhall assures us this successor to the likes of the Nova GTE and GSI and Corsa GSI and VXR will be…
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Suzuki Swift – long-term review
The Suzuki’s been on a few adventures of late. Exciting times. We’ve been on several long (ish) trips – down to the Cotswolds, to deepest darkest Kent and even across to the far east… by which I mean Norfolk, obviously – so it’s been a terrific opportunity to see how the baby Suzuki responds to…
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“Plain hard work”: driving the last ever Lamborghini Countach up the Stelvio Pass
Vincenzo crouches down under the scissor door and pats my leg. “Forza,” he says, clenching his fist. Next my arm, “forza”, this time while wrestling an invisible steering wheel. He then leans across me to gesture at the air con, “no work”. Of course not. But since I’m sitting in an original Countach and about…
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Cupra Leon Estate VZ1 – long-term review
So, here we go, family road trip time. The big question is whether the Cupra Leon is a good companion for hauling the clan up into the mountains. On paper it ticks the right boxes. Plenty of boot space for winter kit, four-wheel drive to tackle snowy passes and a set of all-season tyres to…
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Audi Q3 review
It’s Audi’s fourth-largest seller in Britain, rejigged and rejuvenated for its third generation. Surprised it’s not the firm’s biggest hit here? Us too – the blighters seem to be everywhere – but the A3, Q4 and A1 currently pip it to the podium. Still, it’s a ginormous deal, not least when the mid-size crossover market…
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Hurrah! The Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio will remain on sale until 2027
Excellent news for proper petrolheads – Alfa Romeo has announced that the Giulia Quadrifoglio will remain on sale until 2027. Quick, we must all go and buy one immediately! Its sibling the Stelvio Quadrifoglio will also live on until next year, with Alfa claiming it has made the decision “in response to requests from enthusiasts”.…
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Official: Donut Labs’ solid-state EV battery fully charges in seven minutes
Well, this is all getting excitingly real. Last month, we brought you news of Donut Labs’ production-ready solid-state battery that it claimed could be recharged from flat to full in five minutes. Now, the Finnish tech startup says this has been independently verified by the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland following, erm… scepticism. In…
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Someone has designed and built the entire Top Gear TV studio… out of Lego
Well, this might just be the best thing you see on the internet today. A fellow Top Gear enthusiast called Nard Verbong has designed and built the entire TG TV studio… out of Lego pieces. All 5,362 of them. Sir, we salute you. Because the attention to detail is incredible. Jeremy, James, Richard and The…
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Opinion: what’s the point in Formula One?
“As a pure driver, I enjoy driving flat out. At the moment, you cannot drive like that,” grumbled Max Verstappen after his first outing in the new generation of F1 cars. “That’s just not Formula One.” Verstappen’s comments raise an important question. Not ‘is he ever not grumpy about something?’ but a bigger one: so…