Tag: topgear.com

Audi’s RS cars have always looked angry about something or other, so it’s hard to tell whether this new RS5 is upset that it’s suddenly put on so much weight, that it has to entertain flailing mortal hands, or that it’s partly powered by electricity. Because, yes folks, it’s happened: Audi Sport has fitted its…

What is it?  The modern Puma is the bestselling car in the UK – from £26,580 for the 1.0 EcoBoost Hybrid. But there’s also a Ford Puma from 1997–02. It doesn’t cost £26k.  Why are we interested?  Because you get to be that person that says “not that Puma – the original” at parties. The…

We very nearly didn’t get this Prius. Not ‘we’ as in the Top Gear Garage. ‘We’ as in Europe. See, the Prius was invented to be The Hybrid Toyota. But now, almost all Toyotas, from the little Aygo though the C-HR and Corolla up to the RAV4, are hybrids. It’s only the Land Cruiser, GR…

Polestar has announced it intends to release four new cars over the next three years, and one of them will be a new version of the Polestar 4 that finally gives it a see-through rear window. Progress! And it’ll get more than a bit of glass – Polestar said this new 4 variant will combine…

It’s a brand-new hatchback. In 2026! Kia has been on a roll over the last few years with a line-up of cars that look great, drive well, are tech savvy and competitively priced, and things are going so swimmingly the South Korean manufacturer has decided to keep the faith in a segment that has haemorrhaged…

A groundbreaking design icon created to combat the spiralling size, weight and excess of modern cars – and remember, this was in the 80s. One wonders what old Clive would’ve made of the BMW XM. As common a sight on the walls of American teen bedrooms as Carrie Fisher’s navel, the Fiero’s blend of baby…

Amy, Benjamin, Claudia, Bram, Goretti and Chandra. Not the line-up for a doomed dinner party, but the names of the storms that have battered the UK – and the Jeep – this alphabetical storm year, or however the Met Office now gamifies weather nowadays. But every time the BBC News app pings with another amber…

Sony’s February State of Play was, as ever, rammed full of glossy trailers that refused to tell you very much about the game they were advertising. But among all the Inception trailer-style bwooooars and dramatic quick cuts to black, Star Wars: Galactic Racer showed off just enough gameplay to get us thinking it’s been too long since we martialled…

As the third model in Ferrari’s Icona series, the Daytona SP3 was a wild, limited run, £2m homage to the racing prototypes of the 1960s. And yet, despite the rarity and the bonkers price tag, German tuner Novitec clearly felt it wasn’t quite right. So, say hello to an even more powerful SP3. Yep, rather…

20 minutes 46 seconds This is the new Ferrari 849 Testarossa. It’s the 1,570kg, 1,036bhp hybrid replacement for the SF90 Stradale, and while it rights many of the wrongs of its predecessor, there’s one 4.0-litre-sized issue that hasn’t been fixed. Join TG’s Jethro Bovingdon on road and track to find out why…