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The biggest change to this sixth game in Milestone’s ‘Gran Turismo minus two wheels’ RIDE series is that rather than completing events simply for cash or kudos, you’re now riding at an international festival of motorcycle racing. Pack up your sleeping bag and get ready to spend the weekend eating £17 loaded fries out of a…

The Mercedes-Benz SEC was – is? – one of the world’s very finest luxury two-door coupes, from an era when Mercedes-Benz was knocking out hit after bulletproof, double-glazed, wood-trimmed hit. The Renntech Sledgehammer is – definitely is – a reimagining of Mercedes-Benz’s solid gold hit that just happens to hit very, very hard. Because this…

The auto industry loves to innovate, but its hit rate is mixed. Seatbelts and airbags, now they’re great. But other times designers and engineers meddle unnecessarily, which gives us stuff like the McLaren MP4-12C’s touch-sensitive pads on its swish dihedral doors. They needed a Freemasons-style secret handshake to work, were soon dropped for little buttons,…

Toyota’s second ever electric car. For which there’s been a jolly long wait – the Japanese manufacturer’s first effort was the larger bZ4X back in 2022, and after that… nada. That’s because Toyota has been coy about the switchover to EVs, preferring to keep its powder dry rather than join the rush to stick a…

Image: rendered by Andrei Avarvarii for Top Gear We’re 45 seconds in, and Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna has just asked me what I like most about the new Luce. The boss fixes me with a titanium-plated glare, then smiles. And here I was thinking I was the one asking the questions… Be in no doubt,…

Rolls-Royce prides itself on details, which makes this one-off Phantom built for a client in the Middle East peak Rolls-Royce; the latest example of the British carmaker’s, ahem, laser focus. It’s called the Phantom ‘Arabesque’, and it’s the first ever Rolls-Royce motor car to get a fully laser-engraved bonnet. That’s right, frickin’ lasers. Rolls-Royce apparently…

Last month BMW officially took control of Alpina, and to celebrate it unveiled a fresh wordmark and lightly updated font for its new luxury sub-brand. Now, four weeks later, we have an all-new BMW Alpina emblem. Going to be years before we see the first actual car at this rate, isn’t it? Anyway, the new…

What’s it like to be a stunt driver? Ex-rally driver Mark Higgins would know – here he shares his tips with TopGear.com… The amount of preparation that goes into any driving stunt is huge. It’s not unusual for us to be preparing six months before going on location. I’ll be brought in by the stunt…

To misquote Oscar Wilde, for a car brand to die once may be regarded as misfortune. For the same brand to die twice looks like carelessness. But such was the fate that befell poor Borgward, the German car company that, in 2022, suffered the ignominy of kicking the bucket not for the first, but second…

This is not the AMR26, this is merely a show car. But you knew that already. The point is, don’t go looking for signs of Adrian Newey’s genius-level design because the last thing a team would do is show off its homework to the world. Especially when you’re paying a reported £30 million a year…