Tag: topgear.com

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My neighbours are used to my cars coming and going like Prime Ministers, but may have wondered what I was doing sat inside this new Mercedes CLA for so long, apparently high as a kite on new-Benz-smell. I was deep in the set-up process, prodding and scrolling, signing in here and downloading there. Such is…

Here are seven Sub-Zero used cars for sub £20,000

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What should you look for when buying a bargain used car? Reliability, service history or fitness for purpose? Of course not! All you really need to base your decision on is how fly the thing will make you look. And luckily, here at TG we can refer back to the Cool Wall for the definitive…

Geoff, is that you? This solar-powered coupe recovers more energy than it uses on a single commute

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He’s back! Well, officially what you’re looking at here is called the Deep Orange 17 as it was designed and built by students on Clemson University’s Deep Orange automotive engineering programme, but are you really going to try and tell us that this isn’t the second coming of TopGear telly’s iconic Geoff? It’s quite a…

The new baby AMG GT 53 4-Door Coupe swaps the fake V8 for straight-six noises

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Remember the Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe we brought you news of a couple of months back? Y’know, the one with a swashbuckling 1,153bhp and 1,475lb ft from three electric motors, plus fake V8 noises? Well, now there’s a new, entry-level variant, which turns down the volume. Slightly. The aforementioned GT 4-Door Coupe was, of course,…

Here are 11 great-handling used car heroes that are (fairly) cheap to run

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If you’re an i20N driver, you might be wondering how a car we’re touting as frugal manages to empty its tank so quickly. Helpfully that’s a question we’re actually qualified to answer… The answer is both simple and twofold. Firstly, the tank is so comically tiny, you’ll be the only person at the petrol station…

Breaking: Skoda set to rebrand England’s Lake District to ‘L&K District’

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Here’s TopGear.com’s roving correspondent, Cory Spondent, with his mostly incorrect exclusives from the world of motoring Skoda will expand its sponsorship of England’s National Parks by rebranding the historic Lake District as the ‘L&K District’, sources have revealed to TopGear.com. Following the enthusiasm generated by the Czech carmaker’s temporary sponsorship of the Peak District –…

This new Chinese EV has some mad party tricks for parking: we test them all

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BYD’s posh sub-brand Denza will land properly in the UK later this year, with its shooting brake-style Z9 GT set to reach customers in October. But what actually is a Denza? Well, it describes itself as a “premium technology-oriented automotive brand”, but the Z9 GT – available as either a 1,140bhp EV or a 765bhp…

Fail of the Century: 43 of the worst cars from 2000 to now

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What BMW succeeded in creating with the GT was… a very slightly shorter X6, with added frumpery in the styling department. Were there humans out there requesting such a thing? Possibly. Should they have been listened to? Absolutely not. Yes, you’ve done all that hard work, you’ve signed the whole thing off, you’ve unveiled your…

Aston Martin Vantage S review: should be pointless, actually utterly sublime

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Why has Aston Martin made a Vantage ‘S’? The real reason is ‘because that’s how the fast car industry works’. Scenario: company releases new car. Trumpets it’s the best possible thing they could ever make. Then 18 months later company announces tweaked, honed, improved version. Now this is the one to have. You need to…

Here are 50 electric cars with the biggest batteries on sale today

Aug 6, 2026

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