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Playground Games have revealed the world map for Forza Horizon 6, releasing 19 May and bringing Japan to the series for the first time. It looks vast.  It’s the “most dense and vertical” one yet, the developer says, and that boast does hold up to scrutiny. Prior instalments haven’t exactly shied away from expansive areas, but…

I’ve met this one a fair bit before. In fact 20 years ago I seemed to be driving a Type R pretty much every week in yet another battle to establish the best hot hatch. Ah, hot hatches, remember them? I tried to before I drove this EP3 and what I recalled was that the…

Different car, same headline: four years after sending social media into a frenzy by showing very little mechanical sympathy to an R34 Skyline, Lewis Hamilton has gone and made a sequel… with a Ferrari F40. The minute-long vid – which you can watch (likely many times over) below – features wheelspin, smokey tyres, drifting, smokey…

“We were sceptical that Mini could convincingly update a decade-old design to remain competitive with this new-gen car, but partly because of the Mini’s inherent quality and partly due to the lack of convincing new rivals in this sorely underpopulated class, it’s still an easy car to recommend.” Read the full Mini Cooper review here…

It may not be obvious at first glance, but this plug-in hybrid SUV is a bit of a big deal. You see, last year the Toyota RAV4 bested the Tesla Model Y to be named the best-selling car in the world… and now there’s a new one. Hang on, haven’t I already seen this on…

25 minutes 49 seconds No one has ever driven the 1,064bhp Corvette ZR1 and thought it needed more power – but that hasn’t stopped Chevrolet adding the Corvette E-Ray’s electric front axle to the ZR1 to create the 1,250bhp ZR1X! So, join TG’s Jethro Bovingdon as he drives the 2026 Corvette ZR1X on road, on…

Tom Ford: TG’s associate editor is bored of the Singer negativity Backlash. Suddenly it’s not ‘cool’ to like Singerised Porsche 911s; but that’s the automotive world for you. And I do get it with the DLS Turbo and big winged stuff. For me, Singer as a company has always been about the edit, the detail,…

Aesthetics are so subjective that it seems a fool’s errand to address them at length here. However, this is a new Ferrari. And one that adopts the name Testarossa. A car that is almost exclusively remembered and revered for the way it looks. Pure excess sculpted from aluminium and fuelled by rampant optimism and strong…

A first crack at a mini-Espace by Renault, designed by Anne Asensio and built for Renault by Caggiola in 1991. Essentially a big, useful, glassy box, it had sliding doors and lots of useful space for children to be sick in.  The HYdrogen drive-by-Wire was a GM concept from 2002 that featured full autonomy, hydrogen…

Eleven generations of Honda Civic have bred six different iterations of Civic Type R. Each and every one uses a 2.0-litre, four-cylinder VTEC, and since the second-gen, EP3 ‘Breadvan’ that VTEC has been identified by a K20 engine code (see also the Ariel Atom).  But it’s the latest and greatest FL5 Civic we’ve picked here;…