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The car industry is always getting its knuckles rapped for some grimy dealing or other. The latest being of course the ‘discretionary commission arrangements’ scandal on car loans. Anyone who’s visited the gents’ urinals (and I assume the ladies’ cubicles if there’s any equality in the world but clearly I haven’t checked) will know that…

With its X-shaped headlights we already thought that the Neue Klasse X5 was cosplaying as a 1960s racer, but now BMW has taken the sports car fancy dress thing to a whole new level. What you see above is the angry X5 wearing its new ‘M Performance Parts’. We’re told that the new bits “accentuate…

Skoda’s new all-electric, seven-seat SUV with up to 398 miles of WLTP range, the option of a big ol’ 86kWh (usable, 91kWh gross) battery – the biggest yet in a Skoda – and two- or four-wheel-drive. Built on the now familiar MEB+ VW platform, the Peaq (pronounced ‘peek’) offers two battery capacities that explain the…

Well, this is huge news: Max Verstappen, a four-time Formula One world champion widely regarded as the current fastest driver on the grid and one of the best to ever do it, has beaten 100 amateur go-karters in a specially staged race. We know, right? Unimaginable heroics. In fact, Verstappen – youngest ever F1 point…

Welcome to the world’s most expensive orchestra. For reasons that are frankly rather straightforward, a supercar collector with a penchant for Paganis has driven two of his toys right into the Hungarian State Opera House. Here’s the proof. And no, it’s no AI-generated, rendered, or in any way made up: those really are two jaw-droppingly…

Welcome to a shiny new Top Gear YouTube channel! Launching this September, Top Gear Tech hits your optional passenger infotainment screens with fire in its belly and a point to prove. Namely that, despite all the luddite grumbling about the impending demise of NA V12s (granted, much of it from us) and outrage re the…

It’s not every week we get a whole new Volkswagen GTI, but then the new, warmed-up ID.3 is no ordinary GTI. And not merely because it’s the first rear-drive hot hatch to wear the sacred suffix. We were thoroughly underwhelmed by its former ID.3 GTX guise but a proper, red pinstriped GTI makeover accompanies the…

It’s the estate version of Toyota’s mid-sized SUV, the bZ4X. That car was notable for being the Japanese carmaker’s first go at an EV, but, er, not much beyond that. Competent enough, just no real USP. Of course, everyone knows that estate cars are cooler than SUVs – that’s simply a fact – so this bZ4X…

Possibly the most famous of all the bonnet ornaments (on our side of the Atlantic at least), the Jaguar Leaper was initially designed by Frederick Gordon Crosby after Sir William Lyons took offence to a particular aftermarket ornament on an SS Jaguar Saloon. It stuck around until 1951 and only got outstretched rear legs when…

British-engineered 3.9-litre wailer in Gordon Murray’s hypercars revs to a record 12,100rpm – beating Cosworth’s own 6.5-litre 11,100rpm effort in the Aston Valkyrie. Yet it still delivers almost three quarters of its peak torque at 2,500rpm. The chromed trumpets, the red heads (hence Testa Rossa) – Maranello’s quintessential 1960s powerplant has pedigree, a soundtrack to die for,…