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If there was one company likely to relinquish its deathgrip on horsepower, you wouldn’t have guessed it would be Texan manufacturer Hennessey. Purveyors of the Venom series, the current Venom F5 sports 2,031bhp and styling heavily influenced by the aerodynamic constraints of 300mph engineering – even if the cars ‘only’ manage 280-ish. They are, particularly…

Ah the Audi A2, the efficiency monster that no-one bought. That pretty much sums it up. The original Audi A2 has long been revered by the motoring press for its distinctive shape, cutting-edge aluminium frame, sub-900kg kerbweight and 1.2 diesel’s rather spectacular 94mpg. In the pre-hybrid era! Makes today’s plug-ins look like charlatans. Anyhow, as…

The gaming world is currently playing through the original Halo campaign again, this time in Campaign Evolved form, to see if Halo Studios’ latest remaster recaptures the magic of the 2001 shooter we all shirked our homework duties to complete on Legendary. Ever the contrarian, however, TG’s been learning how to drift a Mongoose ATV…

It didn’t take long for the initial hype around the Chrysler PT Cruiser’s design to wear off and for us to realise that at its heart, it was a pretty hateful thing. Shockingly enough, beheading it did little to improve things, especially not when it eliminated what little stiffness there was in the chassis to…

The first turbodiesel to compete in Baja’s Trophy Truck class back in 2008, Scarbo was the 550bhp Touareg’s race engineer – his first job out of college. Remember this? Based around an idea of Lotus’s stillborn 1960s Le Mans project, Scarbo was brought in later to help with suspension development for the Pikes Peak project.…

Here’s TopGear.com’s roving correspondent, Cory Spondent, with his mostly incorrect exclusives from the world of motoring After last week’s announcement that this year’s Bahrain Grand Prix will be hosted by Malaysia, F1 has revealed that the 2027 British Grand Prix will take place in Wellington, New Zealand. “To be honest, putting on a Grand Prix…

That’s a big drinks cooler. Can you take it to the beach? Har har. Despite its appearance, this insulated plastic box on wheels is in fact a car. It’s the Slate Auto Truck, the hotly anticipated affordable EV backed by cardboard box delivery magnate Jeff Bezos that’s as spartan as its nameplate. Also, yeah we…

September 2014, and we had the very first BMW i8 in the UK for a showdown with its rivals. Here’s the conclusion I wrote. “Many people have declared the i8 to not be as good a sports car as the Porsche 911. And they’re right. It’s not as good at the traditional sports car stuff…

You may have noticed (it was hard to miss) that earlier this week Audi pulled some king-sized covers off its new three-row Q9 SUV. But while the rest of the world was shown the standard car with its 3.0-litre turbodiesel V6, America was also being treated to a full-fat V8. Yep, this is the US-only…

It’s not in the least bit newsworthy to inform you that SUVs are ‘quite popular’. The UK’s top ten sales chart is dominated by the things and beyond those bestsellers, there’s dozens (upon dozens) of alternatives. It’s a segment that continues to grow as Chinese brands muscle in on our market. As a TopGear.com reader,…