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 1. The yoke ain’t no joke Remember those bizarre-looking steering ‘wheels’ from Tesla Model S, X and Cybertruck, and how they were almost universally disliked? Well, not content with 40-inch screens across the dash in the new GLC, Mercedes is ignoring all that and ploughing headlong into the future… by soon offering a steering yoke…

Ready to brighten up your day? Have a little watch of the video down below. That’s the Ford GT Mk IV setting the third fastest time ever at the Nürburgring in the hands of two-time N24 winner Frédéric Vervisch. Looks like it’s on fast forward, doesn’t it? The Mk IV’s 6m 15.977s lap means it’s…

What is it? A tribute to New Zealand’s only F1 world champion, Denis ‘Denny’ Hulme, who passed away before the open wheel, General Motors V8-powered two-seater was unveiled. In hindsight, this was probably for the best. Did they build any? At least one. A papaya demo car ran at the 2010 Goodwood Festival of Speed and…

Kia has announced that its smallest – and in its own words, ‘affordable’ – EV2 will cost from £24,245, ahead of its arrival later this year. That includes a £3,750 ‘Reservation Saving’, while the carmaker awaits confirmation that it’ll be eligible for the UK Government’s Electric Car Grant. Course, we’ve already driven it, concluding it…

What’s this all about? In May 2001, in a quiet corner of Toyota Motor Co’s engineering department, the project head of a proposed sports car, Haruhiko Tanahashi, wrote the internal briefing document to explain his car’s aims to the top management. So it had to be persuasive. On the cover was a Toyota F1 car…

Jony Ive once spent three weeks in northern Japan working with craftspeople in an area renowned for its metal working. He was fixated on titanium at the time, and its peculiarly challenging properties. “They really understood it,” he says, “and I realised that I didn’t.” Needless to say, he soon learned. Born in north London in…

Here’s TopGear.com’s roving correspondent, Cory Spondent, with his mostly incorrect exclusives from the world of motoring A misunderstanding on a global scale has led to unprecedented demand for old DVDs featuring Hollywood actor Vin Diesel. Charity shops across the UK have reported pandemonium in high street stores, with customers queuing around the block and in…

No, not there. There. You need to be standing in a very precise spot for Crimson Desert’s UI to show you the button prompt to pick up a water container. And you need to pick up the water container, because the house is on fire. It caught fire because… actually, the game isn’t big on finer details…

Gosh, it looks like one of the car world’s long-promised, perma-delayed technology leaps has finally arrived: the solid-state battery, or SSB. It comes from Donut Lab, the Finnish company best known for in-wheel electric motors. Those motors feature in Verge electric motorbikes (with the hubless rear wheel). Order a Verge bike today, and you’ll get…

Supercars are boring. An unpopular opinion, but mid-engined layouts and aero require largely the same solutions, never used 200+mph capability casting the cars into similar profiles. They’re filled with genius level traction control systems necessary to deal with Richter scale outputs, and the active aero is going to give mechanics of 2036 a nosebleed. They…