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New cars really are expensive these days, aren’t they? The entry level Ford is a £25k Puma and an Abarth 500e starts at just under £28k. Heck, even the Dacia Sandero will now set you back almost £15,000. Oh, and this Range Rover just cost its new owner over £1m. Yeesh. This is in fact…

F1 is weird, Exhibit 8,439,172: after postponing the Bahrain Grand Prix in April because of things, er, getting out of hand in the Middle East, the race has been rescheduled… thousands of miles away in Sepang. No, really. The race formerly known as the Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix will now be called…

This is an old car once owned by a man who made really fast ones. It’s a 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe – one of only six ever made – that spent a considerable amount of time in the custody of the man who designed it. That’d be Carroll Shelby. It’s news because – surprise!…

How far has the humble hybrid developed in a quarter of a century? To find out, I invented a time machine and went back to the early 2000s. Unfortunately, there was an altercation with a fighty gilet lad and this eccentric scientist who was too old to believably be his mate and to cut a…

This rather well-presented trio of timepieces is the Top Time Chronograph B01 Tribute To Aston Martin DB5 collection, and – well, the clue’s in the name here. Back in 1965 Sean Connery fundamentally completed looking cool in Thunderball with his Aston Martin DB5 and Breitling Top Time vehicle and watch combo, and with the Swiss…

The Range Rover GT was designed by a team under previous JLR chief creative officer Gerry McGovern. It was hugely influenced by previous head of exterior design Massimo Frascella. Those two have now departed. On the day the company released the first photo of the GT, TopGear.com asked Range Rover MD Martin Limpert about succession.…

Tokyo Highway Battle PlayStation/Saturn, 1996 It took a while for the Shutokou Battle series to make it to the West, where it tends to release under the title Tokyo Xtreme Racer. While lucky Japanese players had been gorging themselves on races along Tokyo’s elevated expressways since the Super Nintendo era, it was Shutokou Battle: Drift…

Summer has firmly established itself this year, our evenings consistently long and sunny. But forget burning a few sausages in the back garden as you sip a tepid lager – the best way to embrace our sprawling hours of daylight is on circuit. Dozens of Great British venues offer trackdays and evenings; all you need…

Ford has signed a deal with Geely to allow the Chinese manufacturer to build two ‘sleek electric SUVs’ in its factory in Valencia. Once approved, the joint venture will secure the future of Ford’s Spanish plant, which has capacity to build 500,000 vehicles per year but currently only sticks together the Kuga. As well as…

Liberty Walk isn’t a company afraid of ruffling a few feathers. Over the years, legendary tuner Wataru Kato has controversially angle-ground, riveted and body-kitted his way through everything from Ferrari F40s to Lamborghini Miuras, and even Nissan Skylines for Lando Norris. But now he’s entering new territory, and possibly his most controversial one yet: Formula…