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Here it is, folks: the hotly anticipated Peugeot e-208 GTi has been revealed in production form for the very first time. Ooh! Ahh! Etcetera. The little electric hot hatch was unveiled as a concept on the eve of the 24 Hours of Le Mans last year, and now the 2026 edition of the race is upon…

As if you need to ask. This is Top Gear royalty, a status earned through its remarkable ability to repeatedly cheat death, as it did in a series of cruel and gratuitous punishments on TGTV more than 20 years ago. Now in its ninth generation, this new Toyota Hilux soldiers on like the previous eight…

Here’s TopGear.com’s roving correspondent, Cory Spondent, with his weekly, mostly incorrect exclusives from the world of motoring An image of a Reliant Robin toppled over onto its side has been shortlisted to appear on future UK banknotes, according to sources. Following the announcement that historical figures would be replaced by a selection of native British…

Has the Internet stopped debating the Ferrari Luce yet? Nope? Well, how about a tempting little diversion. The first fully electric car from Maranello has tore comments sections asunder, primarily with its design, but there’s also a wee bit of chatter around its price. You shouldn’t expect change from half a million pounds with even…

Father’s Day, the internet sagely opines, is a day where you honour your father, the very concept of fatherhood itself, and indeed the influence of fathers in wider society. Most people accomplish this by purchasing discounted windscreen wash and a packet of strong mints from the petrol station for their chosen paternal influence, and that’s…

The foot high step down wasn’t obvious, seeing as it was already under three feet of water. But as the bonnet of the Munro submarines and the car starts to float with all four wheels now operating as rotary paddles rather than gripping the mucky lakebed, there’s a flash of regret, widened eyes and immediate…

It may have been mighty clever in design and mighty popular with the public, but even after 14 years of production British Leyland admitted in 1973 that it was losing money on each Mini. Still, it got new customers into the brand and broke even when spare parts were taken into account. Another car that…

Audi CEO Gernot Döllner had a 23-year career at Porsche before returning to the mothership and then taking the reins at Audi. One of the projects he ran at Weissach was the 918 Spyder, a concept version of which appeared at the Geneva show in 2010. That was cooked up in almost total secrecy by…

Has Bentley built a GT3? Well, no. However, the Supersports is pretty hardcore and more of a GT3 than the 2015 GT3 R, weirdly enough. It’ the first car developed entirely under the stewardship of Dr Frank-Steffen Walliser, formerly of Porsche, and said to be a statement of intent. Bentley will iterate the Continental GT…

Having fielded a grand prix team for the first time since the 1930s, Audi is aiming to feed off that buzz with a 1,001bhp supercar. To connect those dots, it’s named the Nuvolari, after Tazio Nuvolari. probably the greatest driver of that era, and sometime pilot of those snorting supercharged V12 Auto Union Type D…