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Woah! A fast Corsa? It is indeed. We’ve not had a bona fide Vauxhall Corsa hot hatch since the old VXR retired back in 2018. It did so with a gloriously old-school attitude to ride, handling and performance, its 1.6-litre petrol engine driving the front wheels through a manual ‘box and rugged little diff. This…

Even these days, very few racing games attempt to tell an actual story. Usually it’s up to you to concoct your own bitter rivalry with whichever fictional driver sits above you in the championship standings. Back in the late 1990s though, when anything seemed possible, Japanese developer Square Enix attempted to blend street racing with…

Audi has just priced its leviathan new Q9. A car ostensibly designed for the American market, it’s sized as such, packing three-row seating (American English for ‘it’s a seven seater’) into its enormous 5.3m-long frame. It’s the biggest Audi of all time – and to no one’s shock, one of the most expensive too. Prices…

The Porsche leads. The Lambo follows. Both historically and literally. It leads because it instigated the whole ‘daily supercar’ thing, and because if it follows, its windscreen will have been turned into a map of the cosmos within a few hundred yards. What rule has Lamborghini dodged to leave so much of the rear tyre…

The problem with the Presto wasn’t that it was too daft. It wasn’t daft enough. The unmistakable handiwork of the Swiss mavericks at Rinspeed, it attempted to solve that age-old riddle of ‘small car, easy to park/big car, fits more people’ with the aid of an ingenious extending wheelbase. Yep, it stretched. A central electric…

I’m aware that, despite it being our reigning Car of the Year, the iX3’s had a bit of tough time on TG’s fleet so far. So let’s keep that going, as there are some other faults to discuss… The head-up display – part of the £1,700 Technology Plus Pack, which also includes the (good) three-zone…

A company that specialises in customising Volkswagen’s venerable Transporter has revealed plans to make a ballistic, limited-edition performance van using Audi power. Welcome to the new ‘Supervan’. It intends to do this by injecting the 2.5-litre, multi-award-winning five-cylinder powerhaus from an RS3 into a T6.1 base, thus creating a very unique way of transporting humans…

You have to feel sorry for anyone else making a videogame right now. The 27 minute long Grand Theft Auto 6 ‘Extended Look’ is now available to watch on YouTube and Rockstar’s website after its Netflix debut and, after 13 years of development and a virtually unlimited budget, frankly, it makes every other videogame ever…

McLaren has parked its new tank on Ferrari’s lawn. Metaphorically speaking. Although Mugello is nestled in crazy beautiful Tuscan countryside, our W1 is currently cooling its heels in the pitlane, and if we end up on the grass round here, something will have gone badly wrong. Amusingly, some opera strikes up at high volume outside…

ELECTRIC BOOST The E-module inside the W1 consists of a radial flux e-motor similar to the sort used in F1 that can spin to 24,000rpm, weighs just 20kg, and adds 342bhp. It’s coupled to a motor control unit and fed by a 1.384kWh battery.  Housed in a cavity within the W1’s monocoque, it’s fully protected…