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Here’s a fun game: if you had to pick a three-car garage from this mega collection of Mercedes youngtimers, which cars would you go for? Before you get stuck into the comments down below though, you should probably know that all 40 of these cars are actually heading up for auction next month, so if…

Spun off from the main Continental sedan in 1956, the Lincoln Mark series began as an elegant coupe and then spent several generations getting steadily more gaudy and tasteless. That downward trend arguably reached its zenith with the arrival of the Mark IV in 1971, which clumsily blended throwback styling cues like opera windows and…

The best-selling car in all of China, which buys more new cars than any other nation on earth. Over there, it’s called the Xingyuan, which means something close to ‘star-wish’. It’s now on sale in Europe, where it’s called the E2. And in Britain, where it’s called EX2, for some reason. Maybe Geely gets a…

Estate cars have been a stalwart of the car world for almost a century; first introduced via aftermarket add-ons to morph a Ford Model T into a workhorse, the bougier, more family-friendly wagon really got into business in the 1930s. But while their immediate impression is of something more sensible and practical than a standard…

Why haven’t plug-in hybrids swept to power on Planet Car? They’ve got so much in their arsenal: an e-motor for stealth in sleepy hamlets, cheap-ish local electric travel, a trusty tank of petrol for the long haul when you need it, and usually a deep well of torque for combating… well, the armada of Jaecoos…

Just slipping in under the $30,000 limit (and bounding over it once you factor in taxes, destination charges and what not), the Outlander is the cheapest seven-seater car you can buy in the US right now. This latest version, which shares its bones with the Nissan Rogue, is the best one yet, although it’s no…

Porsche. For the past seven decades, the name has represented engineering excellence. Even Stuttgart’s most workaday offers have always been imbued with genuine dynamic depth, the sense they were created by folk with a pathological obsession for mechanical integrity and driving excitement. Then again, the C88. Yes, this bulbous wart you see before you is…

Although I take great delight in the fact that I managed to steal Charlie’s Cupra – he’s Top Gear’s head of video and owner of thousands of clamps, suction cups, tripods and an unhealthy number of cameras – I do feel a little guilty, too. Partly that’s because he’s now driving a DS something or other…

Oorah! Sounds like Cadillac and Aston Martin might have some competition in the ‘best sounding Hypercar’ stakes at Le Mans next year, because we’ve just heard Ford’s new naturally aspirated V8 fire up in situ for the first time. Go on, have a little listen by playing that video below (although we’d advise skipping to…

Looks amazing, but what does a pushrod V8-powered sportscar have to do with F1? It really does look amazing, doesn’t it? Plus, the N1A has a hand-built LS7-based 7.0-litre V8 with 700bhp hooked-up to the stunning six-speed manual gearbox from the first generation Audi R8 V10. The shifter is on the right sill, too. Which gives real…