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The world appears to love the new Toyota GR GT. I love it, too. A front engine, rear drive, twin turbocharged V8 powered supercar that channels the Lexus LFA and calls to mind the fabulous Mercedes-AMG SLS Black Series. As I write this column, the Top Gear video presented by my magnificently hirsute colleague Tom…

“It was clear we were losing our core.” Volkswagen CEO Thomas Schäfer is not mincing his words. “VW has always been about cars that became part of people’s lives: reliable, easy to understand. Yes, geopolitics, supply chains and competition [had an effect], but we also had to change our own mindset.” Speaking at a VW…

There’s a lot to like about Screamer, out this week on PlayStation, Xbox and PC. First and foremost, it’s a bold, novel take on arcade racing, the likes of which we haven’t seen attempted for some time. Inspired by classic Japanese anime movies, including the truly phenomenal Redline (which you should seek out immediately), Screamer…

The Pinto arrived in 1971 having been rushed through production in twenty-five months, roughly half the industry standard. It showed. In rear-end crash tests, the Pinto’s fuel tank proved vulnerable to rupture at relatively modest speeds — a flaw that would later become infamous. A fix was possible, and inexpensive. Internal Ford documents, later made…

This instalment’s next big thing is actually a little thing – the E-car. That’s the European Commission’s new category of small affordable electric cars. They’ll be restricted in size and performance, which in itself makes them cheaper, but also they’ll be allowed to go without some of the expensive safety and motorway driver-assist tech that…

Good news for those among you who despise a well-crafted performance tyre: Mercedes-AMG has today confirmed a new Black Series GT will arrive, bringing back one of the wildest badges in the car world. And to prove just how wild, it’ll serve as a homologation car for a future Mercedes-AMG GT3 racing car. It’ll be…

Well, it was only a matter of time. No, not that the bright yellow thing in the sky we’ve all been treated to recently would disappear, but the news Mercedes’ facelifted S-Class would receive the Maybach glow up. Taste police, where you at? So, from the top. Or rather, outside, where the Maybach grille is…

There is a lazy shorthand in sport that greatness is only measured by titles. F1, however, has always rewarded those who look a little closer, and if you do that with Max Verstappen’s 2025 campaign, a compelling case emerges. This may have been his finest season yet, even without the championship trophy, because 2025 asked…

What is it? An attempt by a chap called Scott Devon to swoop on the defunct MkII Dodge Viper, buy up the production rights and continue selling it clothed in a carbon body by Swedish designer Daniel Paulin. Did they build any? Two were constructed, using a tuned 650bhp 8.4-litre V10. The red car, kitted out…

You’re probably more accustomed to exacting two-wheeled racing sims from Italian studio Milestone than anime-infused, futuristic arcade car races. It’s been at the helm of the MotoGP series since 2013, but its earliest release as Graffiti Games in 1995 was a rip-roaring racer named, er, Screamer. This 2026 spiritual sequel does share some DNA with that debut.…