Tag: topgear.com

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If we learned nothing else about shooting zombies in the dark over the last 25 years, we learned this much: fidelity is the enemy of atmosphere. However crisp and clear modern Resident Evil has become, however bouncy Leon’s hair might be as it swishes to and fro while he runs from the recently un-unalived in the remakes,…

Whatever happened to this little-known 6.6-litre V8 diesel supercar?

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What is it? Underneath a part Weismann, part 1990s TVR-looking body, it’s 2005’s sports car of the future: powered by diesel. Remember diesel? Remember Trident? Well, one’s a low CO2 fuel with exceptional torque and range, and the other is a defunct British sports car maker revived in the late 1990s. Did they build any?…

Toyota GR Yaris Aero Performance vs VW Golf GTI Edition 50: the stats

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We pit the buzzy new Toyota GR Yaris Aero Performance against the ‘buttoned-up’ Volkswagen Golf GTI Edition 50: two hot hatches that ask big money for a few small tweaks. You’ve read the twin test: now swot up on each car’s stats (Yaris on the left, Golf on the right). Price: £49,145 OTR (£49,145 as…

Audi A6 Sportback e-Tron – long-term review

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There’s a small silver piece of trim at the base of the windscreen of our Audi A6 Sportback e-tron. It announces that this car is fitted with the fancy Bang and Olufsen ‘Sound and vision system’, a £2,895 option. However, it’s a pretty good representation of this entire car. Can you guess what happens on…

Racing Lagoon is a classic PS1 Japanese racing game you’ve never heard of

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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…

13 used family cars for a lot less than Audi’s new £100k Q9

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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…

Loched and loaded: Lamborghini Temerario vs Porsche 911 Turbo S

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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…

‘Not daft enough’: this transforming roadster concept was a fail, and here’s why

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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…

BMW iX3 50 xDrive M Sport – long-term review

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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…

There’s a new Supervan, and it’s a 2.5-litre Audi RS3-engined VW Transporter

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