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Four months and almost 5,000 miles later, and the big green Hyundai has returned from whence it came. Top Gear is a broad church that welcomes all, EVs to V12s, hatches to hefalump SUVs, but if we’re being honest the Ioniq 9 could be labelled as everything wrong with the modern car industry – it’s…

McLaren W1 vs Mugello: ‘one of the greatest cars we’ve ever tested’

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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…

Here’s the tech behind the brain-fryingly complex McLaren W1

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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…

Family Three: McLaren W1 vs McLaren P1 vs McLaren F1

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Bruce McLaren had road car ambitions, and the M6GT was based on the company’s wild Can-Am racecar. When he was killed during testing in 1970, the plan was suspended. Roll on 18 years, and having led the team to sustained F1 success, team boss Ron Dennis decided it was time for the ultimate road car.…

Meet the man who strapped a homemade rocket to his chest… to go sky-diving

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“In the early 1990s, I started sky diving,” recalls American pulsejet pioneer Robert Maddox. “And I was thinking, I need a jet or rocket on my chest to go faster…” That’s not a normal thought. Correct. But Maddox isn’t a normal human. Even less normal than thinking, ‘what if sky dive, but jet powered?’ is…

It’s National Dog Day: celebrate by staring at these adorable dogs in cars

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Today is National Dog Day. It is also, according to the wisdom of the internet, International Dog Day. TopGear.com is reliably informed this means it is a global day to celebrate everything associated with – that’s right! – dogs. If you have a dog, this will come as a surprise, because every day with a…

Mercedes-Benz CLA – long-term report

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I want to talk about massages. Being an awkward British man by birth, massages are the opposite of my comfort zone. What should be the epitome of a relaxing experience is actually fraught with stress and anxiety. It’s not just the blaring alarm inside my brain shrieking “A STRANGER IS TOUCHING YOU”. What if they’re…

Lotus buys 100 per cent of Lotus to become… Lotus

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Big news for fans of the word ‘Lotus’: Lotus Technology has bought 100 per cent of Lotus Advance Technologies to become… still Lotus? Yes, still Lotus. Lotus Tech – that’s the Chinese-bit of the company that builds the electric stuff – has done some hardcore bidness to acquire 100 per cent of Lotus UK (weirdly…

‘Max vs 100’ will see Verstappen race 100 go-karters… from the back of the grid

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