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Back in 2024, ex-Lamborghini, Bugatti and Koenigsegg designer Sasha Selipanov showed us his vision for a swoopy analogue hypercar with a carbon tub, an open-gate manual gearbox and a 6.5-litre naturally aspirated V12. And now that vision is a step closer to being realised, because said V12 has been fired up for the first time.…

I recently spent the weekend at Goodwood’s secret best event. Far from the enormous crowds and lengthy toilet queues of the Festival of Speed and the faintly silly fancy dress party that is the Revival, the Goodwood Member’s Meeting is the best place on the planet to watch historic racing cars absolutely thrashed around a…

The car industry was a very different place before 1908, the year that the Ford Model T first went on sale. As the first car to crack true mass production and therefore be built at a rate that made ownership affordable, it was inevitable that demand would come from all over the world. By the…

Hang on, what’s that? Busted! You’ve not been paying attention to TopGear.com, have you? This is the Denza Z, and it was unveiled in full just last week at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Essentially, it’s an all-electric 2+2 supercar from BYD’s posh sub-brand, and while it will cost over £15,000 less than a Porsche…

Versatility is the word of the month for our GTI. In the space of a few weeks this small, everyday hatchback has served as a removal van, track car, commuter pod, mobile wardrobe, heatwave refuge and a small rolling enquiry into whether the Germans have quietly lost their German-ness. Short of crossing an Arctic tundra…

Iconic. Disruptive. Muscular haunches. Jony Ive and Marc Newson are walking TG round the Ferrari Luce when we pause to ponder the words we’d ban during dissection of a car’s design. The whole caboodle surely needs to be re-thought. Which is what Ferrari and LoveFrom have done with this, the Italian legend’s first fully electric…

You may be aware, dear reader, that some ‘football’ is currently taking place. The World Cup is in full swing and England, as we type these words, have a chance of bringing the trophy home. So as the team prepares for its quarter final against Norway, what better than a starting eleven of homemade cars…

It was always the 355. Whatever hormonal alchemy occurred in my 10 year old brain circa 1994 it was clearly quite potent, and totally irreversible. Newer Ferraris arrived with more power, faster Fiorano times, F1 tech and bold new design ideas, but none could unseat this perfect intersection of style, size and simplicity as the…

This is it, the event horizon in my car world. Once I’d clapped eyes on it, the Porsche 935/78 tractor beamed me in to a motorsport black hole I’ve never escaped from. What a stupendous looking car. I can’t remember the first time I saw it. Possibly in a tatty magazine in a dentist’s waiting…

Alpine has gone big for this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, and alongside some old F1 cars and its 1978 24 Hours of Le Mans winning A442B, it’s also showing off its future. Quite literally in fact, because what you see above is known as the Alpine A110 Future. Essentially, it’s a development mule for…