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On 1 April 2025, BMW announced an ‘M2 Dakar’ and an ‘M3 Touring GT3 Evo’, the latter described as ‘garage born, track approved and ready to race’. It was, of course, an April Fools’ joke. A BMW estate with a massive wing built to go racing? Madness! Only, the joke’s on us. Because on 16…

‘Road testing’ is a curious skill. It’s the heartland of what we do at Top Gear, because we like cars, you do too, and we want to tell you about the most interesting ones – hopefully in an amusing way. Our assessments are static and dynamic too, because fitness-for-purpose means how the seats fold in…

On 1 April 2025, BMW announced an ‘M2 Dakar’ and an ‘M3 Touring GT3 Evo’, the latter described as ‘garage born, track approved and ready to race’. It was, of course, an April Fools’ joke. A BMW estate with a massive wing built to go racing? Madness! Only, the joke’s on us. Because on 16…

It looks like SUV drivers in London could be hit with extra charges to drive in the capital, with a TfL report suggesting that “without action to address oversized and heavier vehicles, more people will be seriously injured or killed”. It’s all part of the mayor of London’s Vision Zero action plan, which was first…

There’s a price war brewing in the admittedly rather niche seven-seat plug-in hybrid SUV market, and perhaps unsurprisingly it’s the Chinese carmakers that are leading the way. You see, this is the new MG S9 PHEV, and at £34,205 it undercuts the similarly-sized Chery Tiggo 9 by almost £9,000. For reference, it’s also very nearly…

Yes, that headline is accurate. Somewhere out there in the world there’s a petri dish full of human brain bits that’s able to play seminal 1993 shooter Doom. No, we don’t know what to do with that information either. This disquieting news was made possible by the Cortical Labs and their CL1 computer – commercially available…

This wasn’t just a single car, more like a series of experimental fantasy/tech wedges made in the late Sixties/early Seventies. The first used Wankel rotary engines and had revolutionary aero, gullwing doors and sophisticated (for the time) multi-link suspension, but they looked more like engineering prototypes than any kind of concept.   Another Seventies canopy-bodied slice…

Should you need evidence of how awash the Nineties were with impossibly good-looking coupes wearing everyday badges, look no further. This was Volvo long before its £100k electric SUV glow-up. Thus, the arrival in its showrooms of an Ian Callum-penned, TWR-engineered two-door – motivated by five-cylinder power, no less – bordered on the shocking back…

Remember when Captain Slow very briefly held the world speed record for a production road car? Back in 2010, James strapped himself into the then-new Veyron Super Sport at Ehra-Lessien and hit a barnstorming top speed of 259mph, only for Bugatti test driver Pierre Henri Raphanel to go out a couple of hours later and…

The Roma was no one’s favourite Ferrari. Oh, it was knuckle gnawingly beautiful, if you could accept the weird holepunched colour coded grille. Exceedingly fast. Unique in the Prancing Horse stable: the first ever front engined V8 coupe from Maranello.  And the Ferrari you were most likely to actually own, partly because it was (at…