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You might recognise the Zenvo name from the TSR-S supercar – a brutal-looking thug of a thing with a 5.8-litre twin-supercharged V8 and a multi-axis centripetal rear wing that tipped and twirled according to the steering wheel position. Internet catnip, seeing as it also produced 1,177bhp – which was headgasket worrying in 2018. But there’s…

A group of very talented people will drive a very complicated and powerful car across someone’s garden this weekend. To anyone heading to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, buckle up: the RB17 is entering the Earth’s atmosphere. Having spent a while floating in the digital, concept, and design realms, Adrian Newey’s spaceship will finally make…

Welcome to the prettiest new car you’ll see for a while. It’s called the Bizzarrini 5300 Aperta Lusso, and as you can see, there’s nothing really ‘new’ about it. Chiefly because it was originally a 1960s concept imagined by Giotto Bizzarrini and Giorgetto Giugiaro – two lightly talented Italians – as an answer to the…

BYD has announced that its Shark pickup is coming to the UK and Europe, with prices on our shores starting at a not insignificant £47,290 including VAT. You do get quite a bit for your cash though, including a ‘Super Hybrid’ powertrain that pairs a 1.5-litre turbo four-pot with two electric motors and a hefty…

Most of us don’t realise or admit it, but part of identifying with one sports car manufacturer or another is wrapped up in its history. Ferrari is the ultimate example: Enzo, the fearsome racer-turned-constructor with an unquenchable thirst for victory, a fascination only with the most talented drivers and a disdain for aerodynamics and the…

This is the HSR Manufaktur Type 859. It is a new car, obviously. A new car built to honour a really rather old one that must have slipped right through the net when it came to documenting automotive history, because…  Audi Sport Quattro SWB, anyone? We jest, of course. That 1984 classic – a stone…

Scandinavian style brings to mind many things: sensibly engineered cars, minimalist wooden furniture, chunky knit jumpers. But probably not watches, and there is a good reason for that. In the early 1800s, much of central Europe was industrialising fast, meaning a growing market for cutting edge tech like watches. But Sweden, Norway and Denmark were…

Well would you look at that: Ferrari has brought back the manual gearbox. With two large caveats, of course. First there’s a faintly staggering leap in price for the 12Cilindri supercar involved. Second is the fact it’s actually an eight-speed DCT that’s supplemented by a clutch pedal (with 599 GTB weight) and a classic open-gate stick. Lovely idea,…

First question in my head before I bought the i8: it’s a ten year old hybrid, there’s a lot to go wrong, what do I need to be wary of? Type that question into Google and AI will happily feed you every forum horror story. But I have a better solution. Matt Fisher is a…

Here’s TopGear.com’s roving correspondent, Cory Spondent, with his weekly, mostly incorrect exclusives from the world of motoring Cadillac have been controversially promoted to the top of the Formula One constructors’ championship following an ‘extraordinary’ high profile intervention, sources have told TopGear.com. The fledgling American F1 team, currently languishing at the bottom of the standings in…