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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…

Well, wow. Honda has cancelled the development and release of the wedgy 0 Series saloon and SUV, along with the Acura RSX EV, because… well, just wow. So many reasons. And Honda hasn’t pulled any punches nor hidden behind any corporate speak. Indeed, the Japanese carmaker is astonishingly frank about its current predicament. It said…

Named after the gorgeous bit of coastline nestled in southwest Italy, and now built to enjoy every sun-kissed, cliched metre of it: welcome to the delectable new Ferrari Amalfi Spider. Cool name, cool (literally) car. You’ll need only the basics: a 3.9-litre twin-turbo V8 nestled in the front and pushed as far back as possible,…

Rivian is ramping up. Rapidly. Last month, we drove the new all-electric R2 in pre-production form, and now we know how much it’s going to cost. In America, at least – and it makes for compelling reading. The R2 Performance arrives in Launch Package form at $57,990 (£43,170 at the current exchange rate, but you…

The V10 engine in a Lexus LFA revs from idle to the red line in just 0.6 of a second. That’s so fast, the engineers had to fit a digital rev-counter because a conventional needle couldn’t keep up. Toyota says that, for perfect handling, 52 per cent of the weight should be over the rear…

The Mk2 Volkswagen Golf GTI is excellent. Also a bit of a cliché, if we’re honest. So much so, TopGear.com is almost one per cent certain its status as peak hot hatch stretches all the way back to the ‘father of history’ himself, good old Herodotus. Speaking of rare Greeks, here’s a lesser-known way to…

And so to the third part of what Toyota is calling ‘The Trinity’: after the GR GT and the GT GT3 comes this Lexus LFA Concept. The car previously known as the Lexus Sports Concept in what was probably the worst kept secret in… well, ever. There’s also been confirmation that the car is a…

Good news: the Electric Car Grant has returned! As surely everyone is thinking, ain’t no party like an ECG party. And like all good ECG parties, this one comes with fun like: rules! Stipulations! Eligibility criteria! The government of the United Kingdom has introduced two bands in order to obtain this ECG: Band 1, which…

Motorways and major trunk roads are known collectively as the “strategic road network”. A BBC report tells me that the SRN accounts for two per cent of England’s roads by mileage, but carries a third of all traffic ­and two-thirds of all freight. That’s some food for thought. A banquet, in fact. The M25 is…

“Volkswagen will transfer more established names to the electric portfolio with each new model generation,” was the line that VW trotted out when it announced late last year that its ID.2all concept would make production as the ID. Polo. And yet, it seems that all of that sensibleness has already been thrown in the bin,…