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This is the new BMW XX XX 5. No, not a typo. The new X5 is so proud of its status as the latest generation of BMW’s longest-lived, monumentally successful X-series vehicle, that it’s got more ‘x’s across its face than a lovestruck teen’s text history. See? XX 00 XX. Is it just us who…

Dacia has announced a sizeable price cut for its all-electric Spring that – if you ignore Citroen’s Ami quadricycle – makes it the cheapest new car you can buy in the UK today! Before the cut, Spring prices kicked off at £15,990, but we’re now told the entry level Expression Electric 70 will cost just…

The little Junior has slipped seamlessly into daily life in the TG Garage. Other than a drive system warning the very first time I switched the engine on (which was fixed using the classic IT department off-and-on-again solution), the Alfa has been good as gold. So, what’s this relatively strong-selling crossover like to live with?…

So Porsche’s electric car now has a copy of Hyundai N’s fake shift pattern? A copy of a fake sounds like an idea that deserves nothing but derision. On the other hand a good idea surely deserves to be shared. And Hyundai had a good idea. Porsche’s execution is in some ways even better. What does…

It’s the core of McLaren’s engineering monomania, despite undergoing a re-set under the new boss. The W1 also has a distinct philosophy when it comes to delivering the thing that’s increasingly difficult to find in these confusing times – pure driving exhilaration. To which end, the 1,258bhp W1 is rear-drive only and although there’s a…

Even protected by the thick padding of an FIA-approved crash helmet, the 7.0-litre V8 powering the Nichols N1A made a mighty, vivid, sometimes painful impression. With EIGHT intake trumpets just a few inches away, you don’t just hear the furious sound but feel it deep in your skull and reverberating down through your chest and…

No need for ‘Reimagined’ or ‘Remastered’ here. Honda was perfectly happy for this to have been called a Honda NSX without any trademark-swerving coyness. But the reimaginer, remasterer, remaker, revamper, reinventer, redeveloper or reinvigorator in question wanted to highlight its own name. So, JAS Tensei it is. But JAS’s boss Mads Fischer tells TopGear.com: “Honda…

The Honda NSX has returned as an expensive restomod. Can Japan’s greatest ever supercar carry off the (expensive) restomod treatment? And just how good was the original? Here are six things it got wrong – possibly fixed by that JAS Tensei remaster. And start your shouting in three… two… one… 1. Slip and slide  Handling…

Might be legs in this whole ‘put modern eyes on old cars’ business. Ian Callum’s design consultancy – handily titled Callum Designs – has revealed its latest creation based on something called ‘XJ220’. It’s the latest Callum ‘portfolio project’, meant as a design study showcasing what Ian Callum’s design consultancy is capable of. We already…

16 minutes 50 seconds Is Toyota about to save the sportscar? Maybe. A bit. Allow us to present the mad, mid-engined Toyota GR Yaris. You’ll know the GR Yaris traditionally has its engine in the nose, but this be no traditional GR Yaris, because it’s a testbed for a future mid-engined sportscar. Two of ’em,…