Tag: topgear.com
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Here’s every single F1 champion in history
Wins: 5 from 33 starts Wins: 13 from 31 starts Wins: 24 from 51 starts Wins: 3 from 45 starts Wins: 3 from 48 starts Wins: 6 from 111 starts Wins: 25 from 72 starts Wins: 14 from 126 starts Wins: 8 from 112 starts Wins: 8 from 176 starts Wins: 6 from 60 starts…
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10 of the best racing drivers to have never won an F1 title
Well, who else would we start with? During his career, Moss accumulated 16 wins in just 66 races, which to this day is more than anyone else to have never won a championship. He finished runner-up in the Drivers’ Championship four times, and third on three other occasions. The closest he came to winning the…
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Get ready for spring with these 17 convertible used classics for under £30k
Buying an affordable cabriolet used to be simple. Point yourself at any mainstream car dealer and they’d have several dinky drop-tops for sale. Remember the Megane CC, Micra C+C or Cascada? All banished by the rise of the crossover, with only the Mazda MX-5 and Mini Convertible left with a list price below £30,000 and…
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GMA T.50s Niki Lauda review: more power, less mass, more aero…
Wibble… Exactly! This is the GMA T.50s Niki Lauda and it’s enough to make us go weak at the knees. Gordon Murray says this isn’t a ‘version’ of the T.50 supercar, but rather a parallel design and development programme around the same basic bones but with a very different brief. The T.50s is a track-only…
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Surprise! The new Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door’s interior is dominated by screens
Mercedes-AMG is preparing a fully electric GT-style four-door performance coupe called the Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe. Snappy title, likely head-snapping performance, if the Concept AMG GT XX that previewed it is anything to go by. And today, we learn the inside of this shiny, electric AMG is absolutely dominated by screens. Two of them. No,…
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Resident Evil Requiem review: a perfectly formed virtual page turner
Raccoon City survivors are dying in mysterious circumstances. A young FBI agent returns to the hotel where her mother was murdered eight years ago and learns she’s being stalked. A pallid chap wearing too many spectacles at once is turning people undead as he walks past them in the street. And all we can think…
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This is the new, facelifted Cupra Born, and it’ll cost between £36k-£46k
Bjorn Again are an Abba tribute band. Born again is a life-changing spiritual concept. This is simply the Born. Again. Cupra has given its electric hatch a mid-life go-over. It was already a pretty good hatch, so much of the effort has gone where it was most needed, the cabin materials, ergonomics and connectivity. Outside,…
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New TG mag out now: an 849 Testarossa… or three used Ferraris plus change?
Considering dropping just over £400,000 on a new Ferrari 849 Testarossa? Hold your horses there, because we’ve got a rather tempting proposition instead. You’ll need to pick up the latest issue of Top Gear magazine for the full details, but the headline is if you dare to delve into the classifieds, you could have a…
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This is Xiaomi’s vision of a swoopy all-electric hypercar
The latest car company invited to design a Vision Gran Turismo concept car… isn’t actually a car company at all. Yep, this is the Xiaomi Vision Gran Turismo, and its makers are particularly proud of the fact that this is “the first time a technology company has been invited to join the elite Vision Gran…
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MotoGP 26 launches 29 April with a “rider-based handling system” and production bikes
As sure as the first glimpse of daffodils marks the end of another brutal meteorological assault by British winter time, this is the time of the year when a new MotoGP game is announced. Both happenings get the same neural pathway in our brain firing: the one that says, ah, that’ll be nice. MotoGP 26 is…