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Look away now if you think Aston Martins should be the ultimate in refined, gentlemanly, understated elegance. Go stare at a Vanquish instead. This the new Aston Martin Valen, and it’s here for the people who looked at the Vanquish and thought, ‘nope, that’s too beautiful’. Because the Valen looks brutal, all slatted aero up…

Keen Porsche slantnose enthusiasts will keenly remember that in May 2025, Porsche registered ‘Flachbau’ and ‘Flachbau RS’ with the European Patent Office. The one-off, dreamy special above is why: this is the – surprise! – Flachbau RS. It’s an owner’s 991.2 911 GT2 RS – already a formidable machine – transformed by Porsche’s in-house dreamworks…

Earlier this year, three Land Rover Defenders equipped solely with V8s and bravery managed to finish 1st, 2nd and 4th in the new ‘Stock’ class of the 2026 Dakar Rally. Today, Land Rover has revealed you can buy a road-legal version of that very car. Welcome then, to the Defender Dakar: a Defender, honed in…

Road Fighter was not, as it sounds, the more ambitious sequel to Street Fighter, but instead an early top-down arcade racer from Konami. While it wasn’t the first game to represent driving from the dizzying perspective of a passing bird, Road Fighter’s astonishing sensation of speed certainly made it one of the more challenging. It…

The Midlands in February isn’t great. Happy roads turned slick by winter and bitter by potholes, grey mizzle that sticks to waterproof coats and strokes damp fingers down the back of necks. But there’s redemption in the shape of small cars with slightly more power than the usual; chuckable, usable hatches that don’t cost the…

I’ve always believed that some cars are perfect almost by accident. Of course, the teams behind them wanted them to be perfect and knew what they were doing. But I maintain that somehow these rare machines deliver more than the sum of their parts and have a strange alchemy that’s as much by accident and…

After nine months, many thousands of miles, several trips to Europe, countless days acting as chase car to the latest hypercar being filmed for Top Gear’s YouTube channel and hence covered in mounting brackets and cameras, I’ve concluded that every household needs a Cupra Leon Estate VZ. It’s just so damn useful: just fast enough,…

This is the new Koenigsegg CCGT1, and trying to comprehend the conflicting messages might fry your brain quicker than attempting to work out exactly how CvK’s nine-speed manual ‘box operates. It is a road car. With ten times the power of ordinary road cars. Built primarily for use on a racetrack. That celebrates a racing…

Here’s TopGear.com’s roving correspondent, Cory Spondent, with his mostly incorrect exclusives from the world of motoring A motorist traveling across Europe in a cheap rental car has set a new world record for driving on two wheels without realising it. The motorist – who was just trying to get back to their rented villa in…

Even the blindest optimist wasn’t expecting the Nitro – launched in Britain in 2006 – to be a smash hit. Chrysler’s UK offerings of the period had set the bar very low indeed. But, like a champion limbo dancer, the Nitro eyed that low, low bar… and somehow managed to dip lower still. Dodge claimed…