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You’ll never guess what – there’s been some actual GTA 6 news. Not the kind of convoluted nonsense you keep seeing on your news feed, but significant new info from developer Rockstar detailing all the preorder bonus items in its Vintage Vice City pack, and in the Ultimate Edition. Let’s start with the latter. Preorders don’t go…

We’re big fans of Volkswagen’s reborn Type 2, and while we were forced to wait for it, a couple of years after launch the German carmaker released a long-wheelbase version, with room for up to seven passengers. Finally, the proper MPV we’d all been waiting for. Measuring almost five metres head to tail – up…

Here’s TopGear.com’s roving correspondent, Cory Spondent, with his mostly incorrect exclusives from the world of motoring Inspired by the success of in-game drinks breaks at the FIFA World Cup, Formula One has announced it will introduce mandatory driver hydration stops every four laps at this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix. After roughly five minutes of intense…

Did you know that every single example worldwide of the current BMW M2 is built in Mexico? As one of the three host nations, that’d give the littlest M car a real home advantage in the Car World Cup, especially given the relatively easy competition it’s drawn for the group stages. A stronger South Korean…

A long time ago in a boardroom far away, some quite clever game developers dreamed up a racing game to coincide with the release of 1999’s summer blockbuster, Star Wars Episode 1: The Discarded Jar-Jar Binks Lunchbox. That game was so good that, we are left to infer, the industry agreed that it shouldn’t even…

This is the Skoda Peaq. No, we do not know what it means – ‘peak’ but misspelt because Sqoda? – but we know what it means. It’s the biggest, most spacious Skoda ever built, designed to accommodate several human beings, a massive battery and many other important SUV things. “This is the ultimate Peaq!” said…

Land Rover Classic now offers two new bodystyles for those wanting a restomodded Classic Defender V8. So, in addition to the 90 Station Wagon, 90 Soft Top and 110 Station Wagon already available for an extortionate amount of money, you can now also have a 110 Double Cab Pick-Up or a 90 Hard Top. Looks…

Good news! A friendly-looking, practical, Citroen-badged MPV will return! Sort of! Citroen boss Xavier Chardon confirmed to TopGear.com that the French carmaker with a long history in friendly-looking, practical, Citroen-badged MPVs is looking at how to bring the best bits of the brilliant ELO concept into some sort of production life. “It’ll be the inspiration…

It starts with the title. Think about the choice of words there: over the road racing. Over it. In any other game, you’d expect the eponymous Big Rigs to race right on the road surface, as they do in the real world, tyres making actual contact with the tarmacadam beneath them. But check your game box,…

Citroen is making a new electric car using the name and inspiration from one of its most famous old ones. Makes sense in a world of rebigulated Renault 5s and Mini Coopers and Ford Capris and Vauxhall Fronteras and so on. Because with over a century’s worth of heritage just sitting there collecting dust, the…