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It’s customary in running reports of EVs to bellyache about range and charging. In the Polestar 4 they’re perfectly satisfactory. I mean, 290 miles is enough for me, and after all most 500bhp+ petrol saloons don’t have a very long range either. I’ve never suffered a failed charge. I have absolutely no desire for it…

The fastest JCB ever. May not sound like much of a boast, until you learn the JCB Hydromax has just posted a land speed record of 406.320mph on the famous Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. It is now officially the fastest hydrogen powered car ever and fastest zero emission car ever, having scorched across the…

It started with a clock. Not just any old clock – a detachable mechanical time-piece made by Louis Vuitton. You might have heard of it: LVMH is the luxury goods world’s most valuable company, its owner, Bernard Arnault, Europe’s richest man. He’s a classier dude than Elon. This is not an organisation known for being…

Alpine quotes a sizeable 345-mile range for its mid-spec A390 GT, which on the face of it sounds like a solid reserve of energy that can be used to enjoy the myriad boons this big blue spaceship offers. Of course, TopGear.com’s particular A390 GT isn’t really ‘mid-spec’ anymore, because it’s wearing around £11k worth of…

The Puma is a small crossover based on the Fiesta (RIP), a car we liked very much. The styling is softer than the previous era of Fords, with gently curved sides sitting below a waistline that’s visually lengthened by a black strip at the base of the screen pillar. This draws your eye back horizontally from…

This is called, quite simply, the ‘V12 Roadster’, largely because a) it has a V12, and b) it’s very much a roadster. It’s been built by a company called Eccentrica, which specialises in restoring and updating Lamborghini’s Nineties leviathan into something worth over a million quid. We do not yet know how much this’ll go…

Perhaps the messaging wasn’t clear enough. Maybe you were too distracted by the Germans and Italians. Perchance you were too busy living vivid and deleting ordinary. In short, Jaguar is building a shiny new EV. Previously called ‘Type 00‘, it shall in fact be called the ‘Type 01’ – representing a fresh start for the…

You missed the launch of Aion in the UK earlier this year, didn’t you? You’re completely forgiven, because it was yet another Chinese brand arriving with a bland electric crossover. Boo. Things might be starting to get a little more interesting for the GAC-owned firm though, because it has just confirmed orders are set to…

This is the eighth-gen Vauxhall Astra. Some have been pretty good cars for their eras, others absolute donkeys. So past form is no guide to future performance. Besides, this is the first Astra to have been developed in Vauxhall-Opel’s post-GM era. This means it has a lot in common with the Peugeot 308 and the DS…

This year’s MotoGP race at Silverstone was fought on the absolute ragged edge. You didn’t need a graphical overlay full of battery deployment meters to see it, because the way Marco Bezzecchi walked onto the podium – very slowly, utterly depleted, helped by an Aprilia team member under each arm – amply demonstrated it instead.…