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Hang on, that’s not an i3? Ah, well it is, but not as we know it. The previous i3 was BMW’s clever little city car launched back in 2013, but despite its futuristic carbon construction and Scandi-cool interior, it only lasted a single generation. It was discontinued in 2022 just a few days after the…

1958 was the first time the championship was decided by a single point. Well, sort of. Back then F1 had a system in which a driver’s best six results over the 11-race season would count towards the standings, so Ferrari’s Mike Hawthorn was crowned champion with 42 points despite scoring 49 that year. Stirling Moss…

Ready your bucket of rotten eggs and your best pantomime boos, everyone – racing on two wheels. Hiss, boo, shame, etcetera. While we’re rather more partial to four wheels, the inconvenient truth is that people steering machines around a track by leaning off them until their limbs scrape along the ground is quite watchable.  MotoGP kicked…

The new F1 season is upon us, and the annual regulations refresh inevitably means some, shall we say, ‘interesting’ interpretations of the new rules when it comes to the cars, with aesthetics usually taking a back seat. And yes, we are aware that F1 cars only have the one. Just go with it. Has it…

The Bigster hasn’t been shy in six months in the Top Gear Garage; that’s 13,000 miles-plus of generalised abuse, airport car parks and light haulage in a household where the cars are looked after but not coddled. The oil still looks brand-new – yep, I check it regularly – and it’s used precisely not one…

M3? THERE’VE BEEN LOADS. REMIND ME… THE E46? Let’s dive into code-speak. The first M3 in 1986 – the square boxy one – was loosely based on the E30 3 Series and had a four-cylinder engine. That M3 really was a homologation special, spun off a car created for racing. Back then everyone understood M…

An engine company created by John Judd and three-time F1 champion Sir Jack Brabham will partner with JAS to reengineer the V6 in the middle of its ‘Tensei’ supercar. The Tensei, remember, is JAS’s take on the Mk1 Honda NSX. Judd of course has plenty of juicy history when it comes to building proper screamers,…

“An LFA still lives in my head as a car I’d love to own,” said Jeremy Clarkson. “They’re just pre ‘peak car’.” Speaking to the Autocar podcast, the former Top Gear and The Grand Tour presenter admitted that if he could buy anything today, he’d quite like a Lamborghini Revuelto – “astounding, so unbelievably exciting,…

The new F1 season is imminent, and like the concurrent Paris Fashion Week (which we know you’re all equally excited for, of course), the races are not just a chance to clutch at laurel wreaths, but to showcase the top secret, cutting-edge (i.e. bonkers) designs the teams have been cooking up. Thanks to changes to…

What is it? The Superleggera, Speciale, GT3 RS version of the Ascari KZ1, itself a forgotten supercar of the early 2000s backed by a wealthy Dutch businessman. The A10 upped power from the BMW M5 V8 from 500 to 625bhp and swapped the manual gearbox for a racing style sequential. Did they actually build any?…