Tag: topgear.com
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Seven videogame vehicles ranked by sheer practicality
If there’s one trait that’s uncommon among the lead characters of videogames, it’s just quietly getting on with it. These are a showy bunch, just as likely to save the world as they are to pause and kiss their bicep before doing so. So when it comes to picking a trademark mode of transport, their…
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‘Weirdly soothing’: play ‘Car Service Together’ if you’ve got nothing better to do
Another addition to the burgeoning video game genre of ‘you do someone’s job, only you don’t get paid’, Car Service Together’s unique selling point is that you can rope up to three friends into the unpaid labour as well. This is broadly similar to the other car servicing games, only this time you can bicker…
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Rebuilding a classic BMW M635 CSI: keep it original, or make it a track monster?
Don’t be afraid of buying the £10k project car. That £30k will be the best £50k you’ve ever spent. As internet memes go, this latest one cuts painfully deep and may as well be embossed in my E24’s door sills as a permanent reminder. However, on a more positive note, I now have a complete…
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Celebrate England’s green and pleasant lands with these ‘Heritage Edition’ Aston Martins
Well, this has got us feeling all patriotic. Check out this collection of five bespoke Aston Martin sports cars finished in classic colours from the marque’s back catalogue. Christened the ‘Heritage Editions’, they were created by Aston’s Q division but commissioned by Aston Martin Newport Beach. Wait… what? Yep, they’re American. Still, nothing more British…
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This Chinese Defender clone undercuts Land Rover’s seven-seat 110 by more than £20k
As evidenced by the number of Jaecoo 7s on the road right now, UK buyers clearly aren’t put off by the ‘Temu Range Rover’ tag. And now it looks like BYD wants a slice of Land Rover’s homemade, artisanal steak and kidney pie, because it has just announced pricing and full details for its new…
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Someone’s made a Chrysler Crossfire into a… $300k Mercedes Gullwing
Few will have forgotten Top Gear’s opinion on the 2004 Chrysler Crossfire, not least because once you’ve heard what Clarkson said about the unique styling of that two-seater – a dog doing its business – you can never unsee it. An American tuner has wisely decided to do away with that Chrysler design language entirely…
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The Revuelto Miura 60 Homage is a new limited-edition Lamborghini
Deep breath. This is the Lamborghini Revuelto Miura 60 Homage, and as nobody will have guessed – you never saw it coming! – it is a special, limited edition Lamborghini Revuelto that celebrates 60 years of the Miura. Yep, it’s been sixty years of fawning over the admittedly fawn-worthy Lamborghini Miura – still one of…
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Manual ‘box, RWD, and the most powerful nat-asp V8 in the world: meet the Hennessey Blackbird
If there was one company likely to relinquish its deathgrip on horsepower, you wouldn’t have guessed it would be Texan manufacturer Hennessey. Purveyors of the Venom series, the current Venom F5 sports 2,031bhp and styling heavily influenced by the aerodynamic constraints of 300mph engineering – even if the cars ‘only’ manage 280-ish. They are, particularly…
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Audi A2 prototype review: a legend returns… as an ID.3 spin-off
Ah the Audi A2, the efficiency monster that no-one bought. That pretty much sums it up. The original Audi A2 has long been revered by the motoring press for its distinctive shape, cutting-edge aluminium frame, sub-900kg kerbweight and 1.2 diesel’s rather spectacular 94mpg. In the pre-hybrid era! Makes today’s plug-ins look like charlatans. Anyhow, as…
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Opinion: Audi is suffering from catastrophic ‘Design Lag’
Friends, have you noticed the new and horrifying ‘lag’ afflicting Audi? It’s ‘Design Lag’. Yes, like the lazy turbocharger in an ur-Quattro or RS2 taking its sweet, sweet time to dispatch any power at all to the legendary quattro AWD, there’s a gaping chasm between what Audi’s styling department has promised, and what’s being served…