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This is the Bovensiepen 05 GT. It is a big, heavy, five-door hybrid V8 estate with an astronomical amount of power and a design aesthetic crafted by a man who’s done an astronomically powerful British hypercar. So IYKYK. For those still catching up, this is the work of the family who started Alpina. Not to…

Over the weekend, Genesis secured a respectable 13th place finish in its first crack at the Hypercar class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Turns out it was fairly busy off the track at the same time too, because it also unveiled another racecar – the Magma GT3 Concept. Yep, it’s the bewinged, competition-spec…

Having just unveiled its rather controversial all-electric GT 4-Door Coupe, AMG is now going back to its roots by fitting standard Mercs with massive V8s. All is right with the world. Okay, maybe not all, but at least AMGs are about to get loud again. That’s thanks to the M177 EVO engine, which is the…

What is it? Everyone knows how industry trade shows work. They are not a new concept. You turn up in a big room, show your product, and hope that people get excited about it. There are other people selling similar things in that big room too, and a crowd of press and influencers milling about.…

He’s finally done it. After a debut Ferrari season to forget, Hamilton has finally rediscovered his vintage form and scored his first ever win for the Scuderia. He’s the only driver to have hit triple figures for wins, with Michael Schumacher next on the list with 91 and Max Verstappen in third on 71. 206…

Ladies and gentlemen, a respectful bow to one of the strangest vehicles ever to join the TGG fleet. The Lexus LM350h, a slice of Japanese weirdness that defies easy description, but, if we’re forced to give it a go, would have to plump for ‘£118,000 minivan’. To be clear, I am entirely here for this…

What would otherwise be the least interesting of the four generations of Renault Twingo was rescued by the stonking little RenaultSport version, which stuffed this little city car with a 1.6-litre, 131bhp engine. This was a bit like attaching a jetski engine to a paddleboard, and the result was a feisty, rev-hungry little handbrake turn…

Back at the turn of the century, the Mitsubishi L200 turned the UK into a pickup nation. It was the first vehicle that was sold and used – as pickups have been for generations in the US – both as a work tool and a family/leisure car. This is the seventh generation. It’s a chunky…

Right, hopefully we don’t need to explain this one. While there were some semi-viable attempts to build self-propelled carriages as far back as the 1760s, the fact is that before the 1886 debut of Carl Benz’s Patent-Motorwagen, the only practical form of personal transportation had hooves. For most people, that remained the case until the…

If you’re greying at the temples, regularly suffer from back pain and your knees click when you stand up, you might recall the name Carmageddon from the 1990s.  With its focus on marmalising pedestrians, this violent sci-fi driving game managed to generate more tabloid column inches than a Beckham family fallout. Don’t get too excited,…