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They call it Moon White Metallic. Looks great, doesn’t it? And you can’t miss it, which is very definitely the point. My hope it that TG’s new Skoda Kodiaq vRS clears the outside lane of the motorway faster than any other car on sale. Conceived to look as much like a police car as possible…

The Lego Group still has its blocky headquarters in Billund where Ole Kirk Christiansen founded the company way back in 1932. As of 1 January 2025, the small Danish town officially had a population of 7,484, and yet the sprawling, newly inaugurated Lego Campus and its surrounding facilities somehow employ a total of 5,900 people.…

Lots of startups tell me they’ve sorted electric-car charging at petrol-stop quickness. It hasn’t taken off, for two reasons. The battery chemistry itself, but also about getting enough compatible cars to support a network of the chargers. Chicken, egg, and all that. Now BYD claims to have the answer. BYD was founded as a battery…

You could take the phrase ‘Lotus wasn’t in good financial shape in’, add pretty much any year to the end and have a factual statement, but Lotus really wasn’t in good financial shape in the early ’90s. Jettisoned by GM in 1993, it was now in the hands of Romano Artioli, the Italian businessman behind…

Here’s TopGear.com’s roving correspondent, Cory Spondent, with his mostly incorrect exclusives from the world of motoring A tuner specialising in restomodding old Mercedes-Benz performance cars has revealed a 500E saloon fitted with the controls from an 1885 Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Keen to capitalise on the modern trend of building ‘analogue’ driver’s cars with manual gearboxes and…

The Mercedes CLA was Top Gear’s Saloon of the Year when it launched. This is the estate version, and an estate is always better than the saloon it’s based on. That’s just the law. So this Shooting Brake has an auspicious start in life. The CLA is Mercedes’ smallest car, about the same as an…

Renowned photographer Mark Riccioni has been working with TG for many, many years. When not taking photos he’s buying inappropriate cars. Here he shares his addiction with the world Beginning a Top Gear Garage update moaning about the costs of a very expensive car should really be accompanied by a tiny violin playing in the…

For so long, George Russell has been the patient one, the driver willing to wait his turn. The Mercedes protégé who spent three years proving himself at Williams before finally earning his place at the Silver Arrows. The man who then found himself sharing a garage with one of the greatest drivers the sport has…

Bentley and all action hero/lunatic/gymkhana god/motocross rider Travis Pastrana wouldn’t usually be two entities with a huge amount in common. Except, I guess, that Pastrana has a metal chassis supporting his frame after many and varied accidents. So, it’s a mark of the departure signalled by the new Supersports that Bentley chose to launch it…

“We might have run into a little issue.” Can’t be anything too exotic, I think. I’ve ordered new tyres for the i8 and you’re a tyre fitter, so what’s the issue? Not that you can’t find the locking wheel nut key because, as I’ve belatedly realised, the i8 doesn’t have them. Must’ve had at some…