Tag: topgear.com
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Here are eight car bits you probably didn’t know were recycled
The Noble M12 was built between 2000 and 2008: a wide, squat, 350bhp V6 sports car that firmly established the marque as a presence on the low-volume production market. Whether it could have achieved its modest success without the benefit of rear lights from the saloon version of the MkI Ford Mondeo (1992-96) is anyone’s…
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Kia EV9 GT review: a ludicrous car for sensible people
Oh my, we’ve really jumped the shark now… Tell me about it. The latest entry under ‘things nobody wanted’ – right in the slipstream of a global energy crisis and Ye headlining a festival – is a massively powerful and massively quick version of this, erm, massive family SUV. You might remember Kia’s first toe…
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The Mustang GTD records 6m 40.8s ‘Ring time, becomes second quickest overall*
In 2024, the Ford Mustang GTD managed to race around the Nürburgring’s lightly challenging layout in 6m 57.6s. At the time, that made it the fastest American car to have achieved such a feat. In 2025, Ford went even faster. After a raft of tweaks – more aero, more power, more… suspension – the GTD…
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Ford Mustang GTD records 6m 40.8s ‘Ring time, becomes second quickest overall*
In 2024, the Ford Mustang GTD managed to race around the Nürburgring’s lightly challenging layout in 6m 57.6s. At the time, that made it the fastest American car to have achieved such a feat. In 2025, Ford went even faster. After a raft of tweaks – more aero, more power, more… suspension – the GTD…
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Surprise, surprise: the new Mercedes C-Class is getting a ginormous screen
Anyone else get told as a kid that if they sat too close to the TV screen, they’d get square eyes? Well, perhaps that wasn’t a common saying in Germany, because Mercedes continues to go all-in on monstrous infotainment screens. What you’re looking at above is the interior of the upcoming new C-Class. Yep, Merc’s…
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These are the 20 best V10 production cars ever built
Excuse us for starting with one of the very best examples of ten-cylinder road transport. The LFA launched in 2009 after one of the most infamously gestated development programmes in automotive history; to declare the end result ‘worth the wait’ is to condescend the LFA with severe understatement. Production was limited, prices high and its…
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Stellantis design boss Gilles Vidal: “I’m firmly against putting everything on a screen”
Citroën Méhari, Fiat Panda and, yes, Multipla, Lancia Delta Integrale, Maserati Ghibli – the original – and the actor Christophe Lambert jumping a 205 GTI over a ledge in 1985 French movie cult classic Subway… We’re watching a Stellantis sizzle reel, bordering on a fever dream, but also a reminder of the scale of the…
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These are the 50 greatest American cars ever made
The Polaris Slingshot is a three-wheeled, open-air autocycle that has caused much argument among car enthusiasts, largely about whether it should be classified as a car at all. But, silly as it may look, the Slingshot is a blast. Essentially a go-kart for adults that starts around $25,000, it can be specced with more than 200…
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Audi A6 Sportback e-Tron – long-term review
In 2012, the AA conducted a poll of 6,000 parents. It found that a third of them were spending up to 49 hours a month ferrying their children around by car. While that survey is fairly old now, I can’t imagine the numbers have dropped — if anything, I’d wager that third is closer to a half…
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Jensen’s new Interceptor is officially called the Jensen Interceptor GTX
The Jensen Interceptor will return later this year as – drum roll please – the Jensen Interceptor GTX. TopGear.com is all here for the revival of classic model names and nomenclature. It’ll be an “ultra-high-performance” car that’ll look something like the shady teaser you see above, which is the same shady teaser we were sent…