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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…

What does the future hold for the Prius? Over the last half-a-year, that’s puzzled me, as Toyota claims this car’s job is to make hybrids affordable, then sells several much cheaper hybrids. So, the future of the original hybrid populariser is murky. ‘My’ Prius’s future? A little clearer. Where does it go after life at…

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…

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…

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…

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…

It’s not in the least bit newsworthy to inform you that SUVs are ‘quite popular’. The UK’s top ten sales chart is dominated by the things and beyond those bestsellers, there’s dozens (upon dozens) of alternatives. It’s a segment that continues to grow as Chinese brands muscle in on our market. As a TopGear.com reader,…

The gaming world is currently playing through the original Halo campaign again, this time in Campaign Evolved form, to see if Halo Studios’ latest remaster recaptures the magic of the 2001 shooter we all shirked our homework duties to complete on Legendary. Ever the contrarian, however, TG’s been learning how to drift a Mongoose ATV…

It didn’t take long for the initial hype around the Chrysler PT Cruiser’s design to wear off and for us to realise that at its heart, it was a pretty hateful thing. Shockingly enough, beheading it did little to improve things, especially not when it eliminated what little stiffness there was in the chassis to…

The first turbodiesel to compete in Baja’s Trophy Truck class back in 2008, Scarbo was the 550bhp Touareg’s race engineer – his first job out of college. Remember this? Based around an idea of Lotus’s stillborn 1960s Le Mans project, Scarbo was brought in later to help with suspension development for the Pikes Peak project.…