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Regular readers will remember that I ran a BMW i5 Touring last year. You’ll also recall that (despite my EV skepticism) I rather liked it – and even went as far as to say that BMW currently make the best EVs. The new BMW iX3, which won TG’s most recent Car of the Year Award,…

It would be fair to say Rennsport’s launch on consoles and PC last year didn’t go, er, perfectly. Although it marked a new serious player in the sim racing space, it was also “light on content and plagued by bugs”, we remarked in our review at the time. All’s not lost, though, because Competition Company has a cunning…

What is it? A twin-seat GT; raw, fast reacting and slightly scary. Much like a Mercedes-AMG GT. One is made in Blackpool, UK, the other Affalterbach, Germany. Why are we interested? Because although TVRs aren’t easy to find, they’re the progenitors of cars like the AMG GT. Long nose, front engined, rear wheel drive. So……

Based on Peugeot’s mid-engined, all-wheel drive 205 T16 Group B rally hatchback, the Quasar was shown off at the 1984 Paris Motor Show and remains possibly the most Eighties thing we’ve ever seen. It used the same 1.8-litre four-cylinder engine as the WRC-spec 205 too, although it was now twin turbocharged for a claimed 600bhp.…

What is the point of a concept car? Probably requires more than a single whimsical page to properly answer. But if at least one purpose of a concept is to prepare the ground for a future production car, to gently expand a brand’s Overton window, then Chrysler’s Super8 was an absolute smash hit of a…

The perfect date car, apparently. The previous five generations of Honda Prelude, the most recent of which retired back in 2001, frequently topped Japanese polls as the ideal transport to shuttle prospective life partners around in. Their sophisticated mix of a comfy interior and svelte profile feels light years away from the body-kitted Saxos that…

The Bugatti Mistral is officially the world’s fastest convertible automobile, having clocked 282mph back in 2024. How then, do you elevate such a machine? Largely, this: it’s the Mistral ‘La Perle Rare’. As with every Bugatti ever built, it’s a ‘one-of-a-kind’, conceived back in 2023 when Bugatti met the owner of this W16 record-breaking leviathan…

The latest addition to Dubai’s white’n’green tourist police patrol fleet is a 900bhp Lotus Eletre R, which will be able to catch crims travelling at 62mph in less than three seconds. Hooray for electricity! In a press release, the force said that the Eletre would “bolster its security presence in key tourist sites such as…

Continent-crushing. This has, in recent years, become the descriptor of choice for a car that’ll smash big miles at big speed with minimum fuss. And, fair’s fair, it’s a pretty good descriptor. But we need to talk about degrees of crushing. Because while some continent-crushers merely give their continent a firm squeeze, others mercilessly compress…

It’s not clear why Porsche named this 1970 concept after the Italian word for a snouty jungle mammal. There were two sets of gullwing doors: one for the passenger cabin and one for the luggage compartments. It was displayed at motor shows, but never made it into production.  This 1964 concept looked nothing like the…