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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.…

Here’s TopGear.com’s roving correspondent, Cory Spondent, with his mostly incorrect exclusives from the world of motoring After last week’s announcement that this year’s Bahrain Grand Prix will be hosted by Malaysia, F1 has revealed that the 2027 British Grand Prix will take place in Wellington, New Zealand. “To be honest, putting on a Grand Prix…

That’s a big drinks cooler. Can you take it to the beach? Har har. Despite its appearance, this insulated plastic box on wheels is in fact a car. It’s the Slate Auto Truck, the hotly anticipated affordable EV backed by cardboard box delivery magnate Jeff Bezos that’s as spartan as its nameplate. Also, yeah we…

September 2014, and we had the very first BMW i8 in the UK for a showdown with its rivals. Here’s the conclusion I wrote. “Many people have declared the i8 to not be as good a sports car as the Porsche 911. And they’re right. It’s not as good at the traditional sports car stuff…

You may have noticed (it was hard to miss) that earlier this week Audi pulled some king-sized covers off its new three-row Q9 SUV. But while the rest of the world was shown the standard car with its 3.0-litre turbodiesel V6, America was also being treated to a full-fat V8. Yep, this is the US-only…

Statistics claim that around 18 per cent of us drivers will experience some form of car vandalism at some point. Sadly, I’m now part of that 18 per cent. Yes, my A6 e-tron was keyed last month. Even now, as I write this, I still can’t fathom why anyone would deliberately damage someone else’s property.…

Like its rival premium carmakers, Mercedes-Benz knows why people buy certain cars. “The all-new electric GLA is the first model in the Mercedes-Benz compact segment to feature the new iconic grille.” Yup, this new GLA – available in both electric and hybrid guise – gets a grille normally reserved for Mercedes-Benz’s big posh cars, bringing…

There was a time when F1 felt like a Mayfair men-only members club. It was as intriguing as it was alienating. The paddock was full of engineers, cigarette smoke and team principals deep in thought, holding clipboards; and drivers who were ready to wrestle a car, but would be way out of their depth walking…

This is the Lamborghini Urus SE Performante. It is the world’s fastest and most powerful internal combustion-engined SUV. No, the world does not need a Lamborghini Urus that happens to be the fastest and most powerful SUV, but – in the words of Tom Ford – “bluntly, it really does work”. “No, it’s not re-writing…