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There are birthdays, and then there are birthdays. The Golf is 50, which means it has reached the point in life where it should be wearing linen, playing padel and quietly Googling “high cholesterol symptoms”. So sing happy birthday, blow out the candles, make a wish and welcome to the Top Gear Garage our new…

Rolls-Royce knows its client base more intimately than your doctor knows you. For example, it knows that owners of the all-electric Spectre – the gorgeous two-door ‘motor car’ we handed an award to – is typically the second Rolls-Royce in a seven-car garage. It’s also charged almost exclusively at its well-heeled owners’ homes, and most…

Since 1977, Top Gear has been pushing the very limits of car-based televisual entertainment. Actually that’s not quite true. For the first couple of decades of its existence, Top Gear was a mostly sensible car show that concerned itself with fuel economy, residual values, bootspace and the price of service station sausages. But, since its…

Two minutes into an informal presentation about the new Aston Martin Valhalla in a pit box at the Circuito de Navarra in northern Spain, the word ‘rivals’ is used. I can’t remember the context, but that word begs an obvious question. So, I ask it. “What exactly is a rival for this car?” There’s a…

A couple of years ago Top Gear mag turned 30. Aged better than any of its journos, let me tell you. Anyway, as part of our celebrations we asked our presenters and writers, both past and present, to nominate the greatest car of the last 30 years. Well it’ll no doubt stagger you to learn…

Frank Stephenson is a car designer with more hits than the Beatles, including the Escort RS Cossie, first BMW Mini, Maser MC12, numerous Ferraris and the McLaren P1. These days he runs his own consultancy – Frank Stephenson Design. Here he shares his views on the Singer DLS Turbo Restored. Reimagined. Reborn. That is Singer’s…

It’s Sweden, China and Great Britain’s answer to the Porsche Taycan, all rolled into one low slung four-door electric GT. The design was first previewed way back in 2020 with the Precept concept, and it really hasn’t changed all that much for production. Okay, the coach doors have gone, and designer Nahum Escobedo lost a…

General Motors has opened a new advanced design studio in Pasadena, California, and to celebrate it has unveiled two rather cruel Hummer concepts that really want us to go away. Sorta. The concepts were designed under the banner ‘the courage to get lost’, with a Hummer pickup and SUV transformed into very chunky rock crawlers.…

Great news for people who spend their spare time pretending to be racing car drivers, because after several successful shows in Germany, SimRacing Expo made its first appearance in North America at the home of NASCAR, Charlotte, North Carolina. Gathering together some of the biggest names in simracing hardware and software, the three day show…

James Bond, like his cinematic fellows Aliens and Lord of the Rings, is a property that seems a slam dunk for videogames until you actually play the games and realise that at least half of them are abominable. It should be so easy – Aston Martin, tuxedo, pistol, one liners, gadget watch, heavy accents of…