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What’s it like to be a stunt driver? Ex-rally driver Mark Higgins would know – here he shares his tips with TopGear.com… The amount of preparation that goes into any driving stunt is huge. It’s not unusual for us to be preparing six months before going on location. I’ll be brought in by the stunt…

To misquote Oscar Wilde, for a car brand to die once may be regarded as misfortune. For the same brand to die twice looks like carelessness. But such was the fate that befell poor Borgward, the German car company that, in 2022, suffered the ignominy of kicking the bucket not for the first, but second…

This is not the AMR26, this is merely a show car. But you knew that already. The point is, don’t go looking for signs of Adrian Newey’s genius-level design because the last thing a team would do is show off its homework to the world. Especially when you’re paying a reported £30 million a year…

This is not the AMR26, this is merely a show car. But you knew that already. The point is, don’t go looking for signs of Adrian Newey’s genius-level design because the last thing a team would do is show off its homework to the world. Especially when you’re paying a reported £30 million a year…

TopGear.com would like to salute a very small number of the UK’s fine used car buying public. Data revealed by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) revealed 5,279 of you bought used pink cars last year! Just over 9,000 of you bought yellow cars! And a whopping 31,503 of you bought a green…

Paris to Tokyo. Budget-ish airlines will fly you for as little as 300 quid.  Although for that price you get a free 20-hour stopover and an imprint of your seat neighbour’s elbow in your ear lobe. Alternatively, you could hop into your Peugeot 104 and just drive. Allow us to introduce Renan Favigny. If you’re…

This is the new Mercedes-AMG GLC 53. It is a performance SUV – because of course it is – featuring a heavily revised version of AMG’s 3.0-litre turbo petrol engine. There is much power. Modes. And more… cylinders. Yes folks, it’s a hearty farewell to AMG’s largely unloved 2.0-litre four-cylinder unit that saw service in…

The Mazda 6 is back! Yep, the smartly styled saloon has returned from the dead, and it’s technically now a hatchback. It’s also fully electric and henceforth will be known as the Mazda 6e. Oh, and it’s not really a Mazda at all, because it’s actually just a rebodied Changan Deepal SL03 with some steering…

Ah, yes. Rivian. Remind us… OK, a quick summary. Founded way back in 2009 by RJ Scaringe, it managed to push through Covid and the chip crisis to launch the all-electric R1T pickup and R1S SUV to considerable acclaim in 2021, the most powerful iteration of which now delivers 1,025bhp from its quad-motor set up.…

The second-gen Corvette’s split rear window may have been inspired by the iconic ‘spine’ of the Bugatti 57SC, but the Sting Ray’s interpretation is arguably the more famous. It only appeared on the 1963 car, being phased out the following year due to (fairly predictable) complaints over the shoddy rear visibility. As a result, they’re…