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Well would you look at that: Ferrari has brought back the manual gearbox. With two large caveats, of course. First there’s a faintly staggering leap in price for the 12Cilindri supercar involved. Second is the fact it’s actually an eight-speed DCT that’s supplemented by a clutch pedal (with 599 GTB weight) and a classic open-gate stick. Lovely idea,…

Tick. Tick. Tick. Of all the noises I expected to remember after a day driving 50 years of Golf GTI, it wasn’t induction gargle, front tyre chirp or the slightly antisocial exhaust of a Clubsport S that’s logged in the basement of my brain. It was a clock. It sits in one of three little…

The Mk1 Honda NSX you know. A fine supercar christened by Ayrton Senna, praised for its construction, usability and design. Bet you didn’t know the original ‘HP-X’ concept that previewed this Mk1 was done by Pininfarina. And so this new shiny new project marks the Italian designer closing the circle, because it’s partnered up with…

As is tradition at this point, American carmaker Rivian has dressed up its flagship EV for Halloween, and this year, it ain’t afraid of no ghosts. Partnering with Sony Pictures, Rivian brings The Ghostbusters back to Manhattan with the Ecto-R1, a tribute to the team’s iconic on-screen workhorse. From the 22in white-and-silver Aero wheels to…

Prices for the Hyundai Ioniq 3 have been revealed, and… considering you’ve just read the headline, they will come as little surprise. Every version of Hyundai’s funky little hatchback qualifies for Band 1 of the Electric Car Grant (ECG) knocking a hefty £3,750 off the final price of the car. Which means those prices start…

If the idea of a BMW iX3 feels too sensible, too practical and far too usable, what about that car but with less of the practicality bit? Here’s the brand new iX4, the latest car to emerge from BMW’s rather dandy Neue Klasse toy box. It’s a ‘Sports Activity Coupe’, a moniker that might induce…

This is not a new Jaguar. Not to the people who created it. Among many staggering nuggets they shared as Top Gear was smuggled through fierce security into JLR headquarters on the 125th anniversary of founder Sir William Lyons’ birth (and days before the cyberattacked and tariff-battered company announced 4,000 job cuts) was the car’s…

It only says ‘Type 01’ in one place on the car’s exterior – a subtle, flush transfer on the edge of the bonnet near the windscreen. So, how to say it? According to Jaguar, it’s ‘Zero One’, not Type One, and definitely not Type Oh-One. We think most people will actually call it ‘that new…

Typically we like our racing games with wheels, here at TG. With its various hovering vehicles, Star Wars Galactic Racer doesn’t feature a single one, not even a cheeky ‘steering’. We’re going to give it a pass, though, because the essence of one of our favourite arcade racers of all time lives on, reincarnated, in…

Good news! Ford’s coming back to the World Rally Championship! ‘But Ford’s already in the World Rally Championship’, you might cry. Settle those bobble hats: this announcement marks Ford Racing’s return as a full factory team. Which means it’ll team up with long-time partner M-Sport (who already race Fords in the WRC) to make a…