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On sale: any time now One of the greatest hot hatch badges of all is making a comeback! Again! Except this time, it’ll be electric. That might put some people off, but the Peugeot e-208 GTi will use a recipe that’s already been employed to excellent effect by some Stellantis stablemates. That includes 276bhp sent…

Cheap, tiny electric cars are coming, and we’ll see the first ones on European roads very soon. Stellantis – the buffet of automotive car brands – has today confirmed it plans on releasing its first ‘E-Car’ in 2028. That’s just two years away. As if answering your immediate question, Stellantis said: “The ‘E’ in ‘E-Car’…

BYD’s UK arm has confirmed that it’ll bring a new flagship SUV over to the UK. That SUV will be the extremely boxy Ti7 that you see above. Watch out, Land Rover. The Ti7 was first unveiled as a Fangchengbao in China last year, but it’ll arrive here with a BYD badge and a plug-in…

In the 1990s, the term “Mondeo Man”  was coined after the then–future Prime Minister Tony Blair encountered a voter polishing his Ford Mondeo. He represented exactly the kind of swing voter Labour needed to win: traditionally working-class, once a loyal Labour supporter, but now a homeowner with an ex-council house and a car of his own. With memories…

This crowdfunded attempt to bring the fastest production car record back to the U S of A in 2017 saw a Dodge Viper ACR, supplied from a Texas dealership, lap the Green Hell in 7:01.30 in the hands of Lance Arnold, before tyre failure (it was on street legal tyres) on the second lap put…

The Ferrari F8 Spider is, by most rational accounts, a good-looking Ferrari. Wonderfully proportioned, dainty, a joker’s smile carved across its face and a delightful set of quad taillights. A client figured, ‘huh, let’s add some 2026 Ferrari to this 2020 Ferrari’. Welcome to the HC25. It’s another Special Projects car, which means it’s a…

Ford has been taking a long, hard look at itself in the mirror, and it has clearly decided that perhaps killing off the little Fiesta – which became the UK’s best-selling car ever way back in 2014 – wasn’t such a good idea. Who’d have thunk it? Anyway, we only know this because Ford has…

Here’s TopGear.com’s roving correspondent, Cory Spondent, with his mostly incorrect exclusives from the world of motoring After once again finishing stone dead last at Eurovision, the UK will seek to end its dire recent record at the renowned song contest by entering a Triumph Stag V8 in 2027. Instead of sending yet another obscure pop…

BMW really is just taunting us now. You see, it already offered the G80 M3 with a manual gearbox in the USA, but now it has treated the limited-edition CS to a DIY shifter too. Yep, set to be built in “very limited numbers”, this M3 CS Handschalter will say goodbye to the sixth-generation super…

We’ve all done it. Stared at an issue with one of our cars for weeks, reluctant to spend the money for the repair. Surely there’s a cheaper alternative, we ponder? So we trawl eBay, peruse forums for a miracle cure, and generally let it gnaw away at our subconscious.  Sometimes, the dreamy, too good to…