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Reflecting on Lara Croft’s place in ‘90s culture is a bit like trying to remember the words of the song you made up, drunk, last night, with your mates. It made all the sense in the world at the time. You were convinced of its greatness. And now, in the cold light of day as…

Here’s a car that might be causing a few sleepless nights in Maranello. It’s the incredibly powerful, incredibly light and incredibly orange McLaren MCL-HY, a car built to compete in the 2027 World Endurance Championship. Which means it’s heading to a little place called Le Mans to give Ferrari what for. And it’s bringing a…

There is nothing more to add to what we discovered last year: that Eccentrica Cars, makers of the glorious Diablo restomod you’re currently drooling over, has given its glorious Diablo restomod a track pack and sent it packing. To Italy, and no less a destination than the splendour of Lake Como for the FuoriConcorso show…

MotoGP returned to the Goiânia circuit in Brazil this year for the first time since 1989. As veteran broadcaster Gavin Emmett was taking a trackside walk with his TNT team on the Friday afternoon of the race weekend, a young kid walked up to him. “And he goes, ‘are you the guy who does the…

Be careful out there folks, because clearly nobody is safe. Yep, your car could be Mansor-ified at literally any moment. Just take a look at that thing up above. That was once a Zeekr 9X – the Chinese firm’s latest flagship that’s larger than the massive Merc GLS and has more than a hint of…

When GM decided to make the new Corvette mid-engined, it couldn’t do the testing in the body of a Corvette. So it went digging around in the company stories and hit on the idea of clothing a mid-engined chassis in the bones of a HSV ute. And accidentally making something better looking than the C8…

Snapping at the heels of Audi, BMW, Mercedes and Porsche for years, but never quite toppling them, Jaguar is perhaps the de facto example of non-German luxe to British buyers. The fact the brilliant XE made barely a ripple in the vast pond of 3 Series sales proves how much Jaguar needed an enormous rethink…

Words feel a rather blunt instrument to express how good Assetto Corsa Rally is, though we’ve tried to wield them many times to make that point. Meaty and meticulous, it feels convincing to drive in a way that actually instils primal fear. It’s the perfect platform, then, for professional esports competition. The FIA agrees. And so it comes…

“Too much power is never enough. Applies to dictators, EV chargers and the Koenigsegg Jesko.” Read the full review “An iconic rally car, masterfully reimagined. Kimera’s evo37 recaptures the spirit of the homologation special.” Read the full review “No better way for the quad-turbo W16 to bow out than a car where it sounds like…

It’s a Polo. Recognisably, even if you peeled all the badges off, a VW Polo. That’s what’s important about the new Volkswagen ID. Polo. This is an all-new electric supermini, but VW hasn’t made it a streamlined future-box like it tried with the ID.3. The ID. Polo has a bonnet. A face. A normal Polo…