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Over the weekend, a gaggle of classic car enthusiasts gathered in Rome’s Centro Storico for the inaugural Anantara Concorso Roma to celebrate ‘La Dolce Vita delle Automobili’. Lucky them. Alongside the posh privateers with their extremely expensive and historically significant cars, a homegrown Italian manufacturer also turned up. Said carmaker was Lamborghini, and it brought…

Alert your pals that can’t park, because the tiny little two-seater Smart car is coming back, and this… isn’t quite it. What you’re looking at above is actually the Smart Concept #2, but it gives us a glimpse at what the real life #2 will look like when it’s eventually shown off at the Paris…

If we were sensible types, we’d use this entry to celebrate the ingenuity of the first gen A8 – how its innovative aluminium construction offset the additional weight of its AWD system and whatnot. But we aren’t.  So instead, we choose the burbly S8, with its uprated 4.2L V8 and penchant for punting Citroen XMs…

In a break from fitting Mercs with 1,000bhp versions of their twin-turbo V8s, storied German tuning house Brabus has revealed… an EV. No, seriously. In fact, it has kinda revealed three EVs, because what you’re looking at above is the DAB 1α Brabus, the DAB 1α Brabus Urban E and the DAB 1α Brabus Urban…

It turns out videogames aren’t just the thing we do to avoid emptying the dishwasher, they’re also apparently an art form. As a result, for the last 20 years or so, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts has been celebrating them with the BAFTA Games Awards, which rewards the best games and their…

Something new for Alpine. And more importantly, something new for Planet Car. It’s a tall-ish five-door sports car (not a hotted up version of anything else) designed solely around electric power. Not that that’s stopped Alpine leaning on its F1 know-how: the A390 has advanced torque vectoring via triple-motor drive, plus race-type aero in its…

Romesh Ranganathan does not consider himself a petrolhead. “No, I don’t think I’m a petrolhead,” he tells TopGear.com. “Did I prioritise cars? No, not until a bit later on when I slowly started to get into them. “I went from seeing cars as something functional to something you could enjoy,” he adds. And hoo boy…

Back in late 2024, Lamborghini’s then tech boss Rouven Mohr (now CTO at Audi) told TG the Temerario’s V8 hybrid powertrain could quite easily be turned up to produce over 1,000bhp. Yikes. As such, we’re expecting some form of Performante or STO version at some point soon. But what if you can’t wait for that?…

What’s better than one R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R? If you said a Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder, get outta here – you’ve been watching 2 Fast 2 Furious wrong. Anyway, the actual answer is five R34 Skyline GT-Rs, as evidenced by the stunning UK-based collection you see above. But wait, it gets even better, because all five…

So, game on. After BMW wowed us all with its game-changing iX3 – a TG Car of the Year – and followed it up with the lovely i3 saloon, Merc has hit back: after the GLC Electric comes this, the first ever battery-powered Mercedes-Benz C-Class. And the headline stat for many of you will be…