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We’ve checked the calendar, and April Fools’ Day has definitely been and gone. And that’s slightly worrying, because we’ve just discovered that Chinese carmaker Seres has been granted a patent for an in-car toilet. Yep, its application for an in-car khazi was actually filed all the way back in April 2025, but it was eventually…

The Hyundai Ioniq 3 has arrived as a very sensible electric car for Europe, with a choice of either a 42.2kWh battery for 208 miles of range, or a 61kWh battery for a class-leading figure (says Hyundai) of more than 305 miles. Its front wheels are powered by equally sensible 133bhp or 145bhp motors, and…

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?…

It’s the third Polestar, if the name didn’t already imply. Polestar is part of the Geely Group, like Volvo and Lotus, and is Chinese-built but Swedish-headquartered. And the smart, consistent font used across all its bumf and interior displays speaks of a European design eloquence. Launched in 2024, the Polestar 3 is a five-seat, fully…

Excuse us for starting with one of the very best examples of ten-cylinder road transport. The LFA launched in 2009 after one of the most infamously gestated development programmes in automotive history; to declare the end result ‘worth the wait’ is to condescend the LFA with severe understatement. Production was limited, prices high and its…

Citroën Méhari, Fiat Panda and, yes, Multipla, Lancia Delta Integrale, Maserati Ghibli – the original – and the actor Christophe Lambert jumping a 205 GTI over a ledge in 1985 French movie cult classic Subway… We’re watching a Stellantis sizzle reel, bordering on a fever dream, but also a reminder of the scale of the…

The Noble M12 was built between 2000 and 2008: a wide, squat, 350bhp V6 sports car that firmly established the marque as a presence on the low-volume production market. Whether it could have achieved its modest success without the benefit of rear lights from the saloon version of the MkI Ford Mondeo (1992-96) is anyone’s…

Oh my, we’ve really jumped the shark now… Tell me about it. The latest entry under ‘things nobody wanted’ – right in the slipstream of a global energy crisis and Ye headlining a festival – is a massively powerful and massively quick version of this, erm, massive family SUV. You might remember Kia’s first toe…

In 2024, the Ford Mustang GTD managed to race around the Nürburgring’s lightly challenging layout in 6m 57.6s. At the time, that made it the fastest American car to have achieved such a feat. In 2025, Ford went even faster. After a raft of tweaks – more aero, more power, more… suspension – the GTD…