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Here’s TopGear.com’s roving correspondent, Cory Spondent, with his mostly incorrect exclusives from the world of motoring A motorist traveling across Europe in a cheap rental car has set a new world record for driving on two wheels without realising it. The motorist – who was just trying to get back to their rented villa in…

Even the blindest optimist wasn’t expecting the Nitro – launched in Britain in 2006 – to be a smash hit. Chrysler’s UK offerings of the period had set the bar very low indeed. But, like a champion limbo dancer, the Nitro eyed that low, low bar… and somehow managed to dip lower still. Dodge claimed…

Road Fighter was not, as it sounds, the more ambitious sequel to Street Fighter, but instead an early top-down arcade racer from Konami. While it wasn’t the first game to represent driving from the dizzying perspective of a passing bird, Road Fighter’s astonishing sensation of speed certainly made it one of the more challenging. It…

The Midlands in February isn’t great. Happy roads turned slick by winter and bitter by potholes, grey mizzle that sticks to waterproof coats and strokes damp fingers down the back of necks. But there’s redemption in the shape of small cars with slightly more power than the usual; chuckable, usable hatches that don’t cost the…

I’ve always believed that some cars are perfect almost by accident. Of course, the teams behind them wanted them to be perfect and knew what they were doing. But I maintain that somehow these rare machines deliver more than the sum of their parts and have a strange alchemy that’s as much by accident and…

After nine months, many thousands of miles, several trips to Europe, countless days acting as chase car to the latest hypercar being filmed for Top Gear’s YouTube channel and hence covered in mounting brackets and cameras, I’ve concluded that every household needs a Cupra Leon Estate VZ. It’s just so damn useful: just fast enough,…

This is the new Koenigsegg CCGT1, and trying to comprehend the conflicting messages might fry your brain quicker than attempting to work out exactly how CvK’s nine-speed manual ‘box operates. It is a road car. With ten times the power of ordinary road cars. Built primarily for use on a racetrack. That celebrates a racing…

It’s customary in running reports of EVs to bellyache about range and charging. In the Polestar 4 they’re perfectly satisfactory. I mean, 290 miles is enough for me, and after all most 500bhp+ petrol saloons don’t have a very long range either. I’ve never suffered a failed charge. I have absolutely no desire for it…

The fastest JCB ever. May not sound like much of a boast, until you learn the JCB Hydromax has just posted a land speed record of 406.320mph on the famous Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. It is now officially the fastest hydrogen powered car ever and fastest zero emission car ever, having scorched across the…

It started with a clock. Not just any old clock – a detachable mechanical time-piece made by Louis Vuitton. You might have heard of it: LVMH is the luxury goods world’s most valuable company, its owner, Bernard Arnault, Europe’s richest man. He’s a classier dude than Elon. This is not an organisation known for being…