@jack_rix editor@bbctopgearmagazine.com Here at TopGear we pride ourselves on celebrating the full spectrum of what’s out there. Big or small, fast or slow, new or old, petrol or electric, deeply talented or utterly shambolic… there’s a seat for all

OH MY WORD, I’D FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT THE XPOWER SV… How could you? This is Britain’s own muscle car. A TVR-rivalling flagship MG that was all set to fire the company into a new and prosperous era in a blaze of V8 noise and fury. It’s the car manufactu

NOW, WHO THE HELL IS ABT YOU MIGHT BE THINKING. For starters it’s a surname, not an acronym, an independent race team and purveyor of tuning parts for VW and Audi. As Audi’s DTM partner, it’s won multiple championships and enjoys semi-official status

Le Mans Ultimate is out now for PC! Except it isn’t. Well not really. This is an ‘early access’ version, which essentially means that the game isn’t finished yet but you can buy it anyway. Fortunately LMU is fundamentally an engaging racing game. Tak

Fill the footwell, toddler-style in my own lap, remove and soil my own helmet or attempt to fling open the door and launch a projectile over the sill? These appear to be my puking options as Andy Wallace gives me the thumbs up and delivers another gu

It’s quite a billing, and a production version of the BMW 2K2 could have been quite the car. The idea is deliciously simple, however closely it nudges tweeness: rekindling the 2002, arguably BMW’s most revered classic, for the year 2002. A cheaper, l

Whoever first said there’s no replacement for displacement is likely having quite a tough time these days. Because there’s no escaping the efficiency of turbochargers in 2024. These miracle snails allow smaller, downsized engines to deliver a punch e

£38,480 FOR Comfier, quieter and roomier than ever AGAINST Some lost design sparkle in the process How many cars make it to a ninth generation and sixth decade? At least one. The MkIX Passat is estate only and twinned almost identically with the late

It used to be old airfields, now it’s ex-farmyards. Boy there’s some fascinating stuff happening at the back end of these tucked away yards. This one’s in deepest Dorset, smartly reupholstered with fresh concrete, paint and buildings. One side of Sil

The DVLA was recently hit with a Freedom of Information request ordering it to publish a full list of banned numberplates for the March ‘24’ cycle: all plates deemed at risk of offending right-minded citizens. The investigative journalists behind thi

an R/T badge, tops out at 496bhp and 404lb Two electric, two with a 3.0-litre twin-turbo straight-six. In range topping electric Daytona Scat Pack trim, the Charger packs a whopping 670bhp and 627lb ft of torque. The second electric Charger, which we

Mad-looking car. Mad-looking exhausts. TVR’s raucous and outrageous 4.0-litre straight-six motor was liable to burn the ankles of onlookers, and the fingers of drivers when the savage power overwhelmed the rear tyres. Because each bank of cylinders h

REMEMBERING RETRO GAMING THE CLASSICS The mid Nineties saw two very different takes on NASCAR games. On the one hand, you had NASCAR Racing, which aimed to replicate the complex dynamics of pack racing on oval circuits and provide a true recreation o

Each owner will get pointers from Andy on how to use their Bolide properly, plus access to two track days a year – the first is at Paul Ricard in October. Own your own track? Want to drive it when you want without full race support? That’s fine, says

This is the BMW Vision Neue Klasse X, a thinly disguised teaser for the next-gen iX3, due to go on sale in the back half of 2025. It follows last year’s saloon concept, and deepens BMW’s radical new overarching philosophy. “The Neue Klasse is much mo

Imagine a Mercedes-AMG G63, but electrically powered and given one of Mansory’s medium-strength goings over. But you needn’t imagine, because it exists. I’m sitting in it. It’s not just a concept either, but already on sale, taking on deserts, swamps

These small cars are perfect for urban life, but the trade-off is a much lower range PRICE: £28,195–£37,195 RANGE: Up to 199 miles The latest version of the 500 offers sharper looks, good value and decent range – and a parcel shelf full of soft toys

There is no end of advice out there telling you what watches to buy. But it is much simpler to flip it around and tell you what watches you should definitely not buy. Finding nice watches is easy. But some people seem to have great difficulty avoidin

Let me introduce you to the Volvo EX30. I think you might get on. Swift, desirable, beautifully finished and it costs less than £34k. Initially I just couldn’t work out how Volvo had done it for the money. Later, I’d work it out. But here’s where we’

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GO TO TOPGEAR.COM FOR MORE MIND-BLOWING MANUFACTURER GUIDES Saab Automobile was started in 1945 by Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget (Swedish Aeroplane Corporation), or Saab. With plane demand tailing off after World War Two, Saab diversified into cars,

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Poor Renault hasn’t had a very good time of it in F1 over the past decade or so, but the French carmaker would surely remind us all that it used to be very successful indeed, powering teams to 14 constructors’ titles in the past 32 years. Exactly the