Episodes
Jack, Rowan, Ollie and Jethro discuss the cars and inside stories from the best week of the year... driving the 12 top performance cars of 2024 on road and track in Spain for a week... and there can only be one winner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published 11/06/24
Published 11/06/24
Jack, Rowan, Ollie and Jethro discuss the cars and inside stories from the best week of the year... driving the 12 top performance cars of 2024 on road and track in Spain for a week... and there can only be one winner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published 10/30/24
Not one but two new Porsche 911 GT3s are upon us, both a regular be-winged car and the more subtle Touring model. And for once, the headline news isn’t the power, the peak revs or the Nürburgring lap time, but how practical it is. That’s right, because for the first time in the 25-year history of the GT3, it’s being offered with back seats. It’s only for the Touring, but that addition alone will be enough to start The Internet chattering about whether this is ‘all the car you’ll ever...
Published 10/23/24
Jack Rix and Jason Barlow are invited into Ferrari's inner sanctum to learn all about the once-in-a-decade new hypercar. How on earth do you follow up the 288 GTO, F40, F50, Enzo and LaFerrari? Here's how... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published 10/17/24
Tesla has revealed its long-awaited autonomous 'Cybercab' at an event in Los Angeles, we were there to soak up the insanity, take a ride in the driverless EV and bump into our good friend Marques Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published 10/11/24
Christian von Koenigsegg, Mate Rimac, John Hennessey... names don't get bigger in the world of hypercars. So we brought them together at Sonoma Raceway in California to share ideas... and drive each other's latest cars Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published 10/02/24
We all know EVs tend to work best in cities, we also know most EVs are a bit boring... enter a wave of retro-styled EV city cars designed to save us from mundane motoring Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published 09/25/24
New models are coming thick and fast from Maranello, the team fires up the crystal ball and discusses a LaFerrari successor, new F40, first full EV and an even faster 296 GTB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published 09/18/24
We asked you for questions, and you lot delivered. Rowan, Jack and Ollie Kew answer your burning questions including how to get a job at TG, is Ferrari cool and our favourite biscuits... bizarrely Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published 09/12/24
Looks like a miniature Batmobile, sounds like a TIE fighter from Star Wars, goes like the absolute clappers. And we’ve finally got behind the wheel of the McMurtry Spéirling – the car last seen kicking up dust and shredding hillclimb records at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. But it has been tinkered with and is now available to buy for a cool £984k. The new Spéirling Pure comes with all the goodies Max Chilton deployed at Goodwood. That means a twin-electric-motor setup powered by a 60kWh...
Published 09/04/24
In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine Podcast, we’re talking long term test cars. Ollie Marriage has just returned from a 3,000-mile trip in an Ineos Grenadier and we want to know if he and it survived. Ollie Kew proves how the new Mini is a bit of a fake and Rowan Horncastle is sad at the loss of driving a Porsche Cayenne S daily. And has anyone seen Jack Rix? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published 08/28/24
Don your chinos and join Ollie Kew for a special episode of the Top Gear Magazine Podcast as he wanders around the poshest part of California for Monterey Car Week. Don’t worry if you haven’t got access to the exclusive Quail lawns, as our Deputy Editor can sneak you and your ears behind the red velvet rope to get live reactions to the latest, greatest and most expensive cars on the planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published 08/21/24
In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine Podcast, we’re talking Venturos: the mini adventure monkey bike with a novel delivery method – it’s buried in the middle of nowhere and you have to go and find it. Having battled his way to and off the Isle of Jura, Rowan is back in the studio to talk about his, and other adventures with Ollie Marriage and Ollie Kew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published 08/14/24
In this week’s episode of Top Gear Magazine Podcast, we’re talking slippery cars. Having come back from Audi’s ‘Windkanal’ (that’s a wind tunnel, to you and me) Top Gear Magazine’s Deputy Editor, Ollie Kew, is our guide. He went to see just how far aerodynamics have come in nearly a century, so took the Auto Union Type C ‘Stromlinie’, the innovative Audi 100, and the new Audi A6-etron Avant, to the company’s wind tunnel for a little show ‘n’ tell. Now he’s going to try and explain his...
Published 08/07/24
Christian von Koenigsegg is a glutton for engineering punishment. His Swedish hypercar company currently builds the Jesko (which has just set the 0-400km/h-0 record) and it’ll soon start delivering the new CC850 and Gemera to customers. That’s three distinct models, each with their own head-scratchingly complex innovations. And yet, amongst all this, he said “yes” to a request from a customer who wanted their older-model Agera RS melded with the best bits of a Jesko and CC850 to create an...
Published 07/31/24
Aston’s 110th birthday present to itself is a machine so old school it has a wooden gearlever and recycled geography teacher upholstery. Analogue heaven, or expensive anachronism? We discuss that and the rise of the expensive manual gearbox with the help of the 911 S/T, GMA T.50 and Pagani Utopia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published 07/24/24
Looking for the ultimate flex at your local track day? Then we’ve got the consumer advice you need. In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine Podcast, Jethro Bovingdon details the pros and cons of the McLaren Solus GT (a lightweight, single-seat V10 of pure violence) against Ford’s long-tail tribute to the ’67 Le Mans-winning GT40 Mk IV, and the most extreme iteration of the third-gen Ford GT, the Ford GT Mk IV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published 07/17/24
Join Top Gear magazine's Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle as they guide you around this year's incredible mix of motors at the Duke of Richmond’s posh car garden party, the Goodwood Festival of Speed. So, whether you’re in the car, at work or walking the dog, pop your headphones in and prepare for an hour-long audio tour that takes in the latest and greatest cars from a giant lawn in West Sussex including the world’s greatest supercars, hypercars and an army of Chinese EVs. Learn more about your...
Published 07/12/24
On this episode of the Top Gear Magazine Podcast, Christian von Koenigsegg gives us a full tour of his brand new factory. This meaty conversation brings in plenty of juicy topics, including topping 300mph in the near future and why he thought of the Tourbillon name before Bugatti... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published 07/03/24
Can you hear that? That's the sound of Bugatti and Cosworth's new V16 being dyno'd. In this exclusive podcast, Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle, Ollie Marriage, Ollie Kew and Tom Ford discuss the rare breed of cylinder counts: the V16. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published 06/26/24
Say hello to the Bugatti Tourbillon, the 1,800bhp V16 hybrid Chiron successor every billionaire has been waiting for. In this exclusive podcast, Top Gear Magazine’s Jack Rix tells you everything you need to know about this next-generation Bugatti with the help of Bug’s new boss, Mate Rimac. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published 06/21/24
Just us or is everything getting fatter these days? And where have all the small cars gone? Well here comes the new Kia Picanto flying the flag for a leaner, simpler approach to modern life and Tom Ford taking it for a mega road trip to the skinniest roads in the world. In this episode we discuss all things diddy cars and what it's like doing thousands of miles in Korea's smallest, cutest car. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published 06/12/24
Modern supercars are so good natured that they can cope with anything, right? How about a driving test at the toughest driving centre in the country? Well, to find out, we recently sent Ollie Marriage to retake his driving test in Lamborghini’s 1,000bhp hybrid hypercar: the Revuelto. In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine podcast, Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Kew quiz Top Gear’s Head of Car Testing to see if he passed or failed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
Published 06/05/24
Zonda. Huayra. A succinct but epic bloodline for the next Pagani hypercar to follow. And there’s much promise too, for the new Utopia: a twin-turbo, AMG-supplied V12 with 846bhp; a carbo-titanium monocoque; even the option of a manual gearbox. Only 99 will be built, each costing around £2.2m a pop. But is it a piece of automotive art, too delectable to be driven? Top Gear Magazine’s Head of Car Testing, Ollie Marriage, discusses his recent - very wet - drive to Rowan Horncastle and Ollie...
Published 05/29/24