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The Chinese car market is going gangbusters! And over the next few years, you're going to be seeing a lot more Chinese cars on European shores. So, to get ahead of the game, we sent Rowan Horncastle to the Guangzhou Autoshow to see what is really happening. Prepare to have your minds blown.
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Published 12/06/23
Only three people in the world got to drive the Cybertruck before Tesla's Texas handover event earlier this week... Jack Rix, Youtube tech expert Marques Brownlee and US car journalist Jason Cammisa. We gather together for a talk about the most controversial vehicle of the decade... while Rowan Horncastle asks the the questions we all want answers to
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Published 12/02/23
It’s that time of year again when we name the finest automobiles on planet earth and adorn them with a TG rosette. Yep, the votes have been counted, the arguments have simmered down and the results are in. Unsurprisingly, the class of ’22 is an absolute belter, with everything from single-seater fan cars to retro EV buses, and off-road supercars to trusty hot hatches.
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Published 11/29/23
The Hardknott Pass is the steepest, gnarliest, twistiest, narrowest and most pointless road in the whole of the UK. So what three cars did we decide to throw up it a few years ago? The Lamborghini Aventador SV, McLaren 675LT and Porsche GT3 RS – all in the name of science of course. In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine Podcast Ollie Kew and Ollie Marriage tell Jack Rix why they thought that was a good idea.
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Published 11/22/23
13 years ago, Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle went to Cuba to meet Havana’s underground drag racers who turn their classics up to eleven and compete on the streets. In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine podcast, they relive that adventure, explain how to modify a car during a trade embargo, and details Cuba’s complex relationship with motorsport.
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Published 11/15/23
Join Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle, Ollie Kew, and Ollie Marriage to find out if the Ineos Grenadier can keep up with the new Defender Land Rover in the mud, why it took 12 hours to drive to Margate in a Citroen Ami, what it's like hanging out with Mick Schumacher in Tokyo and why four-cylinders rule. Plus we talk motorised gimmicks.
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Published 11/08/23
Gordon Murray's astonishing £2.8m T.50 is a 963kg, 654bhp three-seater that aims to right the wrongs of the McLaren F1. But is it the greatest supercar ever? Having spent four days driving one solidly across Europe's best mountain roads, Ollie Marriage delivers the verdict to Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Kew.
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Published 11/01/23
Have you ever wondered what a billionaire car enthusiast gets up to on the weekend? Well, wonder no more. Ollie Marriage has been to Spain and peeked behind the curtain at The Supercars Owners Circle – an exclusive fraternity of discerning car collectors that, refreshingly, don’t mind getting their ultra-exclusive cars out of their temperature-controlled humidor garages and take them for a good old thrashing. In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine podcast Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle...
Published 10/25/23
The Aventador replacement, Lamborghini’s biggest beast, is now a plug-in hybrid. It features three electric motors, and a 6.5-litre V12 revving to 9,500rpm, for a total of 1,001bhp. Jack delivers his verdict live from the pit-lane at the Vallelunga track and bumps into a special guest - TopGear America host Jethro Bovingdon
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Published 10/18/23
In this second instalment of TG mag's mega two-part Speed Week monster pod, Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Marriage discuss which 911 is the best to wheelie, the rest of our epic car list and how chaotic Performance Car of the Year can really be.
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Published 10/11/23
15 contenders, seven wind turbines, five barrels of biofuel, many sets of tyres... it’s time for TG’s annual festival of fast! In this first installment of a mega two-parter, Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Marriage dish the dirt on what went down at Top Gear Magazine's 2023 Performance Car of the Year in Sweden.
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Published 10/04/23
It all began with an idea. Could a Hindustan Ambassador actually be converted into a convincing replica of the Peugeot 208 GTI? A question not plucked from thin air, but based on one of the greatest car adverts ever. In this episode, Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle talk about the time they went to India to answer that exact question.
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Published 09/27/23
Now in its fifth generation, the Range Rover invented the idea of a Luxury SUV... and has continued to improve it ever since. We answer the internet's most asked questions on one of its most searched for cars.
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Published 09/20/23
Join Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle, Ollie Kew, and Ollie Marriage to find out why we put a new Ford Mustang on a boat to Hawaii, what a silent Lamborghini is like and how we ended up driving one of the world's rarest cars on Europe's best road. Plus we attempt to name the best-looking engines.
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Published 09/13/23
TopGear Mag is 30 years old... hard to believe, we know. To celebrate we brought together all 30 of TG's Cars of the Year for one incredible shoot on the Brooklands banking. Ollie, Ollie, Jack and Rowan take you through the list and discuss the hits and misses over the years.
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Published 09/06/23
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Published 09/06/23
Well, live-ish. Last week Jack Rix visited the world's poshest car show in California - hundreds of highly-polished classics lined up on the fairway of one of the world's most famous golf courses, plus a load of new concept and production cars... and some top-class people watching. Join him for some car and celeb-spotting around the Pebble Beach Concours.
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Published 08/30/23
Tom Ford recalls the time he drove the world's most reliable car to visit the Great Hungarian Plain, or 'Puszta', and the cowboys, or 'csikósok', that patrol it.
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Published 08/23/23
Is the BMW M2 a backwards step, or do we need to celebrate its type while we still can? Do Americans secretly love estate cars? Is the life-size Tamiya Wild One Max as nerdy as it sounds? All these questions and more are answered to varying degrees of success by the team behind TopGear Magazine, as they bring you the inside stories from this month's mag.
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Published 08/16/23
Love it or loathe it, Lotus’s new electric Eletre SUV will help keep the firm’s balance books in the green. But is it a Lotus in anything but name? We sent Top Gear Magazine’s Tom Ford to Norway to see if Lotus’ Chinese-built EV really topple Tesla?
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Published 08/09/23
Time for a throwback feature as Top Gear Magazine's Rowan Horncastle tells the tale of riding shotgun in one of the rawest off-road races on the planet: The Norra 1000.
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Published 08/02/23
The Swedish Tesla Model 3 rival has been a smash hit for Polestar - Volvo's EV-only, performance-focused sister brand. We answer the internet's most asked questions on one of its most searched for cars.
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Published 07/26/23
Join Top Gear Magazine's Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle as they guide you around this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed. Pop your headphones in and prepare for an hour-long audio tour that takes in the latest and greatest cars, an impromptu hillclimb in French concept car and a discussion about whether Koenigsegg should make carbon fibre Trunkis.
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Published 07/19/23
Join Jack Rix, Ollie Kew and Tom Ford for a healthy debate on fast, British GTs. Is the new pure-EV Spectre the best Rolls ever? Is the Bentley Batur more than just a Continental GT in a £2m frock? Also, Jack drives a bone-stock Jeep Wrangler on one of America's gnarliest off-road trails... and lives to tell the tale.
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Published 07/11/23
Porsche is 75! To celebrate we produced a magazine, free with issue 374, tracking the company's highs and lows from 1948 right up to the present day: the greatest cars, the pivotal moments, the story so far. Here, we attempt to cram three-quarters of a century of automotive history into a 45 minute pod.
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Published 07/05/23
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