BBC Top Gear UK Magazine - March 2024

In this issue

JAPAN REBOOTED
Tom Ford corrals the Nissan HyperForce, Toyota FT-Se, Mazda SP Iconic and Lexus Electrified Sports Concept in Tokyo...

MAGARIGAWA CLUB
Magarigawa is the “world’s only luxury driving club”, in its own words. We head to Chiba to see what all the fuss is about..

EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT ZERO TO HERO

Hondas you can lust after are back. Allow us to introduce the wonderfully wedgy '0 Series'

2 mins

JEEP CHEROKEE 2001

Jeep's 'XJ' Cherokee, built between 1984 and 2001, was one of America's great automotive designs: a chisel-edged slab of practicality that arguably set the template for every SUV that followed.

1 min

HOTTER HATCH

Rally bred TG hero gets more power and optional eight-soeed auto

1 min

HIP TO BE SQUARE

Watches come in all shapes and sizes, and the square watch has plenty of celeb endorsement

2 mins

PLAY - GAME OF THE MONTH

There appears to be some sort of law, perhaps inscribed on Magna Carta, that if you have a collection of kid-friendly franchises, you must place those characters in a karting video game to battle in the white hot crucible of two-stroke motorsport.

2 mins

TOPGEAR TOP 9

GEEKIEST WEIGHT SAVING IN FAST CARS

2 mins

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE...MCLAREN GTS

McLaren's GT is now the GTS - less weight, but a 30 per cent longer name

1 min

THE MIDDLE LANE

A very serious incident involving a toaster and an electric car has got TGTV's Sam Philip thinking

2 mins

FUTURE PROOF

Is perfect the same for one person as the next, asks Horrell. Turns out, it's very unlikely...

2 mins

J-TURN

As the world pivots towards EV, Japan is busy figuring out how to keep its icons alive and kicking. We gather the concepts and assess their chances...

10+ mins

PAST & FURIOUS

You've seen the future, time to acknowledge heroes of the past. An impromptu night meet in Tokyo's Daikoku car park should do it...

8 mins

TOPGEAR DOESN'T DO HOTELS...

If it did, this is what they'd look like. Welcome to Magarigawa, where Japan's über rich come to play

8 mins

PORSCHE MACAN: THE NEW NORMAL

The new Macan has a lot riding on it, not least because it's the first fully electric SUV from Porsche. Impress your friends with our handy 10 Things You Need to Know guide

5 mins

Wedge fund

Love supercars? Have bags of money? There's only one club you need to be a part of

2 mins

LUCID MOTORS

One of America's brightest electric car startups is burning stacks of cash faster than Christopher Nolan's Joker. What's going on at Tesla's worst nightmare?

10 mins

FACTORY FRESH

In a quiet corner of the Ferrari factory in Maranello, a small dedicated team document the past and offer classics a future...

5 mins

CITROEN C-MÉTISSE, 2006

They say that the definition of insanity is repeating the same thing over and over but expecting the same result. Like French carmakers and their luxury barges. They just seem to keep on coming, and nobody seems to keep on buying them.

2 mins

RICCI'S GARAGE

Report 43 With the promise of the BMW being up and running soon, Mark has a difficult decision to make

2 mins

BMW M2

HAVE I MADE A HUGE MISTAKE? SHOULD I DEACTIVATE ALL MY SOCIAL media profiles, claim I was hacked and enter a witness protection scheme? Feels like it. We asked BMW if we could replace our retiring i4 saloon with the baby M car. The M2. The last manual M car. And guess what? We've gone for the automatic.

3 mins

Jeep Avenger

AS ANY GOOD WILL TELL YOU, IT'S ALWAYS WORTH getting a second opinion. Which is why, after running the Avenger for a couple of months and generally being won over by its uncomplicated manners and neat proportions, I lobbed the keys to the newest member of TG's writing staff, Shafiq Abidin, to pick his annoyingly youthful brains.

1 min

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