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DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH

The Octa is the biggest, baddest version of the Defender yet - conquering the South African wilderness should be a walk in the park...

ROUTE ONE

All you need for a roadtrip is a car, a destination and an excuse. Over to our man in Japan to stretch that brief to its limit...

RETRO

BECAUSE THEY DON'T MAKE M LIKE THEY USED TO

END OF DAYS

If the hot hatch's halcyon days really are numbered, what better send-off than thrashing our top five on an icy Welsh B-road...

DIARY OF A CES

The death knell has sounded for the traditional motor show, and carmakers are turning to the world's biggest tech show for launches. We take on the biggest of them all

A maxed out Volkswagen Golf GTI MKVIII

We head to Texas to check out BMP Tuning's Pomelo Yellow GTI...

4X4 RISING

When it comes to off roaders, the Japanese don't do things by the book...

E Honda

Honda's new retro-futuristic O Series SUV and Saloon are here to make EVs interesting

THE HOT HATCH IS DEAD.

The hot hatch is at a crossroads, with the old guard being run out and the new electrified era only just being ushered in. Is there hope left?

The OG Japanese tuner

From kitchen hand to one of the founding fathers of the Japanese tuning industry. Meet VeilSide founder Hironao Yokomaku

ELECTROMECHANIC

Meet the electric restomod that you can create at home it's so easy you can do the conversion in a day, apparently

ALL THE SMALL THINGS

Word is there's no such thing as a decent, small, simple, reasonably priced car these days. Allow TopGear to investigate

VOLKSWAGEN ID.BUZZ 7-SEAT

Volkswagen’s new seven seater ID.Buzz is now the family mover it always should have been

BMW M5

TO THE POINT: THE NEW BMW M5 IS AN excellent car. It's very fast, confident, endlessly configurable and now offers a not inconsequential 40ish miles of electric-only running for happy tax returns.

VAUXHALL GRANDLAND vs FORD EXPLORER

These two brands have been the 'pile it high, sell it cheap' kings of the UK market for decades, but their new core models take a very different tack...

CAR OF THE YEAR - 5 STAR

Yep, Renault's retro-chic new supermini with an optional wicker baguette holder Scoops the grand prix...

MEANWHILE... IN THE FUTURE

Catching rockets with chopsticks isn't the only autonomous tech going on in Elon Musk's world...

KING OF THE HILLS

You wait for one 800+bhp super GT, then two rock up at once. It's the Aston/Ferrari showdown we've all been waiting for...

PACKAGE

What better way to test the Hyundai Santa Fe's SUV-ness than hand delivering TopGear magazine to each and every subscriber in... New Zealand?

MYTH BUSTER

\"THE GOLF GTI WAS THE OG HOT HATCH\"

The fastest Integra in the world

Bought as standard then fettled to magnificent speed, this car has a hell of a story to tell

EPIC FAIL BRICKLIN SV-1

\"When the SV-1 actually drove, it did so slowly, making it tricky to have a high speed crash\"

La bella vita

Italians know how to live the good life cars, food, wine... and watches too it turns out

Win win?

The updated 911 GT3 and (now four seater] GT3 Touring are here. Choose wisely

The D-Day Channel crosser

To commemorate his father’s service in World War Two, Nigel Stoate and his son sailed the Channel and back in their 1944 OUKW’ truck

HEAD TO HEAD VANTAGE vs 911 TURBO

For as long as we can remember the Porsche 911 has been the default best sports car money can buy. Does the new Aston Vantage represent a changing of the guard?

BOSS LEVEL:PART TWO

In a world exclusive, three makers of the world's most powerful hypercars are cordially invited... to drive each other's creations

THE THEORY 0F EVOLUTION

Ridged bladder seats, an inflating steering wheel and an AI track day coach... has Lotus hit on the supercar's future, or gone mad?

Koenigsegg Jesko Attack

The Jesko Attack drives like a conventional supercar. Brakes like one, turns like one, grips like one. But it doesn't accelerate like one.

STIC LAPS are back!

It's a 1.75-mile figure of eight on an old Canadian Air Force base just south of Guildford. Hardly Monza, or the Mulsanne straight, and never in a million years - you'd think a place that would become one of the most sought after performance benchmarks in the motoring world.