The Hummer EV is a ridiculous motor vehicle. It weighs 4,110kg, which is the same as nine Caterham 170Rs and means, if you could buy one in the UK, you'd need an HGV licence to drive it. This $110k Edition 1 model has three motors - two at the back, one at the front - producing a total of 986bhp and 1,200lb ft of torque, enough for a 0-62mph sprint in three seconds flat. That's basically as quick as a Ferrari 296 GTB, despite having the aerodynamics of a shopping centre. It has a claimed range of 329 miles, which is impressive, but only because it has a 205kWh battery - the same as six Honda es. It drains the planet's resources like a sugar-crazed toddler slurping on a milkshake, and in the process upends the electric car's core justification - being in some way beneficial to the environment.
As I approach it for the first time, it's crammed into an underground car park like an elephant in a bungalow and my hatchet is sharpened and ready. This is a grotesque mutilation of functionality, I tell myself, a modern caricature of a defunct military vehicle that was designed to patrol war zones, not chichi boulevards and Instagram profiles. The original Humvee's freakish 71.6-inch track width was so it could follow comfortably in the footprints of a tank, the Hummer EV's track width is two inches wider still... for no discernible reason. This is lunacy.
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\"It looks like it could batter its way through anything\"
![The 1,000bhp P1 drift car is finished (on the outside] and doesn't it look sensational?](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/8824/1791600/RW4wiJ61l1723027408131/THE-1000BHP-P1-DRIFT-CAR-IS-FINISHED-ON-THE-OUTSIDE-AND-DOESNT-IT-LOOK-SENSATIONAL.jpg "The 1,000bhp P1 drift car is finished (on the outside] and doesn't it look sensational?")
The 1,000bhp P1 drift car is finished (on the outside] and doesn't it look sensational?
WHAT IS IT? A McLaren racecar carbon tub clothed in P1 GTR panels with the full drift car treatment. Consider us well and truly intrigued
HEAD TO HEAD SUPER SALOONS
This should just be your usual, regular, ultra fast, four door battle. But after what AMG has done to one of our very favourite speed machines, it's anything but. It's AMG C63 vs Alfa QF...
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What happens when you cross Zagato with Alpine? An A110 that can change its clothes...
SAVE THE WHALES
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...sell on Monday
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GO WITH THE FLOW
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SCRAMBLED SEGG
The Koenigsegg Chimera is a one-off mashup of Agera RS, Jesko and, CC850 - potent, but what exactly is the point?
SIMPLIFLY AND ADD LIGHTNESS
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CANNON BULL
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