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THE BEST 911 EVER? • Porsche marks the 911’s 60th birthday with a lightweight, analogue, driver’s dream. Catch the S/T while you still can

COFFEE BREAK • What we’re watching/listening/doing, while we should be working

DODGE NITRO

ACT OF VALOUR • Aston celebrates 110 years in business by unleashing a modern day Muncher

ASTON MARTIN DB12 • Step away from the Valkyrie colour palette. Aston might be billing the DB12 as a ‘super GT’ but supercar colours and details jar with its elegantly brutish lines. Black roof pillars get the thumbs-up from us.

PLAY LIST • Procrastination ahoy! Six videos worth watching on the web this month

THE NIFTY FIFTIES • Lots of today’s most desirable watches were born in the post war boom. Here’s why

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PORSCHE 75TH ANNIVERSARY XBOX COLLECTION

THE KNOWLEDGE • Need-to-know nuggets of automotive news

WEIRD AND WONDERFUL FOLDING ROOFS

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE… HYUNDAI IONIQ 5 N • Behold South Korea’s new electric, dual motor monster

HARD DRIVE • We download YouTube’s #1 tech expert on whatever he’s been driving this month

ELECTRIC • TOPGEAR’S GUIDE TO THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING

EV UPDATE

CHRIS HARRIS • Restomods are everywhere these days, says Chris. But Tuthill’s lightweight 911K stands out from the pack

THE MIDDLE LANE • TGTV’s Sam Philip is going on an adventure. An electrically powered adventure. Best of luck!

FUTURE PROOF • Carmakers have always cried wolf when it comes to new regs, says Paul. But this time it’s different…

The big test: last chance sports cars • The German big guns are all going electric soon. If you want an old school petrol thriller, get one while they’re still hot…

Pole vault

Hot or not?

Hi, Phi

MUST TRY HARDER

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The overrun • Small but perfectly formed reviews. The best of the rest from this month’s drives

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COMPLICATE THEN ADD WEIGHT • Love it or loathe it, Lotus’s new electric SUV will help keep the firm’s balance books in the green. But is it a Lotus in anything but name?

THEN ADD A TESLA • Time for the Lotus Eletre’s biggest test yet: a head to head with the old guard. Can it upset the Model X as luxury electric SUV gatekeeper?

VISION EXPRESS • Pininfarina’s new e-LUV concept – electric luxury utility vehicle – channels its past while pointing to the future. Beauty or beast?

LET’S GO!

I HAVE AN ILLNESS. • Nothing to see here, just a normal driving lesson in a sensible family wagon. Here’s what happened when Jethro met Travis…

MEGA DRIVE • Jann Mardenborough’s rise from bedroom gamer to Le Mans racer is the stuff of dreams… and now movies. Here’s five things you need to know about the new Gran Turismo film, including whether it’s any good

Drumroll please… IS IT ANY GOOD?

HAULIN’ ASS • America is the spiritual home of the SUV. The truck is king. But the car they usurped – the traditional station wagon – still has a loyal and passionate following… if you know where to look

BOX FRESH • Into radio controlled cars as a kid? Get ready to relive those Eighties childhood memories: this is the Tamiya Wild One, reborn as a real life-off-road electric buggy. Oh boy, this is gonna be good

HERE’S ONE WE MADE EARLIER… • Sam Burnett...