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BBC Top Gear Magazine

May 01 2020
Magazine

Top Gear is the worlds most exciting Car magazine bringing you up to date news, the latest drives and stunning features. Plus of course, the combined talents of TV's Clarkson, Hammond and May.

WELCOME

GET YOUR FIX • We’ve made it as easy as possible for you to get TopGear magazine

Top Gear

CARS AND THE CORONAVIRUS • When the call came, the carmakers responded as one. TG salutes you

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

THE VAUXHALL TIGRA SPORT ROUGE

CHASING PERFECT • This street-spec BMW 3.0 CSL IMSA is road racer perfection. Go on, tell us we’re wrong…

FIELD OF DREAMS • Five more of Khyzyl’s cars that don’t exist, but we wish they did

UNHINGED FLYING OBJECT • First pics of Valkyrie out and about confirm it’s a road car, but not as we know it…

ASTON VANTAGE ROADSTER

THE PRICE OF GOLD (LEAF)

OLIVIER FRANÇOIS CEO, Fiat brand • THE QUESTIONS THEY REALLY DIDN’T WANT TO BE ASKED…

JAMIE CHADWICK • The reigning W Series champion talks us through her car history

JAMIE’S DREAM GARAGE • The racing star’s favourite vehicles…

CAN’T BEAT A BULLI • Official camper conversion with the guts of an e-Up. Doesn’t get cooler than this

WHY YOU SHOULD BE FOLLOWING…

BUGATTI HYPERTRUCK

TIME OF CHANGE • Times, they are a-changing, but sometimes it’s good to get stuck in the past

THE PORSCHE U-TURN EDITION

GEAR

OVERPASS

HERO ZERO • The other stuff making us deliriously happy or horribly sad this month…

CHRIS HARRIS • Wondering what to do with all this new-found spare time? Chris has many excellent suggestions

THE MIDDLE LANE • TGTV script editor Sam Philip discusses pointless objects. Top hat, anyone?

FUTURE PROOF • Is Honda about to finally realise its potential? Paul Horrell reckons so…

SPECIAL SUBSCRIPTION OFER SAVE 50% • Get two years for the price of one when you subscribe to BBC TopGear magazine, paying just £63.70 for 26 issues, that's a saving of 50%!*

The big test: sports cars • New versions of the Jaguar F-Type and Lotus Evora have arrived to take on the base Porsche 911. Does Britain have what it takes?

Comfort zone

Twin test: nippy little city cars • Peugeot takes on Ford in the hard-fought battle for supermini supremacy

Great big softie

Cheap and nice-y

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

THE ELECTRIC AWARDS • UP CLOSE WITH THE KOENIGSEGG GEMERA TOPGEAR’S EUROPEAN EV MARATHON AN IDIOT’S GUIDE TO GOING ELECTRIC

BEST SUPERMINI _ELECTRON _MICRO _SCOPE • Superminis are the new EV battleground… time for a full-throttle ‘track’ test in our top three

THE GAME CHANGER AWARD TESLA_ MODEL_3_

THE_TEN_ STEPS_ TO_GOING_ ELECTRIC • Confused about this whole EV thing? Allow TopGear to simplificate it with a handy guide

BEST SMALL FAMILY CAR _THE _24HRS_OF _HYUNDAI • One Kona Electric, nine countries, 1,000 miles. Is range anxiety really a thing?

BEST INTERIOR HONDA_ e_

THE HOT LIST • Remember the names, these are the 10 most influential people in the EV industry today…

INNOVATION AWARD HONEY, I SCARED THE KIDS • Turns out building a four-seater with hypercar performance isn’t as easy as it sounds. Trust Koenigsegg to find a way

TINY FRIENDLY GIANT • How to get 600bhp from three cylinders

BEST BIG FAMILY CAR SKODA_SUPERB_ iV_ESTATE_

BEST SUPER SALOON PORSCHE_TAYCAN_

BEST E - SUV AUDI_ e-tron_

GROWING FAMILY • Audi appears to be taking this electric thing quite seriously…

HYPER DRIVE • A new...


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Top Gear is the worlds most exciting Car magazine bringing you up to date news, the latest drives and stunning features. Plus of course, the combined talents of TV's Clarkson, Hammond and May.

WELCOME

GET YOUR FIX • We’ve made it as easy as possible for you to get TopGear magazine

Top Gear

CARS AND THE CORONAVIRUS • When the call came, the carmakers responded as one. TG salutes you

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

THE VAUXHALL TIGRA SPORT ROUGE

CHASING PERFECT • This street-spec BMW 3.0 CSL IMSA is road racer perfection. Go on, tell us we’re wrong…

FIELD OF DREAMS • Five more of Khyzyl’s cars that don’t exist, but we wish they did

UNHINGED FLYING OBJECT • First pics of Valkyrie out and about confirm it’s a road car, but not as we know it…

ASTON VANTAGE ROADSTER

THE PRICE OF GOLD (LEAF)

OLIVIER FRANÇOIS CEO, Fiat brand • THE QUESTIONS THEY REALLY DIDN’T WANT TO BE ASKED…

JAMIE CHADWICK • The reigning W Series champion talks us through her car history

JAMIE’S DREAM GARAGE • The racing star’s favourite vehicles…

CAN’T BEAT A BULLI • Official camper conversion with the guts of an e-Up. Doesn’t get cooler than this

WHY YOU SHOULD BE FOLLOWING…

BUGATTI HYPERTRUCK

TIME OF CHANGE • Times, they are a-changing, but sometimes it’s good to get stuck in the past

THE PORSCHE U-TURN EDITION

GEAR

OVERPASS

HERO ZERO • The other stuff making us deliriously happy or horribly sad this month…

CHRIS HARRIS • Wondering what to do with all this new-found spare time? Chris has many excellent suggestions

THE MIDDLE LANE • TGTV script editor Sam Philip discusses pointless objects. Top hat, anyone?

FUTURE PROOF • Is Honda about to finally realise its potential? Paul Horrell reckons so…

SPECIAL SUBSCRIPTION OFER SAVE 50% • Get two years for the price of one when you subscribe to BBC TopGear magazine, paying just £63.70 for 26 issues, that's a saving of 50%!*

The big test: sports cars • New versions of the Jaguar F-Type and Lotus Evora have arrived to take on the base Porsche 911. Does Britain have what it takes?

Comfort zone

Twin test: nippy little city cars • Peugeot takes on Ford in the hard-fought battle for supermini supremacy

Great big softie

Cheap and nice-y

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

THE ELECTRIC AWARDS • UP CLOSE WITH THE KOENIGSEGG GEMERA TOPGEAR’S EUROPEAN EV MARATHON AN IDIOT’S GUIDE TO GOING ELECTRIC

BEST SUPERMINI _ELECTRON _MICRO _SCOPE • Superminis are the new EV battleground… time for a full-throttle ‘track’ test in our top three

THE GAME CHANGER AWARD TESLA_ MODEL_3_

THE_TEN_ STEPS_ TO_GOING_ ELECTRIC • Confused about this whole EV thing? Allow TopGear to simplificate it with a handy guide

BEST SMALL FAMILY CAR _THE _24HRS_OF _HYUNDAI • One Kona Electric, nine countries, 1,000 miles. Is range anxiety really a thing?

BEST INTERIOR HONDA_ e_

THE HOT LIST • Remember the names, these are the 10 most influential people in the EV industry today…

INNOVATION AWARD HONEY, I SCARED THE KIDS • Turns out building a four-seater with hypercar performance isn’t as easy as it sounds. Trust Koenigsegg to find a way

TINY FRIENDLY GIANT • How to get 600bhp from three cylinders

BEST BIG FAMILY CAR SKODA_SUPERB_ iV_ESTATE_

BEST SUPER SALOON PORSCHE_TAYCAN_

BEST E - SUV AUDI_ e-tron_

GROWING FAMILY • Audi appears to be taking this electric thing quite seriously…

HYPER DRIVE • A new...


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