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BBC Top Gear Magazine

Jan 01 2021
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

SUBSCRIBE • & RECEIVE A PAIR OF BASSLINE TWS WIRELESS EARBUDS!

DOING THE DAKAR • Some big names have joined the desert race for 2021, including Prodrive with its BRX Hunter. Don’t forget the bucket and spade, lads

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

McLAREN X-1

MINI MAGIC MOMENTS • Unforgettable times ahead with Mini’s new self-driving concept pod

FORD MUSTANG GT FASTBACK

WHAT DOES THE 2030 PETROL AND DIESEL BAN MEAN FOR ME?

THE GOLD RUSH • A bit of wrist bling is fashionable these days, but it’s not always been that way…

ZAK BROWN • The McLaren Racing chief talks us through his incredible car collection

ZAK’S DREAM GARAGE

MERCEDES-MAYBACH S-CLASS

PLAY

ALPINE 1955 COLLECTION

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

THE BEST MANUALS YOU CAN BUY RIGHT NOW

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT… GYMKHANA 11 • A handful of essential facts on Hoonigan’s latest internet-melting video

ELECTRIC • TOPGEAR’S GUIDE TO THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING

EV UPDATE

CHRIS HARRIS • Williams Engineering’s world-first 400kWh lithium-sulfur luxury yacht battery has no rare-earth materials

THE MIDDLE LANE • The only way is up says TG TV script editor Sam Philip on satnavs. Dare you disagree?

FUTURE PROOF • Fancy suspension, eh? Sometimes, the hype is worth it, as Paul Horrell recently discovered

The big test: family-friendly EVs • VW’s all-electric newbie should crush Nissan’s old guard, shouldn’t it? But how does it stack up against the EV everyone wants to beat?

Electric wannabe

Fully Comp

Speed machine

Not so déjà vu

MUST TRY HARDER

Fuss free

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

CIVIL WAR • Two American giants collide, and it’s the old-timer muscling in on the start-up’s patch…

WHAT’S IT LIKE IN RAINY OLD BLIGHTY?

USA TG’S ROUGH GUIDE TO AMERICA • Supersized insights on the state of this nation… from the TG experts

HOW TO ROADTRIP • The need to know before you go – the laws, that is – plus our essential road snack breakdown to keep you fuelled

TRULY TERRIBLE AMERICAN CARS • They tried to sell over here

PRIME US TARMAC • So much to explore, so how do you know where to head? Well, we've hit the road more times than Jack Kerouac

MUSCLE MEMORY • A brief history of the muscle car in America from 1964 to the modern day

MEDALLION MEN • Evolution of the NY yellow cab

THE US IN STEREOTYPES • It's no place for nuance… understand the United States in six simple maps

THE TRACKS • It's not all ovals, you know – America is home to a range of great circuits too

HOW TO BE A NASCAR FAN • Want to fit in at the local oval track? Follow our five simple steps and you'll be off to a rolling start

THE ICONS • There’s good drivers, and then there’s great drivers, and this lot deserve their place in the US hall of fame

MAX POWER • Remember when 500bhp made a supercar, 700bhp was potty and 1,000bhp unthinkable? That’s chicken feed to these two. If the combustion engine’s days are really numbered, then it’s going out with a bang

WHICH WINS IN A DRAG RACE? DEPLOY THE TOPGEAR MATHS…

What would happen if Bugatti made...


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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

SUBSCRIBE • & RECEIVE A PAIR OF BASSLINE TWS WIRELESS EARBUDS!

DOING THE DAKAR • Some big names have joined the desert race for 2021, including Prodrive with its BRX Hunter. Don’t forget the bucket and spade, lads

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

McLAREN X-1

MINI MAGIC MOMENTS • Unforgettable times ahead with Mini’s new self-driving concept pod

FORD MUSTANG GT FASTBACK

WHAT DOES THE 2030 PETROL AND DIESEL BAN MEAN FOR ME?

THE GOLD RUSH • A bit of wrist bling is fashionable these days, but it’s not always been that way…

ZAK BROWN • The McLaren Racing chief talks us through his incredible car collection

ZAK’S DREAM GARAGE

MERCEDES-MAYBACH S-CLASS

PLAY

ALPINE 1955 COLLECTION

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

THE BEST MANUALS YOU CAN BUY RIGHT NOW

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT… GYMKHANA 11 • A handful of essential facts on Hoonigan’s latest internet-melting video

ELECTRIC • TOPGEAR’S GUIDE TO THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING

EV UPDATE

CHRIS HARRIS • Williams Engineering’s world-first 400kWh lithium-sulfur luxury yacht battery has no rare-earth materials

THE MIDDLE LANE • The only way is up says TG TV script editor Sam Philip on satnavs. Dare you disagree?

FUTURE PROOF • Fancy suspension, eh? Sometimes, the hype is worth it, as Paul Horrell recently discovered

The big test: family-friendly EVs • VW’s all-electric newbie should crush Nissan’s old guard, shouldn’t it? But how does it stack up against the EV everyone wants to beat?

Electric wannabe

Fully Comp

Speed machine

Not so déjà vu

MUST TRY HARDER

Fuss free

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

CIVIL WAR • Two American giants collide, and it’s the old-timer muscling in on the start-up’s patch…

WHAT’S IT LIKE IN RAINY OLD BLIGHTY?

USA TG’S ROUGH GUIDE TO AMERICA • Supersized insights on the state of this nation… from the TG experts

HOW TO ROADTRIP • The need to know before you go – the laws, that is – plus our essential road snack breakdown to keep you fuelled

TRULY TERRIBLE AMERICAN CARS • They tried to sell over here

PRIME US TARMAC • So much to explore, so how do you know where to head? Well, we've hit the road more times than Jack Kerouac

MUSCLE MEMORY • A brief history of the muscle car in America from 1964 to the modern day

MEDALLION MEN • Evolution of the NY yellow cab

THE US IN STEREOTYPES • It's no place for nuance… understand the United States in six simple maps

THE TRACKS • It's not all ovals, you know – America is home to a range of great circuits too

HOW TO BE A NASCAR FAN • Want to fit in at the local oval track? Follow our five simple steps and you'll be off to a rolling start

THE ICONS • There’s good drivers, and then there’s great drivers, and this lot deserve their place in the US hall of fame

MAX POWER • Remember when 500bhp made a supercar, 700bhp was potty and 1,000bhp unthinkable? That’s chicken feed to these two. If the combustion engine’s days are really numbered, then it’s going out with a bang

WHICH WINS IN A DRAG RACE? DEPLOY THE TOPGEAR MATHS…

What would happen if Bugatti made...


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