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BBC Top Gear Magazine

Aug 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

RIMAC NOW RUNS BUGATTI • A Croatian EV start-up run by a 33-year-old has joined forces with a 112-year-old automotive giant… we answer your questions

COFFEE BREAK

INFINITI M37

THE LION KING • Peugeot’s Le Mans hypercar does without a rear wing. Wait, what?

BMW iX

LANDO & DANNY’S F1 DIARY • McLaren’s dynamic duo pull back the curtain on the life of an elite driver

THE GOOD TIMES • Special edition watches have turned into the ultimate F1 team merch

GAME OF THE MONTH

HEIMPLANET WOLF+ CLOUDBREAK

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

THE BEST CARS FOR DOGS

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE… FERRARI 296 GTB • A handful of facts on Ferrari’s new six-cylinder hybrid supercar

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 • Remember Mini’s digital-only Vision Urbanaut concept? A single example now exists. Anyone know why?

THE MIDDLE LANE • We all ignore car alarms, says TGTV script editor Sam Philip. But what if your car could text instead?

FUTURE PROOF • Perfection? Get real, says Paul. And the sooner car companies realise it, the better

The big test: small hot hatches • The mesmerising Ford Fiesta ST is so unbeatable, almost everyone’s given up the fight. Can a tweaked Mini – or an all-new super-Hyundai – topple the champ?

In the beginning

Comfort class

MUST TRY HARDER • VOLKSWAGEN GOLF GTI CLUBSPORT 45

Pole position

Winning formula

TWO MONTHS FOR 99p WHEN YOU SUBSCRIBE ON iPHONE OR iPAD

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

ORDER YOUR LIMITED EDITION TOPGEAR PRINTS • As part of our 350th issue celebrations, we’re giving you the chance to make your wall happy with a limited edition TopGear print. Take your pick from the 35 Greatest Images supplement included with this mag

SUBSCRIBE & RECEIVE A PAIR OF BASSLINE TWS WIRELESS EARBUDS

LET THE GAMES BEGIN • Welcome, readers, to the big one. After all, 350 editions of TopGear magazine calls for a celebration like no other. Or as much as the budget will allow. Which means four cars for the princely sum of £350 each. This is the TG Summer Games

100M SPRINT • Anything Usain Bolt can do, this quartet can do slower, right?

ARCHERY • Two drive-bys, two tries. Who had the steadiest hand when it mattered most?

WEIGHT LIFTING • Who’s the strongest of them all? Rallycross-style weightlifting should settle it

RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS • Just 90 seconds to impress a professional strongman… no pressure

CLIMBING • Four cars versus one ‘very steep’ hill in the deciding event? Child’s play…

POST-EVENT ANALYSIS

350 ISSUES…and counting

THE ROAD TO BELLISSIMO • Maserati’s comeback trail is full of twists and turns – perfect for testing the new MC20

DEAD RINGER • A whole day of hypermiling around Coventry’s ring road. What runs out first, the crisps or the juice?

EMIRA • It’s definitely still a Lotus, but the new Emira might just upset the British sports car purists on its way to sales success…

PEAKY BLINDER • Behind the scenes with Bentley at Pikes Peak, then behind the wheel of its brutal GT3 challenger....


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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

RIMAC NOW RUNS BUGATTI • A Croatian EV start-up run by a 33-year-old has joined forces with a 112-year-old automotive giant… we answer your questions

COFFEE BREAK

INFINITI M37

THE LION KING • Peugeot’s Le Mans hypercar does without a rear wing. Wait, what?

BMW iX

LANDO & DANNY’S F1 DIARY • McLaren’s dynamic duo pull back the curtain on the life of an elite driver

THE GOOD TIMES • Special edition watches have turned into the ultimate F1 team merch

GAME OF THE MONTH

HEIMPLANET WOLF+ CLOUDBREAK

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

THE BEST CARS FOR DOGS

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE… FERRARI 296 GTB • A handful of facts on Ferrari’s new six-cylinder hybrid supercar

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 • Remember Mini’s digital-only Vision Urbanaut concept? A single example now exists. Anyone know why?

THE MIDDLE LANE • We all ignore car alarms, says TGTV script editor Sam Philip. But what if your car could text instead?

FUTURE PROOF • Perfection? Get real, says Paul. And the sooner car companies realise it, the better

The big test: small hot hatches • The mesmerising Ford Fiesta ST is so unbeatable, almost everyone’s given up the fight. Can a tweaked Mini – or an all-new super-Hyundai – topple the champ?

In the beginning

Comfort class

MUST TRY HARDER • VOLKSWAGEN GOLF GTI CLUBSPORT 45

Pole position

Winning formula

TWO MONTHS FOR 99p WHEN YOU SUBSCRIBE ON iPHONE OR iPAD

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

ORDER YOUR LIMITED EDITION TOPGEAR PRINTS • As part of our 350th issue celebrations, we’re giving you the chance to make your wall happy with a limited edition TopGear print. Take your pick from the 35 Greatest Images supplement included with this mag

SUBSCRIBE & RECEIVE A PAIR OF BASSLINE TWS WIRELESS EARBUDS

LET THE GAMES BEGIN • Welcome, readers, to the big one. After all, 350 editions of TopGear magazine calls for a celebration like no other. Or as much as the budget will allow. Which means four cars for the princely sum of £350 each. This is the TG Summer Games

100M SPRINT • Anything Usain Bolt can do, this quartet can do slower, right?

ARCHERY • Two drive-bys, two tries. Who had the steadiest hand when it mattered most?

WEIGHT LIFTING • Who’s the strongest of them all? Rallycross-style weightlifting should settle it

RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS • Just 90 seconds to impress a professional strongman… no pressure

CLIMBING • Four cars versus one ‘very steep’ hill in the deciding event? Child’s play…

POST-EVENT ANALYSIS

350 ISSUES…and counting

THE ROAD TO BELLISSIMO • Maserati’s comeback trail is full of twists and turns – perfect for testing the new MC20

DEAD RINGER • A whole day of hypermiling around Coventry’s ring road. What runs out first, the crisps or the juice?

EMIRA • It’s definitely still a Lotus, but the new Emira might just upset the British sports car purists on its way to sales success…

PEAKY BLINDER • Behind the scenes with Bentley at Pikes Peak, then behind the wheel of its brutal GT3 challenger....


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