BBC Top Gear 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.

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EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT ASTON’S BRUTE IS BACK • The last ever V12 Vantage is here, sporting a small car, big engine formula that’s worked miracles in the past. If it ain’t broke…

COFFEE BREAK

SUZUKI CELERIO

FLYING HIGH • New Polestar concept features a drone that’ll film you from above

GENESIS G70

CAR CONTROL… WITH CATIE #3 DRIVING ON SAND • Extreme E driver, TV presenter and British rallying star Catie Munnings shares some driving wisdom

BLEU BLANC ROUGE • When it comes to the greatest watchmaker of all the French have got a strong claim

PLAY GAME OF THE MONTH

INDIAN EFTR HOOLIGAN 1.2

THE KNOWLEDGE

GENIUS RACING LOOPHOLES

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE… MASERATI GRECALE • Another Maserati SUV hoping to galvanise sales and get the cash in

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 • The received wisdom says it’s time to go electric, but there’s life left in the humble hybrid yet, says Chris

THE MIDDLE LANE • A horsepower limit for new cars? You know it makes sense, says TGTV script writer Sam Philip

FUTURE PROOF • OTA updates are all well and good, but notat the detriment of driving dynamics, says Paul

The big test: Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS • Ever wondered what would happen if Porsche’s GT department really let its hair down? The result might just be the wildest RS model to date

Budget deficit

Light heavyweight

Mild animal

MUST TRY HARDER • BMW 2-SERIES ACTIVE TOURER

Waited average

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

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ICE BREAKER • When you need to test your £2m, 1,888bhp EV hypercar in the Arctic Circle, who you gonna call? Not TopGear…

BEST RE TRO EV HYUNDAI / GRANDEUR

BMW/i4

CHRIS’ PICK POLESTAR/1

LOTUS POSITION • This is the Eletre, which features little simplification and zero lightness. But it still has a Lotus badge. Does it deserve it?

BEST e-RACER AUDI RS Q / E-TRON

PADDY’S PICK ECC/DEFENDER

INSIDER TRADING • Luxury to me might not be luxury to you, but someone’s got the make the call. It’s BMW vs Mercedes in the battle of the luxo e-barges

BEST ELECTRIC CONCEPT MERCEDES-BENZ VISION/EQXX

FREDDIE’S PICK RIVIAN/R1T

MISCELLANEOUS • The other successes (and a few fails) that caught our eye

FERRARI 296 GTB

POWER/GRID • This year’s biggest EV influencers (who aren’t Musk, Rimac or Thunberg)

THE BIG REALLY QUITE BIG TEST • There’s choice a plenty when it comes to electric family cars… so we got the lot

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD BMW/i3

BEST ELECTRIC HATCH RENAULT/MEGANE E-TECH

PORSCHE/TAYCAN SPORT TURISMO

BUZZING “Coo, isn’t it lovely? • There’s a real *cough* buzz around VW’s EV comeback kid. We’re first to drive it, introduce it to the ancestors and ask the real camper fans what they think

OVER/TO THEM • Reinventing its van might be the bravest thing VW’s ever done. Here’s what the community makes of it…

ELECTRIC CAR OF T HE YEAR VW/ID.BUZZ

F1: THE BEGINNING • What were Formula One’s formative years really like? There’s only one way to find out…

BUICK SIGNIA, 1998

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