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BBC Top Gear Magazine

Febuary 2023
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 • There’s more than one way to consume the world’s best car content

Top Gear

A STIFF G&T • Welcome to Ford’s final ever GT, an 800+bhp limited edition track special. Should see it out in style, then

IV LEAGUE

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

CHRYSLER SEBRING

PRANCING PIXELS • Ferrari finally joins the Vision Gran Turismo party. Knocks it out of the park…

CATERHAM SUPER SEVEN 2000 • Careful on the options as you kitsch up your retro Super Seven. Less is more – and going for the Seventies vibe with brown, er, anywhere is to be avoided. As is the gopping wide chassis option.

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

WAR OF THE WATCH • In the absence of electronics, the wristwatch played a crucial role in World War Two

HUGH BONNEVILLE • The Earl of Grantham and Paddington Bear’s foster father talks childhood Volvos and EV living…

TESLA SEMI

PLAY

PORSCHE TEQUIPMENT ROOF TENT

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

SUPERCAR-INSPIRED SPEEDBOATS

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE… ABARTH 500e • A handful of facts on Abarth’s luridly eye-catching first ever electric model

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

CHIS HARRIS • There is no such thing as a zero emission vehicle, so stop perpetuating the myth please, says Chris

THE MIDDLE LANE • Stop compiling your driving tunes playlist, TGTV’s Sam Philip has some serious advice for you all

FUTURE PROOF • With the new car market in turmoil, drivers are increasingly investing in used buys, says Paul Horrell

The big test: hybrid SUVs • Want a luxury sporting SUV with plug-in capability to limit the guilt? Not ready for full electric? Time for a heavyweight contest

Fast and the family

Fantastic beast?

Feline fresh

Over kill

MUST TRY HARDER

Style guru

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

3 ISSUES FOR £5 • Try 3 issues for just £5 with this trial offer to BBC TopGear Magazine and test drive the greatest motoring magazine on the planet!

BRAND NEW! • CAR CHAT, INTERVIEWS, SPECIAL GUESTS AND GAMES – ALL BROUGHT TO YOU FROM THE TEAM BEHIND THE WORLD’S FAVOURITE CAR MAGAZINE

THE HOT LIST • Welcome to the Hot List – a collection of all the new cars and things that matter in the coming year… and a few that don’t. All the knowledge you need for a successful 2023

A QUiET PLACE • What better way to enjoy the BMW i7’s built in cinema, than watching a scary movie in the middle of nowhere… in the dead of night

01 BMW i7

02 BMW M2

GUESS WHO’S BACK • Will the second coming of a BMW legend be everything it’s cracked up to be? There are some issues…

04 FORD MUSTANG

05 ROLLS-ROYCE SPECTRE

→ 06 LOTUS EMIRA

Anything else from Lotus?

→ 07 MASERATI PROJECT24

HYUNDAI IONIQ 6 • To understand the rise of Hyundai, you need to explore where it comes from… in two of its polar opposite new products

08 HYUNDAI IONIQ 6

→ HYUNDAI IONIQ 5 N

WILD HYBRID • A complex name for a very complex car. AMG’s core sports saloon matures from a V8 hot rod to 4cyl hybrid tech overload. Is less...


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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 • There’s more than one way to consume the world’s best car content

Top Gear

A STIFF G&T • Welcome to Ford’s final ever GT, an 800+bhp limited edition track special. Should see it out in style, then

IV LEAGUE

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

CHRYSLER SEBRING

PRANCING PIXELS • Ferrari finally joins the Vision Gran Turismo party. Knocks it out of the park…

CATERHAM SUPER SEVEN 2000 • Careful on the options as you kitsch up your retro Super Seven. Less is more – and going for the Seventies vibe with brown, er, anywhere is to be avoided. As is the gopping wide chassis option.

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

WAR OF THE WATCH • In the absence of electronics, the wristwatch played a crucial role in World War Two

HUGH BONNEVILLE • The Earl of Grantham and Paddington Bear’s foster father talks childhood Volvos and EV living…

TESLA SEMI

PLAY

PORSCHE TEQUIPMENT ROOF TENT

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

SUPERCAR-INSPIRED SPEEDBOATS

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE… ABARTH 500e • A handful of facts on Abarth’s luridly eye-catching first ever electric model

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

CHIS HARRIS • There is no such thing as a zero emission vehicle, so stop perpetuating the myth please, says Chris

THE MIDDLE LANE • Stop compiling your driving tunes playlist, TGTV’s Sam Philip has some serious advice for you all

FUTURE PROOF • With the new car market in turmoil, drivers are increasingly investing in used buys, says Paul Horrell

The big test: hybrid SUVs • Want a luxury sporting SUV with plug-in capability to limit the guilt? Not ready for full electric? Time for a heavyweight contest

Fast and the family

Fantastic beast?

Feline fresh

Over kill

MUST TRY HARDER

Style guru

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

3 ISSUES FOR £5 • Try 3 issues for just £5 with this trial offer to BBC TopGear Magazine and test drive the greatest motoring magazine on the planet!

BRAND NEW! • CAR CHAT, INTERVIEWS, SPECIAL GUESTS AND GAMES – ALL BROUGHT TO YOU FROM THE TEAM BEHIND THE WORLD’S FAVOURITE CAR MAGAZINE

THE HOT LIST • Welcome to the Hot List – a collection of all the new cars and things that matter in the coming year… and a few that don’t. All the knowledge you need for a successful 2023

A QUiET PLACE • What better way to enjoy the BMW i7’s built in cinema, than watching a scary movie in the middle of nowhere… in the dead of night

01 BMW i7

02 BMW M2

GUESS WHO’S BACK • Will the second coming of a BMW legend be everything it’s cracked up to be? There are some issues…

04 FORD MUSTANG

05 ROLLS-ROYCE SPECTRE

→ 06 LOTUS EMIRA

Anything else from Lotus?

→ 07 MASERATI PROJECT24

HYUNDAI IONIQ 6 • To understand the rise of Hyundai, you need to explore where it comes from… in two of its polar opposite new products

08 HYUNDAI IONIQ 6

→ HYUNDAI IONIQ 5 N

WILD HYBRID • A complex name for a very complex car. AMG’s core sports saloon matures from a V8 hot rod to 4cyl hybrid tech overload. Is less...


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