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Christian von Koenigsegg is a glutton for engineering punishment. His Swedish hypercar company currently builds the Jesko (which has just set the 0-400km/h-0 record) and it’ll soon start delivering the new CC850 and Gemera to customers. That’s three distinct models, each with their own head-scratchingly complex innovations. And yet, amongst all this, he said “yes” to a request from a customer who wanted their older-model Agera RS melded with the best bits of a Jesko and CC850 to create an absolute one-off. Many engineering headaches later we have this, the Chimera, which blends an Agera RS with the 5.0-litre twin-turbo V8 engine from a Jesko and the fiendishly complex manual-cum-automatic gearbox from the CC850. In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine Podcast Jack Rix tries to explain the Swedish headache to the rest of the team.

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Aston’s 110th birthday present to itself is a machine so old school it has a wooden gearlever and recycled geography teacher upholstery. Analogue heaven, or expensive anachronism? We discuss that and the rise of the expensive manual gearbox with the help of the 911 S/T, GMA T.50 and Pagani Utopia.

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Looking for the ultimate flex at your local track day? Then we’ve got the consumer advice you need. In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine Podcast, Jethro Bovingdon details the pros and cons of the McLaren Solus GT (a lightweight, single-seat V10 of pure violence) against Ford’s long-tail tribute to the ’67 Le Mans-winning GT40 Mk IV, and the most extreme iteration of the third-gen Ford GT, the Ford GT Mk IV.

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Join Top Gear magazine's Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle as they guide you around this year's incredible mix of motors at the Duke of Richmond’s posh car garden party, the Goodwood Festival of Speed. So, whether you’re in the car, at work or walking the dog, pop your headphones in and prepare for an hour-long audio tour that takes in the latest and greatest cars from a giant lawn in West Sussex including the world’s greatest supercars, hypercars and an army of Chinese EVs.

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On this episode of the Top Gear Magazine Podcast, Christian von Koenigsegg gives us a full tour of his brand new factory. This meaty conversation brings in plenty of juicy topics, including topping 300mph in the near future and why he thought of the Tourbillon name before Bugatti...

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Can you hear that? That's the sound of Bugatti and Cosworth's new V16 being dyno'd. In this exclusive podcast, Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle, Ollie Marriage, Ollie Kew and Tom Ford discuss the rare breed of cylinder counts: the V16.

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Say hello to the Bugatti Tourbillon, the 1,800bhp V16 hybrid Chiron successor every billionaire has been waiting for. In this exclusive podcast, Top Gear Magazine’s Jack Rix tells you everything you need to know about this next-generation Bugatti with the help of Bug’s new boss, Mate Rimac.

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Just us or is everything getting fatter these days? And where have all the small cars gone? Well here comes the new Kia Picanto flying the flag for a leaner, simpler approach to modern life and Tom Ford taking it for a mega road trip to the skinniest roads in the world. In this episode we discuss all things diddy cars and what it's like doing thousands of miles in Korea's smallest, cutest car.

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Modern supercars are so good natured that they can cope with anything, right? How about a driving test at the toughest driving centre in the country? Well, to find out, we recently sent Ollie Marriage to retake his driving test in Lamborghini’s 1,000bhp hybrid hypercar: the Revuelto. In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine podcast, Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Kew quiz Top Gear’s Head of Car Testing to see if he passed or failed.

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Zonda. Huayra. A succinct but epic bloodline for the next Pagani hypercar to follow. And there’s much promise too, for the new Utopia: a twin-turbo, AMG-supplied V12 with 846bhp; a carbo-titanium monocoque; even the option of a manual gearbox. Only 99 will be built, each costing around £2.2m a pop. But is it a piece of automotive art, too delectable to be driven? Top Gear Magazine’s Head of Car Testing, Ollie Marriage, discusses his recent - very wet - drive to Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Kew.

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AI is taking over. But is motorsport under threat? Recently, A2RL held the world's largest autonomous race at the iconic Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. Rowan Horncastle and Jack Rix out to the desert to check it out. And Stig showed up to see if there's life in real race cars yet. Here's what happened live on the ground.

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Tesla's Cybertruck has grabbed The Internet's attention. But can it jump? Rock crawl? Survive whoops? Conquer the sand dunes? In short, can the Tesla Cybertruck REALLY off-road? Viral videos of it struggling on mild inclines tell us ‘no’. But Top Gear Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, Jack Rix, and Head of Car Testing, Ollie Marriage have been in the USA finding out if that's true. Tune in as they tell Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Kew whether it can handle the rough stuff.

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The electric car landscape has changed beyond recognition in the past five years, but we’re still far from the point where petrol, diesel and mild hybrids are being outsold by pure electric and plug-in hybrid models. So Top Gear’s EV Awards is still very much valid. And in this episode of the Top Gear Magazine Podcast, Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle, Tom Ford and the two Ollies discuss some of this year’s winners; including the new all-electric Porsche Macan, Mini Cooper, Merc G-Wagen as well as going to China to drive the new MG Cyberster.

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Ever driven through a tunnel, dropped the windows and given it the beans? Is the Pope Catholic? Now imagine taking that experience to the extreme. Top Gear Tunnel Run is a brand new weekly YouTube Series that you need to check out. If you like the sound of The Stig driving the world’s loudest cars flat-out through a 2.7km railway tunnel… you’re going to love this. Headphones on, it’s going to get loud! Rowan Horncastle, Jack Rix, Ollie Marriage and Ollie Kew discuss this brand new series.

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Jack Rix catches up with Tesla Design Chief Franz von Holzhausen on the Model 3 Performance launch in California. The interview booth? Sitting in the front of Franz's very own matt black Cybertruck.

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Top Gear is launching a new digital magazine, available exclusively on Apple News+, the all-you can read subscription-based service, call Top Gear Tech. Here’s why we’re doing it and what to expect, plus we chat with its star columnist Marques Brownlee about Apple Vision Pro, his own Tesla Cybertruck and whether he bankrupted Fisker with his review of the Ocean EV.

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The new Land Cruiser is like every other Land Cruiser - pretty much indestructible off-road. This new one adds something alien into the mix, though, it’s desirable too with its retrotastic exterior. Ollie Marriage spent a weekend with one in the Scottish Highlands and reports back.

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The Bugatti Bolide is the maddest track car ever made - the massive W16 powertrain from a Chiron stuffed into a bespoke race car chassis, creating the most violent passenger seat experience imaginable. Jack Rix reports from the Nardo proving ground after being the first person outside the company to experience it in full flight. Can he keep his lunch down? All will be revealed in this episode of the Top Gear Magazine Podcast.

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Is there anything wrong with stuffing batteries and motors into a beloved classic car? Plenty of companies are doing it, including Silent Classic and its electrified 240Z we drove recently, but does that make it right? And what makes one old car ripe for conversion and another totally off-limits? Ollie Marriage, Ollie Kew and Jack Rix discuss.

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This year we will see the death of the iconic Audi R8. Which, sadly, means no more howling V8s and V10s. Boo. In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine Podcast, Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Marriage discuss the history of Audi’s supercar, from driving Will Smith’s iRobot stunt car to the latest, greatest and most hardcore version: the Abt XGT.

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It’s long been the go-to for app-based taxis, but is the new Toyota Prius about to change all that? Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Marriage speak to Tom Ford picked up The Stig and set the satnav for Scotland (via a racetrack) to find out.

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Has Rivian just had its Tesla Model Y moment? We're in Laguna Beach, California for the reveal of two new smaller, more affordable EVs (R2 and R3, both of which will be sold in Europe) and catch up with CEO and Founder RJ Scaringe.

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The DC Avanti mixes Bugatti Veyron (ish) looks and Renault Megane RS power. Here’s the time Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle hit the stressful Indian streets in one.

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After the Grenadier and Quartermaster, Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s next adventure is a new, slightly smaller e-4x4. it is exciting for two reasons. Firstly, it’s Ineos’s slightly smaller, fully-electric off-roader, taking the genes of the Grenadier and transposing them into a car fit for the zero- and low-emission future. Second, and perhaps more importantly, it opens up a world of names for new models. On this episode of the Top Gear Magazine Podcast, Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Marriage talk about it in the studio before catching up with Jason Barlow who is down the pub at the car’s launch.

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The R5 has returned. Yippie! Join Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Marriage as they discuss the all-new, all-electric £25k Renault 5 E-Tech. Yep, Renault's classic small car returns for the electric age, complete with the single greatest optional extra ever. A ‘porte baguette’ to hold your favourite tubular loaf and stop it shedding crumbs all over your car. The chaps discuss that and a lot, lot more. Including Zagato’s new Alpine A110.

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Lucid is one of America’s brightest electric car start-ups. It’s also burning stacks of cash faster than Christopher Nolan’s Joker. What’s going on at Tesla’s worst nightmare? Ollie Kew sits down with Lucid’s CEO and CTO, Peter Rawlinson.

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In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine podcast, Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Kew get tucked into the latest issue. Which includes dreaming of a day at Asia's first members-only driver's club, The Magarigawa Club. Wondering if Aston Martin has gone mad. And discuss whether Lucid can be the next big thing.

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In this episode we’re talking juicy Japanese concept cars. Tom Ford has been out in Japan looking at the latest metal from Nissan, Mazda, Toyota and Lexus. Will Nissan blink and retreat to the safety of hybrid for the next GT-R, or go all out on the electrons? Will Toyota tone down the FT-Se’s Transformers styling? Will Mazda manage to get snake hips into production and can the LFA distil driving pleasure without a psychotic V10? No idea, that’s why Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Kew are grilling a jetlagged Tom Ford for your benefit. Enjoy!

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Mount Washington in New Hampshire is home to the most inhospitable weather in the world. Ollie Marriage recalls the time he drove to the top of it, in winter, in a Subaru, braving 150mph winds and freezing temperatures armed only with a jar of Marmite

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Jack sits down with Ford's petrol-head CEO, Jim Farley - who's also steering the company towards EV domination - and asks the big questions: Why has the Fiesta been killed off? Will there be another Ford GT? Is the Red Bull Formula 1 partnership just a vanity project? And is his nickname really Jimmy Car Car?

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Rowan is away at the Dakar Rally, somewhere in Saudi Arabia. We haven't heard from him for weeks... until this podcast arrived, recorded at the bivouac containing everything you need to know about this year's race. Over to Rowan... Wherever he is

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Jack and Ollie talk about the Las Vegas GP, hatch a plan for a F1 driver decathlon, worry about the Caterham Project V being too expensive and marvel at the dedication of Japanese Volvo enthusiasts

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Ollie Marriage and Jack Rix go behind the ropes of Ferrari's VIP club and drive its latest member - the SF90 XX Stradale. Are these track-only specials the ultimate Ferraris?

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Bentley’s Bentayga is one of the world’s most luxurious SUVs. It also doesn’t come cheap. So in this episode of the Top Gear Magazine Podcast, Jack Rix tells the story of the time he headed to California in search of gold to try and pay for one.

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What happens if a children's scooter company were to reboot a Fifties classic with electric power? Well, Microlino (the inventors of the famous folding micro-scooter) did exactly that. And in this episode of the Top Gear Magazine podcast, Editor-in-Chief Jack Rix quizzes Ollie Kew about the time he took the bubble car to the bemused people of Zurich.

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The Cars and Stripes chat continues! If you didn't know, Top Gear is coming to America! Well, technically, we’ve already been... to film a new YouTube series which you can watch now. The premise is simple: two British blokes – Jack Rix (TG magazine’s editor-in-chief) and Jethro Bovingdon (renowned car journalist and presenter of Top Gear America) – driving American cars... in, er, America. Prepare for highs and lows, EVs and dirty great V8s, races and challenges, driving skills and driving spills with some friendly-ish armchair debate in-between. In the second part of a two-part episode, Rowan Horncastle, Jack Rix and Jethro Bovingdon discuss the series, including Singer’s ACS, the Ford Bronco DR, Ruffian Mustang, Mustang Shelby GT500-H, Bronco Raptor, Hummer EV, going to skid school with Travis Pastrana and much more!

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Top Gear is coming to America! Well, technically, we’ve already been... to film a new YouTube series called TG2: Cars and Stripes, which you can watch now. The premise is simple: two British blokes – Jack Rix (TG magazine’s editor-in-chief) and Jethro Bovingdon (renowned car journalist and presenter of Top Gear America) – driving American cars... in, er, America. Prepare for highs and lows, EVs and dirty great V8s, races and challenges, driving skills and driving spills with some friendly-ish armchair debate in-between. In the first part of a two-part episode, Rowan Horncastle, Jack Rix and Jethro Bovingdon discuss the series, including Singer’s ACS, the Ford Bronco DR, Ruffian Mustang, Mustang Shelby GT500-H, Bronco Raptor, Hummer EV, going to skid school with Travis Pastrana and much more!

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The Chinese car market is going gangbusters! And over the next few years, you're going to be seeing a lot more Chinese cars on European shores. So, to get ahead of the game, we sent Rowan Horncastle to the Guangzhou Autoshow to see what is really happening. Prepare to have your minds blown.

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Only three people in the world got to drive the Cybertruck before Tesla's Texas handover event earlier this week... Jack Rix, Youtube tech expert Marques Brownlee and US car journalist Jason Cammisa. We gather together for a talk about the most controversial vehicle of the decade... while Rowan Horncastle asks the the questions we all want answers to

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It’s that time of year again when we name the finest automobiles on planet earth and adorn them with a TG rosette. Yep, the votes have been counted, the arguments have simmered down and the results are in. Unsurprisingly, the class of ’22 is an absolute belter, with everything from single-seater fan cars to retro EV buses, and off-road supercars to trusty hot hatches.

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The Hardknott Pass is the steepest, gnarliest, twistiest, narrowest and most pointless road in the whole of the UK. So what three cars did we decide to throw up it a few years ago? The Lamborghini Aventador SV, McLaren 675LT and Porsche GT3 RS – all in the name of science of course. In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine Podcast Ollie Kew and Ollie Marriage tell Jack Rix why they thought that was a good idea.

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13 years ago, Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle went to Cuba to meet Havana’s underground drag racers who turn their classics up to eleven and compete on the streets. In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine podcast, they relive that adventure, explain how to modify a car during a trade embargo, and details Cuba’s complex relationship with motorsport.

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Join Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle, Ollie Kew, and Ollie Marriage to find out if the Ineos Grenadier can keep up with the new Defender Land Rover in the mud, why it took 12 hours to drive to Margate in a Citroen Ami, what it's like hanging out with Mick Schumacher in Tokyo and why four-cylinders rule. Plus we talk motorised gimmicks.

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Gordon Murray's astonishing £2.8m T.50 is a 963kg, 654bhp three-seater that aims to right the wrongs of the McLaren F1. But is it the greatest supercar ever? Having spent four days driving one solidly across Europe's best mountain roads, Ollie Marriage delivers the verdict to Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Kew.

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Have you ever wondered what a billionaire car enthusiast gets up to on the weekend? Well, wonder no more. Ollie Marriage has been to Spain and peeked behind the curtain at The Supercars Owners Circle – an exclusive fraternity of discerning car collectors that, refreshingly, don’t mind getting their ultra-exclusive cars out of their temperature-controlled humidor garages and take them for a good old thrashing. In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine podcast Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle integrate him.

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The Aventador replacement, Lamborghini’s biggest beast, is now a plug-in hybrid. It features three electric motors, and a 6.5-litre V12 revving to 9,500rpm, for a total of 1,001bhp. Jack delivers his verdict live from the pit-lane at the Vallelunga track and bumps into a special guest - TopGear America host Jethro Bovingdon

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In this second instalment of TG mag's mega two-part Speed Week monster pod, Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Marriage discuss which 911 is the best to wheelie, the rest of our epic car list and how chaotic Performance Car of the Year can really be.

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15 contenders, seven wind turbines, five barrels of biofuel, many sets of tyres... it’s time for TG’s annual festival of fast! In this first installment of a mega two-parter, Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Marriage dish the dirt on what went down at Top Gear Magazine's 2023 Performance Car of the Year in Sweden.

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It all began with an idea. Could a Hindustan Ambassador actually be converted into a convincing replica of the Peugeot 208 GTI? A question not plucked from thin air, but based on one of the greatest car adverts ever. In this episode, Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle talk about the time they went to India to answer that exact question.

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Now in its fifth generation, the Range Rover invented the idea of a Luxury SUV... and has continued to improve it ever since. We answer the internet's most asked questions on one of its most searched for cars.

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Join Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle, Ollie Kew, and Ollie Marriage to find out why we put a new Ford Mustang on a boat to Hawaii, what a silent Lamborghini is like and how we ended up driving one of the world's rarest cars on Europe's best road. Plus we attempt to name the best-looking engines.

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TopGear Mag is 30 years old... hard to believe, we know. To celebrate we brought together all 30 of TG's Cars of the Year for one incredible shoot on the Brooklands banking. Ollie, Ollie, Jack and Rowan take you through the list and discuss the hits and misses over the years.

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Well, live-ish. Last week Jack Rix visited the world's poshest car show in California - hundreds of highly-polished classics lined up on the fairway of one of the world's most famous golf courses, plus a load of new concept and production cars... and some top-class people watching. Join him for some car and celeb-spotting around the Pebble Beach Concours.

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Tom Ford recalls the time he drove the world's most reliable car to visit the Great Hungarian Plain, or 'Puszta', and the cowboys, or 'csikósok', that patrol it.

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Is the BMW M2 a backwards step, or do we need to celebrate its type while we still can? Do Americans secretly love estate cars? Is the life-size Tamiya Wild One Max as nerdy as it sounds? All these questions and more are answered to varying degrees of success by the team behind TopGear Magazine, as they bring you the inside stories from this month's mag.

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Love it or loathe it, Lotus’s new electric Eletre SUV will help keep the firm’s balance books in the green. But is it a Lotus in anything but name? We sent Top Gear Magazine’s Tom Ford to Norway to see if Lotus’ Chinese-built EV really topple Tesla?

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Time for a throwback feature as Top Gear Magazine's Rowan Horncastle tells the tale of riding shotgun in one of the rawest off-road races on the planet: The Norra 1000.

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The Swedish Tesla Model 3 rival has been a smash hit for Polestar - Volvo's EV-only, performance-focused sister brand. We answer the internet's most asked questions on one of its most searched for cars.

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Join Top Gear Magazine's Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle as they guide you around this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed. Pop your headphones in and prepare for an hour-long audio tour that takes in the latest and greatest cars, an impromptu hillclimb in French concept car and a discussion about whether Koenigsegg should make carbon fibre Trunkis.

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Join Jack Rix, Ollie Kew and Tom Ford for a healthy debate on fast, British GTs. Is the new pure-EV Spectre the best Rolls ever? Is the Bentley Batur more than just a Continental GT in a £2m frock? Also, Jack drives a bone-stock Jeep Wrangler on one of America's gnarliest off-road trails... and lives to tell the tale.

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Porsche is 75! To celebrate we produced a magazine, free with issue 374, tracking the company's highs and lows from 1948 right up to the present day: the greatest cars, the pivotal moments, the story so far. Here, we attempt to cram three-quarters of a century of automotive history into a 45 minute pod.

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Are you a fan of small Japanese sports cars? Do you have a frankly unhealthy obsession with the MX-5? Well do we have a holiday idea for you! Ollie Kew recounts the time he stayed in a the Mazda MX-5 themed hotel, aka Miataland... inexplicably located in Italy.

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Lamborghini's Aventador is no more. Having been on sale for over a decade, Sant’Agata’s big V12 supercar is finally being replaced. So is now the time to buy one? And why has the Aventador been such a success? And how much does one cost to rent? In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine Podcast, Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Kew try and answer all your burning Aventador questions.

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Join Jack, Rowan and Ollie for a run through the latest issue of TopGear Magazine. Up for discussion is the Lamborghini Huracan Sterrato, the rise of the Chinese car industry and a 911 dedicated to the devil. Plus, the world's greatest central driving position cars

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Porsche's 75th birthday present to itself... is a new electric hypercar called the Mission X. And we were there in Stuttgart to see the covers come off and gather all the details that matter on this successor to the 918 Spyder, Carrera GT and 959. But why is it brown?

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Imagine being given the keys to Lamborghini's entire mid-engine V12 back catalogue - from Miura to Aventador - up in the Italian hills. Well that's precisely what Tom Ford took on recently for our 60 years of Lambo special. We even got a Revuelto along for a photo opp. Surprise, surprise, it wasn't a terrible day

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The Golf R is the ultimate Golf. Big exhaust pipes, four-wheel drive, and more blue cabin highlights than a British Airways jet. And you may think the Golf R formula hasn’t changed much over the years, but you'd be wrong. So here's your ultimate guide for the ultimate Golf.

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Remember Brexit? Well, here's the story of the time Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle drove 2,500 miles through 15 countries in one new DB11 to try and smooth over negotiations with our European neighbours.

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What's it like to ride in the back of Gordon Murray's successor to the McLaren F1? We experience GMA's new V12 fan car at 12,000rpm on the TopGear test track and take a road trip down to Goodwood.

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OK, technically the Alpine A290_B isn't a Renault and has no turbos, because it's electric, but it's damn cool nonetheless. Also, we nearly hit 250mph in a Bugatti Chiron at the space shuttle landing facility in Florida, and save the rhinos in South Africa in a VW Amarok.

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Top Gear Magazine's Paul Horrell joins us to explain the time he and Rowan Horncastle used Iceland's mega ring road plus 21 hours of daylight to go on a journey to remember around Iceland in a Nissan GT-R.

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Honda has been building Civic Type Rs for 25 years. But how much do you know about them? In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine podcast Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle, Ollie Kew and Ollie Marriage smash their collective brains together in order to be your guide from EK9 to FL5 and every generation in between.

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Here's a throwback to 2005, when Tom Ford thought it would be a good idea to take a track car to the beautiful, inhospitable wilderness of the Arctic Circle. Now he's defrosted (nearly 20 years later) we thought it'd be time to get him in the pod studio for a chat about it.

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What are the greatest EVs in the world right now? Join the TG team for a rundown of all the Electric Awards winners, and the stories behind the big stories in the latest issue of the mag. 

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Join Top Gear Magazine's Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle for a stroll around the floor 2023 New York Auto Show. Pinballing between everything from the new 1,000bhp Dodge Demon 107 to the futuristic Kia EV9 and every concept and odd show stand in between, this whistle stop tour will save you a trip to the Big Apple. 

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Join Top Gear Magazine's Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle, Ollie Marriage and Paul Horrell as they discuss the world's toughest (and most idiotic) EV endurance event.

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It’s hard to put your finger on why the Mercedes G-Class (or G-Wagen, to most of us) has such a strong magnetic attraction. The archaic box on wheels is loved equally by kids, oligarchs, sheikhs, rappers, farmers... hell, even the Kardashians. In this podcast Top Gear Magazine’s editorial team answer all your questions on Merc’s military vehicle for the masses.

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In our latest story from the TG vault, Ollie Kew recalls the time he asked Oshkosh Defence for a go in the US Army's replacement for the Hummer... and bizzarely they said yes

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The latest issue of Top Gear Magazine is out now! And there's lots to talk about. Remember when Ferrari said it would never build an SUV? Well it hasn't. But also has. Tom Ford explains all. And Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle, Ollie Marriage and Ollie Kew discuss Japanese road racers before trying to work out the best supercar accessories ever.

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At long last Aston’s £2.5 million F1 car for the road has landed. But is it any good? Top Gear Magazine's editorial team sit down for a chat about the wild 1,160bhp skeletal hypercar before checking in with Chris Harris who tells us about his experience driving it and the AMR PRO around Bahrain's F1 circuit.

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The BMW M3. Forged from the fires of Mount Motorsport and built to tackle the world of touring cars, for many generations it’s been the benchmark for a performance saloon. But what does the internet want to know about M Division's legend? In this special pod Top Gear Magazine’s staffers answer Google's most frequently asked questions.

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It's time for another story behind a story from the Top Gear Magazine archive. This time, Rowan Horncastle talks about the time he went to Japan to meet tuning legend Smokey Nagata two decades after he was caught attempting 200mph on a British road.

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Join Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle, Ollie Marriage and Ollie Kew as they discuss the hottest, coolest car of the year: the 911 Dakar. Plus our M3 Touring adventure to the home of the St Bernard, which contains quite a lot of dog chat. And a good old fashioned quiz to get angry about at the end. Enjoy!

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What happens when you hand Christian von Koenigsegg, Gordon Murray, John Hennessey and Mate Rimac a drink, some random topics and hit the record button? Well, you have yourself a conversation for the history books. Strap your brain in as Top Gear Magazine’s Jack Rix referees the biggest names in fast car making as they debate the biggest topics in motoring right now.

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Another story behind a story from the TopGear archive. This time, Jack Rix recalls when he recreated the Bandit's beer run from Atlanta to Texarkana in a Trans Am homage

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Time to answer the internet's most asked questions on the world's most iconic sports car... the Porsche 911

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Join Jack, Rowan, Ollie Marriage and Ollie Kew as they discuss the 23 new cars that matter in 2023. Featuring the Hyundai Ioniq 6, VW ID.Buzz, Porsche 911 Dakar and more

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Ever wondered what it would be like to shoot the world's most outrageous hypercar with a £75k large format analogue camera? Well wonder no more! Paul Horrell headed to Italy to photograph the latest Pagani with the latest Pagani camera... and things didn't go exactly to plan.

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The first in a new series of bonus pods that brings the best stories from the TopGear archive back to life, and tells you what really went on. First up, that time Ollie Marriage went hunting for dinosaur fossils in Mongolia, in an Infiniti. As you do

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Join Chris in conversation with Top Gear Magazine's Jack Rix where they discuss how the FL5 Type R stacks up to its predecessors, where it sits in the pantheon of hot hatch greats, and potential death of the hot hatch category all together.

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In first in a new series of pods we answer the internet's most asked questions on one of the world's most multi-talented cars...

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Rowan and Jack sit down with Romain Dumas - the man who's broken records at Pikes Peak and Goodwood, won at the 24hrs of Nürburgring, Spa and Le Mans, and now has his sights set on Dakar glory

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It’s that time of year again when we name the finest automobiles on planet earth and adorn them with a TG rosette. Yep, the votes have been counted, the arguments have simmered down and the results are in. Unsurprisingly, the class of ’22 is an absolute belter, with everything from single-seater fan cars to retro EV buses, and off-road supercars to trusty hot hatches.

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Remember when people were up in arms about Ford putting a four-cylinder turbo in the Mustang? Well, now they're really stoking the fire by plonking a Mustang face on their new electric SUV. But will Chris' opinion on it surprise you?

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Join Top Gear Magazine's Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle for a stroll around the 2022 Los Angeles Motor Show. Discover their impressions on the Porsche 911 Dakar, the new and surprisingly good looking Toyota Prius and find out why the death of the traditional motor show is near.

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We're all feeling the financial pinch, fortunately TG is here to help. Four sub £30k cars, £300 for food, bed and fuel and a very wet Wales to play in. Find out what really happened on the affordable fun road trip. Plus Chris Harris on the new GT3 RS and why Ford killed the Fiesta.

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Speed Week is Top Gear Magazine’s annual hunt for the greatest new performance car in the world, this year taking place at Autodrom Most in the Czech Republic. Jack and Rowan are joined by Ollie Marriage and Tom Ford to discuss the behind the scenes, warts and all story of what it takes to pull off the most ambitious performance car test in the world.

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Speed Week is Top Gear Magazine’s annual hunt for the greatest new performance car in the world. But can you guess this year’s contenders purely from the sounds they make? Jack Rix plays quizmaster, Ollie Kew and Ollie Marriage do the guessing. Volumes up!

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In this month’s episode we’re talking about whether AMG’s F1-engined hypercar, the ONE, actually works, why is Aston Martin struggling again, and we pay a visit to the freak show to discuss the new 911 GT3 RS, Ariel Hipercar and McLaren Solus GT.

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What would happen if you took a classic 911 and made it as light as humanly possible? This is Tuthill’s answer - an all-carbon, high revving, featherweight designed for maximum fun on the road. Here’s the full story behind an engineering exercise… that got a bit out of hand 

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Over 40 years since the DMC12 launched, there’s a new Delorean on the way. Alpha5 is a 2+2 electric coupe with gullwing doors, but (shockingly) no stainless steel panels. We quiz the new boss on how Delorean got here, what the future holds and whether a flux capacitor is on the options list…  

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Dario Franchitti has a glittering racing CV and one of the coolest jobs in the car world right now – development driver for the GMA T.50. We discuss how the job came about, what Gordon’s really like to work for and what the T.50 – Murray’s spiritual successor to the McLaren F1 – is really like to drive

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Mate Rimac is only 34 years old, but is already one of the biggest names in the car business… and a certified genius. We talk about how he juggles his time, how he fought hard to stop Bugatti going all-electric, why the Bolide will blow our minds and reveals if he could only ever drive one car for the rest of his life, it would be a BMW M5.  

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In this episode we're celebrating 75 years of speed, noise and red paint as it's Ferrari's birthday. Instead of simply blowing out some candles on a Prancing Horse cake, we’re talking about the top 5 Ferraris EVER, breaking a lap record at Fiorano, why petrol is so expensive and the top 9 delayed cars.

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For this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, we took our microphones with us and shoved them in the faces of some of the most powerful and interesting people behind the most exciting cars in the world. In this limited series you’ll hear from seven of them. Thomas Ingenlath, the designer turned CEO of Volvo's rapidly expanding electric performance off-shoot, Polestar, is next in the firing line.

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For this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, we took our microphones with us and shoved them in the faces of some of the most powerful and interesting people behind the most exciting cars in the world. In this limited series you’ll hear from seven of them. Catie Munnings, rally driver extraordinaire and TG Mag contributor (although we've never met her until now) is up next.

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For this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, we took our microphones with us and shoved them in the faces of some of the most powerful and interesting people behind the most exciting cars in the world. In this limited series you’ll hear from seven of them. This one was recorded in front of a live audience on Lotus’ Goodwood stand, and this man - the 2006 F1 world champ - needs no introduction…

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For this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, we took our microphones with us and shoved them in the faces of some of the most powerful and interesting people behind the most exciting cars in the world. In this limited series you’ll hear from six of them. This one being the incredibly brainy CEO of Koenigsegg, Christian von Koenigsegg.

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In this month’s episode we’re talking about supercar road trip heaven, clinging on to Hennessey’s F5 Venom and the Top 9 UK forbidden fruits. Plus there’s all the usual killer filler; including what we’ve got in the issue, Paul Horrell on hybridisation and service station selfie sticks.

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For this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, we took our microphones with us and shoved them in the faces of some of the most powerful and interesting people behind the most exciting cars in the world. In this limited series you’ll hear from them. This time, it’s the fastest man up the Goodwood hillclimb ever, Max Chilton.

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For this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, we took our microphones with us and shoved them in the faces of some of the most powerful and interesting people behind the most exciting cars in the world. In this limited series you’ll hear from six of them. Starting with Lamborghini’s CEO, Stephan Winkelmann.

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Woah, Red Bull’s Advanced Technologies division has announced that it will design, develop and build a brand-new hypercar that will deliver the “ultimate on-track driving experience”. This sounds very special indeed. The new hypercar will be called the RB17 and of course the design comes from the mind of Adrian Newey – the man behind many of the greatest F1 cars ever built and the original creator of the Aston Martin Valkyrie. To find out more about this mad project, Jack and Rowan sat down with both Red Bull’s Christian Horner and Adrian Newey.

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Classics. Restomods. Replicas. Continuations. All have the gorgeous vintage looks, but each is fundamentally different under the skin. Chris Harris and Top Gear Magazine editor Jack Rix discuss the differences of things like the Alfaholics GTA-R, Eagle Lightweight GT and GTO Engineering's recreation of the Ferrari 250 SWB.

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In this month’s episode we’re talking American EV pick-up trucks, the Slow, Loud and Banging scene in Houston, and the new Nissan Z… or should that be Zeee? Plus there’s all the usual filler, including what we’ve been driving, Paul Horrell on finance acronyms and the Top 9 wide-arched cars.

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By 2030 every Rolls-Royce will be electric... but the ice cool Spectre is the first. In this bonus episode, Jack heads to the Arctic Circle to have a passenger ride and interview the RR's big boss, Torsten Müller-Ötvös.

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Strap in, as this month we’re chatting about a royal mission in the new Range Rover, why the new V12 Vantage is a bit confused and a rather nerdy discussion on forced induction.

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This month we’re chatting about the Topgear.com Electric Awards, driving the VW ID. Buzz and why the Porsche GT4 RS is a 10/10 car. Plus, Marques Brownlee joins us to discuss all things American EVs and we argue about fan cars.

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In this episode we’re talking about Gran Turismo 7, getting in the way at a pre-season F1 test and why the Ferrari 296 GTB is a 10/10 car. Plus, all you need to know about the chip shortage and new Lotus Emira.

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This month we’re dishing out the dirt on the Dakar rally, hearing Gordon Murray call the 911 GT3’s engine delicious and wondering how long it will be until your car can drive you back from the pub.

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From the Aston Martin Valkyrie and the BMW M3 Touring to V6 hybrid supercars and the VW ID. Buzz: Top Gear magazine's Jack Rix finds out which cars Chris Harris is most looking forward to driving in 2022 and which leave him feeling a little bit, er, deflated...

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In this episode we’re talking about actually driving off-roaders off-road, espionage in a Genesis G70 Shooting Brake and why we love a good Wankel. Plus, we argue about the world’s greatest go-faster stripes.

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Tesla Model 3. Honda E. BMW i3. Peugeot e-208. The electric cars keep on coming, and it's fair to say there are many, many questions about the practicalities of all-electric motoring. And in this half hour interview with Graeme Cooper from the National Grid, there are many, many answers.

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In this episode we’re chatting about driving a tiny Hyundai across the Outback, almost crashing a £2m Pininfarina Battista… and how Tesla became so big. Plus, John Hennessey joins us to talk 2,000bhp six-wheeled EVs and we try and rattle off the greatest Nurburgring cars of all time.

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Chris Harris talks to Slow Horses star Gary Oldman about EVs, first cars and fast cars - namely his Chuck Beck replica of a 550 Spyder. Oldman chats about giving his son driving lessons in a Porsche Cayenne, the other vintage car he has in his garage and why taking on the role of Jackson Lamb was quite a grubby experience.

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In this episode we’re discussing what it’s like driving a Ferrari 812 Competizione at Fiorano, a Bugatti Super Sport on the Nurburgring and our hydrogen future. Plus, Andy Wallace joins us to talk all things going really flipping fast and when is a GT not a GT?

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