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FIRST LOOK: Porsche 911 GT3 - What’s New? Top Gear 2024-10-18 | Not one but two new Porsche 911 GT3s are upon us, both a regular be-winged car and the more subtle Touring model. And for once, the headline news isn’t the power, the peak revs or the Nürburgring lap time, but how practical it is.That’s right, because for the first time in the 25-year history of the GT3, it’s being offered with back seats. It’s only for the Touring, but that addition alone will be enough to start The Internet chattering about whether this is ‘all the car you’ll ever need’.However, if kids, or at least taking your kids with you, isn’t your thing, then worry not. The back seats are merely an option, and the non-Touring GT3 can’t be had with them at all. Plus, if you’re the sort of Porsche purest who hates weight, you can double down on that ethos with either a Weissach pack for the GT3 or a Leichtbau (aka Lightweight) pack for the Touring.As for what else is new (and there are a lot of detailed, GT3 RS-inspired changes) then join Top Gear Magazine’s Associate Editor Tom Ford, for an in-depth walkaround of both new GT3s with Andreas Preuninger, Porsche’s Director of GT Cars…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWANT MORE TOP GEAR?Listen to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signup00:00 Intro01:12 What's new03:17 Porsche 911 GT3 Touring06:34 Chat with Andreas Preuninger15:26 Why have a touring?19:51 Interior customisation23:00 ConclusionMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST LOOK: Ferrari F80 – 1200hp, 4WD, LaFerrari Successor! Top Gear 2024-10-17 | This – deep breath – is the new Ferrari F80. The successor to LaFerrari. And by extension, a halo Ferrari supercar with a lineage that stretches back from LaFerrari, through Enzo, F50 and F40, to 288 GTO. No pressure, then…It’s a once-a-decade occurrence, the LaFerrari having been revealed way back in 2013. That car was Ferrari’s first hybrid, with the electrically boosted V12 powertrain pumping 963hp to the rear wheels. Eleven years on, there’s more electrical assistance, more power, more driven wheels, much more aero, but fewer cylinders…So, how does the new Ferrari F80 move the game on from LaFerrari, and stack up to its predecessors? Over to Top Gear’s Editor-in-Chief, Jack Rix…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGear00:00 Intro01:29 Stats & specs03:58 Aerodynamics06:00 Active suspension system07:38 Design10:35 Main competitors11:26 Interior13:14 Driving modes16:12 ConclusionWANT MORE TOP GEAR?Listen to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST LOOK: New Renault 4 – Retro Done Right? Top Gear 2024-10-14 | The original 4 was rather a big deal for Renault, with over 8m of the little things sold on five continents across three decades.And now it’s back, because Renault is cleverly plundering the back catalogue to give its new wave of affordable EVs the retro-design treatment.We’ve already had the 5 supermini, a new Twingo arrives in 2026, and the pair bookend this, the 4.Think of it as a dinky little crossover, to the 5 what the Renault Captur is to the Clio. Prices should start under £30k in the UK, the range is around 250 miles, and the personalisation options are plentiful.Top Gear Magazine’s Associate Editor, Tom Ford, has all you need to know…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWANT MORE TOP GEAR?Listen to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signup00:00 Walkaround 02:26 Interior04:42 Charging 05:25 History06:36 Chat with Vice President Of Design13:17 Pricing 13:40 Renault TwingoMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST RIDE: Tesla Robotaxi – Our Driverless Future Has Arrived! Top Gear 2024-10-11 | It's finally here: Elon Musk has revealed his long-awaited autonomous Tesla Robotaxi – also referred to as the Cybercab – at an event in Los Angeles, USA.Looking a lot like the VW XL1 (remember that?) the Robotaxi has no steering wheel or pedals and just two seats. As the name suggests, its crisp flat surfaces and full-width light bars have more than a passing resemblance to the Cybertruck, too.This, then, is Musk's vision of a grand autonomous future, and he promises the Robotaxi will be in full production by 2026, with prices starting from $30,000.A fleet of 20 fully functioning prototypes were built to run around the Warner Bros. Studio lot – the venue for Musk’s big reveal – and take passengers on short, obstacle-laden routes. Top Gear duly hailed one, so join our Editor-in-Chief, Jack Rix, for a first ride in the new Tesla Robotaxi…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWANT MORE TOP GEAR?Listen to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signup00:00 Intro03:20 Robotaxi04:55 Robotaxi Ride08:12 Walkaround10:36 Chat with Chief Designer 13:30 Tesla Bot15:12 Chat with Marques Brownlee24:22 ConclusionMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST LOOK: Alpine A390 – The French Take On Tesla & Porsche! Top Gear 2024-10-11 | You’re looking at Alpine’s rival for the Porsche Macan SUV.Well, almost, as this is technically the Alpine A390_β, the ‘_β’ signifying it’s the concept car that foreshadows the real thing. That, and Alpine are at pains to only ever call it a ‘sport fastback’, never an SUV.Nonetheless, it is a five-seat crossover aimed at the Porsche Macan and the Tesla Model Y, and Alpine promises that the exterior design is 85% true to the production car we’ll see in 2025. That, and although the interior is all show-car silliness, we know the real A390’s powertrain will consist of three electric motors, with one at the front and one for each rear wheel. Might there be a little A110 handling magic in there too?Over to Top Gear Magazine’s Associate Editor, Tom Ford, for the full story…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWANT MORE TOP GEAR?Listen to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
McLaren W1’s retractable wing is 🔥#McLaren #McLarenW1 #Hypercar #CarFeatures #Spoiler Top Gear 2024-10-08 | Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWANT MORE TOP GEAR?Listen to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
Ultimate Boss Chat 2.0! 300mph Plans, Future Of The Hypercar & More… Top Gear 2024-10-06 | This is Part Two of Top Gear’s ‘Ultimate Hypercar Boss’ extravaganza.In Part One we saw Christian von Koenigsegg, John Hennessey and Mate Rimac thrash each other’s company cars around Sonoma Raceway in northern California – but now it’s time to take feet off throttles and become a fly on the wall as this trio put the hypercar world to rights!What are their plans to top 300mph? What does the future of the hypercar look like? Which bit of Koenigsegg tech did the new Bugatti Tourbillon nearly get? Answers to all these questions – and more – in the video. Over to Top Gear Magazine’s Ollie Kew to moderate…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWANT MORE TOP GEAR?Listen to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signup00:00 Intro00:28 Drive Debrief12:32 Electric Hypercars23:20 Records35:49 Restomods46:05 Motorsport51:14 Quick-fire RoundMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
Ultimate Hypercar Boss Track Test! Top Gear 2024-10-04 | We’ve got the band back together!In 2023, Top Gear put hypercar royalty Christian von Koenigsegg, Gordon Murray, John Hennessey and Mate Rimac together in a room and hit the record button for an epic ‘Boss Chat’.A year later, we’re back for the sequel, and we’ve upped the ante by asking each of the bosses to bring along their company cars for the others to have a go in.Sonoma Raceway in northern California was our venue, and in Part One it’s the track session for the world’s fastest CEOs. Over to Top Gear Magazine’s Ollie Marriage and Ollie Kew to referee…And stay tuned for Part Two, when we’ll have a full debrief and let Christian von Koenigsegg, John Hennessey and Mate Rimac have a good ol’ natter!Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWANT MORE TOP GEAR?Listen to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signup00:00 Intro01:38 John Drives The Koenigsegg Jesko Attack02:38 Mate Drives The Hennessey Venom F5 Revolution04:03 Christian Drives The Rimac Nevera05:11 Mate Drives The Koenigsegg Jesko Attack07:19 Christian Drives The Hennessey Venom F5 Revolution08:55 John Drives The Rimac Nevera10:21 Mate Drives The Rimac Nevera With Christian12:08 Part 2 PreviewMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST DRIVE: 782hp, 738lb ft Bentley Continental GT Speed Top Gear 2024-09-30 | The new Bentley Continental GT Speed will cross continents with ease. Whether the world’s uber-wealthy still do such things in big luxo GTs rather than in SUVs or via private jets is another matter, but should you ever need to warp from one bolthole to another, this fourth-gen Conti GT would be perfect.However, is it worse elsewhere? See, it’s now a hybrid. Which means although official figures put emissions at just 29 g/km of CO2 when it’s simultaneously the most powerful road-going Bentley ever, there’s added weight. And Bentley’s Conti GT was never in the bantamweight class to begin with. Call it two and half tonnes now. So, although power is up to 782hp, is it now a less sporting, less dynamic driving experience?To find out, Top Gear Magazine’s Head of Car Testing, Ollie Marriage, took the new Bentley Continental GT Speed to the Alps to find out…00:00 Intro01:20 Drive Part 105:22 What's Different?06:54 Drive Part 209:44 ConclusionSubscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWANT MORE TOP GEAR?Listen to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
Aston Martin Valkyrie vs The Real World Top Gear 2024-09-29 | The Valkyrie is Aston Martin’s F1 car for the road. Or is it?It was conceived when Aston was purely a Formula 1 sponsor, and designed with a little help from Red Bull and its soon-to-depart design genius Adrian Newey (who’s actually joining Aston’s own F1 team. Small world!). And while the Valkyrie has numberplates and headlights and a windscreen wiper, it’s about as single-minded a hypercar as there has ever been.Can you really use it on the road? Or is that marketing fluff?To find out, we set Top Gear Magazine’s Contributing Editor Jethro Bovingdon the onerous task of spending days and days in a £2.8m Valkyrie…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGear00:00 Intro01:22 Drive Part 104:12 Stats05:39 Walkaround07:24 Interior09:07 Drive Part 217:32 ConclusionWANT MORE TOP GEAR?Listen to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
Porsche 911 S/T Track Test – The Perfect 911? Top Gear 2024-09-25 | The perfect Porsche 911 doesn’t exist, right? And even if it did, how do you pick from the ever-increasing list of great rear-engined Porsches?Are you a fan of the OG 2.7 RS? Or on the side of the 997-generation GT3 RS 4.0? What about the 911 R? That’s leaving aside all the race cars, too.And then there’s this, the 911 S/T. Built by Porsche (in limited numbers) to celebrate its 60th birthday, it mixes GT3 RS oily bits with GT3 Touring discreetness to give us, effectively, a successor to the 911 R.We already love it after driving it on the road (which is where it was designed to be) but can it stand up to being thrashed on track? And if so, where does that leave it standing in the pantheon of Porsche greatness. Over to Top Gear Magazine’s Head of Car Testing, Ollie Marriage, for this most arduous of tests…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWANT MORE TOP GEAR?Listen to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signup00:00 Intro00:44 What is it?01:37 Track Drive05:58 Road Drive08:29 ConclusionMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
Blink and you’ll miss it...#TopGear #McMurtry #Porsche Top Gear 2024-09-23 | Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWANT MORE TOP GEAR?Listen to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
McMurtry Spéirling Pure: Full Top Gear Test Track Review! Top Gear 2024-09-20 | Downforce increases with speed, doesn’t it? Well, yes, unless you have a ‘fan car’, which sucks itself to the ground too.To date, it’s mainly been cars coming from Gordon Murray that have had fans: first his Brabham BT46B Formula 1 car; then his seminal McLaren F1 (did you know it had twin fans?); and most recently the T.50.But now there’s a new car that uses fans to devastating effect: the McMurtry Spéirling.It weighs 1000kg, produces 1000 electric horsepower, and the fans can spin at up to 23,000rpm to generate 2000kg of downforce from 0mph.You may know it from its record-breaking run at the 2022 Goodwood Festival of Speed, where it smashed a McLaren Formula 1 car’s time that had stood since 1999. Now though, it’s been to the Top Gear Test Track, to be put through its paces by Top Gear’s Head of Car Testing Ollie Marriage…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signup00:00 Intro01:30 History02:46 Walkaround04:31 Drive06:05 GT3 Mode06:24 LMP1 Mode06:52 F1 Mode08:55 vs Porsche GT3 RS12:27 ConclusionMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
Lotus Theory 1: If The Cybertruck Was A Supercar… Top Gear 2024-09-17 | Lotus, always seemingly in a little financial trouble, hasn’t flourished under recent Geely ownership as its Chinese owners might have hoped. Deliveries of the Emira sports car were delayed; the Evija hypercar is yet to hit production; and the Eletre SUV and Emeya super-saloon have arrived just as the world is cooling on the idea of EVs.This then, the Theory 1, is concept car to grab your attention when times are tough. The company’s next production car will be a second, smaller electric SUV (think Porsche Macan-sized) so the Theory 1 is a kind of reminder that people at Lotus are still thinking about what it means to be a Lotus, past just wearing the badge.Thus the Theory 1 does everything from ushering in a new design language for Lotus, to showcasing a radical approach to production with just a handful of materials used for the bodywork.It also introduces us to ‘Lotuswear’, which is an attempt to ‘evoke a sense of raw emotion and pure excitement’ when you’re behind the wheel of this 1000hp electric supercar. How does it work? With seats that can inflate on one side or the other and a steering yoke that can suddenly be ribbed, thanks to textile-based wearable robotics tech being applied to the automotive sector for the first time.Join Top Gear Magazine’s Associate Editor, Tom Ford, to find out more…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupChapters:00:00 Intro03:18 Chat with Ben Payne 10:07 Chat with Matthew Hill16:13 ConclusionMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
The Secret Koenigsegg You’ve Never Heard Of… Top Gear 2024-09-11 | Once upon a time, a man called Christian created a car company called Koenigsegg.To prove his new cars were the best, he wanted to take them racing. Specifically at the 24 Hours of Le Mans – and so he designed his road cars to mirror FIA GT1 regulations. In parallel, he developed a racing car too, taking his optimised road car as the basis and readying it for battle at the world’s greatest endurance race.But, sadly, before it could turn a wheel in anger, the rules changed as homologation production numbers for the GT1 class jumped from 20 cars over several years to 350 per year, putting an end to Koenigsegg’s Le Mans ambitions. The project was mothballed, and the car sold to a Koenigsegg shareholder.However, the one-off CCGT prototype was auctioned in the summer of 2023 (for £3.3m. Imagine if it had raced at Le Mans…) and has been back to Christian and co for some restoration work. It’s now ready to hit the track once more and, whisper it, a regulation quirk might even mean it can finally race at Le Mans…Over to Top Gear Magazine’s Head of Car Testing, Ollie Marriage, and a certain Christian von Koenigsegg, for the full story…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST DRIVE: Koenigsegg Jesko Attack Unleashed on TG Test Track! Top Gear 2024-09-06 | It’s not often Top Gear’s Head of Car Testing has his head scrambled by a fast machine, but the Koenigsegg Jesko Attack is a very fast machine indeed.A 1578bhp twin-turbo 5.0-litre V8 is partly to blame, and with carbonfibre keeping the weight down, not much blunts the performance either. Then there’s the downforce, up to 1400kg of it, which means the Jesko Attack is not merely fast in a straight line.Clearly, we needed somewhere suitably proper to test such a car, and that place is our very own TG Test Track.This then, is the £2.8m Koenigsegg Jesko Attack, unleashed in the (sweaty) hands of Top Gear’s Ollie Marriage…Thank you to CARAGE who provided a Koenigsegg Jesko Attack and a Jesko Absolut for this video.Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signup00:00 Intro01:33 Walkaround04:37 Drive14:05 ConclusionMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST DRIVE: Volvo EX90 – Ultimate Eco-Conscious Family SUV? Top Gear 2024-09-03 | For Volvo, this is the big one. Both physically and metaphorically, as not only is the all-new, all-electric EX90 over 5m long and closer to three tonnes than two, it’s rather important for the Swedish company’s future as well. Gone are the days of Volvo being led by estates; it’s now fronted by SUVs, and this is the headline act.The appeal for families – because no single person is buying one – is sleek Swedish styling, a plethora of computing power to protect your precious ones, and the knowledge it rolled out of a climate-neutral factory with a chunk of it made from recycled materials. No tailpipe emissions, either.And yet, EV sales have faltered since the EX90 was unveiled in late ’22, and Volvo has stumbled too, delaying EX90 production from early 2024 to late ’24 for additional software development and testing.Still, it’s with us now, and only has to best the likes of Tesla, and electric SUVs from all of the German brands, to get ahead. No small ask.Is the Volvo EX90 up to the task? Over to Top Gear Magazine’s Head of Car Testing, Ollie Marriage, to find out…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearChapters:00:00 Intro00:46 Technology01:57 Walkaround02:33 Specs03:58 Interior05:34 Driving07:16 Asking The PublicWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST LOOK: Aston Martin Vanquish – Ferrari 12Cilindri Or This? Top Gear 2024-09-02 | The ‘Vanquish’ name is back at Aston Martin, and someone clearly decided that simply body-kitting a DB12 and winding up the turbo boost wasn’t enough. Good call. The new Vanquish is a very different machine: with an extra 80mm in the wheelbase purely for beauty’s sake, an 835hp bi-turbo V12 rubbing Ferrari’s nose in it, and a new carbon-skinned body that – for once – looks noticeably different to other Aston Martins in the range. Heck, you’re paying north of £300,000 for one of these. That’s the sort of bespoke treatment you expect. Top Gear Magazine’s Ollie Kew is here to walk you round the exterior details, interior features and then ask the big question: on first impression, has Aston built a better V12 super-GT than the Italians?Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signup00:00 Intro00:46 Walkaround07:30 Interior11:27 Under The Skin13:52 ConclusionMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST LOOK: 2107hp Rimac Nevera R – 0-60mph in 1.74 seconds! Top Gear 2024-08-30 | This isn’t just a faster Rimac Nevera – because that would be ridiculous. No one could possibly want for more power or speed than a Nevera offers. But apparently, would-be customers were telling boss Mate Rimac that while they appreciated the 1888bhp EV hypercar’s comfort and GT abilities, they wanted something a bit bitier in the corners. Hence the Nevera R arrives, with 15% more downforce, 10% less understeer, and 100% more attitude. Anyone else seeing echoes of Lamborghini Aventador SVJ in that tri-support rear wing? Can you see an echo? Never mind. Naturally, the R gets more power: new motors mean it’s up to 2078bhp, and good for 0-186mph in less than nine seconds. But is that enough to make hypercar collectors giddy for electric, when they could have a V12 or even a V16 instead? Join Top Gear Magazine’s Ollie Kew for a closer look inside and out…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupChapters:00:00 Intro00:29 Let’s Talk Power…02:29 Walkaround03:51 Interior04:58 ConclusionMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST DRIVE: Porsche 914 Restomod – £350k, 400bhp, Manual Gearbox! Top Gear 2024-08-27 | This is a 914 as you’ve never seen it before, as Porsche and VW’s original entry-level model has had a very-not-entry-level upgrade.The huge overhaul comes courtesy of Fifteen Eleven Design, an offshoot of Mellors Elliot Motorsport, a UK motorsport firm better known for prepping and building top-level rally cars.Underpowered and not enormously successful in its day, this 914 has been treated to a host of more modern Porsche mechanical bits, including a flat-six engine that puts out around 400bhp. Add in a bespoke carbonfibre body, and performance is somewhat of a step on from the original!We sent Top Gear Magazine’s Associate Editor, Tom Ford, to find out more…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupChapters:00:00 Intro01:06 Walkaround03:07 Interior04:09 Drive06:53 History08:00 Who Are Fifteen Eleven Design?11:47 Porsche 914 Inspiration15:07 Specs16:30 ConclusionMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST DRIVE: Maserati MCXtrema – Flat Out In 730bhp Track Special! Top Gear 2024-08-25 | Maserati recently unveiled a new take on its really rather impressive V6-engined supercar. Formerly known as Project24, the MCXtrema does exactly what it says on the tin – it’s the most extreme thing that Maserati could come up with using the bones of the MC20, and the 62 examples that are set to be built can *only* be used on track.It drives pretty differently too. Not least because the 3.0-litre Nettuno V6 now has new, bigger turbos, a new intake and a different exhaust system for a total of 730bhp.All that power is sent to the rear wheels through a six-speed sequential gearbox and limited slip diff, and the MCXtrema only weighs around 1,300kg thanks to a liberal use of carbon fibre and the fact that there’s only one seat as standard in the race-spec cockpit.Each of the 62 cars will be completely unique in its spec, costing just under £1 million. Not that it matters too much, because of course they’re all sold out already…So, what's it like? Over to Top Gear’s Contributing Editor Jethro Bovingdon to explore the new MCXtrema on track...Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signup00:00 Intro00:39 What Is It?02:24 MCXtrema On Track04:44 Chat With Andrea Bertolini08:26 Maserati MC2010:18 MCXtrema On Track11:50 ConclusionMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST LOOK: Tuthill GT ONE – Road Legal 90s Le Mans Car! Top Gear 2024-08-22 | The Tuthill GT One is a sensational street legal tribute to 1990s Le Mans racing, and only 22 of these all-carbon GT1 homages will be built. Cooler than a GT1 Strassenversion? Possibly.It’s street legal, and for what’s almost certainly a seven-figure sum, you can have one of the few examples that Tuthill plans to make. But there are a couple of critical options you must choose between – namely, do you want a seven-speed twin-clutch gearbox, or a six-speed manual? A 4.0-litre naturally aspirated flat-six related to the 911K’s screaming engine that develops around 500bhp? Or a twin-turbo version that kicks out more than 600bhp?Tuthill says the GT One was born out of a chat between company boss Richard Tuthill and one of his clients, Elliot Ross. What would a modern-day GT1 car look and drive like? Can it still be pretty while incorporating FIA-spec crash-worthiness and road legal measures? Apparently so. Very much so.Over to TG's Deputy Editor Ollie Kew, who spoke to company boss Richard Tuthill at The Quail Car Show in America….Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST DRIVE: New Dacia Duster: Still The Ultimate Budget Hero? Top Gear 2024-08-20 | The Dacia Duster is a car we love, because it’s designed for real life and honest about where the money has been saved to get the price down.But there’s now a new, third-generation Duster – and might it have ideas above its station? It’s been styled, for a start, can be had with a hybrid powertrain, and comes with a bunch of electronic safety kit the brand previously eschewed.To put it to the test, we took one to Morocco. In part because Dacia has a healthy share of Moroccan new-car sales, due to its French ownership and the country’s former colonial status. But also in part because, just as the new Duster is a somewhat different from what went before, so is the Dacia brand. It’s even getting into motorsport, the Dakar Rally no less, and with amazing coincidence, testing in the Moroccan desert during our visit was Dacia’s new Sandrider racer.Over to Top Gear Magazine’s Associate Editor, Jason Barlow, for a road trip to the middle of nowhere…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupChapters:00:00 Intro01:38 Walkaround02:54 Interior06:13 Driving09:54 Dacia Sandrider12:54 ConclusionMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST LOOK: £1.3m Diablo Restomod Reboots ‘90s Greatest Lambo Top Gear 2024-08-17 | The restomod recipe is simple: take an old car with a cult following, rework and reimagine, then sell it for a pretty penny to nostalgic enthusiasts.For the sentimental of you with cash to splash, the choices are plentiful too, from Porsches, through old Jag E-types and Land Rover Defenders, via a load of newly electrified offerings, up to the likes of rally specials and even an Aston rejigged by its original designer a couple of decades on. Now though, we might have the restomod to top all restomods…It’s the Eccentrica Diablo, a £1.3m scissor-doored sculpture based on the wide and wild Lamborghini Diablo of the 1990s.The Diablo is perhaps the ultimate epitome of the Lamborghini brand, and the promise of a restomodded one that keeps all the original’s theatre while ironing out its, ahem, idiosyncrasies, was all we needed to hear to pack Top Gear’s Associate Editor, Jason Barlow, off to Italy to learn more…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST LOOK: Lamborghini Temerario – 907bhp, Turbo V8 Hybrid, 10,000rpm! Top Gear 2024-08-16 | The arrival of the new Temerario – a replacement for the Huracán – now means Lamborghini offers all its models with hybrid powertrains. Hmmm…But fret not, for this is Lambo’s take on hybridisation. So, while the Huracán's naturally aspirated 5.2-litre V10 has been swapped for a mere 4.0-litre V8, it has gained twin turbos and over 150bhp in the process. And, just for good measure, Lamborghini has allied it to not one, not two, but three electric motors, for a 907bhp total.That, and compared to the now-defunct V10, the forced-induction V8 revs higher. To the tune of 10,000rpm! Still want that six-cylinder McLaren Artura or Ferrari 296 GTB?There’s plenty more to uncover, too, so Top Gear Magazine’s Associate Editor, Tom Ford, is your guide to this new ‘baby’ Lambo…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST LOOK: BMW M5 Touring – 717bhp, 2.5-Tonne Hyper-Wagon Top Gear 2024-08-15 | At long last we have a BMW M5 Touring again!Which, if you’re a parent, or a practical person with a ‘lifestyle’, means this could be all the car you’ll ever want. And if you’re not one of those, then the wobblier estate body and lack of a carbon roof might mean you think the Touring is destined to only ever be a worse version of an M5 saloon.Either way, we haven’t had a big-booted BMW M5 since the V10-powered, E60-generation model, and with all the obvious rivals dead or dying out, there’s a rather large gap in the market for this new 717bhp über-estate.So, what chance does the M5 Touring have at greatness? To find out, Top Gear Magazine’s Deputy Editor, Ollie Kew, has been in a studio with one, while Editor-in-Chief, Jack Rix, has been driving a prototype…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signup00:00 Intro00:39 M5 History01:55 Rear03:15 Interior04:50 Charging05:35 Prototype DriveMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST LOOK: Porsche Restomod That’s NOT A 911! Top Gear 2024-08-11 | Top Gear tends to like Porsche 911s, and to like restomods. But when every restomod is a Porsche 911, well, our attention can waver…However, this is a Porsche restomod that’s not a 911. It is, in fact, a 928. A 928 that French company Nardone Automotive has given a thorough refresh with the help of Podium Technologies, the Italian firm that engineered the Glickenhaus 007 LMH endurance racer and Automobili Amos Lancia Delta restomod.Frankly, it’s gorgeous, with new carbonfibre bodywork, a revised gearbox, a breathed-on V8 engine, a futuristic-yet-retro interior, and an utterly awesome sound system.Top Gear’s Associate Editor, Jason Barlow, is your guide to this modernised Porsche GT…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupChapters:00:00 Intro02:12 Chat with Thierry Nardone07:58 InteriorMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST LOOK: Bugatti & Koenigsegg Designer’s New 1070hp V12 Hypercar Top Gear 2024-08-07 | When your resume includes design work on the Lamborghini Huracán, Bugatti Chiron and a couple of Koenigseggs, what next?For Sasha Selipanov, it’s creating his own hypercar: the NILU.This otherworldly wonder is a carbon-tubbed, V12-powered monster, with little to get in the way of the raw driving experience.Which could be quite something, given the promise of a manual gearbox, rear-wheel drive, and that naturally aspirated 6.5-litre engine screaming out 1070hp at 11,000rpm.But the remit of the NILU is to offer an unfiltered assault on all your senses, at all times, something Selipanov sums up as the “holy **** factor”. Meaning the exterior and interior design is as full-on as the design of mechanical hardware, with a stripped-back cabin, and an engine bay that clearly took one look at a Lamborghini Revuelto’s exposed V12 and said: “Hold my beer”.In short, this is one is for the purists, so we sent one of those, Top Gear’s Contributing Editor Jethro Bovingdon, all the way to California, USA, to learn more…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearChapters00:00 Intro01:31 Chat with Sasha Selipanov04:44 Walkaround09:02 Interior11:24 Overall DesignWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST DRIVE: Zeekr 009 – Rolls-Royce & Porsche Challenger? Top Gear 2024-08-04 | Not everyone likes the same thing, and in the case of the luxury automotive market in China, that means heritage and handling aren’t guaranteed to win over the wealthy.Step forward Zeekr, the fledgling all-electric luxe brand from Geely (which also counts Lotus, Polestar and Volvo as part of its group). In its battle for the elite’s earnings, Zeekr’s offering is the 009, a swanky minivan that majors on space, comfort and connected tech.But why are posh MPVs on the rise in China, when limos and large 4x4s dominate elsewhere? We sent Top Gear Magazine’s Associate Editor, Tom Ford, to find out more…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupChapters:00:00 Intro02:51 Chat with Head of Zeekr Design05:16 Interior09:04 Chat with Zeekr 009 Product Manager10:28 Drive12:30 Background on Zeekr13:34 Chat with Zeekr VP15:49 Zeekr Centre16:36 ConclusionMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
New Audi A6 e-tron vs 250mph Streamliner... In A Wind Tunnel! Top Gear 2024-07-31 | This is Audi’s all-new, all-electric rival for the BMW i5 and Mercedes EQE: the A6 e-tron.Available in Sportback and Avant guises, super-slippery design ensures they’re the most aerodynamic Audis ever.But don’t think aero only matters now because EVs are obsessed with range; all the way back in the 1930s, Audi’s Auto Union forebearer was obsessed with streamline racing cars.To see just how far aerodynamics have come in nearly a century, we took the Auto Union Type C Stromlinie, the innovative Audi 100, and the new Audi A6 e-tron Avant, to the company’s wind tunnel for a little show ‘n’ tell. Top Gear Magazine’s Deputy Editor, Ollie Kew, is your guide…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST DRIVE: Singer Goes Turbo – The Whale Tail Returns! Top Gear 2024-07-28 | This is the turbocharged Porsche 911 Reimagined by Singer, and it’s quite a thing!As with all Singer’s restoration services for the Porsche 911, the process takes the 964 generation of rear-engined, air-cooled cars as its starting point, but the big news on this one is an evolution of the ‘Mezger’ flat-six, now in 3.8-litre from and featuring twin turbochargers.Owners can specify 450bhp or 510bhp, paired with a manual six-speed gearbox, and personalise their car’s character towards grand touring or sports driving as they wish. But whatever their preference, the gorgeous, bespoke carbonfibre body remains, as does Singer’s exquisite attention to detail.It celebrates the iconic Porsche 930 Turbo, which so happens to be one of Tom Ford’s all-time favourites, so we sent Top Gear Magazine’s Associate Editor to test this reimagined version…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupChapters:00:00 Introduction01:42 Walkaround06:34 First Drive12:43 ConclusionMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST LOOK: 2025 Corvette ZR1 – 1064hp, Turbos & 215mph! Top Gear 2024-07-25 | Wow, the new Corvette ZR1 is quite something. For a start, one thousand and sixty-four horsepower is nothing short of A LOT. In fact, it’s nearly 400 more than the Corvette Z06, and higher than the likes of the Ferrari SF90 XX, let alone hybrid-assisted hypercars such as the McLaren P1, LaFerrari and Porsche 918.And yet, all that power comes from a solitary 5.5-litre, twin-turbocharged V8, with not a jot of a hybrid system in sight. Which also means the ZR1 is rear-wheel drive only – and it doesn’t take a genius to work out that’s over 500hp per back tyre…There is more to the 2025 Corvette ZR1 than just its peak power output though, so over to Top Gear’s Contributing Editor, Jethro Bovingdon, for a deep dive on how GM created a new ‘King of the Hill’…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupChapters:00:00 - Intro/history00:58 - Engine01:58 - Walkaround04:16 - Chief Engineer Jordan Lee08:47 - Aero10:10 - Body and chassis 11:20 - Wheel and tyre packages13:48 - Interior 16:55 - ConclusionMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
Priceless GT-Rs! Rally 240Zs! Nissan’s Huge JDM Heritage Collection Top Gear 2024-07-24 | Some manufactures have museums full of old cars you can’t get near, others have sold off the back catalogue when times were tight. And Nissan? Nissan keeps the lot, keeps them running, and lets you get up close and personal with them!This all happens in the Zama Heritage Car Garage, in Japan, where hundreds of Nissans (and Datsuns) from the company’s 90-year history are lovingly looked after.There are diddy cars from the early years, tech-laden concepts, all manner of wonderful rally and race cars, plus Skylines and GT-Rs galore.Join Top Gear Magazine’s Associate Editor, Tom Ford, for a tour of this amazing place…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupChapters:00:00 – Introduction to Nissan Heritage Centre00:46 – 1933 Datsun 12 Phaeton1:31 – 1947 Tama Electric Car2:15 – Datsun 240Z, winner of the 1971 East-African Safari Rally2:51– Genesis of the Nissan Skyline3:22 – The start of the Nissan GT-R legend3:42 – Second-generation Nissan Skyline GT-R4:23 – 1987 Nissan MID4-II concept car5:48 – Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34)6:15 – Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34) M-Spec Nür7:02 – 1950s Nissan Patrol7:31 – Nissan’s endurance race cars7:58 – ConclusionMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST DRIVE: Ford GT Mk IV - $1.7m, 800bhp Ultimate American Supercar! Top Gear 2024-07-21 | This is the ultimate incarnation of the third-generation Ford GT – and a homage to the Mk IV iteration of the original GT40, which won Le Mans in 1967.Fittingly, this new Mk IV is a track-only, pseudo-race car, of which just 67 will be built, at a price of $1.7m each.It shares its carbonfibre chassis with the GT road car and 2016 Le Mans-winning LMGTE Pro race car, but the brakes are new, the ‘longtail’ body is new and the EcoBoost V6 has been enlarged to 3.8 litres. Together with new turbos and a host of other engine changes, peak power rises to a plentiful 800bhp.Over to Top Gear Magazine’s Contributing Editor, Jethro Bovingdon, to see if this swansong is worthy of its name…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupChapters:00:00 Intro and history01:48 Chat with Lead Development Driver Scott Maxwell03:22 Passenger Lap04:32 Walkaround05:59 First Drive09:08 Chat with Executive VP Larry Holt12:35 Second Drive15:55 ConclusionMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
This Car Collection Is Detroit’s Coolest Secret Top Gear 2024-07-18 | On the edge of Detroit, USA, is a rather special family and their rather special car collection. But the vehicles (mostly Fords, but not all) in the Roush Automotive Collection aren’t just any old cars collected by Jack Roush and his family. Rather, they’re race cars that his ultra-successful NASCAR team has taken to ‘Victory Lane’ and road cars that his eponymous tuning company has built. Add in a smattering of cars the family has restored or competed in, and you’ve got an amazing array of fast metal. Top Gear Magazine’s Deputy Editor, Ollie Kew, took a tour, with the welcoming Roush family…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST LOOK: MG Cyberster Coupe – Porsche Cayman… Or This? Top Gear 2024-07-16 | This is the MG Cyber GTS Concept, a glimpse at what an MG Cyberster with a hard-top roof might look like.Now, you might scoff at our headline, but Porsche will cease production of the combustion-engined Cayman in the middle of 2025 and the replacement will be electric.Moreover, MG has already stolen a march on Porsche by getting the electric Cyberster roadster into production well ahead of any Boxster BEV.That might be again true with the Cyber GTS: we’ve yet to see any Cayman BEV prototypes testing, but this MG concept has parking sensors and wipers, clues that this is essentially a production car in waiting.Over to Top Gear Magazine’s Tom Ford for the lowdown…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST LOOK: McLaren P1 Drift Car – Mad Mike’s Rotary-Swapped ‘MadMac’! Top Gear 2024-07-13 | This is the world’s most insane drift car. A mutated McLaren, it’s the brainchild of ‘Mad Mike’ Whiddett, with a little help from McLaren experts Lanzante and luxury car specialists O’Gara Coach.Now, a McLaren P1 drift car would have been silly enough, but ‘MadMac’ (as it’s affectionately known) fuses a P1 body with a 650S GT3 carbon chassis for the added protection of the latter’s roll cage. Oh, and then whatever McLaren V8 you were expecting has been ditched for a turbocharged, triple-rotor set-up. Peak power is close to four figures…Myriad other changes have been made to get it drift ready, so here’s ‘Mad Mike’ himself, plus Lanzante boss Dean Lanzante, together with Top Gear’s Ollie Kew, to give you the full lowdown…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
Red Bull Has Built A Hypercar… Top Gear 2024-07-12 | This is the Red Bull RB17 – and it’s much more than F1 design genius Adrian Newey’s greatest hits amalgamated into a hypercar.Sure, this £5m, track-only spaceship has the likes of a blown diffuser and Newey’s favourite Formula 1 engine configuration (a naturally aspirated V10) but the RB17 is instead what happens when Newey isn’t trying to find loopholes in restrictive Formula 1 regulations. The RB17 is what happens when Newey is unleashed!The result, the mind-blowing result, is a car (very rich) mere mortals can buy – and one that can lap a racetrack as fast as a contemporary Formula 1 car.Behind Newey is the might of Red Bull Applied Technologies, the sister company to Red Bull Racing that uses the F1 team’s know-how and applies it to wider engineering challenges. As a calling card to show their expertise, the RB17 is quite something.But enough of us telling you about it. Instead, here’s the man himself, interviewed by Top Gear’s Editor-at-Large, Jason Barlow…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
Ford’s Capri Is back! But Not How Your Dad Might Remember It… Top Gear 2024-07-10 | Here’s a blast from the past, a nameplate we thought we’d never see back in production – the Capri! Only this Ford Capri isn’t how your dad might remember it. Because before, from the late 1960s through to the mid ‘80s, the Capri was a coupe, sort of Europe’s Ford Mustang. And now? Well, it’s an SUV crossover. An electric one at that. And it’s not even really a Ford. Let Top Gear Magazine’s Associate Editor, Tom Ford, explain…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupChapters:00:00 Intro00:20 What is it?00:50 Is it related to the Explorer?01:37 What do we think of the looks?03:17 Capri history03:57 What choices do we have?04:56 Interior06:23 What else is Ford saying about it?06:41 Batteries & Charging07:16 What's the verdict?MORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
New Ariel Nomad: 65% stiffer! 50% more travel! Beadlocks! Top Gear 2024-07-09 | Top Gear’s favourite little scamp for charging about off-road and getting all muddy is back!And, while the Ariel Nomad 2 might not look all that different from the collection of scaffolding poles and raised suspension that was its predecessor, only the steering wheel, fuel cap and pedal box are shared with the original Nomad.That’s right, even the engine has changed, no longer one of Ariel’s go-to Honda motors. Instead, it’s the 2.3-litre, four-cylinder, turbocharged engine from the Ford Focus ST. Which means not only more power, but more torque. A LOT MORE.Sounds like our kind of car. Over to Top Gear Magazine’s Head of Car Testing, Ollie Marriage, to find out more…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupChapters:00:00 - Introduction00:30 - Nomad 1 & 2 Comparison 04:45 - Nomad 2 Walkaround06:56 - ConclusionMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST DRIVE: Koenigsegg Chimera - 1600bhp, Manual, Agera RS/Jesko/CC850 Mash-Up! Top Gear 2024-07-07 | 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. Over to Top Gear Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, Jack Rix, who’s been to Sweden to drive this unique Koenigsegg…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupChapters:00:00 Intro02:25 Track Drive06:05 Chat with Christian von Koenigsegg15:33 Road DriveMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
Manual Gearboxes Are Back! Aston Martin Valour vs Porsche 911 S/T Top Gear 2024-07-02 | EVs and ever-stricter emissions regulations mean the manual gearbox is becoming rarer – and yet there is also a bit of a renaissance occurring. The £2.8m GMA T.50 is only available with a manual gearbox, the £2.2m Pagani Utopia can be had with two or three pedals (with most owners opting for the latter) and at the other end of the scale, Toyota is testing a manual gearbox for electric vehicles. In-between (though still very much at the expensive end of the scale) we have these two: the £1m Aston Martin Valour and the £231k Porsche 911 S/T. The Valour pairs a manual gearbox with Aston’s twin-turbo 5.2-litre V12 for the first time, and those mechanicals are clothed in retro-inspired carbonfibre bodywork. Just 110 will be made, at £1m-plus each. As for the Porsche, you can look at it either as a 911 GT3 RS with a manual gearbox and without that wing, or as a GT3 Touring with the wick turned up. Either way, it marries an epic engine that revs to 9,000rpm, with a manual ‘box and lightweight clutch. There’s still life in the ol’ stick shift then! And so, we sent the Aston and Porsche to some rather nice roads, together with Editor-in-Chief Jack Rix and Deputy Editor Ollie Kew, for a little celebration…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearChapters:00:00 Intro03:21 Aston Martin Valour Walkaround10:37 Porsche 911 S/T14:20 ComparisonWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST DRIVE: Polestar 4 – No Back Window, But Why? Top Gear 2024-07-01 | What’s even more odd than Polestar’s naming convention, which orders its cars not by class, but when they go on sale?Why, it’s to give the new Polestar 4 (which sits in price and size between the Polestar 2 and 3 – go figure) no rear window whatsoever.It’s rather anti-dog, but that feature – together with a silhouette that’s more raised saloon than lowered SUV – does help the Polestar 4 stand out against electric rivals.But is it enough to challenge the likes of Audi, BMW, Mercedes and Porsche? Top Gear Magazine’s Associate Editor, Tom Ford, has been to find out…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupChapters:00:00 Intro02:20 Interior06:34 Walkaround11:19 Drive - Spain15:09 Drive - UK19:23 ConclusionMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST DRIVE: McLaren Solus GT – 858bhp V10, Single-Seat Hypercar! Top Gear 2024-06-28 | The McLaren Solus GT is a computer-game fantasy car made real. It started life in the virtual world of Gran Turismo back in 2017, but with rivals like Aston Martin, Bugatti, Lamborghini and Red Bull getting in on the track-only hypercar market, McLaren needed to up its game from the Senna GTR. Enter the real-life Solus GT.There have been many changes from the virtual Vision GT to IRL Solus GT and – from our point of view – they’re all good. The biggest and most pivotal is the switch from the familiar McLaren twin-turbocharged V8 (plus make-believe electric motors for the front wheels) to a pure rear-driven configuration with a naturally aspirated 5.2-litre V10 engine that revs to 10,000rpm. It produces 829bhp – or 858bhp with a ram-air effect at higher speeds.Beyond that, the tub is carbon fibre, the suspension is double-wishbones all round and, oh, did we mention it’s a single, central-seat layout?!Just 25 Solus GTs will be built and, of course, they’re all sold, at north of £3m each.Over to Top Gear’s Contributing Editor, Jethro Bovingdon, for a taste of the billionaire lifestyle at the glorious Circuit of the Americas racetrack, in Texas, USA.Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupChapters:00:00 Intro01:05 Specs01:58 Senna GTR Drive05:24 Solus GT Walkaround06:54 Solus GT Drive14:21 ConclusionMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
Rimac Robotaxi! Bugatti CEO’s ‘Verne’ Ready To Take On Tesla Top Gear 2024-06-26 | What does Mate Rimac – the Bugatti CEO who’s currently in the limelight for launching a new hypercar with a V16 engine – do in his spare time? Why, he teams up with a couple of buddies to solve the thorny issue of autonomous ride-hailing services of course. Enter Verne, a new company that Rimac and co. have founded to: design and build a fully autonomous electric vehicle that offers Rolls-Royce levels of luxury; to re-envision ride-hailing apps with added personalisation; and to create the infrastructure that keeps these ‘cars’ clean and charged and running nearly 24/7. Now, you might scoff, but the rise of Rimac (both that of the company and its founder) has been meteoric, going from unheard of Croatian start-up to a supplier of batteries and motors to the likes of BMW and Porsche. Mate himself is now CEO of Bugatti, too. Will Verne be another homerun for Rimac? Has it stolen a march on Tesla’s forthcoming robotaxi? Top Gear’s Associate Editor, Tom Ford, has been to Croatia to find out…CHAPTERS00:00 Intro00:59 Walkaround with Chief Design Officer Adriano Mudri07:26 Interior12:31 Interview with CEO Marko Pejković18:51 Interview with founder Mate Rimac23:41 ConclusionSubscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
Top Gear Australia: Full Episode! Top Gear 2024-06-26 | The all-new Top Gear Australia – with all-new presenters – is here!Yes, Paramount+ has announced that the all-new series of TG Australia – featuring an all-new line-up of Blair Joscelyne, Beau Ryan and Jonathan LaPaglia – is now available to stream in Australia. The eight-part series sees Blair, Beau and JLP hitting the road in Australia, and in many places that aren’t Australia. Highlights include the trio testing out the Ferrari 296 GTS, Maserati MC20 Cielo and Pagani Huayra Codalunga on an Italian road trip, tackling a coffee run across the Colombian jungle, racing the new Lotus Eletre from Monaco to St Tropez against a very expensive boat, and taking on the wintery Alps in the Porsche 911 Dakar, Aston Martin DBX707 and Brabus Superblack 900. There are worse jobs.Back home, the presenters will be putting some of the finest, fastest new cars – including the Ford Mustang Dark Horse, Porsche 911 GT3 RS, and Toyota GR Corolla – through their paces out on track. And, of course, going head-to-head in a bunch of knackered second-hand cars, bought for a very small amount of Aussie dollars. Want to see more? Well, thanks to Paramount+, you can watch a full sample episode right here (it's episode 4, since you asked) and then head to the following link to stream the full series paramountplus.com/shows/top-gear-australiaSubscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST LOOK: New 717bhp BMW M5 – The Boss is Back… But Hybrid Top Gear 2024-06-25 | This is the new BMW M5. That’s BIG NEWS, because this is both the halo offering from BMW’s M Division, and the super-saloon that’s long been the swaggering king of the jungle with enough nous to see off the likes of whatever rivals Mercedes AMG or Audi RS could cook up. The first signs appear promising for this new-gen M5 too, with a twin-turbo V8 powertrain offering 717bhp and 737lb ft, plus an updated version of the switchable M xDrive chassis tech, which offers sensible 4wd, rear-biased 4wd and showboating rear-drive. But… the M5 is now a hybrid. Which brings a power boost – as the V8 alone is good for only 577bhp and 553lb ft – but also some weight gain. Okay, a lot of weight gain, as this isn’t a new Porsche 911 GTS-style small battery, fast discharge/fast recharge set-up. Rather, it’s a plug-in hybrid with a 22.1kWh battery and an EV range of over 40 miles. Before there’s a driver onboard, it’s 2,435kg… So, can it be any good? Alongside time in an echoey studio with a static BMW M5, Top Gear Magazine’s Deputy Editor, Ollie Kew, has also been behind the wheel of a pre-production prototype. Over to him…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupChapters:00:00 - Intro00:38 - Walkaround04:29 - Interior07:46 - Drive14:13 - ConclusionMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
Bugatti & Cosworth’s New 986bhp 8.3 V16 – Inside Story! Top Gear 2024-06-23 | Bugatti’s modern identity is indelibly linked to the gargantuan 8.0-litre, quad-turbo, funny-shaped W16 engine that powered first the Veyron, and then the Chiron. But when times are a-changin’, how do you replace your headline act?For the new Tourbillon, Bugatti once again settled on 16 cylinders, but this time they’re in a ‘V’ configuration with not a turbo in sight. Displacement is a monster 8.3-litres, it’ll rev to 9,000rpm, and make 986bhp and 664lb ft before you add in 789bhp of electric assistance via three e-motors.The new V16 is engineered by Cosworth, the same British company that’s recently created V12s for the Aston Martin Valkyrie and GMA T.50.So, how does it differ from those two, and more importantly, how does it sound at full chat on a dyno? Over to Top Gear Magazine’s Tom Ford…Chapters:00:00 Bugatti V16 First Look03:40 Cosworth History04:20 Bruce Wood - MD, Cosworth10:10 Dario Benazzi - Head of Drivetrain, Bugatti Rimac12:25 V16 Engines History13:45 Dr Florian Kamelger - CEO, Cosworth16:03 Bruce Wood SummarySubscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
FIRST LOOK: £3.8m Bugatti Tourbillon – 1800hp V16 Hybrid Chiron Successor! Top Gear 2024-06-20 | How do you replace the Chiron, a hypercar that ultimately topped out with nearly 1,600bhp and a top speed over 300mph?CEO Mate Rimac toyed with a hybridised Chiron and even reskinning his own electric Nevera hypercar, but in the end settled on an all-new car…Praise be, for what a thing it is! The engine is a naturally aspirated 8.3-litre V16 that’ll rev to 9000rpm, and together with three electric motors, the hybrid powertrain pops out a stonking 1,775bhp (or a nice round 1,800PS). It will be limited to 277mph – but don’t bet against a top speed record attempt in time.The interior is, perhaps, even more special, taking a leaf out of Pagani’s book for delectable details, with the exposed workings of the intricate, incredible dials giving the Tourbillion its name.That’s just the headline stuff though, so sit back and join Top Gear Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, Jack Rix, together with Bugatti boss Mate Rimac, for an in-depth tour of the £3.8m Chiron successor…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
Exclusive: Ultimate Mercedes Restomod! £700k HWA EVO Top Gear 2024-06-19 | This is a rather special reinterpretation of the Mercedes 190E 2.5-16 Evo II. Built by HWA – who are Mercedes AMG’s behind-the-scenes secret weapon in the world of motorsport – it’s not a lightly tickled-over plaything. Instead, it’s a proper ground-up restoration that even involves HWA building new front and rear subframes for it. Out too, goes the original four-cylinder engine, replaced by a 3.0-litre twin-turbo V6 putting out somewhere between 450 and 500bhp. So twice as much as the original then! The bodywork is wilder too, the chassis is completely upgraded, and if you’ve got a spare £700k you might just be able to get one of the 100 being built. Meantime, if you’re lucky to be young enough not to remember the original ‘Evo II’ in its prime, it first appeared at the Geneva Motor Show in 1990, as a homologation model for Merc’s DTM (aka German Touring Car Championship) efforts. Just 502 road cars were built, while the race car of the same name won the DTM drivers’ and teams’ titles in 1992. Motorsport pedigree? Tick! Over to Top Gear’s Head of Car Testing, Ollie Marriage, for the full story…Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGearWATCH MORE TOP GEAR:First Looks: bit.ly/TGFirstLooks First Drives: bit.ly/TGFirstDrivesAmerican Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: bit.ly/TGAmericanTunedLISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: topgear.podlink.to/PodcastSign up for our newsletter: topgear.com/newsletter-signupMORE ABOUT TOP GEAR:Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig.This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios.Service & Feedback bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us
