£55,990 FOR Ride-handling balance, bang for buck, supportive seats AGAINST Can’t escape the weight, styling changes very gentle Grab a quiet word with any Tesla engineer and they’ll all say the same thing: the first-gen Model 3 Performance was a pull

The manually wound movement is having a moment. Let’s get this straight – as we charge further into the world of AI, a mechanical watch that needs powering up via the crown is getting more popular. The question is, why? All mechanical timepieces once

When I span a Formula E car off a Swedish racetrack last summer and messily biffed the front wing into the gravel, the people from Formula E weren’t overly bothered. When I later wrote about the experience in this magazine and remarked the car was an

As elephants in the room go, this one is really very elephantine. There is talk about having lightened it but the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT is still waaaay heavy. So if you wanted to make a track car, you surely wouldn’t start with a Taycan. Yet Porsch

GO TO TOPGEAR.COM FOR EXTENDED TG GARAGE REPORTS, AND TO EXPLORE THE ARCHIVE £37,430 OTR/£42,880 as tested/£435 pcm Is the revised ID.3 easier to live with? Paul Horrell I HAD A VOLKSWAGEN ID.4 A YEAR OR TWO BACK. NOT THROUGH CHOICE: it was too bulky

TOYOTA LAND CRUISER £55,000 approx/£70,000 approx as tested Here is a question: what is an off-roader for? And here are some potential answers: a) going off-road or b) doing the school run. They’re the only answers that matter really. The Toyota Land

GO TO TOPGEAR.COM FOR MORE MIND-BLOWING MANUFACTURER GUIDES Lego is a Danish toy firm started by carpenter Ole Kirk Kristiansen in 1932 – he began making toys after tiny mock-ups of his furniture turned out popular. He sold them out of his shop in Bi

These small cars are perfect for urban life, but the trade-off is a much lower range PRICE: £14,995 RANGE: 136 miles We love the Spring – even if it’s not on sale in the UK until later in 2024. It would’ve been here sooner, but it only does 140 miles

WHO: JACK RIX WHERE: LOS ANGELES, USA Shoots in America aren’t cheap, so compromises need to be made… like accommodation. Still, Jack looks surprisingly chirpy after his night in a cubby WHO: CHARLIE ROSE WHERE: NEW ROMNEY, UK Videographer Charlie’s

Oh, the smell. Sultry wafts of coal-fired smoke, laced with hints of hot metal, warm engine oil and lashings of grease. An impatient steam locomotive is a feast for the eyes, ears and nose. All eight tonnes of Samson, built in Colchester in 1926, are

This is the Alfa Romeo Junior, launched as the Milano until the Italian government said it couldn’t be called that as it’s made in Poland. Awkward. The first electric Alfa is related to the Fiat 600, Jeep Avenger and Peugeot 2008. There will be a hyb

MY TH BUSTER Electric powertrains all feel much the same. This is truth not myth, so I’m not here to bust it. They all give a smooth, instant and proportional answer to the right pedal. They even sound the same. If silence is a sound. We petrolheads

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£52,850 FOR As smooth, quiet and composed as you like AGAINST Polarising looks, couple of interior own goals, pricey The 5-Series train keeps rolling on – we’re into gen eight now, and it falls on the 520i to open the batting. It’s very impressive to

£18,699 FOR Lightweight, value for money and quite fun to drive AGAINST Impressively slow, some cheap plastics inside The new Suzuki Swift is actually quite a rare beast. You see, this is a supermini – not an SUV or a crossover – being launched in 20

As every carmaker has converged in recent decades on the same neck of the mass manufactured vaguely premium woods, it’s been that bit more difficult to stand out and add value. Your legacy badge will only get you so far, you have to work harder now.

The other day I was with someone whose best friend owns 60-odd cars, which my companion gets invited to drive. He’s on the lookout for a Porsche 918 at the moment. Today I’m scanning through the comments section of a TopGear review of a restomod. And

A NAKED CAR IN A NAKED PLACE Hours from LA and light years from its celebrity culture the Cybertruck sits in a desert, as if sent from the future by Skynet. If it had zapped into existence on bolts of electricity, that would be no less believable tha

Call it a morbid curiosity, but we’re fascinated by the prospect of Mercedes blending its big, blocky, bluff, bling anachronism of a glitter rolled ex-military SUV with the very latest in electric propulsion. It’s a bit like bolting a hydrogen fuel c

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Family EV, eh? We could bang on about families in the way they sit in the political discourse, where it’s apparently not allowed to use the word ‘families’ without the prefix ‘hard-working’. The Scenic is on the face of it the car for hard-working fa

This is the brand new Aston Martin DBX – at first glance it appears not much has changed. It’s got the same Mercedes-AMG 4.0-litre V8 and the same 697bhp (707PS, hence the name) and 663lb ft as before. So what, you cry, has Aston done to this power-c

At what point does retro become antique? Night Driver is one of the earliest driving video games of any description, built using similar technology to blocky ‘tennis’ game Pong. Don’t let the reasonably detailed bonnet and cockpit on the bottom porti

Before Lego had worked out a way of integrating its own wheels into kits, it produced a huge number of 1:87 scale diecast toys to liven up the towns and buildings that kids were putting together. The E-type coupe from the Sixties was the coolest of t