In the wake of the all-conquering Range Rover Evoque – which we made our car of 2011 – this new Audi A6 allroad quattro seems a bit beige. But it still remains an immensely usable car and one that should question our nation’s increasingly insatiable appetite for an all-singing, all-lumbering red-blooded SUV. That penultimate suffix [...]
If you’ve read our report from the Tokyo Motor Show, you’ll be aware that after years of supplying their excellent bolt-on go-faster bits, Nismo (NISsan MOtorsport – geddit?) may be planning a more formal arrangement to sell their tweaked cars through Nissan dealerships. As AMG are to Mercedes, and M Sport to BMW, so Nismo [...]
If you saw the initial pictures of the Mini Coupe and thought, ‘Hmm, maybe it’s just one of those cars that doesn’t quite work in photos”, you were wrong. The Mini Coupe looks every bit as strange in the metal as it does on the screen in front of you. Whether good-strange or bad-strange is down [...]
Tuner Late Model Racecraft is a bit handy with a set of spanners. And they’re not afraid of making the Chevrolet Corvette indecently fast. So here’s a video to start your week featuring sheer, raw speed. Earlier this year, they took a 1,500bhp ‘Vette and maxed out the Texas mile at 231mph. Now it’s released this [...]
Say “hey there, big fella” to the Ford Ranger. It’s their latest 4×4 and it’s MASSIVE. As in really, really massive. 5.35 meters long, 1.85 meters wide and 1.85 meters tall, to be precise. That’s 2.7 Jeremys long, a James tall and 1.08 Richards wide. Which seems a little extravagant for European roads. See more [...]
The Amalfi Coast stretches across southern Italy beckoning seekers of beauty with its sun-kissed affection and cultural charm. One such sun seeker however, decided to paint the beautiful scenery with a guttural, raucous V8 roar. One such sun seeker is the new Ferrari 458 Spider. Ahead of Top Gear’s official review of the new Berlinetta, [...]
