Rewind to 2008, and the last lap of the last race of the season in Brazil. You know the one, when Massa beats Lewis and thinks he’s clinched the title, only for Lewis to squirm around Timo Glock at the final corner, earning a crucial extra point and – more importantly – sneaking the F1 [...]
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 [...]
The brand new issue of Top Gear Magazine is out now, and to introduce it, a word from Editor-in-Chief, Charlie Turner: Wings make cars better, no question. Ok, so that statement might have something to do with spending my formative years staring at a poster of a bewinged version of Gandini’s Countach, but the fact [...]
Cigarettes (so many cigarettes), flared trousers and Fords. So many Fords. Gritty, brilliant Seventies cop show The Sweeney was the antidote to all the Playboy PI shows so beloved by our boys and the inspiration for ‘The Interceptors’. In The Sweeney, the cops had much more humble transport – Ford Consuls, Cortinas and Granadas. And [...]
“There is no such thing as 100% bulletproof glass,” says the disclaimer at the start of this video. Clearly no one told Trent Kimbell, president of Texas Armoring Corporation, before he crouched down behind one of his own ‘bulletproof’ windscreens and encouraged one of his junior employees to shoot him. In the face. With an [...]
OFFICIAL: it is very, very cold today. And wet. And awful. And, if the view from our office – postured mere feet from London’s glittering Westway flyover – is anything to go by, people are driving fiendishly slowly. Which is a good thing. But what if it’s 1978, your name’s Patrick Depailler, the weather’s similarly [...]
