GOOD NEWS! Morgan’s building a 94bhp Supersports-based electric superishcar. BETTER NEWS! It’s got a proper manual gearbox. The +E concept’s using a similar five-speed manual transmission to the six-speeder in the current V8-powered car. And providing it reaches production, it’ll be the only manual EV… in the world. Neil Cheeseman from the car’s electric drivechain [...]
We must first set one thing straight: to all those currently bubbling in a state of confusion, this car is not the Nismo Juke that was shown at the Tokyo motor show last week. That car was a lightly tweaked concept marking the arrival of Nismo (Nissan Motorsports) as a proper in-house performance tuner for [...]
Get your trousers on, Internet, you’re nicked. That is of course, if you have perpetrated a minor felony against the pantheon of great TV cars and thought the Ford Focus ST was a good choice for Regan and Carter. That’s right, next year’s big-screen remake of classic telly cop show The Sweeney – starring Ray [...]
While Top Gear mag was drawing up its cars of the year in a glitzy Portakabin on an industrial estate near Guildford, 58 Very Serious Men from 22 countries were compiling their own list for European Car of the Year. Interestingly, the Very Serious Men have drawn some similar conclusions to our own musings. Just [...]
Bigger and lighter. Sounds contradictory, but that’s what the upcoming 2013 Mercedes SL will be. Introduced in 2001 with its last upgrades in 2008, the R230 SL is decidedly aged in car years and its replacement can’t come soon enough. With the latest spyshots of the 2013 Mercedes SL, we can see that the nose [...]
A couple of months back in the November 2011 issue of Top Gear magazine, we caught up with screenwriter Peter Morgan on his highly anticipated upcoming Formula One movie, Rush. Directed by Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon, Richie Cunningham in Happy Days) and scripted by Morgan (The Queen, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Damned [...]
