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ISSUE 378 / DECEMBER 2023 FEATURES 052 MURRAY

PORSCHE GIVES YOU WINGS

The £820k Porsche 911 GT3 R rennsport is the ultimate track toy flex, and limited to just 77 cars. GT3 RS who?

FORD ECOSPORT

FAIL OF THE CENTURY #220

FANCY A BEV?

CAR NEWS

PLAY LIST

Procrastination ahoy! Six videos worth watching on the web this month

SNAP OR SWEEP?

WATCHES

PIERRE GASLY

MY LIFE IN CARS

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GAME OF THE MONTH

DOMINANT RACING CARS

TOPGEAR TOP 9

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE...

BMW X2

ELECTRIC

CTOPGEAR’S GUIDE TO THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING

CHRIS HARRIS

Used car prices are showing no signs of softening, and that’s bad news for us consumers, reckons Chris

THE MIDDLE LANE

Warnings that Chinese-built EVs could be used as weapons has got TGTV’s Sam Philip thinking

FUTURE. PROOF.

Hypercars are great, but are they distorting our view of accessible cars, ponders Horrell

The big test: box y off-roaders

Some people think the Land Rover Defender went too soft when it was dragged into the 21st century. Those people will want an Ineos then, right?

Specifications

01 02 03 1. Ineos’ left hand door

Simply the best

PORSCHE 911 S/T

Five to survive

BMW i5

First class

LEXUS LM 350h AWD

MUST TRY HARDER

FIAT 600e LaPrima

Jimny Quickit

SUZUKI JIMNY BY TWISTED

The overrun

Small but perfectly formed reviews. The best of the rest from this month’s drives

LET THERE BE LIGHT

And Gord saw that the light was good. So he decided to build a car that bettered his McLaren F1 in every way. We’re first to drive it

THE RAP PACK

What do you do when you’re in God’s playground with a pair of Raptors? Try to outjump each other, obviously...

CALL THE DR

AS THE RAPTOR R AND BRONCO RAPTOR reach

Mick Night CLUB

Mick Schumacher is more than just his father’s son... as a night out with the Mercedes F1 reserve driver in the car culture scene of Tokyo reveals

4 CONNECT

Think the humble four-cylinder only belongs in drab, cookie cutter crossovers? These three restomods would like a word...

MON AMI

Lifestyle oriented cars come in all shapes and sizes, but what’s it like to really embrace it for a day?

DAYS OF THUNDER

NASCAR is 75. Time for a crash course in the world’s loudest sport and why it attracts such a devoted fanbase

NASCAR AT 75

A PLOTTED HISTORY

CONCEPTS THAT TIME FORGOT AUDI RSQ, 2004

The future has never quite been what we

R I C C I ’ S G A R A G E

Report 40 A new baby has given Mark even more time to browse the classifieds...

(2023) BMW M2 vs BMW 1M (2010)

Head to head in two generations of M-badged coupes. How do they compare?

BIG RUN ARCADE, 1989

THE CLASSICS Never has such a richly detailed

GARAGE

TOPGEAR’S LONG-TERM CARS. TESTED & VERIFIED

BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO POLESTAR

EXHAUST BECAUSE KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

EV HOTLIST

EV GLOSSARY

BAFFLED BY ELECTRIC CAR JARGON? YOUR GUIDE TO DECODING THE FUTURE IS HERE

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LONDON EVSHOW

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SPEED WEEK

TOP GEAR

COMPLICITY GIVEAWAYS

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WEST ROAD CUSTOMS

MAKING IT HAPPEN

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