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WELCOME

@jack_rix editor@bbctopgearmagazine.com A reelectric hot hatches actually viable?

THE ‘NEW’ McLAREN

Here it is folks, the McLaren 750S. Looks a lot like the 720S, sure, but the changes run deep

COFFEE BREAK

What we’re watching/ listening/doing, while we should be working

HYUNDAI AMICA

IMAGE: MANUFACTURER It seems the humble city car

CYBER MIDGET

Once again MG will sell you a sports car... only this time it’s electric

ASTON MARTIN DBS 770 ULTIMATE

The powered-up DBS swansgong wears delectable Valkyrie-esque spiderweb wheels.

PLAYLIST

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

CLOCK AND ROLL

If the world’s biggest rockers spend this much on watches, why are they always late on stage?

PLAY

GAME OF THE MONTH

M&D MG20 BUGATTI WIRELESS GAMING HEADPHONES

Are you a gamer with far too much

THE KNOWLEDGE

Need-to-know nuggets of automotive news

HUGE MONEY FOR TINY CARS

01 Mini Cooper SE Convertible Electric SUVs? Loads

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE... POLESTAR 4

Polestar’s fourth car asks you to think differently about your rear view

HARD DRIVE

We download YouTube’s #1 tech expert on whatever he’s been driving this month

ELECTRIC

TOPGEAR’S GUIDE TO THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING

THE STIG

Chris Harris is away, so we asked The Stig for his thoughts on life, cars... anything really

THE MIDDLE LANE

It’s time we started thinking outside the box when it comes to UK speed limits, says TGTV’s Sam Philip

FUTURE PROOF

Paul has thoughts on the Valkyrie and AMG One – and they’re exactly as he predicted five years ago

The big test: deluxe soft-tops

Does the new AMG-honed Mercedes SL want to be a sports car, or a GT? TG pits it against the best of both... and ends up confused

Bulk buy

6/ 10 £90,560 ↑ FOR Interior’s nice if

Orderly Q

8/ 10 £79,585 ↑ FOR Hey good looking... but

Inside job

6/ 10 £36,640 ↑ FOR Cabin trim, a

MUST TRY HARDER

AC SCHNITZER ACS2 4.0i

Cheaply cheerful

6/ 10 £31,095 ↑ FOR Unpretentious, comfortable, and

The overrun

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

VIVE LE HOT HATCH!

A new Renault 5 EV is coming, but this is the one you actually want – Alpine’s homage to the R5 Turbo

TG’S ROUGH GUIDE TO BBC TG

GLOSSARY RETRO/RET-ROH/ Literally “imitative of a style

GENERATION GAME

Get to know your decades with our handy guide, from the Sixties to the Noughties

ARTY INTELLIGENCE

Get a petrolhead to steer a computer and exceptional – if weird – things happen. The following images were all generated by AI...

RETRO IS HARD

Old design cues plus a modern chassis = success, right? Nope, retro goes badly wrong, too

MOTO-RETRO

Bikes have been ploughing the retro furrow for a while. Here’s our current top five

WHAT JENSON DID NEXT

What do F1 world champions do when they retire? They resurrect a classic British coachbuilder and develop their ultimate road car, obviously

WE HAVE IGNITION

The fastest car in the world is about to retire. Weirdly, TopGear’s having one last hurrah at a place where a Bugatti Chiron doesn’t seem so powerful after all

GOOD WILL HUNTING NG

Never fear, the TopGear Rhino Protection League is here, and for once we haven’t brought a wholly unsuitable vehicle. This is serious business

ONLY FANS!

What’s life like at 12,000rpm? We got to find out... in stereo. Jack and Ollie hop in the outer seats of the GMA T.50

STRIPES VS STARS

The Z06 is Corvette’s most hardcore sports car yet... and, so it says, a fitting rival to anything Europe has to offer. Time for a showdown

HEADLINER FUJI HEAVY DISEASE

Meet the world’s most obsessive Subaru collector, who stashes his finds in a train station car park in Yokohama

MERCEDES SLK, 1994

Sometimes you look at a concept car and

RICCI’S GARAGE

Report 34 Selling an old Mercedes on an online auction site proves total torture for Mark

(2023) AUDI S3 vs AUDI S3 (2001)

Two premium hot hatches, 20 years apart. So what’s changed?

KIT CARS

LESS THAN £15K CATERHAM SEVEN 1700 SUPER SPRINT

FERRARI F355 CHALLENGE

ARCADE/DREAMCAST/PS2, 1999

Ora Funky Cat

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SKODA ENYAQ vRS

REPORT 2 £54,370/£54,990/£774 WHY IT’S HERE Is the

Audi S3

AUDI NUGGETS I’ve accused the S3’s cabin of

Citroen C5 X Hybrid

REPORT 4 £40,155 OTR/£42,985 as tested/£705 pcm WHY

MAZDA CX-60

REPORT 4 £49,520/£53,270/£649 WHY IT’S HERE Can Mazda

DS 4

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? This month: the Enyaq’s

Volkswagen Multivan

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Volvo XC40 Recharge

WHAT ELSE WE’RE RUNNING REPORT 5 RENAULT MEGANE

Cupra Born eBoost

REPORT 5 £43,735 OTR/£45,100 as tested/£490 pcm WHY

Honda Civic

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BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO ALFA ROMEO

From greatest hits to lowest moments, everything you ever wanted to know... and a fair bit you didn’t

What’s the most Alfa Romeo car in the back catalogue?

Alfa Romeo 158/159 Alfetta / 1938–1951

EV GLOSSARY

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

RENAULT MEGANE E TECH

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