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BBC Top Gear Magazine

Oct 01 2023
Magazine

Top Gear is the worlds most exciting Car magazine bringing you up to date news, the latest drives and stunning features.

WELCOME

GET YOUR FIX • There’s more than one way to consume the world’s best car content

BBC Top Gear Magazine

EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT STANG WITH STING • Sounds like a VW Golf diesel, but the GTD is a Mustang gunning to take on the Porsche 911 GT3 RS at its own game

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

SSANGYONG RODIUS

LIVING LEGEND • A canned Lotus from 53 years ago is brought to life to create the ultimate track toy

PORSCHE 718 SPYDER RS

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

PLUG AND PLAY • What do the watch and gaming industries have in common? More than you might think…

LANDO NORRIS • The McLaren F1 racing driver on supercars suited to the golf club and old Fiat 500s

LANDO’S DREAM GARAGE • What’s next on his wishlist?

PLAY

RUF CTR YELLOWBIRD MODEL

THE KNOWLEDGE • Need-to-know nuggets of automotive news

BEST LOOKING CAR ENGINES

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE… ZENVO AURORA • Everyone’s favourite Danish hypercar maker has revealed something new

ELECTRIC • TOPGEAR’S GUIDE TO THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING

EV UPDATE

CHRIS HARRIS • US cars used to be too big for UK roads, says Chris, but have today’s lardy European models levelled the field?

THE MIDDLE LANE • TGTV’s Sam Philip questions whether the PM’s support of motorists is as simple as it sounds

FUTURE PROOF • Calculators at the ready, Professor Horrell has some TopGear maths he needs to deploy

The big test: mid-sized luxury SUVs • The Maserati Grecale is here to spoil the mid-sized luxury SUV party. Time to see if it can usurp the current ringleaders

Swan song

Imitation game

Too safe, sorry

ID crisis

MUST TRY HARDER

Simply the best

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

special anniversary offer • Try a subscription to BBC TopGear magazine and get 12 issues for £30

WE BECAME HEROES • Every TopGear Car of the Year from the past three decades gathered in the exact spot we shot the first ever issue

FANTASTIC BEASTS • A supercar getting our Car of the Year nod is a rare event, but two Ferraris have managed it. What is it that makes them so special?

TWO DRIFTERS

DOUBLE ASPECT • Two Audis, two very different purposes in life. And yet each brilliant in their own way

COMEDY DUO

EVERYDAY HEROES

LANDMARK LANDIES • Land Rovers have always been tough, now they have quality on their side, too

OVAL RACINGS • Ford has been graced with our Car of the Year tag seven times in the past 30 years, and of those, four were hot hatches. This is their story

BACK TO THE FUTURE • In our increasingly electrified world, two pioneers have stood taller than others…

TOP OF THE PILE • Can writers past and present agree on the greatest of all from past winners? Of course they can’t, deploy the TG maths!

ALOHA! • We had some unfinished business with the Mustang and America, so we shipped off to Hawaii to sort it all out

CAN F1 DRIVERS DRIFT? • Sure, Max Verstappen is one of the fastest drivers in the world operating at the top of his game, but can he smoke a set of rear tyres like the the best of them? We’re there to witness his intro to the science of sideways

SILENT MIGHT • Lamborghini’s first all-electric car is a four-door ‘ultra-GT’, so it claims. We drive it… five years before it goes on sale

TOUG...


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Top Gear is the worlds most exciting Car magazine bringing you up to date news, the latest drives and stunning features.

WELCOME

GET YOUR FIX • There’s more than one way to consume the world’s best car content

BBC Top Gear Magazine

EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT STANG WITH STING • Sounds like a VW Golf diesel, but the GTD is a Mustang gunning to take on the Porsche 911 GT3 RS at its own game

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

SSANGYONG RODIUS

LIVING LEGEND • A canned Lotus from 53 years ago is brought to life to create the ultimate track toy

PORSCHE 718 SPYDER RS

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

PLUG AND PLAY • What do the watch and gaming industries have in common? More than you might think…

LANDO NORRIS • The McLaren F1 racing driver on supercars suited to the golf club and old Fiat 500s

LANDO’S DREAM GARAGE • What’s next on his wishlist?

PLAY

RUF CTR YELLOWBIRD MODEL

THE KNOWLEDGE • Need-to-know nuggets of automotive news

BEST LOOKING CAR ENGINES

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE… ZENVO AURORA • Everyone’s favourite Danish hypercar maker has revealed something new

ELECTRIC • TOPGEAR’S GUIDE TO THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING

EV UPDATE

CHRIS HARRIS • US cars used to be too big for UK roads, says Chris, but have today’s lardy European models levelled the field?

THE MIDDLE LANE • TGTV’s Sam Philip questions whether the PM’s support of motorists is as simple as it sounds

FUTURE PROOF • Calculators at the ready, Professor Horrell has some TopGear maths he needs to deploy

The big test: mid-sized luxury SUVs • The Maserati Grecale is here to spoil the mid-sized luxury SUV party. Time to see if it can usurp the current ringleaders

Swan song

Imitation game

Too safe, sorry

ID crisis

MUST TRY HARDER

Simply the best

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

special anniversary offer • Try a subscription to BBC TopGear magazine and get 12 issues for £30

WE BECAME HEROES • Every TopGear Car of the Year from the past three decades gathered in the exact spot we shot the first ever issue

FANTASTIC BEASTS • A supercar getting our Car of the Year nod is a rare event, but two Ferraris have managed it. What is it that makes them so special?

TWO DRIFTERS

DOUBLE ASPECT • Two Audis, two very different purposes in life. And yet each brilliant in their own way

COMEDY DUO

EVERYDAY HEROES

LANDMARK LANDIES • Land Rovers have always been tough, now they have quality on their side, too

OVAL RACINGS • Ford has been graced with our Car of the Year tag seven times in the past 30 years, and of those, four were hot hatches. This is their story

BACK TO THE FUTURE • In our increasingly electrified world, two pioneers have stood taller than others…

TOP OF THE PILE • Can writers past and present agree on the greatest of all from past winners? Of course they can’t, deploy the TG maths!

ALOHA! • We had some unfinished business with the Mustang and America, so we shipped off to Hawaii to sort it all out

CAN F1 DRIVERS DRIFT? • Sure, Max Verstappen is one of the fastest drivers in the world operating at the top of his game, but can he smoke a set of rear tyres like the the best of them? We’re there to witness his intro to the science of sideways

SILENT MIGHT • Lamborghini’s first all-electric car is a four-door ‘ultra-GT’, so it claims. We drive it… five years before it goes on sale

TOUG...


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