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BBC Top Gear Magazine

May 01 2024
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

PURPLE REIGN • There’s a new Taycan Turbo GT in town and it’s the fastest accelerating Porsche ever made. Little surprise it’s already smashing records

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

INFINITI FX VETTEL EDITION

PURE KLASSE • Last year saw the saloon version of BMW’s Vision Neue Klasse, now here comes the SUV…

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

CAN’T BUY TASTE • The watch industry is littered with design atrocities. Our advice? Keep it simple, stupid

PLAY

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

SIDE-EXIT EXHAUSTS

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE… DODGE CHARGER • The US muscle car icon is back… and this time it’s electric. Eh?

ELECTRIC • TOPGEAR’S GUIDE TO THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING

THE MIDDLE LANE • Please stop banning the personalised plates we might all enjoy, requests TGTV’s Sam Philip

FUTURE PROOF • The Chinese auto industry is moving at pace. And it means business, says Paul

The big test: small electric SUVs • Things are looking bright with the arrival of the latest electric Volvo – but the existing crop of electric crossovers has something to say too

Crown jewel

Golf swing

ON SALE NOW!

Forward facing

Swing and a miss

MUST TRY HARDER

Space shuttle

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

Enjoy THREE ISSUES FOR £3 • Try a subscription to BBC TopGear magazine. Pay £3 for your first 3 issues and save 44% on the shop price.*

AFTER BURN • It might be a plaything for billionaires, but Bugatti’s new track-only Bolide is a force of nature. We’re first to experience it in full flight

INTERNAL BOLIDE-ING

SOUND OF THE UNDER GROUND • Stig’s secret subterranean lair is the perfect place to make a lot of noise. And that’s exactly what we’ve done. Welcome to TopGear Tunnel Run

TUNNEL VISION • Become an instant Catesby expert…

START YOUR ENGINES… • Meet the star cars that took on our Tunnel Run challenge

SENNA • It’s been 30 years since the fateful weekend that took the lives of F1 drivers Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger and shook the world. Senna defined his generation and stands as one of the all-time greats. Think you’ve read everything about him? Here are 30 things you might not know about Brazil’s driving legend…

R2 GRAND DESIGNS • CEO RJ Scaringe is ready to take Rivian from plucky EV startup to global powerhouse… we meet the man and the new models his master plan relies on

MOOD BOARD • It has “the soul of a rally car,” says the CEO, we’re seeing all sorts in the R3’s design

THE LAST OF US • The Audi R8 is no more. TG was there to witness the final build, and we couldn’t help but get involved…

THE AUDI R8 WAS A MISSED OPPORTUNITY.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS • A new book gets unfiltered access to BMW Design’s cutting room floor. These are the projects that could have been…

CATCHING Zs • Nothing quite like putting your money where your mouth is – just ask Silent Classics owner Jack Kerridge and his Datsun 240Z

RENAULT ESPACE F1, 1995

WE’RE BUILDING A CUSTOM ROYAL ENFIELD

RICCI’S GARAGE • Report 45 Mark’s pondering the biggest question of all: single or twin turbos for his GT-R rebuild

(2004) MG XPOWER SV-R vs MG4 XPOWER (2023)...


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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

PURPLE REIGN • There’s a new Taycan Turbo GT in town and it’s the fastest accelerating Porsche ever made. Little surprise it’s already smashing records

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

INFINITI FX VETTEL EDITION

PURE KLASSE • Last year saw the saloon version of BMW’s Vision Neue Klasse, now here comes the SUV…

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

CAN’T BUY TASTE • The watch industry is littered with design atrocities. Our advice? Keep it simple, stupid

PLAY

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

SIDE-EXIT EXHAUSTS

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE… DODGE CHARGER • The US muscle car icon is back… and this time it’s electric. Eh?

ELECTRIC • TOPGEAR’S GUIDE TO THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING

THE MIDDLE LANE • Please stop banning the personalised plates we might all enjoy, requests TGTV’s Sam Philip

FUTURE PROOF • The Chinese auto industry is moving at pace. And it means business, says Paul

The big test: small electric SUVs • Things are looking bright with the arrival of the latest electric Volvo – but the existing crop of electric crossovers has something to say too

Crown jewel

Golf swing

ON SALE NOW!

Forward facing

Swing and a miss

MUST TRY HARDER

Space shuttle

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

Enjoy THREE ISSUES FOR £3 • Try a subscription to BBC TopGear magazine. Pay £3 for your first 3 issues and save 44% on the shop price.*

AFTER BURN • It might be a plaything for billionaires, but Bugatti’s new track-only Bolide is a force of nature. We’re first to experience it in full flight

INTERNAL BOLIDE-ING

SOUND OF THE UNDER GROUND • Stig’s secret subterranean lair is the perfect place to make a lot of noise. And that’s exactly what we’ve done. Welcome to TopGear Tunnel Run

TUNNEL VISION • Become an instant Catesby expert…

START YOUR ENGINES… • Meet the star cars that took on our Tunnel Run challenge

SENNA • It’s been 30 years since the fateful weekend that took the lives of F1 drivers Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger and shook the world. Senna defined his generation and stands as one of the all-time greats. Think you’ve read everything about him? Here are 30 things you might not know about Brazil’s driving legend…

R2 GRAND DESIGNS • CEO RJ Scaringe is ready to take Rivian from plucky EV startup to global powerhouse… we meet the man and the new models his master plan relies on

MOOD BOARD • It has “the soul of a rally car,” says the CEO, we’re seeing all sorts in the R3’s design

THE LAST OF US • The Audi R8 is no more. TG was there to witness the final build, and we couldn’t help but get involved…

THE AUDI R8 WAS A MISSED OPPORTUNITY.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS • A new book gets unfiltered access to BMW Design’s cutting room floor. These are the projects that could have been…

CATCHING Zs • Nothing quite like putting your money where your mouth is – just ask Silent Classics owner Jack Kerridge and his Datsun 240Z

RENAULT ESPACE F1, 1995

WE’RE BUILDING A CUSTOM ROYAL ENFIELD

RICCI’S GARAGE • Report 45 Mark’s pondering the biggest question of all: single or twin turbos for his GT-R rebuild

(2004) MG XPOWER SV-R vs MG4 XPOWER (2023)...


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