http://www.topgear.com/News from Top Gearen-GB© Copyright 2000-2010 Top GearTop Gearhttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/stripped-down-86-and-brz?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/stripped-down-86-and-brz?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingToyota and Subaru are offering stripped-down, bare bones versions of their new 86/BRZ to cater for the car modifying communitySun, 12 Feb 2012 01:38:53 Z Toyota and Subaru have unveiled stripped-down versions of their 86 and BRZ sportscars – blank canvases designed with car modifiers in mind. Costing significantly less than the specced-up versions, these purist versions (known as the 86 RC and BRZ RA) will come with basic 16-inch steel wheelhttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/nissan-joins-v8-supercars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/nissan-joins-v8-supercars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingLook out Ford and Holden fans. Nissan has just announced it will join the V8 Supercar series next yearThu, 09 Feb 2012 03:26:57 ZFord and Holden fans, look out: Nissan has confirmed it will enter the V8 Supercar championship next year. Announced in Melbourne this morning, the Japanese giant will take on our Falcons and Commodores with a full factory-backed effort, sponsoring V8 team Kelly Racing. Led by brothers Todd and Rihttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/classic-ferrari-250-gto-sells-for-30-million-2012-02-07?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/classic-ferrari-250-gto-sells-for-30-million-2012-02-07?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingLadies and gentlemen, meet the most expensive car ever sold in Britain…Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:23:03 ZAnother day, another Ferrari 250 GTO. Today we find news that one of the erstwhile bedroom pin-ups has sold for $29,685,000, thus making it one of the most expensive cars ever sold in the world. This particular car, number 5095, is believed to have been sold by British businessman Jon Hunt who boughttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/bunyip-video-this-is-weird?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/bunyip-video-this-is-weird?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingYou've seen the pics. Now watch the rather strange video.Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:52:45 ZWhat the hell is this thing? It's the TopGear Bunyip, that's what. And yes, we realise that doesn't actually answer your question. Read about this bizarre creation here. But watch the video first, just to get you in the mood.http://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/will-i-am-takes-on-tg?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/will-i-am-takes-on-tg?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingWill.i.am takes on the TopGear test track - and has a few oopsies along the way...Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:06:25 ZIt's still on a boat en route to Australia, but the latest episode of TopGear has gone to air in the UK. It was a classic feast of supercar exotica. But sandwiched in between was the very first Star In A Reasonably Priced Car of series 18, Mr will-dot-i-dot-am-dot. Jeremy called him an inspiration,http://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/new-volkswagen-golf-gti-mark-7-2012-01-30?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/new-volkswagen-golf-gti-mark-7-2012-01-30?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingPaul Horrell reports back with all the information on the seventh generation of the iconic hot hatchMon, 30 Jan 2012 22:57:37 ZThe next VW Golf GTI will be faster and notably lighter and more sophisticated than the one they build now. And that's hardly shabby. This will be the seventh generation of the dynastic hot hatch, and it's due in 2012. Part of its secret is that it will be more different from the base Golf 7s than http://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/when-wings-go-wrong-magazine?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/when-wings-go-wrong-magazine?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingAerodynamics is a dark art. Sometimes it fails. BadlyMon, 30 Jan 2012 04:03:52 ZThis is how Mark Webber's Le Mans warm-up ended in '99, when his Merc CLR lifted and flipped over (having done the same thing in quali the day before). It went light over the Mulsanne bump, lost downforce in disturbed air, and was blown skywards when things got a bit too breezy under the car.http://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/the-toyota-TS030-sounds-awesome?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/the-toyota-TS030-sounds-awesome?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingYou'll want to spend most of this year's Le Mans 24 hour race in the pits... Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:23:35 ZStop. Collaborate and LISTEN. This is the sound of Toyota's new Hybrid TS030 Le Mans racer. It. Is. Heroic. Toyota's bringing two of its new petrol-electric racers to the legendary 24-hour race this June. And, if this little clip's anything to go by, we'll be spending most of our time, ears acock, http://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/mercerdes-sl-is-better-investment-than-gold-2012-01-23?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/mercerdes-sl-is-better-investment-than-gold-2012-01-23?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingThis one-of-29 road racing Benz is a better investment than gold…Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:20:08 ZBankers! Theo Paphitis! Lord Sir Alan! DUMP GOLD! BUY 1955 MERCEDES SL LIGHTWEIGHTS! Yep, it's official*. 1955 lightweight, alloy-bodied Mercedes-Benz SLs are a better investment than gold. In June 2011, one of the 29 road racers sold for $2.5m ($2.4m) through Coys auction house; this weekend, an http://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/stig-drifts-clubsport-around-caravan?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/stig-drifts-clubsport-around-caravan?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingWe’ve been celebrating with Stig, a caravan and a detonator...Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:34:28 ZIt's nice to know that when the UK Stig needs a car to drive, he picks something made in Australia. To celebrate 10,000,000 Facebook fans, our colleagues in England blew up a caravan (as you do), and made a video about it. But not before the Stig drifted around it in an HSV Clubsport R8 (known as a