http://www.topgear.com/News from Top Gearen-GB© Copyright 2000-2010 Top GearTop Gearhttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/bmw-m3-gts-2009-11-05?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/bmw-m3-gts-2009-11-05?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingBMW brings back its lightweight, race-ready M3… but with a different nameThu, 05 Nov 2009 21:49:25 ZMassive Shouty Opening Line Alert: the BMW M3 CSL is back! Only, it's not called the CSL. It's called the GTS, which is quite a good name, but not as good as the CSL. But, in all but name, this is it: BMW's spiritual successor to the lightweight, legendary M3 CSL, unveiled at the SEMA show and sehttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/boxster-spyder-2009-11-05?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/boxster-spyder-2009-11-05?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingPorsche reveals its most hardcore, lightweight Boxster ever – the car that’s faster than a 911 CarreraThu, 05 Nov 2009 22:56:24 ZSee more Boxster Spyder pics Porsche has given us a first look at its ultimate Boxster: the lightweight, stripped-out Spyder, set to debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show next month. This isn't some limited-run special edition: the Boxster Spyder will go on general release in Oz in the second quhttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/vauxhall-gm-2009-11-04?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/vauxhall-gm-2009-11-04?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingGeneral Motors cancels plans to sell off its European arm, but UK jobs are still under threatWed, 04 Nov 2009 23:00:17 ZGeneral Motors has dramatically reversed its decision to sell its European arm, Vauxhall-Opel. It had agreed to sell a majority stake to a consortium led by the parts maker Magna, a bid that was supported by a large share of money from Russia's state bank. GM says the eleventh-hour decision to keep http://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/good-vibrations-2009-11-03?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/good-vibrations-2009-11-03?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingLexus drives over bridge, boffins convert the energy into electricityTue, 03 Nov 2009 22:26:01 ZLexus engineers in Japan have worked out how to convert the energy generated by vehicles driving over a bridge into electricity to power the structure's lights. They then go on to say that some clever types are working out how to collect energy generated by raindrops falling and people walking - sohttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/mustang-bulge-2009-11-03?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/mustang-bulge-2009-11-03?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingEver seen a fatter bonnet than the one on the new Ford Mustang Cobra Jet?Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:15:38 ZYowch. Is that a four-litre Whipple supercharger under your bonnet... or are you just pleased to see us?The SEMA show has only just kicked off in Las Vegas, but we think we might have found an early contender for ‘bulgiest car in show'.This is the Mustang Cobra Jet, the latest version of Ford'http://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/block-on-ice-2009-11-03?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/block-on-ice-2009-11-03?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingTop Gear’s favourite Ken converts his Subaru STI into… the world’s fastest snow catTue, 03 Nov 2009 22:24:32 ZIt might seem like we're a bit obsessed with Ken ‘Gymkhana' Block here at TopGear.com. But we're not. It's just that he keeps doing insanely cool things that we keep finding it necessary to tell you about. Like turning a Subaru Impreza STI into the world's fastest snow cat. See? We'd be franhttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/hyundai-parking-2009-11-03?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/hyundai-parking-2009-11-03?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingRemember the world’s worst parking clip from last week? Well, it has a happy ending. Yay!Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:11:42 ZWe like a happy ending here at Top Gear. Not the dodgy Thai massage sort, the nice fairy tale sort. Which is why this story straight out of Canada makes us all warm and fuzzy inside. Remember the YouTube contender for the world's worst parking job we showed you last week? The one where the hahttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/leopard-audi-tt-2009-11-02?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/leopard-audi-tt-2009-11-02?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingAnd you thought your golden retriever looked cool hanging out the window of your convertible?Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:06:25 ZIf you want to shed that irksome ‘hairdresser' image in your Audi TT, who should you put on the passenger seat? Mike Tyson? Mr T? Charles Bronson armed with an AK47? How about... a leopard? Yeah, a leopard. Y'know, that massive, wild, potentially-really-quite-dangerous big cat. In the passehttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/ken-block-wrc-video-2009-10-30?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/ken-block-wrc-video-2009-10-30?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingOur quest for increasingly tortuous Ken Block-related headlines continues with this excellent rally clipSun, 01 Nov 2009 22:43:09 ZAs we reported a couple of weeks ago, Gymkhana hero Ken Block will race for Ford in the WRC next year. This is good news... unless you're James May, who is currently refusing to answer his phone in case Mr Block is on the look-out for a co-driver. If you're wondering how he'll will fare against thttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/lexus-lfa-a-pillar-2009-10-30?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/lexus-lfa-a-pillar-2009-10-30?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingWatch the A-pillar of a Lexus LFA being knitted into existence. This is so much cooler than it soundsSun, 01 Nov 2009 22:39:24 ZPrepare to have your mind lightly boggled. You're about to watch a video of Toyota's rotary weaver creating the A-pillar for the Lexus LFA. If this sounds incredibly boring, it isn't. While most CF components are created using pre-weaved sheets of carbon fibre, Toyota owns one of just two ro