http://www.topgear.com/Latest Car Reviews from Top Gearen-GB© Copyright 2000-2010 Top GearTop Gearhttp://www.topgear.com/au/bmw/m5/road-test/driven?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/bmw/m5/road-test/driven?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingA hugely accomplished super-saloon and a worthy addition to the annals of the M5Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:36:02 +0100It's chuffing excellent. There you go Top Gear-heads, an instant, internet-friendly verdict on the new BMW M5. Go spread the news far and wide. Of course there's more to it than that, so let's expound a bit. This is BMW's most powerful production car ever, a 411kW business express with all manner ohttp://www.topgear.com/au/mazda/2/road-test/maxx-sedan?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/mazda/2/road-test/maxx-sedan?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingA booted version of the well-loved Mazda hatch, bound to appeal to those who watch daytime TVWed, 23 Mar 2011 07:00:44 ZRemember that cute, cheap, bubble-shaped Mazda 121 that offered so many young drivers their first shot at four-wheel freedom back in the 1990s? It's been reincarnated - but this time as a car destined to be more popular with the wrinkly drivers than ‘yoof' buyers. The new Mazda2 has grown a bhttp://www.topgear.com/au/mazda/3/road-test/2.2-mzr-cd?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/mazda/3/road-test/2.2-mzr-cd?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingLike the shy kid at school, it’s time for the Mazda3 to grow up, throw its shoulders back and become a, er, man. This new model does just that. Its parents must be very proud.Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:53:16 ZThe new Mazda3 looks great, like a squashed Mazda6 or big Mazda2, with a little bit of RX-8 mixed in for fun. It's not an all-new car, technically, but there's a new interior to go with the updated looks, and the chassis (based on the Focus platform) has been tuned to make it drive even better thttp://www.topgear.com/au/volvo/s60/road-test/new-model?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/volvo/s60/road-test/new-model?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingThu, 03 Feb 2011 04:27:15 ZBig news. Hybrid and electric Volvos, which we'll be seeing very soon, will be designated with an F. I thought the Swedes were sensible people. Fancy a Volvo Fybrid? Or a Flug-in? You can imagine what will happen when they start on the trucks... There's more, and this is truly revelatory stuff. Thhttp://www.topgear.com/au/citroen/c3/road-test/1.6hdi-exclusive?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/citroen/c3/road-test/1.6hdi-exclusive?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingNot spectacular, but everything is done well, from the design to the drive. So much better than the old version.Fri, 28 Jan 2011 05:09:39 ZReading the specification of the new Citroen C3 is about as fulfilling as watching a bunch of flowers slowly die on the grave of a well-loved family pet. I know, because I've just done it. Let me share them with you. The basics are these: the new C3 is a small Citroen hatchback with a range of four-http://www.topgear.com/au/volkswagen/polo/road-test/1.8-gti?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/volkswagen/polo/road-test/1.8-gti?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingFri, 28 Jan 2011 01:19:53 ZThis is one of those cars that people don't take too seriously. The general assumption tends to go a bit like this: it's a supermini, therefore, girly, so it can't be that good. However, the revelation that was the MkV Golf GTI paved the way for VW to reinvent its sporting self, so the performance Phttp://www.topgear.com/au/suzuki/sx4/road-test/s-awd?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/suzuki/sx4/road-test/s-awd?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingA pointless exercise in a car that is nowhere near good enough to justify its existence. Neither very good as a hatchback or a 4x4.Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:50:50 Z Suzuki is the latest car maker to jump on the crossover bandwagon, and it proudly heralds the fact in the name SX4 – ‘sport cross four-wheel drive’. Now, had they told me the crossover bit was all to do with a Japanese firm teaming up with the Italians to build a car in Hungary, http://www.topgear.com/au/volkswagen/golf/road-test/gtd?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/volkswagen/golf/road-test/gtd?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingA very nice car, but not actually the hot hatch it pretends to be. And deceit is really quite a bad thing.Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:22:08 ZI keep seeing BMW 120ds. To these drivers I commend the Golf GTD. I see quite a lot of Golf GTIs too. To these drivers, I say avoid the GTD. It's no substitute. Oh, you might be confused by the looks and the badge. But it just doesn't have the bite of a proper hot hatch. It gets all the design thttp://www.topgear.com/au/bmw/7-series/road-test/bmw-7-series?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/bmw/7-series/road-test/bmw-7-series?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingFri, 28 Jan 2011 00:21:12 ZYou may ask why a five-litre, V8-powered BMW is driving at 8km/h. But that's how it is in funeral corthges. The time has come to lay great auntie to rest, gawd bless 'er. Seven-foot tall Uncle Bob has bagsied a lift, along with the rest of the family, so it's just as well BM have made this 745 Li lhttp://www.topgear.com/au/skoda/octavia-scout/road-test/103tdi-4x4?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/skoda/octavia-scout/road-test/103tdi-4x4?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingJacked up Octavia is a genuine (if smaller) rival to the likes of the Subaru Outback. We question the sense in paying more for this over the regular Octavia wagon, though.Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:15:26 ZPeople who get paid lot of money to launch new cars use bizspeak like ‘brand positioning', ‘target demographic' and ‘conquest sales' as they explain the science. We who know nothing - pretty much every journo in the room - sit there, scribble it down, and dutifully regurgitate it.