http://www.topgear.com/News from Top Gearen-GB© Copyright 2000-2010 Top GearTop Gearhttp://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/top-gear-us-2008-12-01http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/top-gear-us-2008-12-01Top Gear US site gets an exclusive interview with a cool designer blokeMon, 01 Dec 2008 17:39:38 ZWe’ve just spotted something over on the Top Gear US site, that you might like to have a read of…They’ve managed to track down Brooklyn-born designer Jason Castriota, who until recently worked as Director of Special Projects for Pininfarina, designing such stunners at the Ferrari http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/vw-scirocco-2008-12-01http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/vw-scirocco-2008-12-01Will VW’s hotter Scirocco look anything like this tuned-up number?Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:51:57 ZRumours of a hotter VW Scirocco – something akin to the GT24 concept we saw earlier this year – have been circulating furiously for a while now.If and when it turns up, could it look anything like this, the new tuned Scirocco from German turners ABT? We wouldn’t be too upset if it http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/suzuki-alto-lapin-2008-11-01http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/suzuki-alto-lapin-2008-11-01The Suzuki Alto Lapin: the solution to all Britain’s transport woes…Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:06:28 ZAny car named after a singing rabbit is almost guaranteed to get the Top Gear thumbs up, and this one is no exception.This is the Suzuki Alto Lapin, a Japan-only kei car that, we reckon, could be the solution to all of Britain’s transport woes. Why?Well, for a start it’s tiny. For Japanehttp://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/nissan-370z-2008-12-01http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/nissan-370z-2008-12-01Put your hands in the air and say, er, ‘Nissan 370Z’…Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:53:31 ZWe want a Nissan 370Z. We want a Nissan 370Z. We don’t know why. But we do. We want one. Some see a letter. Others see a car, apparently.We would also like a family-sized pack of mini Mars Bars, two hundred glo-sticks and some form of brain-cleaning device to wipe that horrendous soundtrack frhttp://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/alfa-romeo-mito-2008-11-28http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/alfa-romeo-mito-2008-11-28Italian tuners try to turn Alfa MiTo into Ferrari F430. Ambitious but…Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:02:21 ZTime was when tuners would give a new car at least a few months respite before they turned their spanners and glue guns to it. But the gap between unveiling and modification is getting ever smaller, as evidenced by this: the Marangoni M430 MiTo.Yes, as you might have guessed by untangling that name http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/mini-convertible-2008-11-28http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/mini-convertible-2008-11-28Mini finally gets round to making a Mk2 drop-top. Can you spot the difference?Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:51:20 ZThere’s a new Mini convertible out. A new new Mini convertible, that is, not a new old Mini convertible.Right. Hang on. See, although the second generation of the new Mini was launched back in 2007, the convertible remained as the Mk1 version.Until now – Mini has chopped the top of the Mhttp://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/freebay-2008-11-27http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/freebay-2008-11-27Get your hands on loads of goodies this xmasFri, 28 Nov 2008 10:04:59 ZThere’s only a few weeks to go till Christmas, which means there’s tons of shopping to do. So we decided to do you a favour, and save you the hassle of actually shopping. All the gifts you’ll need are in this month’s Freebay.It’s probably the biggest one we’ve donhttp://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/top-gear-awards-2008-11-27http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/top-gear-awards-2008-11-27It's TopGear.com awards time, only in the new issue of Top Gear magazineFri, 28 Nov 2008 10:04:51 ZLadies and gentlemen, the TopGear.com Awards issue of Top Gear magazine is out today. You know, the one where we take all the finest cars from the last year off to an exotic location and then have a big argument until we decide which one deserves to win.This year we’ve been in New York, presidhttp://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/ford-gt-2008-11-27http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/ford-gt-2008-11-27A 900bhp Ford GT with retro paintjob and black wheels? What’s not to like?Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:32:21 ZCamilo Pardo is the designer responsible for the Ford GT. Jason Heffner is the man responsible for tuning a whole bunch of supercars into total excess – including a 930bhp Gallardo.When the two of them get together, things like this happen. This is the Heffner Camilo Ford GT, and it’s trhttp://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/bentley-continental-2008-11-26http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/bentley-continental-2008-11-26Bentley plus frozen lake plus sidewaysness equals lots of goodness…Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:12:43 ZWe'd love to tell you that we're showing you this photo of a Bentley Conti GT getting sideways on the Finnish ice because it illustrates some Important New Car News: a new lightweight front splitter, or some innovative tyres made from bin bags and bad thoughts, or something like that.But we're not.