﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:a10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Top Gear Car News</title><link>http://www.topgear.com/</link><description>News from Top Gear</description><language>en-GB</language><copyright>© Copyright 2000-2010 Top Gear</copyright><generator>Top Gear</generator><item xml:base="/uk/car-news/retro-sls-2009-11-06"><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/retro-sls-2009-11-06?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ongoing</guid><link>http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/retro-sls-2009-11-06?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ongoing</link><title>SLS gets extra-retro</title><description>American tuning company turns Merc’s gullwing supercar more 1950s. We are not convinced</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:29:19 Z</pubDate><a10:content type="text">The new Mercedes SLS is an amazing thing: 553bhp of sublime handling and mad square edges and excellent gullwing doors.  But if you feel it's lacking a bit of retro charm, the tuners at Gullwing America are here to help.  Their makeover aims to make the SLS a little more 50s, a little more 300SL and</a10:content><enclosure url="http://www.topgear.com/uk/assets/cms/0db2282c-09fc-4f49-b02f-9bf771373680/Thumbnail.jpg?p=091106_12:29" type="image/jpg" length="14361"></enclosure></item><item xml:base="/uk/car-news/golf-mkI-2009-11-06"><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/golf-mkI-2009-11-06?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ongoing</guid><link>http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/golf-mkI-2009-11-06?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ongoing</link><title>Are you still here?</title><description>VW finally ceases production of the MkI Golf… after 35 years</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:43:15 Z</pubDate><a10:content type="text">Ladies and gentlemen, raise your glasses to the VW MkI Golf, which has finally ceased production after... 35 years.  Now, we know what you're thinking. You're thinking that we've had quite a few Golfs since the MkI. Five, approximately, and therefore TopGear.com is rather late in toasting the death </a10:content><enclosure url="http://www.topgear.com/uk/assets/cms/49248852-14b9-43bd-8eda-d0f0759c48ec/Thumbnail.jpg?p=091106_11:43" type="image/jpg" length="24096"></enclosure></item><item xml:base="/uk/car-news/camaro-v-2009-11-06"><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/camaro-v-2009-11-06?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ongoing</guid><link>http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/camaro-v-2009-11-06?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ongoing</link><title>Cam’ buster</title><description>Want a Camaro in full UK spec… with extra Reventon styling and a supercharger? You’re in luck…</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:36:09 Z</pubDate><a10:content type="text">If you're a red-blooded petrolhead with the smell of burning clutch in your nostrils and other clich&amp;amp;eacute;d stuff like that, you probably want a Camaro.  Until now, the only way to get yourself a lump of Chevy muscle in the UK has been to import a left-hooker from the States: too much paperwork an</a10:content><enclosure url="http://www.topgear.com/uk/assets/cms/00ee328e-28ed-4001-bd0d-3c1de1ae9045/Thumbnail.jpg?p=091106_10:36" type="image/jpg" length="17859"></enclosure></item><item xml:base="/uk/car-news/bmw-m3-gts-2009-11-05"><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/bmw-m3-gts-2009-11-05?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ongoing</guid><link>http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/bmw-m3-gts-2009-11-05?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ongoing</link><title>Return of the M3 CSL</title><description>BMW brings back its lightweight, race-ready M3… but with a different name</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:06:19 Z</pubDate><a10:content type="text">Massive 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 se</a10:content><enclosure url="http://www.topgear.com/uk/assets/cms/94ef0563-6acf-496f-b48d-b1a73f48579d/Thumbnail.jpg?p=091105_05:06" type="image/jpg" length="27395"></enclosure></item><item xml:base="/uk/car-news/boxster-spyder-2009-11-05"><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/boxster-spyder-2009-11-05?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ongoing</guid><link>http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/boxster-spyder-2009-11-05?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ongoing</link><title>Boxster Spyder unleashed</title><description>Porsche reveals its most hardcore, lightweight Boxster ever – the car that’s faster than a 911 Carrera</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:52:26 Z</pubDate><a10:content type="text">See 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&amp;amp;nbsp;next month.  This isn't some limited-run special edition: the Boxster Spyder will go on general release in the UK next Februar</a10:content><enclosure url="http://www.topgear.com/uk/assets/cms/f04e3599-7d13-441f-9865-6eccdc4d3dcf/Thumbnail.jpg?p=091105_10:52" type="image/jpg" length="22824"></enclosure></item><item xml:base="/uk/car-news/vauxhall-gm-2009-11-04"><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/vauxhall-gm-2009-11-04?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ongoing</guid><link>http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/vauxhall-gm-2009-11-04?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ongoing</link><title>GM calls off Vauxhall sale</title><description>General Motors cancels plans to sell off its European arm, but UK jobs are still under threat</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:48:49 Z</pubDate><a10:content type="text">General 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 </a10:content><enclosure url="http://www.topgear.com/uk/assets/cms/1b6ed22d-9ae1-4039-9c74-a6fee57b017a/Thumbnail.jpg?p=091104_10:48" type="image/jpg" length="38491"></enclosure></item><item xml:base="/uk/car-news/good-vibrations-2009-11-03"><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/good-vibrations-2009-11-03?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ongoing</guid><link>http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/good-vibrations-2009-11-03?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ongoing</link><title>Good vibrations</title><description>Lexus drives over bridge, boffins convert the energy into electricity</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:07:34 Z</pubDate><a10:content type="text">Lexus 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 - so</a10:content><enclosure url="http://www.topgear.com/uk/assets/cms/7f49d3f9-45ea-499e-a221-c0dc657e7adf/Thumbnail.jpg?p=091104_10:07" type="image/jpg" length="21743"></enclosure></item><item xml:base="/uk/car-news/mustang-bulge-2009-11-03"><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/mustang-bulge-2009-11-03?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ongoing</guid><link>http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/mustang-bulge-2009-11-03?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ongoing</link><title>Battle of the bulge</title><description>Ever seen a fatter bonnet than the one on the new Ford Mustang Cobra Jet?</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:42:09 Z</pubDate><a10:content type="text">Yowch. 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 &amp;amp;lsquo;bulgiest car in show'.This is the Mustang Cobra Jet, the latest version of Ford'</a10:content><enclosure url="http://www.topgear.com/uk/assets/cms/192993f4-985f-4601-8eae-2b1ddb5b6dfb/Thumbnail.jpg?p=091103_02:42" type="image/jpg" length="31915"></enclosure></item><item xml:base="/uk/car-news/block-on-ice-2009-11-03"><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/block-on-ice-2009-11-03?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ongoing</guid><link>http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/block-on-ice-2009-11-03?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ongoing</link><title>Video: Block on Ice</title><description>Top Gear’s favourite Ken converts his Subaru STI into… the world’s fastest snow cat</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:54:13 Z</pubDate><a10:content type="text">It might seem like we're a bit obsessed with Ken &amp;amp;lsquo;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 fran</a10:content><enclosure url="http://www.topgear.com/uk/assets/cms/7043c8e5-0f34-4aa2-9209-8969d40a4b3e/Thumbnail.jpg?p=091103_10:54" type="image/jpg" length="33738"></enclosure></item><item xml:base="/uk/car-news/hyundai-parking-2009-11-03"><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/hyundai-parking-2009-11-03?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ongoing</guid><link>http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/hyundai-parking-2009-11-03?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ongoing</link><title>Video: Hyundai are all lovely</title><description>Remember the world’s worst parking clip from last week? Well, it has a happy ending. Yay!</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:27:00 Z</pubDate><a10:content type="text">We
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 ha</a10:content><enclosure url="http://www.topgear.com/uk/assets/cms/38b1a53f-4f49-440a-9e55-2499e4bacda5/Thumbnail.jpg?p=091103_11:27" type="image/jpg" length="20830"></enclosure></item></channel></rss>