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Everything you need to know about cars this week: 10 Feb '19
Includes: a V8 Velar, a gorgeous Carrera GT and a mad McLaren...
Hyundai i30N vs Europe's three highest roads
"TG's inaugural European Three Peaks challenge needs fuel, and a liberal attitude to toll booth traffic lights"
Advertisement - Page continues belowMercedes-AMG GT 4dr vs Porsche Panamera Turbo S
"The Panamera is the reason the Mercedes exists, of course. Despite a wealth of options at the top of the Mercedes/AMG tree, customers were supposedly deserting the three-pointed star because they couldn’t upgrade to the car they really wanted to own - a four-door coupe bigger, more focused and more expensive than the CLS. A Mercedes Panamera."
Top Gear's Top 9: British engineering dead ends
"Who knew plucky Britain isn't infallible when we go it alone?"
Advertisement - Page continues belowHispano Suiza’s new electric hypercar might* look like this
"Hispano Suiza, you probably won’t remember at all, used to build cars. Quite a few of them actually, a very, very long time ago. Between 1904 and 1946, the Spanish company built over 12,000 luxury automobiles. Now, it’s back, and is planning to build a few more with the announcement of a new hypercar."
Porsche has restored a gorgeous green and gold Carrera GT
"Here we have a Porsche Carrera GT, but not any Carrera GT. This is a green and gold Carrera GT. But not any green and gold Carrera GT, it’s a box-fresh green and gold Carrera GT courtesy of Porsche Classic."
Volvo V60 T8 R-Design review: 400bhp hybrid estate driven
"Driven normally it’s very hard to tell whether it’s the ICE, e-motor or both that’s doing the heavy lifting. Until you clog it, at which point the petrol engine makes itself heard. It’s not the nicest-sounding nor smoothest four-cylinder engine out there, which is a pity, but it gets you down the road just fine."
Hennessey’s building a 1,001bhp McLaren 600LT
"The McLaren 600LT has appeared on Hennessey’s radar, and it has been selected for detonation: prepare yourselves for a 1,000bhp+ version of McLaren’s new Sports Series star."
Advertisement - Page continues belowRange Rover has given the Velar a supercharged V8
"It’s called the Range Rover Velar SVAutobiography Dynamic Edition, a juiced-up 550bhp Velar that doesn’t give two hoots about brevity or punctuation. Set to be the headline act in the Velar line-up, it’s been developed by Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations. Y’know, that muddled off-shoot that makes either fast JLR products or luxo ones. This, apparently, is both."
This Ford Mustang will race in Aussie Supercars
"All Aussie Supercars are based on a common platform, which was ostensibly designed to fit the bodies of big saloons like the old-school Falcon and Commodore. The Mustang is not a big saloon, which is why the proportions of Ford’s new racecar look a bit off."
Advertisement - Page continues belowYou want this mint RHD Ferrari Dino 246 GT
"Is the 246 GT the single greatest Ferrari ever? Well, no. Not while the 275 GTB/4, F40 or 250 GT Lusso exist. But that’s like looking down at Goodfellas because Casino is better."
The new Volkswagen Passat can drive itself at 130mph
"This is the new Volkswagen Passat. On the surface it looks rather like the outgoing one – little has changed visually – but beneath it there are some pretty punchy tech upgrades."
Lagonda’s first production car is this electric SUV
"The modern incarnation of Aston Martin’s luxury branch – Lagonda – has long grappled with the concept of future automotive, offering up a near £700,000 V12 luxury saloon (Taraf), and last year’s dazzling Vision Concept. This, however, is what it intends on building first. It is called the Lagonda All-Terrain Concept, more of which we’ll see at the 2019 Geneva Motor Show next month. For now, you’ll just have to squint."
Watch out Supra, there's a new Audi TT RS
"The small sports car market has got rather busy of late, the Alpine A110, Porsche Cayman T and Toyota Supra all proving you can spend 50 grand or so in very different ways. A great time for Audi to freshen up the TT RS to keep it competitive, then."
Top Gear TV returns! Series 26 starts 17 Feb
"Friends of Top Gear, we have good news: the brand-new series of TG TV returns to your screens, kicking off on Sunday 17 February at 8pm on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer."
Buy Nigel Mansell’s title-winning F1 car for £3m
"The FW14B is one of the great F1 cars. With aero by Adrian Newey, 3.5-litre V10 power from Renault, hydraulic active suspension, traction control and an early paddle-shift gearbox, it almost literally ran rings around the competition. All too predictably many of its innovations (including the suspension) have since been banned, which is why the FW14B is still considered to be among the most advanced F1 cars."
Stare at this blue Ferrari F40 LM that just sold for £4.2m
"This is a 1987 Ferrari F40 LM. It has just sold at RM Sotheby’s Paris auction for a whopping £4.2m – or €4.8m – which is a lot, but a shade under its top estimate of €5.5m."
This is the new Bugatti Chiron Sport ‘110 ans Bugatti’
"It celebrates 110 years since the first ever Bugatti obviously, but takes few cues from that first car. The Bugatti Chiron Sport ‘110 ans Bugatti’ is not light. It is also not very small. Nimble? Actually yeah. Adequate power output? We’d proffer, 1,479bhp is just about adequate."
Review: Ford Focus Estate
"A thoroughly capable family car that handles far better than it really needs to."
This has to be the best-looking Lamborghini Miura ever
"Any Miura is going to be a bit of a rare fish – just 761 were built over the course of six years, but the SV is a particularly rare beast, with 150 raging bulls leaving the Lambo factory. This one’s just undergone a full, 13-month restoration by the Polo Storico – to complete original spec, even down to the excellent two-tone paint – for the benefit of none other than FIA president Jean Todt. And, gazing at these pictures, it’s hard not think it’s for our benefit, too."
Top Gear drag races: Ford Fiesta ST vs Mini Cooper S
"A supermini shoot-out as Top Gear's reigning Car of the Year 2018 - the Ford Fiesta ST - takes on a slightly heavier, slightly less powerful four-cylinder Mini Cooper S. Frankly, it's the Fiesta's battle to lose..."
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