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Everything you need to know about cars this week: 20 Jan '19
New Supra, new TG TV, plus a drive of the brand-new Porsche 911. This week...in cars
Here’s your first look at Top Gear TV series 26
"Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris and Rory Reid will return to your screens soon. Here’s your first look at series 26 of TG TV…"
Advertisement - Page continues belowThis is Cadillac’s first fully electric car
"It’ll take the form of a crossover because of course it will, and it will sit on GM’s future electric car platform. We’re told this platform will feature battery and drive units designed for “maximum usability” throughout GM cars across different countries."
The new Lexus RC F has more focus but less power
"The combination of launch control and an eight-speed automatic gearbox does yield 0-62mph in 4.5secs, mind. Further focus comes from reduced weight, achieved by the wonderfully Japanese method of hollowing out intricate mechanical components rather than ditching any equipment."
Advertisement - Page continues belowHyundai i30N Fastback review: hot hatch goes coupe(ish)
"It has four doors, and from the front doors forwards, is identical to the i30N hatchback, both on the skin and beneath it. At the opposite end, the abruptly square hatchback side has been chamfered into a svelte slope, culminating in a whopping plastic shelf ducktail."
It's finally here! Meet the brand new Toyota Supra
"Finally. You can now at last drink in the looks of the Supra. Or, to use its official full name for the first and possibly last time, the Toyota GR Supra. Huzzah: the real production Supra. Was ever a car more teased and trailed, hinted and hyped? Now this really is the one, due to arrive on roads near you… albeit, sigh, not until late-summer."
This is the 700bhp Ford Mustang Shelby GT500
"Behind the slightly Audi-esque megagrille (supposedly inspired by modern stealth fighter jets), there’s a 5.2-litre supercharged V8 engine. It develops ‘a projected 700 horsepower’ and promises 0-60mph in the mid-3sec range, and quarter mile times below 11 seconds. Stopping it after the finish line, the largest brake rotors ever fitted to an American sports coupe."
Be afraid: this is Ford’s 400bhp Explorer ST
"This is the Ford Explorer ST. It produces 400bhp and tops out at 143mph. Belief, consider yourself very much suspended."
Advertisement - Page continues belowThe new Toyota Supra starts from £52,695
"The price? For a ‘standard’ GR Supra 3.0L, you’re staring at a sum of £52,695. This money gets you a 3.0-litre turbo engine with nearly 340bhp, an automatic gearbox, rear-wheel drive, a chassis, some doors, adaptive suspension, 19in forged alloys and good brakes."
Is this the car auction to end all car auctions?
"Over the years, we’ve seen so many 250 GTOs and 2.7 RS Porsches go under the hammer for crazy money that it’s all too easy to get a bit blasé about them. But that’s why Japan was invented, because when they do car auctions you get a proper spread of weird, wacky and deeply cool stuff."
Advertisement - Page continues belowThere are also cheaper, four-cylinder Toyota Supras
"While UK and European availability hasn’t been confirmed, the Japanese market Supra gets more engine choices that – just like that turbo six – come directly from the Toyota’s BMW Z4 relative."
Subaru’s limited-run WRX STI S209 is plain teasing us
"From an outsider’s view, the United States of America may look a slightly troublesome, perhaps vitriolic place to live at the moment. But a glimmer of happiness has appeared in the shape of, well, a 1990s rally refugee that’s still not given up the game. This is the US-only Subaru WRX STI S209, and we want it very, very much."
Review: Lexus ES
"A saloon car for people who don’t really care about/enjoy driving, but quite like big mpg and a nice stereo"
Alfa Romeo Stelvio Speciale review: quick SUV driven
"It’s technically the model below the flamboyant, 503bhp Quadrifoglio, but it’s markedly down on power, instead sitting atop a small handful of four-cylinder petrol and diesels. Speciale is one of four trim levels you can choose from, all of which are tricky to tell apart, to be honest. But in short, it’s the cheapest way to get Alfa’s 2.0-litre petrol in 280bhp trim."
The Lego McLaren Senna is still ugly, but also cute
"In homage to the Senna’s relentless quest for downforce (it generates 800kg of it at 155mph), the Lego Senna set comes with its own ‘wind tunnel’ accessory. No doubt, this car truly can drive on the ceiling. And on the kitchen floor, the garden wall, shed windows and over sleeping pets."
Behold: this is the new BMW 7 Series
"Does BMW now have a separate ‘Grille Division’ that operates in a different part of the factory? One can only guess. Welcome to the new BMW 7 Series. And welcome also to the grille bolted to the front of it."
The McLaren 600LT Spider is a convertible track special
"The convertible track special. Long the oxymoron of the performance car world, not that the residual values of a Ferrari 458 Speciale Aperta would suggest so. The latest is the McLaren 600LT Spider, the fifth car to earn the Longtail name, and surely the furthest cry yet from the first, a Le Mans racecar that won the GT1 class in 1997."
The Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR is now real
"This is the Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR. It’s a run-out special for the mk7 Golf GTI, and is basically the TCR concept from last year’s Worthersee show made real. In fact, it looks like they’ve merely Tipp-Exed the word ‘concept’ from its number plate."
Review: Toyota RAV4
"Not much fun to drive, but as a financial and fuel-saving choice it really does take some beating"
New Porsche 911 review: the Chris Harris verdict
"Of course, the 911 has evolved since 1964. It is bigger in every way, bar, perhaps, tyre sidewall height. It is faster and cleaner and more comfortable. It is safer and, now we’re on the subject, from the front, it is largely indistinguishable from the 991 it replaces. The rear is more distinctive, or – as many are saying – more ugly."
A bespoke Hyundai ‘N’ car is coming
"Seriously - we’ve got next to no information, aside from this shady teaser pic. We don’t know when it’s going to be launched or what sort of engine it might have - not even whether it’ll be coupe, hatch or something else entirely."
Video: your guide to the F1-engined Mercedes-AMG One
"As briefs go, “see whether you can get a Formula One powertrain to work in a road car without exploding” is a good’un. Fortunately, AMG was brave enough to give it a go and the extraordinary, £2.5m ‘One’ hypercar is the result. Here’s everything you need to know."
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