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Everything you need to know about cars this week: 23 Sep 2018
The new Ferrari Monza, AMG's latest hot hatch, driving the Supra and much more
Will the Audi PB18 ever see the light of day? Maybe
"With 753bhp, 0-62mph in two seconds flat and a central driving position, it presses many good buttons. Allan McNish, boss of Audi Sport’s Formula E team, also reckons we’ll see something a lot like this in the near future."
Advertisement - Page continues belowBMW’s Formula E car will influence the next i8
"This is BMW’s brand new Formula E car. And if you’re not yet excited about motor racing without engine noise, then focus instead on the fact it’s heavily linked to BMW’s road cars. Specifically, its electrified i cars."
Lamborghini has made its Huracan racecar even racier
"As you might have guessed, the EVO is the evolution (see what Lambo did there?) of the Huracan GT3, first introduced in 2015. A raging bull that’s gone on to clock up 12 international wins as well as the Rolex 24 at Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring."
Advertisement - Page continues belowSuzuki Jimny review
"The old Jimny lasted an astonishing 20 years on sale. In those two decades, three things boomed in popularity: SUVs, downsizing, and retro. So the new Jimny, complete with its 1.5-litre petrol engine and functionally honest design, looks like a masterstroke."
The Audi e-tron has finally made production
"Utilising a 95kWh lithium-ion battery and dual-motors good for 300kW of output (402bhp and 490lb ft of torque in old money), the e-tron can reach 62mph in less than six seconds and silently stomp on to a limited top speed of 124mph.
"However, it’s also capable of 150kW DC fast charging – meaning you can juice it up to 80 per cent in 30 minutes. Which is the real race when owning an EV, and, crucially, one that you’ll beat a Tesla at."
The Mercedes A35 is AMG’s new baby hot hatch
"It’s essentially a cheaper, de-tuned version of the next A45 AMG that we’ll see at some point next year. But even though it’s the cheapest offering from AMG, it’s still £36,000 – putting it directly in competition with the VW Golf R and Honda Civic Type R. "
Lamborghini Aventador SVJ review
"As supercar sales pitches go, the one-liner for this last blast of naturally aspirated insanity tickles the synapses. For most of us the Aventador SV felt on the outer margins of extreme, but the SVJ goes further towards the dark side. A lot further."
Advertisement - Page continues belowVideo: all you need to know about the Audi e-tron
"With a 95kWh lithium-ion battery, dual-motors good for 300kW (402bhp and 490lb ft), plus 150kW DC fast charging (meaning you can juice it up to 80 per cent in 30 minutes) could the e-tron tempt you out of a Tesla?"
Revealed: Ferrari's future of SUVs, hybrids and specials
"Truth is Ferrari is doing an SUV of some description, but new CEO Louis Camilleri says he “abhors hearing SUV in the same sentence as Ferrari”, and that the company’s new car will be something altogether different, and defy all existing acronyms."
Advertisement - Page continues belowMeet the Ferrari Monza, an 812 Superfast speedster
"You don’t have to wear a helmet to drive Ferrari’s new Monza SP1 or SP2. We would, though, unless you enjoy the very specific sort of pain which can only be inflicted by a pigeon to the face."
A Porsche Cayenne helped set a 149mph cycle record
"If you want to go quickly on a bicycle, you’d ideally need a big object to follow that’s pushing all the air out of the way for you, so you can concentrate on the pedaling. Say, a two-tonne Porsche Cayenne towing a giant windbreak?"
Aston Martin’s making a £7m Zagato two-pack
"Aston’s making 19 more DB4 GTs to mark the centenary of Zagato, but it’s not stopping there. Buy one and like some sort of lottery win-level Hot Wheels multipack, it’ll also come alongside a modern take on the recipe, a road-legal DBS GT Zagato, based on the new, quite mad DBS Superleggera."
Porsche has invested in race instructor head-up displays
"You know those racing games that let you display a virtual racing line on-screen? One that turns red when you ought to brake, green when you should be accelerating and snakes its way through corners, showing you where to turn in? Well, Porsche has just invested a bunch of money in a company that could bring such driving aids to your windscreen, via a deeply clever kind of head-up display."
You can now use a Nissan Navara to explore space
"As excessive optional extras go, the Bentley Mulliner fly-fishing kit is one that stands out. Or the Bentley Mulliner picnic hamper. Or the £160k Bentley Mulliner tourbillon dash clock. Even Bentley can stand down on this one, though, as the new Nissan Navara Dark Sky concept comes with its very own – wait for it – astronomy lab."
The Seat Tarraco is today’s new VW Group SUV
"Seat has a new SUV. Still awake? Okay, then say hello to the Tarraco, which is Seat’s biggest SUV to date. It’s available with seven seats and thusly is a rival to Hyundai’s Santa Fe and Skoda Kodiaq, and completes Seat’s trio of SUVs – ahead of Skoda’s similar plot."
The new Suzuki Jimny isn’t very good at crashing
"We’re fans of the new Suzuki Jimny. It’s cute, practical, and fun to drive in an ungainly, offbeat kinda way. But sophisticated it isn’t, thanks to its old-school ladderframe chassis construction and low-fi driver aids. So it doesn’t crash gracefully."
The Mercedes-AMG Project One has landed in Britain
"The Mercedes-AMG Project One has taken a step closer to reality. After hundreds of hours of dyno testing at its facility in Brixwoth, Merc has finally started building moving prototypes of its F1-engined hypercar."
Toyota Supra review
"It’s the car we’ve been waiting 16 years for Toyota to pull its finger out and build. A brand new Supra, the fifth-generation of a legend (sixth, if you want to throw the 2000GT in there as a spiritual starting point) and the car that could single-handedly revive the Max Power movement. Possibly."
Top Gear drag races: BMW M5 vs Merc-AMG E63 vs Panamera Turbo S
"Who said the power wars were over? Both the BMW M5 and Merc-AMG E63 S pack around 600bhp, but they may have met their maker in the astonishing, 671bhp Panamera Turbo S e-hybrid."
Peugeot's made a very pretty 450bhp EV sports car
"Peugeot’s been on a design mean-streak lately. Even its SUVs looks quite good. Nevertheless, we weren’t quite ready for this. It’s the e-Legend Concept, and it’s basically a French rebirth of the aborted Nissan IDx concept. Swoon."
Aston Martin is making a baby hypercar
"We’re yet to even see the production version of the mad Aston Martin Valkyrie – the naturally aspirated, 1000+bhp hypercar built in collaboration with the brainiest brainbox in the biz, Adrian Newey – let alone drive it. Yet Aston Martin is already bringing us news of its next hypercar: ‘Project 003’. Which, we’ve got to be honest, we’re not upset about, because there can never be enough hypercars in the world right?"
Bentley Continental GT3 review
"The floorpan and the 4.0-litre twin turbo V8 are both shared with the road-going Continental GT. I know, the new Conti doesn’t yet have the V8, just the 6.0-litre W12, but that’s racing for you. And besides, if you have a look at where the engine now sits in the car (there’s a picture hereabouts), you’ll be stunned – it’s so far down and back that it looks like it’s been hit with a shrink ray."
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