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Everything you need to know about cars this week: 25 Nov '18
Reviews of the new Audi A1 and Mercedes GLE, plus Kubica's return to F1
Be afraid: Lambo’s made a racing Urus Super-SUV
"Lamborghini makes a really fast SUV called the Urus. Lamborghini also runs a single-make racing championship with the Huracán. Clearly, Lamborghini occasionally likes to deliberately cross its memos."
Advertisement - Page continues belowFormula E: Gen1 vs Gen2 car battle
"Formula E’s next season is fast approaching, and – as you know – features not only new teams, but also radically different new cars. The batteries are almost twice as big, meaning no mid-race car swap. There’s more power, too, up 50kW to 250kW for qualifying and 200kW for the race. And crucially for us mere mortals, they’re faster. How much faster than a first generation Formula E car, you might ask?"
Sebastien Ogier is a six-time WRC champ
"Sebastien Ogier is the new WRC world champion. Well, not new. As he was the reigning champ. And won it the year before that. And the year before that. In fact, it’s his sixth WRC title in a row. So, perhaps we can all agree, the boy’s got skills."
Advertisement - Page continues belowGallery: the crazy cars of Cali 2018
"A few years ago, you may remember that Alex Penfold (our ninja-like resident supercar paparazzo) was put in a trebuchet and fired across the Atlantic. Luckily, he landed somewhere on the West Coast of America, and manged to make his way up to the moneyed land of Monterey, California."
Nissan Titan review: V8-engined US pickup driven
"‘Full-size’, frame-based pickup trucks are a quintessentially North American thing. Like the Corvette, apple pies, cheerleaders and lawsuits. Even the ones that aren’t ostensibly American, like the Titan, are designed, engineered and built in the good ol’ US of A with few (if any) concessions to other markets."
Mercedes-AMG is building a harder AMG GT ‘Pro’
"Mercedes-AMG has confirmed it is building a new version of its storming GT supercar. It will be called the AMG GT ‘Pro’, and it sounds… pro."
The new Suzuki Jimny costs less than we feared
"We’d worried that what with naff Japanese exchange rates and the car’s soaring pre-order popularity, Suzuki would get greedy. But no, you can put the Jimny on your driveway – assuming you can get hold of a build slot – for a quid under £15.5k. Which isn’t as much as we’d feared."
Advertisement - Page continues belowThe boss of Nissan has been arrested
"Carlos Ghosn, one of the most successful, imaginative and charismatic leaders in car-industry history, has been arrested in Tokyo and is being fired from his role at the top of Nissan. His alleged offence? Personal financial irregularities. These include ‘under-reporting his compensation’, and also using company assets for his personal benefit."
Mercedes-Benz GLE Review
"A very balanced SUV, this. Comfy, quiet, practical, none too sporty and all the better for it. More an XC90 rival than an X5 fighter"
Advertisement - Page continues belowAll of the Alpine A110 Premiere Editions are now finished
"Panic not. This picture of Alpine’s factory workforce pictured grinning alongside the final A110 Premiere Edition does not mean that the fabulous diminutive sports car has been shunted out of production. Far from it. The only bad news here is that if you’ve been saving up for one of the optioned-up first editions, you’re too late. They’re all reserved, and all built."
The McLaren 720S Spider is coming just in time for winter
"It’s going to be a 720S Spider of some sort, isn’t it? Most likely, on previous McLaren form, sporting a folding hard-top roof and no structural reinforcements. Though, how McLaren’s dealt with chopping the roof section out of the 720S’s MonoCell tub will be interesting."
Audi A1 Review
"As an ownership prospect the new A1 excels. But it's let down by poor road manners."
Robert Kubica is back in F1
"Williams F1 has announced Robert Kubica will partner rookie George Russell for the 2019 Formula One World Championship season."
Driven: Nissan Armada Mountain Patrol
"Revealed last May at the Overland Expo in Flagstaff, Arizona, it’s a one-off based on Nissan’s US-market Armada, and kitted out for something called ‘overlanding’."
This is the new Range Rover Evoque
"Under the evolved design, the rest of it is almost entirely fresh. It’s not just a rework of the old one, which spread its seed into the Discovery Sport and Jaguar E-Pace. The entire thing is new, as in new."
Happy 60th birthday, BTCC!
"It’s one of blighty’s longest-running forms of motorsport. One that resonates with the general public for many reasons. Primarily, because it has a gritty honesty to it; the racing is tight, the cars are recognisable, the drivers are fighty, and over the years there have been more than a fair share of crashes."
What’s the new Range Rover Evoque like to drive?
"Just before the Evoque’s glitzy reveal last night, Land Rover let us loose around a little obstacle course it had set up in an East London rail yard. Granted, we didn’t get much above 7mph, but it was nonetheless a worthwhile endeavour."
Top Gear Drag Races: Porsche Macan PP vs Mercedes-AMG GLC
"Who will be the school run hero out of these two mid-sized SUV hot rods? There’s only one way to find out…"
