Everything you need to know about cars this week: 22 July 18

"If you couldn’t decide between the new Renault Megane RS and the Megane RS Cup, then we have troubling news. There’s a new version already. However, if you like near-300bhp hot hatchbacks, this could be very good news indeed. This is the new RS Megane Trophy."

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"'We’ve been asked if those old F1 names can come back into the sport,' Roborace’s chief strategy officer Bryn Balcombe told TopGear.com. 'Like, ‘can you have Ayrton Senna come back and drive one of the Robocars, and then compete against Lewis Hamilton.’"

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"Eclectic machinery battled it out for the top spot, but who was number one?"

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"It’s official: Lewis Hamilton has committed to the Mercedes-AMG Formula 1 team for another two seasons, in a deal worth a reported £40m a year."

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"In all, the Polestar 1 has a combined output of 592bhp and 738lb ft of torque, which should be sufficient to have M5 owners looking worried at the traffic lights."

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"The TT badge is almost a misnomer; those two letters are most prominently associated with road racing on the Isle of Man, an event synonymous with danger, derring-do and heroic levels of sporting ability. The Audi TT is a safe, almost sensible coupe that’s always been decent to drive, but a long way from, well, heroic levels of sporting ability."

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"There are two types of people in this world. Those who run towards fire, and those who run away from it. Professional lunatic Terry Grant is the former, which is why I’m looking not at his face, but his back. He’s sprinting across the Goodwood paddock toward a Lexus RC F GT3 that, after getting back from its run up the hill, has decided it would much rather be a fireball than a race car."

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"For everyone who baulked at the 3,599-piece Bugatti Chiron set, Lego’s revealed something more manageable, and possibly cooler. This is Denmark’s premier brickmaker’s take on James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5, first seen in Goldfinger back in 1964. Good news: this one’s a mere 1,290 pieces."

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"Jim Glickenhaus’ newest supercar project is getting underway. And rather than rebodying a modern supercar in retro-classic clothes (like the stunning P4/5 Pininfarina) or building an all-out road-going racecar like the SCG 003, the newcomer is a thoroughly modern supercar wearing the curvaceous attire of a 1960s-style classic. This is the SCG 006."

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"There’s something so exciting about this car, so rich in potential. Why is that? Well, here’s a few reasons: the first LT, the 675LT, was an utter belter (my favourite McLaren road car of the modern era), the 570S this is based on is already a complete honey and as a concept it’s easy to get your head around because it’s not too complex."

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"To answer your question, no. It doesn’t exist yet. These are renderings of what a ‘luxury personal air mobility’ craft from Aston Martin might look like. But the company says it’s no four-month late April fool. Aston is serious about exploring small, electrically-powered, vertical take off and landing (VTOL) craft as a possible future product."

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"As ever there was all sorts in the supercar paddock at Goodwood this year: Koenigseggs to Ferraris, McLarens, Porsches, rarities such as the Brabham BT62 and Apollo Intensa Emozione, the previously unseen Polestar One, Lambo Urus, AMG GT 4dr. None, with the possible solitary exception of that astonishing Apollo, got more attention than this. And none, with no exceptions whatsoever, got more love than this."

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"Hollywood’s idea of the future has offered up varying degrees of hope and terror over the years, but one theme has united the strands: artificial intelligence. It’s the one glue that binds this vision together. And, right now, back in our world of cars and motorsport, that glue’s… sticky."

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"The 962C is legendary. And worryingly simple to operate. And totally original. God knows what the value is, best not dwell on it. Five speed manual, with dogleg first, 3.0-litre twin turbo flat six developing, well, I don’t bother to ask right then. What I do get told is that the differential is pretty much locked so I should expect it to push the nose through the slow corners and that the gearing is very, very, very long."

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"DS – Citroen’s posh sister brand – has dusted off its crystal ball and projected its brand 17 years into the future in the best possible way…. with a wild concept car. We actually saw sketches of this monster back in April, but only now has it been turned into a tangible object. Before it debuts at the Paris Motor Show in October, we were summoned to a top-secret military facility near Paris to meet the X E-Tense close up, and experience it in full flight."

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"If you’re really keen on having a BT62 you can take to your local cars and coffee meeting, Brabham will oblige. The details of what needs to be changed haven’t been divulged, but the work will be carried out in the UK and it’ll be reversible, too."

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"Sennas look spectacular whatever their colour, but Fux’s has been customised to the nth degree by McLaren Special Operations. You know, just to make sure. The exposed carbon bodywork, which took almost 1,000 hours to produce, is tinted “Fux Green”, and the interior trimmed in the same white leather as his 720S."

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"Mad Mike Whiddett is someone we’re familiar with here at Top Gear; a drifting, well, madman who’s made his name as a Red Bull athlete with utter disdain for the potential longevity of tyres. Before chatting to us at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, he took us for a passenger ride around the historic Goodwood Circuit, and the whole thing felt like one enormous accident. In a good way. But does such a loopy sport belong at such a historic venue?"

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"Many weird and wonderful things happened at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, but one that captured everyone’s attention a little more than others was the Siemens Ford Mustang. While it’s a classic 1965 ‘Stang on the outside, it’s a self-driving car beneath. And if the social media reaction after its first runs up the hill was anything to go by, not an especially good self-driving car."

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"There’s a  Land Rover V8 underneath, bored out from 4.5 to to 4.7-litres and features new cams, gas-flowed heads, larger injectors and a bespoke exhaust manifold. There are sports cats and a bypass valve for a 'suitably tuneful V8 soundtrack'."

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