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Everything you need to know about cars this week: 12 Aug '18
Bullitt Mustangs, a look at Lynk&Co and a massive McLaren Senna road trip
BMW M5 Competition review: 616bhp super-saloon driven
"It’s a monster on the road. It’s big, mind, so it needs space to operate, and it’s heavy so it doesn’t like tight turns. But once it hits its stride it’s amazing, with huge grip, vast reserves of traction and torque to haul it out of bends, and some sense it’s involving you in things. Not a lot, but some."
Advertisement - Page continues belowFord Mustang Bullitt review: 473bhp movie car tested
"On the face of it, we’re talking about a few new badges, some unique paint and some stitching, but somehow it just… works. I wouldn’t call myself a Bullitt freak, although I’ve seen the chase scene a lot, but somehow the film’s allure has managed to penetrate my cynicism. I want to be Detective Frank Bullitt, we all want to be Detective Frank Bullitt, and without forking out $6m dollars for the original McQueen movie car (shown alongside the new Bullit Mustang at January’s Detroit Motor Show) this lets us have a slice of the action for under £50k."
Lamborghini Terzo Millenio: Y3K's supercar
"In an automotive landscape littered with radical concept cars and vapourware that’ll never see the light of day, it would be easy to dismiss the Lamborghini Terzo Millennio as an irrelevant flight of fancy. The fact that the specification includes a yet-to-be-invented supercapacitor, energy storage in the carbon fibre through the use of nanotechnology, self-healing bodywork and propulsion by in-wheel motors doesn’t help make it feel any more realistic. But dig below the headlines and there’s method in the madness."
Advertisement - Page continues belowTop Gear's big Jaguar I-Pace test: the journey back
"If you think we had our frustrations getting to Lands End in the Jaguar I-Pace, allow me to talk about the journey back. Several weeks and a very good holiday later, and I’m only just getting over it."
Jamie Chadwick is the first woman to win a British F3 race
"Starting in fourth, Chadwick raced into second place during the opening lap. Race leader Pavan Ravishankar was given a ten-second penalty for a jump start which dropped him back into 10th, and meant Chadwick cruised home to a gold finish."
SCG003S review: 750bhp, £1.7 million road-racer tested
"The SCG003S. It’s a new road-legal American hypercar that bears the DNA of a Nürburgring 24-hour endurance racer; a car that wants to play in the battlefield of the limited-run hypercar ateliers like Koenigsegg and Pagani, but demolish the established big boys of McLaren and Ferrari via bludgeoning circuit-crushing performance."
This one-off, wild Pagani Huayra is up for sale
"Now’s your chance to buy something direct from the mind of TG’s favourite extrovert, Lapo Elkann. The Pagani Huayra he commissioned last year has popped up for sale in the US, having covered just five miles since he took delivery in December."
Advertisement - Page continues belowThe Ares Panther gets 650bhp+ and a €515k price
"It’s more than just a mobile pop-up headlight of course, and these new details confirm that the Panther is shaping up to be something special indeed. Underneath sits a carbon/aluminium chassis from a Lamborghini Huracán, and a revamped version of that Lambo V10 – increased from 5.2-litres to 5.6-litres – producing 650bhp and 413lb ft of torque."
Lynk&Co: is this the future of car ownership?
"We’re sat in Visser’s office in Gothenburg, Sweden, looking out over a frozen harbour at the glass and steel of a new business park, and pondering a new way of looking at car ownership. Or non-ownership. Because Lynk&Co is anything but traditional, even though its cars are based upon current Volvo bones."
Advertisement - Page continues belowBelieve it or not, this is actually a Porsche 911
"The car was displayed at the 1966 Geneva Motor Show – alongside Porsche’s own 911 Targa – and we’re told reception was ‘warm’. While a few inquiries were made on the Bertone 911 Spyder, nobody actually ordered one."
Lynk&Co 01 review: XC40-based SUV driven
"This is the first time anyone has officially driven a Lynk&Co 01 outside of China, or indeed on a public road, and it’s in Sweden, with the weather looking decidedly noir. There’s a depthless nothing of cloud wrapped around the horizon, the temperature is moderate-to-cold, and I’m stood on a beach next to a pier wondering what to make of it. It’s not actively ugly, but it does appear to have influences from across the board – in fact, cover up the badges and you’d be hard-pressed to decide where on earth it came from."
Say hello to the VW Grand California
"The concept formerly known as California XXL will now be known by its production name: Grand California. What the name lacks in inspiration, it makes up in accuracy – the Crafter-based Grand is over a metre longer than the regular Cali. You’re not going to be nervously crawling under the barriers in a multi-storey now, though."
This is the ten millionth Ford Mustang
"The times, they are a-changin’. The very first Ford Mustang ever built – VIN 001 – back in 1964 was a convertible, 164bhp, three-speed V8 model. Now, more than 50 years later, Ford has just built its ten millionth Mustang."
Volkswagen has built a 500bhp+ Jetta for Bonneville
"As you would expect from a car built to break a speed record, it has been lightly fettled. The only thing that remains inside – besides its steely-eyed driver – is a set of pedals, a steering wheel, a bucket seat, roll cage and fire extinguisher. Everything else has been consigned to the bin."
Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy review: 395bhp EV racer tested
"The I-Pace has no steering feel and throttle modulation is tricky because of the instant torque characteristics of the e-motors. But you get used to that. The thing I found most challenging was throttle modulation through long corners. It was hard to work out how much more you could give it. In the end I decided to give it too much and then use a bit of left-foot braking to trim it back into line. Sort of worked, but still a workaround solution."
What are your best - and worst - movie cars ever?
"Now, we appreciate the world is wide and varied and full of different opinions. We want to hear those opinions. Specifically, opinions concering your favourite movie cars. What are they? Why do you like them?"
Review: Ford Ka+
"The Ka+ shares plenty of DNA with the Indian-market Figo, which itself borrows liberally from the Fiesta, so there’s no reason for it to be terrible on the road. And, indeed, it isn’t."
Top Gear's Top Nine: mispronounced car names
"Inspiring this month’s Top Nine is the name of Porsche’s all-electric Mission E saloon. Taycan – that’s ‘Tie-Kan’, to you – translates from ‘a Eurasian dialect’ as lively young horse. Nothing to do with cult-classic Liam Neeson B-movies."
Building a Lego Technic Bugatti Chiron: part three
"Hello. Oik number two here. My estimable colleague, Oik number one Ollie Kew, stopped just shy of mating our Chiron’s front- and rear-ends. At least, he thought he did. Having transported the Chrion home with the kind of care I normally reserve for newborn children, it turns out there’s still quite a lot of work to do before the two ends meet – much of it quite fiddly."
Chasing Senna: Estoril to Monaco in the McLaren Senna
"A car called Senna. The world’s fastest road-legal track car. That’s the billing. 800PS (789bhp), 800 kilos of downforce. It’s ready, dropped into Race mode, engine idling fretfully, pointed arrow-straight down the pitlane, sizing up the downhill approach into Turn 1, ready to head out and show what it’s capable of."
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