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Everything you need to know about cars this week: 19 Jan '20
We drive the Aston DBX and Ford Puma, and Toyota confirms the 2.0 Supra
Porsche: we'll keep building proper drivers' cars
"In a world of increasing complication, Porsche’s boss has promised Top Gear his firm will keep building straightforward drivers’ cars as long as people want them."
Advertisement - Page continues belowFord Puma
"Ford's previous form in crossovers is a bit spotty. Spoiler alert: this one's a good 'un."
The original ‘Bullitt’ Ford Mustang sold for $3.4m
"Straight after the film it was sold to a Warner Bros employee, and then to a detective, and then to a chap named Robert Kiernan who respectfully declined McQueen’s many advances to buy back the Mustang he made famous."
Advertisement - Page continues belowEven Toyota admits the new 2.0-litre Supra handles better than the faster one
"It’s quick enough, this My First Supra: you’ll go from 0-62mph in 5.2 seconds and top out at a limited 155mph. The Supra 3.0-litre shaves a massive 1.1sec from that 0-62mph sprint (it’s got 335bhp and 368lb ft), but hits the same 155mph buffers."
Aston Martin DBX review: 542bhp prototype SUV tested
"Normally in an Aston Martin, off-road equals end of the road. But not now. This is the DBX, and it’s just getting started. There are six driving modes and five ride heights to choose from, 95mm of total suspension rise and fall."
Review: Hyundai i10
"City cars aren’t quite dead yet - new i10 is grown-up, comfy and loaded with kit."
World, meet the Genesis GV80 SUV
"Genesis, which is to Hyundai what Lexus is to Toyota, has been talking about doing a big, posh SUV ever since it arrived on the scene in 2015. And now, four and a bit years later, here we have it."
Advertisement - Page continues belowTop Gear TV returns on 26 Jan!
"Fans of car-based telly, we have some important news: Top Gear TV returns to your screens on 26 January, the year 2020. That’s not this Sunday, but Sunday next. At 8pm. On BBC Two."
Porsche has put a 6cyl engine back in the Cayman
"You certainly can’t accuse Porsche of not listening. Nor being afraid of a public U-turn. We could probably do with having them in government. A decade after switching its horrid PDK button shifters for conventional paddles, it’s put six-cylinder power back in the Boxster and Cayman."
Advertisement - Page continues belowThe W Series has teamed up with F1 to host races in the USA and Mexico
"The announcement breaks new ground for the all-female single-seater championship, which hosted a hugely successful first season in 2019, but where all six rounds were European-based."
No, YOU'VE spent all day looking at old cars at Sainsbury's
"Yes, this is a picture of a Sainsbury’s supermarket. In 1983. No, we’ve not had a momentary brain failure and forgotten what we’re meant to be uploading to TopGear.com."
Ten Of The Cheapest New Cars To Insure RIGHT NOW
"Phone up any given insurance company one day, you’ll get an eye-watering, impossibly high quote. Phone back a couple of days later, while affecting a different accent and wearing a fake moustache, and you might end up with an inexplicably lower figure. Or, more likely, an inexplicably even-higher figure."
Renault Megane RS review: does it work with a paddleshift?
"This is the base Megane RS with the optional EDC paddleshift gearbox but without the stiffer Cup chassis. Making it the softest version of the current-gen Megane imaginable and, at around £29,000, less than half the price of the hardest."
Grey was the most popular car colour of 2019. *sigh*
"You boring lot. For the second year in a row, grey is Britain’s most popular car colour, with very nearly a quarter of all new cars sold in 2019 painted the colour of misery, storm clouds, old age and bewilderingly popular erotic fiction."
Carlos Sainz has won his third Dakar rally
"Three cheers for Carlos Sainz, who’s just achieved his third victory at the Dakar rally. Nope, it’s not junior Carlos, who spent 2019 drawing impressive results out of a McLaren Formula 1 car, but senior Carlos, he of World Rally fame."
SCG Boot review: 650bhp road-legal desert racer tested
"The SCG Boot, one of the most bizarre-looking and perplexingly engineered road cars on the planet. With exposed bodywork, the headlight structure of a jumping spider, huge off-road tyres, supersized suspension and Tonka-toy dimensions, it’s all rather imposing isn’t it?"
Official: the new BMW M3 is coming this year
"Did you know that in 2019, roughly one in every five brand new BMWs sold in Switzerland was an M car? Yeah, we know, we’re all about the fun stats here on TopGear.com."
The Tokyo Auto Salon was wilder than ever
"It’s called the Tokyo Auto Salon and is like SEMA… just with less of the crowd perusing the show floor via electric scooters with oxygen tanks on the back, but more creepy photographers blinding female booth workers with high-intensity flashes, relentlessly gunning them down, in order to commit the moment to memory cards for their ‘alone time’. Oh how we shudder."
Alpine A110S review: tougher sports car hits the UK
"Softer, more amiable and smoother flowing than any sports car you’d care to name from the last decade (or more), Renault’s more exotic arm has gazumped Porsche not by offering a direct rival, but a very different alternative. But the S flips that on its head. This is an A110 that’s been on the protein shakes, one that never skips legs day. It’s got more power, stiffer suspension and a tenacity its base car lacks."
Classified of the week: the New Stratos
"Two years after Italian coachbuilding firm Manifattura Automobili Torino announced it would build a 25-strong limited series of the Lancia Stratos-inspired supercar - which is 10 years after it was mooted for production, and 15 years after we first saw it - you can finally buy one of those 25 retro replicas. Hooray."
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