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Everything you need to know about cars this week: 2 Feb '20
The Honda e, Stig's daredevil Atom lap and much, much more
Review: Honda e
"Honda’s first electric car is impossibly cute, beautifully engineered and crammed with tech… but you’ll pay for it."
Advertisement - Page continues belowRide onboard with The Stig in the Ariel Atom
"From series 28, episode 1: ride onboard with The Stig as he wrestles Ariel’s latest Atom around the TG track."
Please buy this Japanese-spec AMG S-Class so we don't
"It’s thought that fewer than 200 560SELs like this were built. This one lived in Japan until quite recently, where it was serviced without fail every two years and maintained regardless of cost. Servicing carried out between 2009 and 2013 cost a whopping €14,000."
Advertisement - Page continues belowThis £6m collection of Lancias is actually a steal
"Got around six million knocking around? Well, you need to spend it on the greatest multipack of cars ever. The picture above shows the six-strong ‘Campion Collection’, a group of Martini-striped Lancias up for sale now via London’s Girardo & Co."
Ten things you need to know about TG's car bungee stunt
"The Luzzone dam is five metres taller than the dam in GoldenEye. It didn’t used to be. When the GoldenEye dam was built in 1965 (two years after Luzzone) it was taller, so the hydroelectric company at Luzzone built another 17m on top so theirs could still be the tallest."
Renault Clio E-Tech review: F1 expertise in a supermini?
"Back in 2012 it launched the Zoe and expected big electric sales. It didn’t happen. Not fast enough. And diesel is no good for superminis – too dirty unless too expensive. So Renault has invented a hybrid system, called E-Tech."
Two Unimog have set an altitude world record
"Using two U 5023s (that’s the hardcore off-roadery one), the team’s objective was to install four emergency radio units at various high-altitude camps on the arid, volcanic mountain."
Advertisement - Page continues belowVauxhall Grandland X review: 300bhp plug-in hybrid tested
"With a total system output just shy of 300bhp, giving 0-62mph in 5.9 seconds and a top speed of 146mph, it’s the fastest and most powerful Vauxhall you can currently buy."
Bentley has made a Conti GT ice racer
"The black and blue two-tone Continental GT hasn’t been graced with any mechanical changes – just an exhaust tickle courtesy of a custom system from Akrapovic – so we’re still talking 626bhp from the 6.0-litre W12 engine. Which, when the traction available will be less than zero, is probably plenty."
Advertisement - Page continues belowSomehow Ott Tänak survived this HUGE rally crash
"Literally, we have no words. Of course we’ll put some here, perhaps to allow us all time to process exactly how in the sweet name of rallying WRC driver Ott Tänak survived this enormous crash at last week’s Monte Carlo Rally."
We absolutely must own this Lancia Hyena Zagato
"Back in 1990, Dutch classic car collector Paul Koot decided that his boxy little hatchback would be far better off as a svelte coupe. Having made a few sketches, he approached everyone’s favourite bonkers Italian design house…"
This is the new Lotus Evora GT410
"Ah, the Lotus Evora. Just how many different versions of Norfolk’s premier GT car have there been now? Even since its facelift we’ve seen the 400, the 400 Hethel Edition, the Sport 410, the GT430 and the GT430 Sport all come and go."
Can’t afford the new VW Golf? Here’s the new 2020 Seat Leon!
"This edgy, triangle-obsessed block of car is the new Seat Leon, to almost everyone. Except you, if you Know About Cars. Because we know that the new Seat Leon is, like every Seat Leon before it, a secret Volkswagen Golf in disguise."
Review: Mini Electric
"A surprisingly rounded EV. Still fun to drive, and uncompromised inside, but it’s likely to be your second car."
The Alpine A110 SportsX is tremendous and we need one
"Based on the base-spec A110 Pure (which is actually all the A110 you really need), the body and track are 80mm wider than standard, meaning the SportsX isn’t that much narrower than a Range Rover. Meanwhile the ride height has been raised by a whopping 60mm for more ground clearance."
New or Used: Feb edition of Top Gear magazine on sale now
"It’s a conundrum anyone buying a car has faced – do you buy new, with that fuzzy feeling a warranty brings, or used and get way more for your money? Luckily, TG is here to help you decide…"
Of course you can already get a tuned Audi RS6
"Even though deliveries of the Audi RS6 have only just begun, looks like a few power-hungry owners have already got bored of its measly 592bhp and 590lb ft."
TG TV: watch Freddie bungee-jump off a dam in a Metro
"There are few cars on Earth capable of beating an Ariel Atom 4 from 0-60mph (2.8s, fact fans). One of those, as it turns out, is an old Rover Metro. Via the medium of throwing-it-off-a-bloody-great-big-dam and some GRAVITY. Step forward, Freddie Flintoff…"
A widebody 840bhp Lambo Urus just happened
"1016 Industries – the Miami-based company responsible for this enormous Lambo SUV – has ensured everything is plug and play. The front? That’s 87mm wider than standard, while the rear is 100mm of additional girth. Notice also, the additional flare on the arches. Things have happened inside, too."
Attention Americans: Rivian is building an EV for Lincoln
"Rivian – the prospective makers of insanely quick and brilliantly cool adventure-EVs – has announced that it will build an all-electric vehicle for Lincoln, the luxury branch of Ford Motor Company."
What do you think of the new UPS van?
"The Routemaster bus. The black cab. The Fiat 500. The Mini. Over the years, plenty of iconic vehicles have had a modern reboot. And now it’s the turn of another, that iconic brown delivery van with those rad sliding doors: UPS’s delivery van."
Hummer is back... with a 1,000bhp electric pick-up
"You’re not imaging things. Hummer is indeed back. At least it will be in 2021, when General Motors sticks the name it killed a decade ago on its first-ever electric pick-up. Somewhere in California, Arnold Schwarzenegger has just fainted with excitement."
Volvo XC60 Polestar Engineered review: 409bhp hybrid SUV tested
"After a cursory glance at the spec sheet, you could quite easily pigeonhole this Polestar Engineered XC60 as yet another performance SUV along the lines of the V8-engined Mercedes-AMG GLC 63 or the straight-sixed BMW X3 M."
TGTV's script editor on: car vernacular
"As we stand at the dawn of the Age Of Electricity, what will become of the strange language we’ve developed to describe the strange process of turning petrol and diesel into forward motion? The language of internal combustion. Turbochargers and superchargers, V8s and flat-sixes, compression ratios, hemispherical cylinder heads: these are soon to go the same way as piggywidden (the runt of a litter) and knockers (spirits that dwell underground – what did you think they were?)."
Top Gear's Top 9: how to use wood tastefully edition
"Carbon fibre is over. Let’s get back to wood in cars – with these as inspiration..."
Aston Martin has been rescued by a £500m investment
"Aston Martin has been rescued by a £182 million investment from Lawrence Stroll, owner of Racing Point F1. Also chipping in another £318m are many of the existing shareholders. As part of the deal, the Racing Point team will become Aston Martin Racing from 2021."
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