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Everything you need to know about cars this week: 8 Dec '19
It's the TG Awards! Plus Jag reveals the 'new' F-Type, and we drive the MK8 Golf
Bugatti is now building homages to its own homage
"Only Bugatti could get away with building a limited-run series of cars that are designed to pay tribute to its own one-off, which was itself designed to be a tribute to a historic limited-run series of cars."
Advertisement - Page continues belowMcLaren Senna GTR review: 825bhp track racer tested
"Think of the GTR as a blend of Senna and GT3. Much of the suspension is borrowed from the GT3 racing car, and free from road homologation, an extra 25bhp has been liberated from the 4.0-litre twin turbo engine and the bodywork has sprouted."
BMW’s new boxer engine looks absolutely spiffing
"We’ve spent so long gawping at the pictures – and wondering where in the office it would look nicest – it’s almost a side note to learn this is the most powerful 2cyl boxer ever. Its 1,802cc yields 90bhp."
Advertisement - Page continues belowThis is the new Jaguar F-Type
"There are of course the obligatory new headlights – which now look angrier than ever – but there’s also a longer and lower-reaching bonnet, as well as a slightly larger grille, new side vents and a new rear light signature. It’s a far more aggressive design for Jag’s sports car, but we get the feeling it’ll be a polarising update."
The Lordstown Endurance is an all-electric truck from the US
"Welcome everyone, to the Lordstown Motors Endurance. Not heard of the company before? Don’t worry, neither had we until recently, but it’s an EV startup named after the former-GM factory in Ohio which it purchased last month. And what a name it is."
Gallery: Top Gear magazine's Cars of the Year, 2008-2018
"The 2019 TG awards are nearly upon us - perfect time to look back at previous winners."
Will Jaguar ever make another supercar?
"'Sports cars are key to Jaguar, and I think they always will be,' says Jag’s design director Julian Thomson as he reveals the facelifted F-Type."
Advertisement - Page continues belowTop Gear TV's Christmas special is on 29 December
"Top Gear telly returns this festive season with a Christmas special that promises to be ground-breaking in at least two regards. First, because it might actually be screened some time around Christmas. Second, because it genuinely, properly tackles a major motoring issue of our time. The issue of urban transportation."
Hennessey wants to build a 1,200bhp mid-engined Corvette
"One of 2019’s Big Important Car Stories centred around the new C8 Chevrolet Corvette. It had, after much hype, placed its V8 engine in the middle of the car for the first time in ever. This, clearly, wasn’t Big or Important enough for Hennessey Performance, because the Texan tuner has just announced something Really Big: a 1,200bhp twin-turbo upgrade for the ‘Vette’s 6.2-litre V8."
Advertisement - Page continues belowHere are your brand new Top Gear America presenters
"Internet, we have important news: brand new Top Gear America launches next year, hosted by Dax Shepard, Rob Corddry and Jethro Bovingdon."
Jaguar F-Type: old face or new?
"In the red corner, the original Jaguar F-Type; wide-eyed, a cat-like ‘fang’ bookending the front bumper, marginally feral appearance. Spot on. And now, in the blue corner, the new Jaguar F-Type; lower, narrower lights and a lower, longer-reaching bonnet. Who wins?"
The Damon Hypersport is a motorbike with anti-crash tech
"Motorbikes. Hugely exciting things, but inherently unsafe ones. You can’t fall off a car, and so on. Well, the motorbike you see here apparently appeases some of the dangers of riding a bike without impacting upon the excitement. It doesn’t have stabilisers, after all…"
Of course Bentley has built a limited-edition Pikes Peak Conti GT
"Is it even worth winning a motorsport event or breaking a record if you can’t get a special edition road car out of it? Pah! Of course it isn’t, and luckily, Bentley set a new production car record at the Pikes Peak hill climb in Colorado earlier this year…"
Here's our first look at Peugeot's new Le Mans hypercar
"Yikes. We weren’t ready for this kind of excitement today. Peugeot has given us an early glimpse at its 2022 Le Mans competitor, and it looks good."
Review: Audi RS Q3
"Say hello to the new RS Q3 - the fastest small SUV you can buy, with a near-400bhp five-cylinder engine, a top speed of as much as 174mph and the option of ceramic brakes. Yes, really. "
No Time To Die trailer: seven things we learned
"James Bond returns in April 2020. Here’s what we can tell you about his CARS."
The 2019 Awards edition of TG magazine is out now
"Yep, it’s that time of year again. So, take a moment out of your hectic Christmas shopping calendar (or do we what do, and just buy for the whole family from one online shopping site) and settle down to ingest the great and the good of the motoring world in 2019. That’s right – it’s the Top Gear Awards."
Review: Volkswagen Golf
"New eighth-gen Golf remains the lingua-franca of the hatch world. A finely polished machine."
Revealed: the 2019 Top Gear Awards winners
"Welcome to the Top Gear Awards 2019, a celebration of the very best cars of the year. At TG we always like to do things differently, so unlike most other automotive awards we don’t have set categories that get repeated every year. We award cars on their merits, not because we need to find a winner of the Compact Hybrid SUV Coupe by a Korean Manufacturer of the Year. In short, only the best of the best ever collect a TG Cog."
Flick through Top Gear mag's seven special Awards covers
"Our new issue is out now, featuring the year's best cars. Collect 'em all!"
Ford Focus ST — long-term review
"For the second time in a year, the Top Gear garage is home to a new Ford Focus. Greedy us."
This 350bhp Acura SLX proves anything can be restomodded
"What we appear to have here is a blocky old SUV from the days before these things tried to resemble coupes and have eleventy-thousand horsepower. And the days before they were called SUVs, in fact, Back when they were practical above all else, with style sitting about 27th on their to-do-list."
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