Have a look through the best images from the new TG mag

"Having just nearly driven off the side of a woefully under-signposted 400ft cliff, I'm not sure whether my elevated heartbeat is down to the view, or the fact that I've just nearly absent-mindedly BASE-jumped a small SUV off a Transylvanian mountain without a parachute..."

TG TV's Chris Harris thought he was safe. He'd slagged off the Rolls SUV. Surely they wouldn't want more kicking?

"The Atom is still a rear-engined, RWD lightweight with two seats and less weather protection than a handkerchief. But it now uses the turbo 2.0-litre motor from the latest Honda Civic Type R..."

The Ruf CTR Yellowbird won hearts and minds with its filmed assault of the 'Ring. 30 years on, its successor is finally here...

"Like a catamaran surging up onto its hydrofoil, the Yellowbird is almost immediately surfing swiftly along the densely tree-lined Carmel Valley Road, the leaves already starting to blur at the edges..."

Three-seat hypercars have been in short supply ever since McLaren tore up the rulebook with the F1. Now they're at it again...

"Sleek, isn't it? Long and low and lean and, well, sleek. A streamliner. This is it, the McLaren Speedtail, the car formerly known as BP23 and likely forever known as the spiritual successor to the F1..."

It's conquered the Pikes Peak hillclimb. Now it's our turn to feel the full force of VW's I.D R.

"In the corners, I fall asleep. My head lolls to the side, I snuggle up against the seat flank and my pillowy brain decides I'm perfectly fine to settle down for a nap..."

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