Are you, like this 2008 car, passing your 17th birthday? Time to get a driving licence. Congratulations. As a prevocal toddler you wouldn’t have been aware that for the first two years of your life th

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We thought (and fought) long and hard over a car to represent the 100 most recent issues of TopGear and what’s happened on planet petrolhead since late 2017. Obviously it should be electric, futuristi

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