My career in three sketches

It all started with Jean Rédélé razzing around in his Renault 4CV. The youngest Renault dealer in France following WW2, Rédélé cut his teeth – metaphorically, but perhaps also those of the transmissio

It’s vanishingly rare that a new car is so well received it actually shifts perceptions of the company that created it even before anyone has sat behind the wheel. That’s the sort of instant impact of

It turns out there’s an 11-week lead on a half-hour audience with Philippe Krief. Surprised? Don’t be. In September last year, the man from Marseille became the Renault Group’s new chief technology of

Design is not a democracy.” Such a bold statement, wonderfully out of tune with modern group-think, could only apply to a car as radical as the Lotus Esprit. These words were only uttered today by Gio

‘I NEVER SET out to be a car designer – I just sort of became one,’ says Frank Stephenson. It’s an odd admission from the man who penned iconic cars such as the McLaren P1, BMW’s first Mini and the Ma

TopGear is standing on a New York rooftop, flanked by one of those typically NYC water towers. Except that we’re actually in a disused power station in northern Germany, repurposed as a studio space i