TopGear: We heard that many years ago you had sketched a ‘Veyron facelift’ that never came to be. Is that true? Tell us the story. Frank Heyl: Yes, there was an inbetween stage. We were working on the

Q What have been the main objectives for you and your team in Sweden? A Here it’s mostly about fine-tuning the stability control, the brakes and so on. Q How close to production are the cars you’re te

The locals call it a ‘baby blizzard’. It’s the sort of thing that would be declared a national emergency in the UK, but Detroit powers on. Formerly America’s most formidable industrial city, Motown ha

Bugatti’s official story is that the seed of the Veyron was planted in 1997. VW Group boss Ferdinand Piëch and his powertrain chief Karl-Heinz Neumann were on a Japanese train brewing up engine ideas.

I’m currently driving a Ford Capri, a spacious and enjoyable all-rounder of a car that disguises its Volkswagen ID 4 basis well. The body control is enhanced in a typically Ford way (perhaps a bit too

As you may have seen from p4 of this issue, Jaguar is not short of ambition when it comes to the engineering of its upcoming electric GT. This doesn’t seem to be unusual for JLR. Every time I go on a