‘is speed the most emotive word in the world of road driving?’

HOW EFFECTIVE IS THE INFAMOUS ‘PULL AND push’ steering method? Is this way of turning a wheel still fit for purpose? Let’s be honest here: pull-and-push steering is a hugely difficult skill to perfect

Car launches are strange but wonderful things. A tense battle of wits between PRs and journalists played out in stunning locations. Every detail is meticulously planned, from the road route to the sea

As a motorist who has always enjoyed swift, measured and safe driving, a combination of factors (average speed cameras, reduced A-road speed limits, drivers going considerably slower ‘just in case’, i

JUST HOW FAR HAVE WE COME SINCE THE 1980s? The hatchback I’m driving has 324bhp coursing through its front wheels. Deployed with a modicum of skill and mechanical sympathy, that’s sufficient to launch

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

Conditions were perfect. It was a warm, dry afternoon and we were yards from a lightly trafficked and derestricted German autobahn. I joined from the sliproad, saw there was nothing in front, checked