’80s & ’90s reflections

WE’VE HAD A LOT OF FUN TRAVELLING backwards and forwards in time over the last five issues and we’ve gained a fresh perspective on each decade in turn, including the current one. As Dickie Meaden obse

WE TRIED. WE REALLY DID. BUT NO MATTER WHICH WAY WE sliced it, the 2000s couldn’t be adequately represented with six cars. And so – much to the dismay of photographer Dean Smith – we went with seven.

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

= new entry this month. Cars in italics are no longer on sale. Issue no. is for our most recent major test of the car (D = Driven, F = feature, FF = Fast Fleet). Engine shows details of the car’s comb

IF WE WERE TO PUBLISH A FOLLOW-UP TO OUR FINAL ERAS gathering, what might the 2035 performance car landscape look like? And looking back at that first 1980s-themed Eras test, how many threads from tha