’00s &’10s 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

THE FIRST ERAS TEST WAS SPECIAL. PERFECT ROADS, CRISP spring weather and a chance to get under the skin of six ’80s icons, cars my more senior colleagues earned their road-testing stripes in. Being ev

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

IF THE FIRST HALF OF THE 2020s CAN BE defined by one rivalry, it’s that of Max versus Lewis. Not since Senna v Prost has there been a more intense and divisive clash. Whether you tune in for the dazzl

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

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