Baptism of fire [and ice]

For years, some of the more committed car makers had been quietly logging Nürburgring Nordschleife lap times for internal benchmarking and the odd press release. But then in 2008, Porsche suggested Ni

All the performance, agility and noise of a race car on the road seems like the ultimate driving thrill – really? More like some test of endurance if you ask me

What have I done? I have just spent about six times that which I’ve yet previously spent on a car, on a vehicle that has twice as many cylinders as I’m used to, will consume about double the amount of

I’VE NEVER DRIVEN MONZA BEFORE SO JUMP AT the chance of a leisurely lap in an SUV. At the first chicane I realise that I know exactly where I am: this is where Verstappen parked his car on top of Hami

You become detached from reality quite quickly at an event such as the Supercar Driver Secret Meet, which took place at Silverstone on 17 June. Lamborghini Murciélago? Yawn. Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren?

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