TOPGEAR TOP 9
Lamborghini Miura
The Lamborghini Miura – the OG supercar, most-beautiful-ever-made candidate, an icon of sexy Sixties excess – had totally fake tailpipes.
The V12’s real pipes stopped a couple of inches short of the chromed tubes that exit out the car’s
posterior. Everything you’ve ever known is a lie.
Audi SQ5
This is a really odd styling choice. It’s as though Audi wanted quad pipes, but decided four fakes was too far, so at the very last second while the clay model was being scanned for production, the design team tried to make the fake pipes part of the bumper instead. And what we got was, um, this.
Audi S6
Audi doubled down on its fake exhaust addiction with these travesties. These aren’t implied tailpipes. They aren’t massive organ pipes hiding teeny real peashooters. They’re 100 per cent fake.
But because marketing says an Audi S car needs four tailpipes, we get these glued to the back.
Toyota Camry
The Camry is so boring, Toyota forgot to sell it in the UK for decades. Then it put it on sale, and no one noticed. So it’s gone again. Pity, as we’re being denied some properly silly fake exhausts. One of the pipes on the back of the ’21 Camry is real, but its partner next door is an imitation tacked on for looks.
Peugeot 108 GT-line
Nothing says “I need a sporty Ferrari 296-style central exit tailpipe” like a 1.0-litre city car wearing a plastic body kit. Having said that, the 108 is now dead, as the city car class’s demise continues at speed. The car world feels strangely incomplete without a cheap and cheerful French hatchback.
Ford Explorer ST
Extra points for weirdness to Ford here. The Explorer ST’s pipes are real. Except they aren’t. There are indeed four tailpipes, but
