Mission impossible

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

Can it really be seven years since the 992 generation of the 911 hit the road? Somehow it can, with events having contrived to shrink the passage of time. When the car was unveiled at the Los Angeles

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?

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

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

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