BBC Top Gear Magazine

Top Gear is the worlds most exciting Car magazine bringing you up to date news, the latest drives and stunning features. Plus of course, the combined talents of TV's Clarkson, Hammond and May.

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MURRAY’S FAN CLUB • Sure, the Speedtail has three seats, but the Gordon Murray Automotive T.50 is the true philosophical sucessor to the F1. We’re big fans…

COFFEE BREAK

…NIGEL MANSELL WEARING A FLAT CAP IN AN F40

NIP AND TUCK • Jaguar updates the F-Type’s styling, but ditches the V6 engine and manual gearbox

FACELIFTS GONE WRONG • Has Jag got things right, or should it have learnt from these mistakes?

NO TIME TO DIE TRAILER • Six things we learned from the first look at Bond’s next adventure

JIM HACKETT • President and Chief Executive Officer, Ford Motor Company

ROGER TAYLOR • Queen’s drummer is in love with his cars. Seriously

MERC SCORES AN A+ • The GLA is back for its second album, and it’s going to sell its socks off

AUDI RSQ8

THE END TIMES • Will the car go the same way as the mechanical watch?

ARMOURED CARS EDITION

GEAR

HERO ZERO • The other stuff making us deliriously happy or horribly sad this month…

FUTURE • IT’S COMING. FORTUNATELY TOPGEAR IS HERE TO HOLD YOUR HAND

“ELECTRICITY AND WATER DON’T MIX, SO NEITHER DO RAIN AND EVs”

SNAPPY SNAPS

CHRIS HARRIS • This month: a love letter from Chris to the unsung star of his garage – the unfairly maligned 1M

THE MIDDLE LANE • TGTV script editor Sam Philip muses how our language will change when EVs rule

FUTURE PROOF • Trying to translate designspeak into plain English is polymath Paul Horrell…

The big test: coupe saloons • The gap between saloon and coupe has narrowed into non-existence. So which treads the tightrope best?

The new normal

The newer normal?

French connection

Take that & party

MUST TRY HARDER

Éclectique électrique

The overrun • Small but perfectly formed reviews. The best of the rest from this month’s drives

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THE FILMS

THE CARS OF 2020 • 2020 is going to be another stonking year for new cars. Here’s the 20 best that need to be firmly on your radar…

…GO • The Speedtail is an impossible blend of big numbers, elegant looks and usability. Chris is the first outside McLaren to drive it

CARS OF 2020

ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE • The age of the road-going rally car is back… if this prototype mega-Yaris is any good

HIGH HOPES • The Aston of SUVs has arrived, and the company’s future depends on it. But is it too late to the feeding frenzy?

GTS… WITH A TWIST • Bentley Conti GT, McLaren GT and Polestar 1 meet in the embers of the day for a blast from Nice to the mountains

MR GT • Welcome to the world of Kazunori Yamauchi – the man born to blur simulation and reality

HOW GRAN TURISMO GETS E-SPORTS RIGHT • Gran Turismo wrapped up its season of virtual racing in Monaco recently with the Gran Turismo World Finals. Races were won, champions were crowned and not a single drop of fuel was burnt. Watching pretend motorsport might not be to everyone’s tastes, but far from just a scheme to flog a few extra PlayStations, we reckon Gran Turismo’s FIA-endorsed championship has found the rare alchemical balance required to do racing e-sports properly.

THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR DRIVING • We head south of the border in Steve McQueen’s Baja Boot to see if its modern incarnation lives up to the legend

THE BAJA 1000… TESTING, TESTING...