Top Gear Magazine

Love it or loathe it, Lotus’s new electric Eletre SUV will help keep the firm’s balance books in the green. But is it a Lotus in anything but name? We sent Top Gear Magazine’s Tom Ford to Norway to see if Lotus’ Chinese-built EV really topple Tesla? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Time for a throwback feature as Top Gear Magazine's Rowan Horncastle tells the tale of riding shotgun in one of the rawest off-road races on the planet: The Norra 1000. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Swedish Tesla Model 3 rival has been a smash hit for Polestar - Volvo's EV-only, performance-focused sister brand. We answer the internet's most asked questions on one of its most searched for cars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join Top Gear Magazine's Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle as they guide you around this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed. Pop your headphones in and prepare for an hour-long audio tour that takes in the latest and greatest cars, an impromptu hillclimb in French concept car and a discussion about whether Koenigsegg should make carbon fibre Trunkis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoic...

Join Jack Rix, Ollie Kew and Tom Ford for a healthy debate on fast, British GTs. Is the new pure-EV Spectre the best Rolls ever? Is the Bentley Batur more than just a Continental GT in a £2m frock? Also, Jack drives a bone-stock Jeep Wrangler on one of America's gnarliest off-road trails... and lives to tell the tale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Porsche is 75! To celebrate we produced a magazine, free with issue 374, tracking the company's highs and lows from 1948 right up to the present day: the greatest cars, the pivotal moments, the story so far. Here, we attempt to cram three-quarters of a century of automotive history into a 45 minute pod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Are you a fan of small Japanese sports cars? Do you have a frankly unhealthy obsession with the MX-5? Well do we have a holiday idea for you! Ollie Kew recounts the time he stayed in a the Mazda MX-5 themed hotel, aka Miataland... inexplicably located in Italy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lamborghini's Aventador is no more. Having been on sale for over a decade, Sant’Agata’s big V12 supercar is finally being replaced. So is now the time to buy one? And why has the Aventador been such a success? And how much does one cost to rent? In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine Podcast, Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Kew try and answer all your burning Aventador questions. Learn more...

Join Jack, Rowan and Ollie for a run through the latest issue of TopGear Magazine. Up for discussion is the Lamborghini Huracan Sterrato, the rise of the Chinese car industry and a 911 dedicated to the devil. Plus, the world's greatest central driving position cars Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Porsche's 75th birthday present to itself... is a new electric hypercar called the Mission X. And we were there in Stuttgart to see the covers come off and gather all the details that matter on this successor to the 918 Spyder, Carrera GT and 959. But why is it brown? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Imagine being given the keys to Lamborghini's entire mid-engine V12 back catalogue - from Miura to Aventador - up in the Italian hills. Well that's precisely what Tom Ford took on recently for our 60 years of Lambo special. We even got a Revuelto along for a photo opp. Surprise, surprise, it wasn't a terrible day Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Golf R is the ultimate Golf. Big exhaust pipes, four-wheel drive, and more blue cabin highlights than a British Airways jet. And you may think the Golf R formula hasn’t changed much over the years, but you'd be wrong. So here's your ultimate guide for the ultimate Golf. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Remember Brexit? Well, here's the story of the time Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle drove 2,500 miles through 15 countries in one new DB11 to try and smooth over negotiations with our European neighbours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What's it like to ride in the back of Gordon Murray's successor to the McLaren F1? We experience GMA's new V12 fan car at 12,000rpm on the TopGear test track and take a road trip down to Goodwood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

OK, technically the Alpine A290_B isn't a Renault and has no turbos, because it's electric, but it's damn cool nonetheless. Also, we nearly hit 250mph in a Bugatti Chiron at the space shuttle landing facility in Florida, and save the rhinos in South Africa in a VW Amarok. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Top Gear Magazine's Paul Horrell joins us to explain the time he and Rowan Horncastle used Iceland's mega ring road plus 21 hours of daylight to go on a journey to remember around Iceland in a Nissan GT-R. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Honda has been building Civic Type Rs for 25 years. But how much do you know about them? In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine podcast Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle, Ollie Kew and Ollie Marriage smash their collective brains together in order to be your guide from EK9 to FL5 and every generation in between. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Here's a throwback to 2005, when Tom Ford thought it would be a good idea to take a track car to the beautiful, inhospitable wilderness of the Arctic Circle. Now he's defrosted (nearly 20 years later) we thought it'd be time to get him in the pod studio for a chat about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What are the greatest EVs in the world right now? Join the TG team for a rundown of all the Electric Awards winners, and the stories behind the big stories in the latest issue of the mag.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join Top Gear Magazine's Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle for a stroll around the floor 2023 New York Auto Show. Pinballing between everything from the new 1,000bhp Dodge Demon 107 to the futuristic Kia EV9 and every concept and odd show stand in between, this whistle stop tour will save you a trip to the Big Apple.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join Top Gear Magazine's Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle, Ollie Marriage and Paul Horrell as they discuss the world's toughest (and most idiotic) EV endurance event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s hard to put your finger on why the Mercedes G-Class (or G-Wagen, to most of us) has such a strong magnetic attraction. The archaic box on wheels is loved equally by kids, oligarchs, sheikhs, rappers, farmers... hell, even the Kardashians. In this podcast Top Gear Magazine’s editorial team answer all your questions on Merc’s military vehicle for the masses. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

In our latest story from the TG vault, Ollie Kew recalls the time he asked Oshkosh Defence for a go in the US Army's replacement for the Hummer... and bizzarely they said yes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The latest issue of Top Gear Magazine is out now! And there's lots to talk about. Remember when Ferrari said it would never build an SUV? Well it hasn't. But also has. Tom Ford explains all. And Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle, Ollie Marriage and Ollie Kew discuss Japanese road racers before trying to work out the best supercar accessories ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.co...

At long last Aston’s £2.5 million F1 car for the road has landed. But is it any good? Top Gear Magazine's editorial team sit down for a chat about the wild 1,160bhp skeletal hypercar before checking in with Chris Harris who tells us about his experience driving it and the AMR PRO around Bahrain's F1 circuit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices