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BBC Top Gear Magazine

Aug 01 2025
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Top Gear is the worlds most exciting Car magazine bringing you up to date news, the latest drives and stunning features.

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Keeping trim • Ever wondered why Eagle interiors are so immaculate? Allow us to introduce Alison Leeves, upholstery maestra

The Lion King • Peugeot’s GTI badge is back, slapped on the electric e-208 – can it live up to the 205?

HIT or MISS • Two titans of the editorial team fight it out

COMMENTS • BMW M2 CS

NEXT BIG THING • FULLY ACTIVE SUSPENSION

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE… • JAGUAR C-X75

Carbon copy • The use of carbon fibre in fancy cars is commonplace these days, and it’s caught on in the watch world too

EPIC FAIL • ZENOS E10

HELP! • The internet’s most searched questions, rudely answered by us

HOT OR NOT? • Frank Stephenson critiques car designs

TOP 9 WEIRD AMERICAN PICKUP TRUCKS

MIKE’S CHANNEL

GAME OF THE MONTH

BOV • If you’ve not been to the ’Ring, you must go now says JB

ON SALE NOW!

PINKS • Natalie thinks Max’s ‘red mist’ could be his secret weapon

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ROAD RUNNER • We’ve seen racecars for the road before… the new Porsche 963 RSP takes things a little further

RIDE THE LIGHTNING • What’s the quickest car in the world like on a normal road? Can you ever use 2,000bhp – and what does it feel like? Ollie Kew has a date with a, erm, grandmother…

Your Mate’s garage • Rimac’s favourite room in the factory? Why, his personal garage of course

STAR POWER • Welcome to America, where more speed means (a lot) more horsepower. Looks like the new Corvette ZR1 got the memo…

Zap mapped • Want a ZR1 with more X factor?

THE DEVIL DRIVES PRAGA • Track car for the road, you say? Time to see if Praga’s bold claim for its Bohema is fact or fiction with a roadtrip… and breaking every lap record along the way

HARD TO BEAT

SPLITTING THE G • Germany’s toughest 4x4 and Ireland’s favourite pint have come over all responsible and healthy. Fancy one for the road?

GLADIATORS READY? • Doing a 180mph wheelie past someone’s living room? The Isle of Man is where you’ll find the real speed freaks, this we had to see for ourselves

HAMMER TIME • A megawatt of (British) power? Speakers in the headlights? The AMG GT XX promises a radical new age for muscle car Mercs…

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STRIKE A POSE • There’s a fine line between cool and cringe, but that hasn’t stopped some bonkers carmaker and fashion house collabs over the years

FASHION NONSENSE • Pass the smelling salts…

The big picture • “Everybody fails. The tracks, devised by event mastermind Peter Antunac, are designed to cripple and maim. Boulders the size of hatchbacks, 7m trenches filled with mud, telegraph poles and huge tyres from mining trucks, vertical rock climbs, and a midnight ‘mystery’ run through the forest with nothing but headlights for guidance, all conspire to narrow the field. The tracks are so brutal, in fact, Peter has a fleet of excavators, to pluck twisted, flipped or wedged 4WDs off the tracks.”

DO/DON’T MEET YOUR HEROES

ELECTRIC CROSSOVERS • Two funky but mainstream TopGear.com Electric Awards winners go head to head, where should you put your money?

THE OVERRUN • Small but perfectly...

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