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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CHRISTMAS IN NEPAL • The telly show is back to save you from death-by-mince-pies and dull relatives. An Xmas special from the roof of the world

…STEFAN BELLOF PERCHED AWKWARDLY ON A PIT WALL

COFFEE BREAK • What we’re watching/listening/doing, while we should be working

MUSTANG SELL-OUT? • Ford’s first mainstream EV is a good ’un, but stretches the Mustang badge to its limit. Brace for tantrums

BRAND EXTENSIONS • Five other times badges popped up where you least expected them

SKINNY MAC • The £1.4m Elva is McLaren’s lightest ever road car

ALEJANDRO VUKOTICH • SVP Autonomous Driving, BMW

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER • Some bloke you may never have heard of talks about his cars…

TINY DANCER • With the M2’s upgrade to CS spec, the smallest M car is now the one to have

FERRARI ROMA

STOP/START SYSTEM • In its own way, a chronograph is as ingenious a piece of engineering as any modern car…

CARS THAT THINK THEY’RE PLANES

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NEED FOR SPEED HEAT

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

“AN ELECTRIC CAR IS PRIMARILY A PIECE OF TECH, NOT A CAR”

HORSE PLAY

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CHRIS HARRIS • It’s the quiet ones you have to watch, says Chris. Sports cars aren’t dooming us all… SUVs are

THE MIDDLE LANE • TGTV script editor Sam Philip considers the self-driving taxi conundrum

FUTURE PROOF • Love putting stuff up on the cloud? It might be poisonous, says Paul Horrell…

The big test: family wagons • Which is the best at fitting into family life: a regular estate, a jumped-up wagon or an SUV?

Sleeper train

Alpine sports

High and fighty

MUST TRY HARDER

Mixed messages

A spyder with bite

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

Game changer of the year • The Taycan is Porsche’s great leap, but can its DNA be traced back to the definitive 911?

Performance car of the year RENAULT MEGANE RS TROPHY-R

RENAULT Manufacturer of the year

Luxury car of the year BENTLEY FLYING SPUR

2019 IT’S BEEN A GOOD YEAR

CALIFORNIA DOUBLE • When your body requires more energy than you’re putting into it, it breaks the molecules in your fat cells back down. Ultimately, they’re converted into carbon dioxide and water. Most of the fat you lose, then, is actually exhaled. Breathe easy.

BUGATTI CHIRON SUPER SPORT 300+

2019 IT’S BEEN A BAD YEAR

LAMBORGHINI STERRATO

PEOPLE OF THE YEAR • Time to meet TopGear’s heroes of 2019. We are not worthy…

TARGET 1000MPH • It was on its last legs, but now Bloodhound is back to sniff out a land-speed record. This we had to see…

PORSCHE 935

YIN & YANG • Two opposing forces in perfect harmony. Let’s end this tribal warfare, it’s OK to like both

FORD FOCUS ST

LAND ROVER DEFENDER

“And the winner is…” • There’s only room for one on the top step of the podium

TOMB RAIDER • Bow your head – we’ve found a corner of Japan where true legends are laid to rest

BMW M3 GT2 ART CAR, 2010

BRAKE SYSTEMS

WE’VE BOUGHT A 306 RALLYE SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO • Report 9: battling the monster that’s called ‘sorting the handling’

ANYWHERE AUDIS • Audi’s first foray into...