Indholdsfortegnelse for February 2026 i BBC Top Gear Magazine

Imagine starting a car company from zero. A real car company. One that wants to sell in volume and must adhere to all the rules and regulations that apply to Ford or Toyota. One that satisfies a market that demands reliability, convenience and a level of all round capability that was unheard of just a decade or so ago. The task list is laughably complex. From creating a brand that resonates with a broad audience, to engineering a product to exceed incumbent class leaders and ultimately to market and sell in a ferociously competitive space. Oh, and maybe try to make some money too. We know it's possible. Look at Tesla. Take the politics out of the equation and its story is truly remarkable. From creating what amounted to a…

Hyundai will continue to fill in the gaps of its numerical naming structure with a new Ioniq 3. It'll be twinned with a Kia EV2, and the Concept Three launched at the Munich show last year showed us what it'll look like. Which is a Veloster from the future. They even parked it on the moon for the press shots. WHAT? Hyundai Veloster HOW MUCH? from £3,000 WHY? Wacky looking Hyundais are nothing new. The first gen Veloster had asymmetrical doors that made it look like a coupe from one side and a hatch from the other.…

Only the fourth model in Bentley's history to wear the Supersports badge is by far the biggest swing of the bat. ‘Super Sports' v1.0 arrived exactly 100 years ago, was the first Bentley capable of 100mph and only 18 were ever built. The next came in 2009 – the pinnacle of the first gen Conti GT range – two seats, 100kg lighter and capable of 204mph. In 2017 the second gen Conti GT got a Supersports too – with a 700bhp version of the burly old 6.0-litre twin turbo W12, making it the most powerful Bentley ever at the time. This one takes a different, more driver focused route. Only 500 will be built, it also only has two seats, but the big story is it doesn't go chasing numbers,…

PROs ► 1,000bhp+, 0–62mph in 2.5secs – you won't be late for that meeting ► Ferrari's take on fake gearshifts will be fascinating ► Four motors for ultimate torque vectoring ► Active suspension, 4WS, it's got all the tricks ► RWD only mode for efficiency (and skids) CONs ► Design by Jony Ive likely to be polarising ► It's not a V12, or V anything for that matter ► Does anyone want an EV Ferrari? ► Won't be cheap ► Range of 330 miles merely adequate these days ► Weighs 2,300kg, that's hard to hide OR BUY A USED ONE OF THESE ► WHAT? Ferrari FF ► HOW MUCH? from £75,000 ► WHY? Very much not electric, but a full four seater and powered by a 6.3-litre V12, so a…

Can it really be four whole years since Gordon Murray revealed – shock – his first road car without a central driving position? GMA's been occupied stamping out a century of T.50s and growing a new Surrey factory sketched by Gordon himself. Development of the track only T50S has been ticking along, alongside mules for the ‘entry level' T.33 twins. Coupe and Spider rev to ‘just' 11,100rpm, while the optional flappy paddle has been cancelled… because only two buyers wanted it. Once 100 hard-tops and 100 targas are finished, stay tuned for a ‘Speciale' track-honed version. OR BUY A USED ONE OF THESE WHAT? Lotus Elise S2 HOW MUCH? from £15,000 WHY? British, manual, weighs less than a bag of chips. Peas in a pod with the T.33. Plus with…

Alpine bosses say it was a mistake to make the A110 look meek: faithful to the original, but customers want sex appeal and aggression. So expect its circa 1,400kg successor to look sharper, with 500bhp twin motor EV propulsion. Its platform can accept an engine if buyers insist a 300 mile range battery is a dealbreaker. CARS OF 2026 OR BUY A USED ONE OF THESE WHAT? Porsche Boxster HOW MUCH? from £4,000 WHY? For less than a day's depreciation on a Taycan you could buy a whole mid-engined open-top flat six Porsche sports car. With change for servicing!…

Another Brit we've driven in a not quite finished state, but promising enough to be cheerful. The son of Valkyrie hybrid supercar smooshes a twin turbo V8 with two front e-motors and another on the crank for 1,064bhp, but don't be fooled by the F1 wind tunnel aero: it's surprisingly slidey. Bring on Ferrari's 849 Testarossa… OR BUY A USED ONE OF THESE WHAT? BMW i8 HOW MUCH? from £27,000 WHY? The first mainstream hybrid sports car is now yours for less than the price of a new 1-Series. Still looks like it's from the future and costs less to run than an M2.…

HONDA NSX £63,000 (when new) HERO Innovative engineering, superb chassis, showed easy to drive didn't mean dull ZERO Used values have now topped £150k, so it's way out of my league IT'S EXACTLY AS I REMEMBER. AND THAT'S the key thing. Nothing to do with my memory, but how memorable the Honda NSX was to drive. Because it drove like nothing else. So, to unpack the obvious here, this is a hero I've met before. The NSX was on sale for 15 years from 1990 and in that time I went from keen teen with nose permanently in a car mag, to grizzled, picky (and frequently jaded) reviewer. Now I think about it, the NSX probably spanned my transition from reader to writer better than any other car. When it…

£82,845 OTR/£82,845 as tested/£1,049 pcm WHY IT'S HERE: It'll conquer the wilderness, but is this £83k Toyota everyday overkill? DRIVER: ANDY FRANKLIN WE'VE ALL BEEN THERE, HAVEN'T we? You get home after a few drinks, start browsing eBay classifieds, and begin convincing yourself that the £10k “bargain” you abs o l u t el y don ' t need somehow makes perfect financial sense. Most of us never actually go through with it – unless we're so intoxicated that the consequences are our own fault. But that's exactly what Matthew Hunt did during lockdown. He bought this 1977 Toyota FJ40 completely blind. To be fair, there wasn't any alcohol involved – brave man. Matt told the seller he'd take it on one condition: it had to be rust free and…

£22,049 OTR/£22,049 as tested/£302 pcm WHY IT'S HERE: Is the Suzuki Swift still the best small car money can buy? DRIVER: ESTHER NEVE GO TO TOPGEAR.COM FOR EXTENDED TG GARAGE REPORTS, AND TO EXPLORE THE ARCHIVE THIS IS A RARE OCCASION – A small car joins the fleet. And not just any small car, no… this is the TopGear award winning Suzuki Swift. Yes, you may remember back in issue 391, the Swift scooped victory in the TG awards against some stiff competition. It was up against the Renault Clio, VW Polo, Toyota Yaris, Mini Cooper and MG3, all superb small cars in their own right, but the Swift's mixture of comfort and practicality (and its remarkably small price) saw it lay claim to the big prize. So, a year…

A few months back I shared an unusually sensible plan of tidying up my Pajero Evolution with the goal of selling it to help finish the R34 GT-R restoration. This was approved by Steve @ SR Autobodies who agreed to pause progress until it was sold, resulting in a rare moment of automotive zen. for one car must be sacrificed in order to revive another. What's a Pajero Evo worth these days? Similar cars (without the Gucci OZ Racing wheels) appear to be around £28k–32k, and with mine having a recent engine refresh combined with the complete respray, aiming for the £30k–35k seems a fair middle ground. Especially as some people will be put off for it not being completely original. NOTE: Those people are odd – these are still…

£45,445 OTR/£56,490 as tested/£775 pcm WHY IT'S HERE: To see if the old ways of family cars were actually best DRIVER: BEN PULMAN GO TO TOPGEAR.COM FOR EXTENDED TG GARAGE REPORTS, AND TO EXPLORE THE ARCHIVE NO, ‘OUR' PASSAT HAS NOT BEEN in for a respray, rather that 's photographer Mark Fagelson's own V W Passat Estate. And whatever a photographer has for their work wheels is, by default, good, because a) our erudite opinions rub off on them and b) their requirements are so exacting that anything subpar doesn't stand a chance. Let me explain… Theirs is a life of early starts and late finishes, so the cabin must be welcoming, the boot must be cavernous, and the ride comfortable, so they've only got themselves to blame when the…

£68,045 OTR/£71,816 as tested/£725 pcm WHY IT'S HERE: Is this souped up Buzz a top spec EV worth saving for? DRIVER: JACK RIX DON'T TELL FERRARI/BENTLEY/ Rolls customers forking out tens of thousands for carbon fibre umbrellas and extra leathery gloveboxes, but time is luxury apparently, not expensive stuff. Rubbish, I say, for I have lived seven glorious months with the extended wheelbase ID.Buzz and can confirm luxury is in fact… space. It buys you every thing. The ability to make plans on the fly and take vast numbers of family and friends with you. It saves you the stress of deciding what's worth packing and what's not, thus avoiding six domestics per annum. Usually space comes with compromise. Buy a traditional van and it's not particularly wieldy for popping…

TopGear's reach is measured in the multimillions, but in reality ours is a close knit world populated by some big personalities. Few were bigger or more important to TG than Quentin Willson, who died on 8 November 2025, aged 68. He had been suffering from lung cancer. Before paying tribute to him, a personal note. Jack Rix and I were in Maranello for a preview of the Ferrari Elettrica in early October, part of a media delegation that included Quentin. I hadn't seen him in a while so it was an unexpected pleasure to find myself sitting opposite him for dinner on the first night. Like so many of us, I'd watched him religiously on TopGear during the 1990s, an era in which he helped refashion a rather fusty consumer…

IT'S NO BIGGER THAN A REGULAR HATCHBACK. IT OFFERS seating for up to six people. You can sleep in it. Watch movies in it. And the driver gets to sit in the middle! Just like a McLaren F1 and GMA T.50! Welcome to Citroen going Full Citroen, in the delightfully funky form of this new Elo concept. It is said to wrap up the French carmaker's DNA into an electric “bubble of energy” that simultaneously breathes fresh, orange life into one of TG's favourite art forms: the MPV. Citroen hasn't divulged much about the powertrain but then it is a concept. But there's plenty of info on the design elements. Like that central driving position which can be swivelled around to chat to your passengers, but most importantly it's just…

AND THEN BORIS WAS GONE. EARLY one Tuesday morning, I arrive at TrustUs Laboratories to discover our Ford Mondeo based autonomous rolling test bed has escaped his high security facility, bribing his way past a security guard with a pine tree air freshener before bribing his way through a chain link fence with 113 horsepower of righteous diesel fury. Given BORIS's previous unmonitored forays into the outside world have seen him ram raid a bridal shop, blackmail a politician, and attempt to mow down a groundbreaking and charismatic AI scientist (me), this is concerning news. Keen to locate BORIS before he locates, say, a petting zoo's duckling enclosure, I set off in pursuit. As I quietly rejoice at the lack of visible destruction, my phone pings. A message from BORIS.…

If you know anything about sim racing, you'll be aware of iRacing. It's the thing Max Verstappen does when he's supposed to be getting a tight eight hours of sleep ahead of a Grand Prix. It's also the most popular online sim racing service, with hundreds of thousands of active users. Nothing else compares to it in terms of fair and competitive online racing, and if you want to experience the thrill of being a professional racing driver but your dad didn't own a petrochemicals company, iRacing is the closest you'll get. Or at least that used to be the case. I wonder if in 2026 there's something of a reckoning coming for iRacing. You see the problem is, while you don't need to be a multimillionaire to play iRacing,…

And so to the third part of what Toyota is calling ‘The Trinity'; the Lexus LFA Concept. The car previously known as the Lexus Sports Concept in what was probably the worst kept secret in… well, ever. There's also been confirmation that the car is a fully battery powered vehicle, again confirming the pretty obvious lines of speculation and inflaming the V10 enthusiast portion of the internet. This will become the car that actually carries the LFA badge, while the GR GT feels like the more immediate physical manifestation. Toyota's basically been heavily pregnant with various secrets, and we've got non-identical twins. Or triplets if you count the GT3. So how has the endless ‘concept' of the LFA actually changed? Well, let's say it's evolved. We now know that it'll…

There's a new generation of Audi A6, and thankfully Audi ditched its new naming plans at the start of 2025, which means the upcoming über quick version will still be called the RS6. We'll see it at the back end of the year as a saloon and estate – the idea of a pure EV has been scrapped, but rumours abound it'll be V6 hybrid. Sigh. OR BUY A USED ONE OF THESE WHAT? Audi RS6 Avant (C6) HOW MUCH? from £15,000 WHY? Because what's better than a V6 in a really rapid wagon? Why, 10 cylinders of course! Audi really did go mad with its second ever RS6.…

What would a Land Cruiser look like if it suffered an allergic reaction to being shot with a shrink ray gun? Well, this: the return of the FJ. Legendary letters in off reading Toyota circles but this time apparently standing for ‘Freedom & Joy'. Yuck. Luckily for the Defender 90 it won't have to worry about this bonsai 4×4 pinching its lunch in Europe or the USA: the new FJ is built in Indonesia on a cheapo platform with no hybrid engines, so this 270mm shorter, 158bhp micro truck won't be seen in the West. OR BUY A USED ONE OF THESE WHAT? Suzuki Jimny HOW MUCH? from £4,950 WHY? Want nuclear bombproof utilitarian chic that's equally happy sheep farming on Skye as it is fetching shopping in Surrey? Try…

Now go and watch the video on topgear.com Ferrari Amalfi The Roma was no one's favourite Ferrari. Oh, it was knuckle gnawingly beautiful, if you could accept the weird holepunched colour coded grille. Exceedingly fast. Unique in the Prancing Horse stable: the first ever front engined V8 coupe from Maranello. And the Ferrari you were most likely to actually own, partly because it was (at £170k) the least expensive, and partly because it was a necessary stepping stone. Buy a Roma and you lit the fire beneath your backside to climb the ladder. Buy the next Ferrari, and another. Get yourself onto page one of Ferrari's little black book. But it was also flawed. The Roma's twin turbo V8 was more monotonal than Andy Murray with a hangover. Combine its…

PROs ► Looks like a spaceship, goes like a rocket ► An 871bhp private jet for the road ► 350kW charging for 10–80 per cent in 22 minutes ► 421 mile range for the dual motor ► 0–30mph in 1.3 seconds = supreme confidence at the traffic lights CONs ► Likely to depreciate faster than a falling anvil ► Weighs 2,500kg. Ooooof ► Claustrophobic? Sorry, no rear windscreen ► Over £100k for the launch edition OR BUY A USED ONE OF THESE ► WHAT? Porsche Taycan ► HOW MUCH? from £30,000 ► WHY? Difficult to believe it's been around for five years; the Taycan's pioneering status and well publicised strife in the EV used market means there are bargains out there. We found a Performance Plus Sport Turismo 93.4kWh with…

The successor to AMG's forgotten hyper saloon will be all electric, and the first Merc to feature a ‘fake V8' engine noise and Hyundai style simulated gearshifts. It's been heavily influenced by the record breaking GTXX concept (above), and though power won't quite peak at 1,341bhp, you suspect no Tesla is safe in the traffic light grand prix. OR BUY A USED ONE OF THESE WHAT? Mercedes C63 AMG Estate HOW MUCH? from £15,000 WHY? In a previous life, AMG could move you, your family and all your luggage along with a V8 that sounded like rolling thunder, without any hi-fi fakery.…

“A Morgan to finally win over Porsche buyers.” That was the claim when the Supersport launched in early 2025, and it's one we weren't going to leave unchecked. Carmakers claim a lot of stuff that's easily shrugged off as cliched hyperbole, but whatever answer we find here, it's just going to be plain fun finding out, right? These are two of the most driver focused cars on sale. The Supersport strides a path once trodden (rather boisterously) by TVR. With lightweight body panels, rear wheel drive and a large and lusty six cylinder engine up front, the propensity for both thrills and spills burbles away the second you fold yourself into its cabin and prod the starter button. Current Morgans have much better manners than those old Blackpool rockets though,…

£24,995 OTR/£26,700 as tested/£114 pcm WHY IT'S HERE: Value motoring for a decently sized SUV. But is the Bigster bigster value or just cheap? DRIVER: TOM FORD GO TO TOPGEAR.COM FOR EXTENDED TG GARAGE REPORTS, AND TO EXPLORE THE ARCHIVE AS USUAL FOR THE BIGSTER, we've been dragged around the UK doing all sorts of jobs this month. One of the weird things I've noticed is that the hybrid powertrain reacts pretty hard to temperature changes. Anything under about 6°C and the whole thing seems to really like holding on to a full battery, with the combustion engine firing up instantly and staying on, even in traffic. And repeated cold mornings, and therefore much used ICE, mean we've had a dip in overall economy – 51.6mpg being the cur rent…

£81,500 OTR/£93,800 as tested/£879 pcm WHY IT'S HERE: Is the designery Polestar 3 an EV with real character? DRIVER: JASON BARLOW GO TO TOPGEAR.COM FOR EXTENDED TG GARAGE REPORTS, AND TO EXPLORE THE ARCHIVE THE POLESTAR 3'S TIME IS UP. First, the good bits. This is a great looking car, as contemporary a piece of automotive design as exists in 2026. With its optional Nappa leather, and zinc and black ash trim, the interior is equal parts restful and stimulating. The Bowers & Wilkins audio system is astounding. It also has the pace and handling to go with the design, but as with most EVs I preferred to drive it in a way that maximised its range. Rarely has 510bhp gone so underutilised. In terms of energy consumed, I used…

£114,015 OTR/£135,058 as tested/£1,560 pcm WHY IT'S HERE: Furiously complex, huge and heavy – is the M5 headed in the right direction? DRIVER: OLLIE MARRIAGE GO TO TOPGEAR.COM FOR EXTENDED TG GARAGE REPORTS, AND TO EXPLORE THE ARCHIVE IT WAS NICKNAMED THE Emperor. The name emerged over time, initiated by its size and colour, bolstered by its almighty power, aloofness and a hint of smug self-satisfaction. Before that name settled, I had occasionally referred to it as Jabba, but that seemed too cruel. It moves well. However, driving it I often felt dominated. By the engineering complexity, by the driving environment, by its size. The G90 M5 is not an intimate car on any level. Super saloons and estates used to be business expresses for those that wanted to speak…

WELL, THIS WAS RATHER UNEXPECTED. Genesis – the luxury arm of Hyundai that so far has mostly focused on squishy saloons and chromed SUVs – is set to launch its very own supercar. And it'll be powered by a twin turbo V8 engine! The official release says that the Magma GT Concept you see here will be “the halo model guiding Genesis' long term performance strategy, including future GT racing ambitions”. However, design boss Donckerwolke later told TG that his intentions are to take Genesis into the realm of customer GT3 racing. Where you need a car. One that has to compete against Ferrari 296s and McLaren Arturas, so it has to be homologated with at least 200 units. And the journey to homologation starts with a concept, which we…

BATTERIES ARE BULKY AND HEAVY and no one wants that. Worse, a lot of that excess stems not from the actual cells that store the electricity, but from structures designed to house and cool them. EVs use individual cells, wired in series to reach the approx 400V or even 800V that the drive systems use. Standard procedure is to package a number of cells, maybe two dozen, into a structure called a module. This is basically a metal box, incorporating wiring between the cells, and cooling channels. Multiple modules are fixed inside a bigger, stronger box. The battery pack. This sounds safe. The cells are mounted in three layers of box. If one group of cells fails, only that module needs replacing not the whole pack. But it's also wasteful.…

The finest failures in automotive history What is the point of a concept car? Probably requires more than a single whimsical page to properly answer. But if at least one purpose of a concept is to prepare the ground for a future production car, to gently expand a brand's Overton window, then Chrysler's Super8 was an absolute smash hit of a success. Introduced at the 2001 Detroit Auto Show it subtly ushered in not only a whole new juicy rear-drive architecture, but a whole new juicy V8 engine too. The Super8 didn't just tease, it delivered. That rear drive architecture was the LX platform, which within a few years would underpin the estimable Chrysler 300C and Dodge Charger. In profile especially, the Super8 offered future echoes of both cars, subtly…

What's Frank up to? A non-stop month in the air, on the road and in the studio, with a trip to Shanghai to further develop AutoFlight's eVTOL aviation aircrafts and water-based Green Vertiports for advanced air mobility operations. Also attended the annual Car Design News Awards bash in London BMW iX3 FOLLOWING ITS MUCH MALIGNED DESIGN DIRECTION of recent times, BMW has decided to tone things down a bit. Save for the new/old beaver toothed grille graphic, it's a welcome departure from what's gone before. From the front, a conventional ICE looking lower bumper air intake area appears overly busy for an EV vehicle's reduced cooling needs. The new classically proportioned and illuminated kidneys are daintily styled, but too pinched, almost puckered up. The headlamps cleverly create a new lighting…

Fuji Mountain Speedway, Saturday 7 December, 2025. A precious, white gloved Japanese man has just dropped very gently into the seat of Toyota Gazoo Racing's new GR GT and has proceeded to absolutely rev the bejeesus out of it. Whup-blam, crackle. WHUP-BLAM, crackle. WHUP-WHUP-HISS-CRACKLE. Sound carries in cold air, and as the third rev dies away, the 40-odd people in the pit garage all simultaneously mutter a small swear in the language of their homeland. All I can think is that the wash of hot gas from the quad of exhausts has deposited tiny bits of dead dinosaurs directly into my nose. And I really like the smell. I really like the car, too. A low slung missile of a thing that doesn't so much pull up as arrive and…

Are we about to experience a small car revolution? Honda thinks so, because it's bringing the Super-N to our shores. Essentially a beefed up version of the Japanese N-One e, its wannabe hot hatch wheelarches mean it's too wide to be considered a kei car, but that means it can have more than the regulated 63bhp. Cute! OR BUY A USED ONE OF THESE WHAT? Renault Twingo GT HOW MUCH? from £4,000 WHY? Tall and narrow with skinny little tyres, the Twingo GT was another nod to hot hatchery but without too much actual heat. Also RWD.…

Jaguar will be hoping the production version of its Type 00 gets as much press as the concept did in December 2024. We know that it'll be a massive all electric GT, and we think it'll have four doors. Whether it'll deviate from the concept by including a rear window remains to be seen. OR BUY A USED ONE OF THESE WHAT? Bentley Mulsanne HOW MUCH? from £35,000 WHY? Depreciation is your friend if you're in the market for maximum waft. Mulsanne prices when new started at around £230k.…

“MODERN RUSSIA APPEARS LARGELY LOATHED HERE, AND FEARED” They are called Svan Towers. Stark stone towers built to keep warmth in and invaders out. Located high in the remote valleys of the Upper Caucasus mountain range they were meant to be the highlight, the destination of this story. But things took a turn. In several directions. Stalin got involved, so too did modern Russia. There was snow, there was mud, there were rockfalls and dogs and Kamaz trucks. And in amongst all this there was a Toyota Land Cruiser. Because if you're off exploring and have been foolish enough to get yourself into a sticky situation, you need a machine that can help get you unstuck. Which is an apt place to start. Trouble is, a diff lock wasn't going…

It used to be so simple, didn't it? The automotive landscape was so easily defined. BMW made sharp lined saloons with straight six engines and fantastic balance; Mercedes could go to the moon and back and still feel brand new; Ferraris (or anything Italian, to be honest) were cool as hell and broke all the time; Peugeots were made of tinfoil but had solid gold dynamics; Hondas were affordable but featured world class engineering. This was the innate knowledge we lived our lives by. But the one truth we all understood more than any other was that all American cars were utterly useless. It didn't need to be articulated. We just felt it, deep in our bones. Yes, Trans Ams and Mustangs looked cool in a big, brash sort of…

The electric Rangie was sidelined in 2025 as tariffs arrived and demand for luxury EVs dried up, but Land Rover has poured vats of money into developing this thing so can't afford to shelve it. We'll drive it late 2026 – expect a refined high riding express that's peerless off road. OR BUY A USED ONE OF THESE WHAT? Range Rover TDV8 HOW MUCH? from £5,000 WHY? Yes, it will break down. Of course it will. But you're saving over £100,000 on the purchase price. If it was good enough for Her Majesty the Queen……

We'll confess to a limited understanding of the multiverse. As far as we can tell, it's the scientific theory that at key points of inflection, universes split off and run in parallel timelines, each one with a different actor playing Spider-Man. Pretty sure that's it. If the theory turns out to be true, there's almost certainly a parallel universe where Virtua Racing doesn't exist and never propelled Sega to dominance in 1990s 3D arcade racing. After all, Virtua Racing was originally built as a proof of concept to demonstrate the polygon-shifting speed of Sega's new ‘Model 1' graphics technology. Had Sega not decided to turn that prototype into a fully fledged arcade game, we might never have had Daytona USA or Sega Rally. While it was graphically more simplistic than…

SCAN HERE FOR FULL REVIEWS OF EVERY NEW CAR 6/10 SMART #5 PREMIUM £47,300 SMART'S DESIGN TEAM DID A grand job, outside and within the astonishingly roomy, well kitted and well finished cabin. It rides really softly too, a passenger might think it's a luxury car. The driver knows different. Terrible accelerator calibration, tipping in and out of the pedal, prevents neat gain or loss of speed. It floats too much on brisk country roads and the numb steering doesn't help. It's all power and too little control. 7/10 GENESIS GV60 PERFORMANCE £67,715 GENESIS IS BOOSTED BY ITS relationship with Hyundai, not hampered by it. New for the GV60's mid-life refresh is Virtual Gearshift, passed down from the Ioniq 5 N. Despite its addition, the top spec GV60 Performance is…

£53,530 OTR/£58,590 as tested/£682 pcm WHY IT'S HERE: To see if the S3 finally delivers as a driver's car DRIVER: JETHRO BOVINGDON THE S3 HAS DONE THAT AUDI THING OF GETTING more and more impressive as the weather has deteriorated. And not in a ‘secure but a bit blunt' way that so typified Audis not so long ago. The cold temperatures and frequent rain has instead brought out the S3's fun side. Mechanical grip is superb on the standard fit Goodyear Eagle F1 tyres, but there's also progression and fun waiting for you if you decide to tip into a roundabout a little too quickly… The S3 definitely feels like a front drive hatch with some rear assist rather than a bespoke four wheel drive system, but in the damp…

£65,870 OTR/£69,335 as tested/£609 pcm WHY IT'S HERE: Is living with a rugged American icon in the UK charmingly adventurous or a recipe for discomfort? DRIVER: ROWAN HORNCASTLE “The only time the hardware complains is at maximum articulation” THE FIRST REAL TEST FOR OUR Wrangler since it rolled out of Storm Jeeps came in the form of an off road recce run in North Wales. We'd been plot ting a feature and YouTube film with some properly serious off roaders – an Arctic Trucks massaged Land Cruiser, Land Rover's Defender Octa and an Ineos Grenadier on portal axles – and needed to know whether the lanes would accept them. So the Wrangler went first as scout. Where a standard Wrangler on narrow mud terrains would have skated and slipped, this…