Top Gear Magazine

Rowan is away at the Dakar Rally, somewhere in Saudi Arabia. We haven't heard from him for weeks... until this podcast arrived, recorded at the bivouac containing everything you need to know about this year's race. Over to Rowan... Wherever he is Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jack and Ollie talk about the Las Vegas GP, hatch a plan for a F1 driver decathlon, worry about the Caterham Project V being too expensive and marvel at the dedication of Japanese Volvo enthusiasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ollie Marriage and Jack Rix go behind the ropes of Ferrari's VIP club and drive its latest member - the SF90 XX Stradale. Are these track-only specials the ultimate Ferraris? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bentley’s Bentayga is one of the world’s most luxurious SUVs. It also doesn’t come cheap. So in this episode of the Top Gear Magazine Podcast, Jack Rix tells the story of the time he headed to California in search of gold to try and pay for one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What happens if a children's scooter company were to reboot a Fifties classic with electric power? Well, Microlino (the inventors of the famous folding micro-scooter) did exactly that. And in this episode of the Top Gear Magazine podcast, Editor-in-Chief Jack Rix quizzes Ollie Kew about the time he took the bubble car to the bemused people of Zurich. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Cars and Stripes chat continues! If you didn't know, Top Gear is coming to America! Well, technically, we’ve already been... to film a new YouTube series which you can watch now. The premise is simple: two British blokes – Jack Rix (TG magazine’s editor-in-chief) and Jethro Bovingdon (renowned car journalist and presenter of Top Gear America) – driving American cars... in, er, America. Prepare for highs and lows, EVs and dirty great V8s, races and challenges, driving skills and driving spills with some friendly-ish armchair debate in-between. In the second part of a two-part episode, Rowan Horncastle, Jack Rix and Jethro Bovingdon discuss the series, including Singer’s ACS, the Ford Bronco DR, Ruffian Mustang, Mustang Shelby GT500-H, Bronco Raptor, Hummer EV, going to skid school with Travis Pastrana and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Top Gear is coming to America! Well, technically, we’ve already been... to film a new YouTube series called TG2: Cars and Stripes, which you can watch now. The premise is simple: two British blokes – Jack Rix (TG magazine’s editor-in-chief) and Jethro Bovingdon (renowned car journalist and presenter of Top Gear America) – driving American cars... in, er, America. Prepare for highs and lows, EVs and dirty great V8s, races and challenges, driving skills and driving spills with some friendly-ish armchair debate in-between. In the first part of a two-part episode, Rowan Horncastle, Jack Rix and Jethro Bovingdon discuss the series, including Singer’s ACS, the Ford Bronco DR, Ruffian Mustang, Mustang Shelby GT500-H, Bronco Raptor, Hummer EV, going to skid school with Travis Pastrana and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Chinese car market is going gangbusters! And over the next few years, you're going to be seeing a lot more Chinese cars on European shores. So, to get ahead of the game, we sent Rowan Horncastle to the Guangzhou Autoshow to see what is really happening. Prepare to have your minds blown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Only three people in the world got to drive the Cybertruck before Tesla's Texas handover event earlier this week... Jack Rix, Youtube tech expert Marques Brownlee and US car journalist Jason Cammisa. We gather together for a talk about the most controversial vehicle of the decade... while Rowan Horncastle asks the the questions we all want answers to Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s that time of year again when we name the finest automobiles on planet earth and adorn them with a TG rosette. Yep, the votes have been counted, the arguments have simmered down and the results are in. Unsurprisingly, the class of ’22 is an absolute belter, with everything from single-seater fan cars to retro EV buses, and off-road supercars to trusty hot hatches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Hardknott Pass is the steepest, gnarliest, twistiest, narrowest and most pointless road in the whole of the UK. So what three cars did we decide to throw up it a few years ago? The Lamborghini Aventador SV, McLaren 675LT and Porsche GT3 RS – all in the name of science of course. In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine Podcast Ollie Kew and Ollie Marriage tell Jack Rix why they thought that was a good idea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

13 years ago, Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle went to Cuba to meet Havana’s underground drag racers who turn their classics up to eleven and compete on the streets. In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine podcast, they relive that adventure, explain how to modify a car during a trade embargo, and details Cuba’s complex relationship with motorsport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle, Ollie Kew, and Ollie Marriage to find out if the Ineos Grenadier can keep up with the new Defender Land Rover in the mud, why it took 12 hours to drive to Margate in a Citroen Ami, what it's like hanging out with Mick Schumacher in Tokyo and why four-cylinders rule. Plus we talk motorised gimmicks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gordon Murray's astonishing £2.8m T.50 is a 963kg, 654bhp three-seater that aims to right the wrongs of the McLaren F1. But is it the greatest supercar ever? Having spent four days driving one solidly across Europe's best mountain roads, Ollie Marriage delivers the verdict to Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Kew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Have you ever wondered what a billionaire car enthusiast gets up to on the weekend? Well, wonder no more. Ollie Marriage has been to Spain and peeked behind the curtain at The Supercars Owners Circle – an exclusive fraternity of discerning car collectors that, refreshingly, don’t mind getting their ultra-exclusive cars out of their temperature-controlled humidor garages and take them for a good old thrashing. In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine podcast Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle integrate him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Aventador replacement, Lamborghini’s biggest beast, is now a plug-in hybrid. It features three electric motors, and a 6.5-litre V12 revving to 9,500rpm, for a total of 1,001bhp. Jack delivers his verdict live from the pit-lane at the Vallelunga track and bumps into a special guest - TopGear America host Jethro Bovingdon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this second instalment of TG mag's mega two-part Speed Week monster pod, Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Marriage discuss which 911 is the best to wheelie, the rest of our epic car list and how chaotic Performance Car of the Year can really be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

15 contenders, seven wind turbines, five barrels of biofuel, many sets of tyres... it’s time for TG’s annual festival of fast! In this first installment of a mega two-parter, Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Marriage dish the dirt on what went down at Top Gear Magazine's 2023 Performance Car of the Year in Sweden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It all began with an idea. Could a Hindustan Ambassador actually be converted into a convincing replica of the Peugeot 208 GTI? A question not plucked from thin air, but based on one of the greatest car adverts ever. In this episode, Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle talk about the time they went to India to answer that exact question. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Now in its fifth generation, the Range Rover invented the idea of a Luxury SUV... and has continued to improve it ever since. 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 Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle, Ollie Kew, and Ollie Marriage to find out why we put a new Ford Mustang on a boat to Hawaii, what a silent Lamborghini is like and how we ended up driving one of the world's rarest cars on Europe's best road. Plus we attempt to name the best-looking engines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TopGear Mag is 30 years old... hard to believe, we know. To celebrate we brought together all 30 of TG's Cars of the Year for one incredible shoot on the Brooklands banking. Ollie, Ollie, Jack and Rowan take you through the list and discuss the hits and misses over the years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Well, live-ish. Last week Jack Rix visited the world's poshest car show in California - hundreds of highly-polished classics lined up on the fairway of one of the world's most famous golf courses, plus a load of new concept and production cars... and some top-class people watching. Join him for some car and celeb-spotting around the Pebble Beach Concours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tom Ford recalls the time he drove the world's most reliable car to visit the Great Hungarian Plain, or 'Puszta', and the cowboys, or 'csikósok', that patrol it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Is the BMW M2 a backwards step, or do we need to celebrate its type while we still can? Do Americans secretly love estate cars? Is the life-size Tamiya Wild One Max as nerdy as it sounds? All these questions and more are answered to varying degrees of success by the team behind TopGear Magazine, as they bring you the inside stories from this month's mag. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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.com/adchoices

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