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BBC Top Gear Magazine

May 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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Mann made machine • Meet the Mannic Beattie, a homemade shed build complete with an auxiliary jet engine

5 to survive • The reborn R5 Turbo gets 536bhp, a massive 3,540lb ft of torque and a rally style handbrake

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

COMMENTS • MORGAN SUPERSPORT

NEXT BIG THING • IN WHEEL MOTORS

THE VAPOURWARE FILES

Tick-tock, hip-hop • Whether you yearn for a ‘big face Rollie’ or ‘matching Daytonas’ there’s a rap-inspired watch for you

EPIC FAIL LIGIER JS5

THRILLS WITHOUT THE BILLS • Fast(ish) cars you can actually afford

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

HOT OR NOT? • Frank Stephenson critiques car designs

TOP 9 • WACKY AUTOMOTIVE RACES

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GAME OF THE MONTH

BOV • What is ‘luxury’ anyway? Jethro suggests it is… a Panda

PINKS • If one man can change Aston’s luck its Newey, says Natalie

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W16 LAST ONE BLAST! • Bugatti’s legendary 8.0-litre quad turbo W16 gets one last hurrah… under the skin of a lightweight track only multimillion pound hypercar. Who said anything about going quietly?

“I’ll do a proper, proper E30 restomod, with a V10. Not just the technical stuff, but also design. I don’t know when I will get round to that - it might be my retirement project” • Mate Rimac is a man on a mission. What next for Bugatti?

PIPE DREAM • Struggling to make your Tourbillon spec stand out? Bugatti has just the thing

TG’s rough guide to BUGATTI • Everything worth knowing about the world’s fastest car company

THE EVOLUTION OF SPEED • Every Bugatti model that matters

The Lost Toys • Bugatti has to spend its chips wisely – here are three cars that never came to fruition

Bugatti in numbers • The facts and figures that make our heads spin

VMAX MEMORIES

DRESS FOR VITESSE • How to get that Bugatti owner look

B movie • Five things we want to see from the forthcoming Bugatti biopic

THE PEOPLE WHO MADE IT POSSIBLE • Five of the movers behind the fastest brand on Earth

WALLACE AND VOMIT

The specials • Think Bugatti’s immune to daft one-off special editions? Think again…

THINK SMALL AGAIN • Volkswagen’s recent history has been… patchy – Dieselgate, annoying touchscreens, you know the rest. Question is, can VW turn its fortunes around by thinking… tiny?

CALIFORNIA FREEZING • The Arctic. Minus 20°C. Sounds just about perfect for a TopGear minibreak in a VW California. Fire up the auxilliary heater…

RAPID RESPONSE • Ever had a long wait for a recovery van? Not any more. TopGear is about to come to the rescue. With a slightly reduced toolkit…

ALL ABOARD THE MEGA BUS • Whisper it, but there could be an MPV revival underway. Spearheading the renaissance is this, the Li Auto Mega

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BORN TO RUST • Kept under lock and key for decades, Rudi Klein’s collection is the stuff of myth and legend. We take a tour before it crosses the block

The big picture • THREE VEYRONS IN ABU...

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