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It’s a long time since Cadillac built a luxury car that could challenge the world’s best, but in the Celestiq it has such a vehicle.

That first week back at work after New Year often feels like a particularly slow grind. Not so for Defender on the 2026 Dakar Rally.

In 2024, The Stig set a stunning lap time at the Top Gear Test Track in unhinged Ford’s SuperVan 4.2, catapulting it into fourth place overall, behind only open-wheeled Formula cars and the mad

The Dakar Rally. It’s the roughest, toughest and most brutal rally-raid on the planet. And now Defender wants in.

We’re taking a look forward at all the incredible cars coming this year including everything from 2000hp hypercars to 1000hp hypercars, plus $20,000 pick-up trucks, brands being brought back from

Red Bull’s RB17 hypercar promises lap times equivalent to F1.

Here’s a blast from the past! Over 20 years ago the Mercedes SLR McLaren was hustled round the Top Gear Test Track by The Stig, but now McLaren’s special MSO division has been tinkering with it.

One minute, fourteen seconds, point eight. Or 1:14.8. Either way, that’s the top-20 lap time set in 2024 by The Stig in the Porsche 992 GT3 RS.

2025 is nearly at an end, and to celebrate we’re counting down our top 25 highest viewed videos of the year.

Join us for a rundown of Top Gear Magazine’s favourite supercar and hypercar films of 2025 – from the fastest Koenigsegg ever, to the Bugatti Bolide, Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale and most powerful

Sand, heat and 5,000 miles of pain for all involved – this is why Defender has signed up for motorsport’s maddest adventure: The Dakar Rally.

Stig Laps are back!

This is the new Ferrari Amalfi – and it turns out it’s more than just a Prius/Prelude/platypus-inspired facelift of the Ferrari Roma!

This is the ultimate American grudge match: Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 vs Ford Mustang GTD.

Meet the Defender D7X-R – a Dakar Rally racer born from the standard Defender Octa and set for the toughest test in Defender’s history: the Dakar Rally.

The first ever TopGear.com U.S. Car Awards are here! Celebrating the greatest new vehicles in the U.S. market right now, we’ve crowned the best Car, Truck, SUV and Supercar.

This is the new Toyota GR GT, a Gazoo Racing-badged supercar.

Lotus is currently chasing financial stability in the guise of two-tonne EVs, but along has come a ‘remastered’ Esprit supercar to remind us why we loved the British company and its lightweight cars

At Top Gear’s recent Performance Car of the Year test, we happened to have three V12 supercars, the Ferrari 12Cilindri, Lamborghini Revuelto and Aston Martin Vanquish.

In late 2024 we pitted the then-new Toyota Land Cruiser 250 (aka Prado) against the Land Rover Defender, Mercedes G-Class and Ineos Grenadier.

Welcome to the 2026 TopGear.com Awards, our annual event where we hand out honours to the new cars that have impressed and excited us most over the past 12 months.

Occasionally, out of nowhere, comes a new car from a fledgling company that blows us away.

It’s time for Top Gear’s annual Performance Car Of the Year test, and in 2025 we headed to the wonderful Autódromo Internacional do Algarve (aka Portimão) in southern Portugal, together with a dozen

This is the new Porsche Cayenne, a bespoke electric SUV that will be sold alongside the existing petrol-powered Cayenne.

The Land Rover Defender Octa might be the ultimate all-rounder, able to handle roads, the rough stuff and even the racetrack – and in January 2026 it’ll head to the Dakar Rally to prove its mettle

This is the new Supersports version of the Continental GT, which Bentley claims is its most driver-focused model ever.

Ferrari’s Purosangue re-wrote the rulebook on super SUVs, so how does Aston Martin’s newly lightened and enhanced DBX S stack up against it?

Hyundai re-wrote the EV rulebook with the Ioniq 5 N, using fake gears and fake engine sounds to make an electric car truly entertaining. Can that same tech in the 6 N deliver the goods again?

Every vacation road trip has the spectre of not getting your hire-car deposit back at the end – but what if you’ve worked your rental hard and made a bit of a mess?

Imagine there's been a zombie apocalypse, and you’ve survived, thanks to having an armoured car at hand – but what would it take to clean up all the mess afterwards…?