Top Gear mag's greatest adventures of 2015

The three most wanted hybrid hypercars on the planet, tested together for the first time anywhere in the world. Same roads, same days, same drivers.

"I’ve been working on this for months, and to actually be here with the team about to drive the three most technologically advanced cars on the planet, on sublime roads, is the stuff the dreams are made of.

By Charlie Turner, Tom Ford and Ollie Marriage

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Does Crewe's 530bhp super-limo make for a decent luxury alligator pen?

"The Everglades, it has to be said, are chock-full of biting things. Things that crawl, slither, swim and fly through the swampland of southern Florida, all intent - apparently - upon feasting on imported British flesh. The only place to escape from such carnivorousness is to jump into the car, in this case the new Mulsanne Speed, Bentley's über-limo, a giant burnt-orange behemoth that represents the Crewe firm's new range-topper."

By Tom Ford

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Is the Son Of Freelander a proper off-roader, or urban pretender? We search for answers. In a bothy

"We haven’t seen another car or human in two hours, since we swung off the tarmac somewhere near Pitlochry and began wending our way up a rutted, stony dirt track high into the hills, bumping over tumbling streams, inching our way down scree slopes and fording rivers to arrive, eventually, at this spot, so distant from civilisation that it makes The Shining’s Overlook Hotel seem virtually suburban."

By Sam Philip

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A small British hatch. The driest, wildest place on Earth. What could go wrong?

"The Atacama requires a car fit for overtaking, and we had one: the new Mini Cooper S five-door. A fizzy little lump of turbo'd Britishness with, mercifully, a more than healthy turn of pace when you're attempting to thread a needle between two lorries with a closing speed of some 150mph. True, a gentrified little Brit hatch might seem an oddball choice for the Chilean wilds, but this little Cooper was to be the final piece in a strange, cross-continental story stretching back 50 years."

By Sam Philip

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12 hours to get from Stuttgart to Dunsfold. Paul Horrell races through the night

"The grey Porsche factory in Stuttgart glows shades of peach under the sun's evening rays as the security guard hands me the key to a Cayman GT4. My 12-hour clock starts ticking. An all-nighter will see us across to England via autobahns, back roads, forested hills and open plains. Tomorrow morning, the gates to the TopGear track will unlock, and with them, this car's Porsche Motorsport soul will open wide."

By Paul Horrell

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What better way to tackle one of the world's busiest, oddest cities than in our favourite new kei car?

"After a day of soaking up Tokyo’s sights and sounds inside its cosy little cabin, I feel I must encourage you to start knocking up the placards of protest now. Every city needs cars like this."

By Stephen Dobie

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Tom Ford has just 24 hours with Lambo's ultimate V12. Better not waste a second

"I want to dislike the SV. Because it’s daft, and uncomfortable, and a bit uncouth, both visually and to drive. But I can’t. It’s not new age, or next generation, not filled with tech tricks and the newest of fangles. It’s an Aventador wound up to a bit past 11, for those people who just like a little bit more."

By Tom Ford

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Tom Ford takes on the endless Arctic tundra in a most inappropriate vehicle

"Here we are. At the top end of Alaska, attempting to verify the little Mazda’s intrepid credentials by doing something ridiculously rugged. Of course, it’s largely pointless, because you either get the idea of the MX-5 or you don’t, but I happen to believe that brilliance isn’t necessarily allied to scariness, that you don’t need to buy cars exclusively using the currency of testosterone, and that the friendly little Mazda is more than capable of delivering proper sports-car fun no matter what the environment."

By Tom Ford

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Dan Read goes fishin' in Britain's most patriotic aquatic car

"Is there anywhere the Defender can’t go? Over the years it has conquered the jungles of Borneo, the swamps of Central America, the deserts of Africa, the dunes of Arabia, the frozen tundra of northern Russia and pretty much the entire Australian outback. And the mountains of Afghanistan with three English housewives on board. And that’s just the abbreviated list."

By Dan Read

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From London to the frozen Arctic in BMW's revolutionary sports hybrid. What could go wrong?

"A crisp seven-degree chill greets me as I pocket my Oyster card and exit the tube in west London. I'm making the most of it. I've just completed the first tiny hop in a mammoth 1,500-mile journey, and the destination will be a tad parkier than seven Celsius. The plan is to drive TopGear's long-term BMW i8 from the office to Kall in the Swedish midlands, and rendezvous in icy Scandinavia with a smörgåsbord of cars for our TG Sub Zero spectacular."

By Ollie Kew

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