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Everything you need to know about cars this week: 23 Feb '20
The Czinger is finally revealed, plus much new metal set to debut at Geneva
The Pagani Imola ain’t pretty but it is fast. And sold out
"You know when a Pagani is reaching retirement when the track-focused mega-specials start to arrive. It happened with the Zonda, and now it’s the Huayra’s turn. Except for this new ultra-Pagani, it’s not even called the Huayra. Welcome to the world of the Pagani Imola."
Advertisement - Page continues belowCome inside the shiny new factory building the 2,000bhp Lotus Evija
"Lotus gets a lot of stick for ‘building its cars in a field in Norfolk’, but that’s never stopped it producing some of the most iconic – and best handling – sports cars of all time. Esprit. Elise. Evora. It’s quite the CV. And now, the jokes may stop once and for all. Because this is Hethel, Norfolk’s latest tool in the supercar arms race. Welcome to the factory where the 1,972bhp Evija electric hypercar will be built."
Review: Chevrolet Corvette Stingray
"Chevrolet has been talking about building a mid-engined Corvette for years – decades even – but we’ve had to wait until 2020 for the idea, the dream, the concept, to become a production reality."
Advertisement - Page continues belowThe Aston Martin Valkyrie won’t race at Le Mans after all
"Aston Martin has postponed plans to run the Valkyrie in the World Endurance Championship, and thus next year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, citing a decision to grant IMSA prototypes entry into the WEC from the 2021/22 season."
This man has driven his 911 Turbo 1.2 million kms
"This, dear readers, is what commitment looks like. In 1976 Canadian businessman Bill MacEachern took delivery of a brand-new Porsche 911 Turbo. Rather than lock it away in the hope it might gain value, or use it only sparingly at weekends, MacEachern decided to drive it. Lots. 44 years of almost daily use has seen it rack up an astonishing 779,000 miles. And it’s still going strong."
This mad motorbike desperately wants to be a car
"It’s the creation of crazy French motorbike and car fabricator, Lazareth. Technically, it is a quadbike. But with the wheels sandwiched so close together, they act more like a single wheel – meaning you can lean it into corners like a traditional motorbike. But four wheels equal cars, to us simpletons."
Cupra’s WTCR and eTCR cars look the business
"Welcome to Seat… AHEM, Cupra’s new touring cars. Based (we suspect quite loosely) on the new Cupra Leon, the black/copper-coloured car, which has an actual engine, will compete in the WTCR series alongside racy versions of the Audi A3, VW Golf and so-on. The white/blue car, meanwhile, has no engine – it’s been built to compete in the new all-electric eTCR series which, after a few trial events this year, starts proper in 2021."
Advertisement - Page continues belowVolkswagen has made an interesting looking van
"There’ll be a normal panel van, a passenger-focused people carrier and a campervan, too. A campervan that’ll be wee enough – and therefore fast enough – to not create a string of traffic traversing most of the British countryside when there’s the first semblance of a summer. Given how much we like VW’s bigger California, we’re shamelessly excited for a fun-size version."
The Honda Civic Type R is now 'subtle' or ‘lightweight’
"There are not one but two new Honda Civic Type Rs, people. Meet the Civic Type R Sport Line, and Civic Type R Limited Edition. Or, as they’ll forever be known, the subtle one, and the stripped-out one."
Advertisement - Page continues belowThe Mk8 VW Golf GTI has lots of headlights
"Oh, and the option of a full-width LED light bar connecting the headlights, taking the total number of lights on the front of the new GTI to a whopping 13. The Nissan Juke can only aspire to such impressive levels of forward illumination."
The Czinger 21C is a 1,233bhp 3D-printed hypercar
"We’ve seen the teasers, we’ve grappled with the name (silent C, pronounce it like the tower burger) now, at last, Czinger is ready to divulge all the good stuff on its 21C hypercar. And the big news is it’s 3D printed. Well, large sections of the chassis are, paving the way for a revolutionary new car manufacturing process that could change… everything."
Video: how to 3D-print a hypercar
The Czinger 21C is a 1,233bhp hypercar complete with a turbo V8 revving to 11,000rpm, a 1+1 layout and $1.7m price tag. Oh, and the big news is it’s 3D-printed. Well, large sections are, paving the way for a revolutionary new car manufacturing process that could change everything.
TGTV preview: Chris Harris drives the Volkswagen ID R
An all-electric, 4WD one-off built to rewrite the record books. A battery powered racer that corners so hard, it causes drivers to black out. Chris Harris is a man with his own pair of race gloves, and thus was ordered to test the ID-R to its very limits – and indeed his own.
The new Cupra Leon isn’t a Seat, but it is a hybrid
"Powering the deliciously Eighties lo-drag aero wheels is a 1.4-litre turbo four-cylinder engine, good for 148bhp and 184lb ft. Towards the back, there’s a 13kWH lithium-ion battery, which powers a front-mounted 113bhp e-motor. Together, these sources megazord together to pump out 242bhp and 295lb ft."
Gallery: Top Gear series 28, episode 5
"To celebrate the 100th birthday of the sports car, Paddy, Chris and Freddie take a new Porsche 911, Aston V8 Vantage and Ferrari Portofino on a nice gentle road trip around Yorkshire. Which, somehow, ends with Flintoff crashing a weird lie-down bike thing into the end of an airfield."
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