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Everything you need to know about cars this week: 12 Apr '20
Reviews of the new 911 Turbo and Audi RS4, plus how to get your copy of TG mag delivered
Change Our Mind #3: Nürburgring lap times are great
"Nürburgring lap times divide car folk like little else. They split hardcore petrolheads - the sort who normally agree entirely on matters such as manual gearboxes (good) and digital dials (bad) - right down the middle."
Advertisement - Page continues belowThis is a 650bhp carbon Lamborghini Huracán Evo
"How best to out-Evo a Lamborghini Huracán Evo? More power, and a load more carbon fibre. Which, incidentally, is exactly what 1016 Industries has done to Lamborghini’s baby supercar."
Here are the 10 best ever Formula 1 drivers
"He’s still winning races and breaking records, so it may seem a little premature to be venerating Lewis. On the other hand… he’s still winning races and breaking records. With Mercedes once again looking like the team to beat, we fully expect 2020 – whenever it actually starts – to be the season in which Lewis equals and most likely eclipses Michael Schumacher’s record of 91 GP wins."
Advertisement - Page continues belowOH GOD ELECTRIC FLYING CAR RACING MIGHT HAPPEN*
"If we had tails, they’d be wagging. A company called Alauda has announced it is one step closer to developing a revolutionary new motorsport series that is taking up far too much of our current thought process than necessary."
Which retro-liveried McLaren Elva is for you?
"We’re not sure how you’re occupying yourself right now. But McLaren, as is all the rage nowadays, has been relieving its stresses via some grown-up colouring in. Specifically of its Elva speedster."
ABT’s 730bhp RS6-R is everything we need in life
"Just 125 examples of the RS6-R will be built, and power certainly isn’t the be all and end all of the modifications. Under the skin there’s a new suspension setup that includes ABT coilovers and anti-roll bars, and then there’s that stainless-steel exhaust to let everyone in the vicinity know what’s what."
Six things you need to know about the Hyundai Prophecy
"The Hyundai Prophecy – which was supposed to be revealed at last month’s Geneva Motor Show but, erm, wasn’t – might look like an old Porsche 911, but it’s actually inspired by swoopy vintage cars of the Twenties and Thirties."
Advertisement - Page continues belowCheck out this gorgeously retro BMW R18
"Retro BMWs brighten up everyone’s day, right? But rather than show you another delightfully restored E30 M3 or hark back once again to the M1 supercar, this is a brand new retro BMW. With too few wheels."
Audi Quattro vs RS Q3: how fast 4x4s have changed
"Is this really what 40 years of progress looks like? It’d appear so. When Audi launched the Quattro in 1980, it had a tough time convincing people that a four-wheel-drive sports car bore no relation to a jumped-up off-roader. Now, a worrying proportion of the quick cars it sells are proudly 4x4-shaped."
Advertisement - Page continues belowReview: Kia Soul EV
"Good news: it’s like an e-Niro, only a bit more interesting."
What car would you put this 1,340bhp electric motor into?
"HyperPower says it’s the world’s first extreme-duty performance electric motor and that its power to mass ratio is revolutionary. It also says the motor has been designed with future transport systems such as a hyperloop or electric light rail in mind."
Charles Leclerc has won the Vietnamese Grand Prix*
"Last weekend was supposed to be the inaugural Vietnamese Grand Prix, but because that track isn’t in F1 2019, the virtual GP was held at Australia’s Albert Park instead. Besides Leclerc and Russell, other current F1 drivers to compete included Alex Albon, Antonio Giovinazzi and Nicholas Latifi."
This is the very first racing Volkswagen Golf
"As sunshine follows rain, and fifteen minutes of Instagram follows five minutes of hard work, if you give humans a road car, someone will eventually strip it down in order to race it around a track. And what you see above is patient zero of racing Volkswagen Golfs: the world’s first Golf with known racing history from new."
The Audi RS3 Nardo is a 174mph saloon
"This is a fast Audi, and it is called the RS3 Nardo edition. Judging by how popular these things are, merely whispering ‘Fast Audi’ will do the trick."
Seven things you never knew about the Polestar 2
"It should come as no surprise that Polestar’s first EV is a bit of a Volvo. It shares the ‘Compact Modular Architecture’ platform with the XC40 SUV, which has been on sale for over two years already and is getting its own battery-electric version."
Ford built a mid-engined Mustang…but can’t remember it
"You’d think Ford would remember building such a thing. Only it doesn’t. Ever since Weber discovered those photographs, dated May 1966, Ford has been desperately trying to find someone, anyone, who knows what the hell this thing is."
PSA: apparently the plural of Lotus is Lotus
"Sounds odd, doesn’t it? But if that’s what the grammar pedants in Norfolk want, that’s what they shall have, however wrong it may sound and actually be."
Review: Porsche 911 Turbo S
"The mighty 992 Turbo S climbs back to the top of the class."
#TopGearChallenge One: Engineering
"Your task is to make a car from bits and pieces you find around the house – the more creative the better. Your car can be the size of your sofa or as small as your hand, but MUST only be constructed using things you’ve found in your house: a yoghurt-pot monocoque, camembert gearbox and pipe-cleaner suspension, that kind of thing."
Feeling brave? This is a £10k, 320,000-mile Alpina B10
"Now, there are reasons for that low estimate of course. The main one being that this particular B10 has covered almost 320,000 miles during the course of its 33-year life. That is seriously impressive, and a doff of our cap must go to its first owner - businessman Sir Thomas Cowie – who bought it new and kept the car until his death in 2012. "
Caterham Super Seven 1600 review: retro lighweight tested
"Let’s get the lols out the way first, shall we? Yes, this is a brand-new Caterham. Hysterical joke isn’t it? Looks like every other Caterham… which looks like a car from the 1950s. Boo-hoo, ha-ha! Get all your belly laughs out now. But this one is different."
The beginner’s guide to Toyota
"Toyota started as an incorporated business in 1937, but it had already started making cars back in 1936 as a subsidiary of a textile company. As you do. And no, these cars weren’t made from flax or anything like that – in fact, they were eerily similar to the American and European cars of the time. Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery and all that."
Review: Audi RS4
"This reworked RS4 shows how committed RS GmbH is to creating cars of real character. A bit uptight, mind."
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