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Everything you need to know about cars this week: 27 Jan '19
A mean-looking Aston Martin, Bugatti's denial, a supermini drag race and much more
The very first A90 Toyota Supra sold for $2.1m
"What’s the retail on one of those, we hear you cry? Well, considerably more than the actual retail. Ladies and gentlemen, the very, very first brand-new Toyota Supra – that’s the A90 one you might not have heard about – has just sold at auction."
Advertisement - Page continues belowReview: Lexus RC
"Forgettable engine and transmission in a sporty-looking package. A sheep in wolf’s clothing."
Hurrah! The Porsche Cayman GT4 rally car is happening
"Good news! The Porsche Cayman GT4 rally car has definitely made production. After telling Top Gear it needed 100 sales to get the green light, it appears you’ve stepped up and bought them. Well done."
Advertisement - Page continues belowThe Volkswagen ID R wants to set a Nürburgring record
"Well, why not, right? Volkswagen, having already broken the Pikes Peak record, now wants another one: it wants to become the fastest EV at the Nürburgring."
The Vuhl 05RR has better power-to-weight than a Veyron
"Its Ford-sourced 2.0-litre turbo engine now produces a stonking 396bhp, with a new sequential gearbox and a racier clutch and flywheel helping make sense of it all. Vuhl has also cut weight from the already-needs-tying-down-on-windy-days 05, down 65kg at 660kg with the help of some carbon wheels, among other things. You’ll note everything but the tyres appears to be made of carbon."
Acceleration test: Alpine A110 vs Porsche 718 Cayman S
"How’s Alpine meant to compete against the Porsche 718 Cayman, where the base version has 296bhp and the uprated S with its turbocharged 2.5-litre, has 345bhp? That’s almost 100bhp more. And it has over 30 per cent more torque. Game over, before it’s begun?"
Kia Proceed GT and Ceed GT review: 201bhp hot hatch twins tested
"This is the new Proceed, which as you can see, is no longer a three-door coupe-hatch thingy. Kia spotted sales of coupes and three-doors freefalling, and changed tack to make the Proceed into a five-door hatchback shooting brake thingy. Same name, new game."
Advertisement - Page continues belowMick Schumacher has joined the Ferrari Driver Academy
"The 19-year-old was crowned FIA Formula 3 champion in 2018 and will now make the step up to Formula 2 with the help of the Scuderia’s famous young driver programme."
Is this the meanest-looking Aston Martin ever?
"Fifty of these special-edition DBS Superleggeras will be produced – all in black on black, with black wheels shod with Pirelli ‘Colour Edition’ tyres and carbon-fibre accents – to celebrate Aston’s partnership with watchmaker Tag Heuer. As such, every car is supplied with a limited-edition watch. "
Advertisement - Page continues belowThe Aston Martin Valkyrie now comes with a Track Pack
"Aston has announced that road car customers will be offered the option of a Track Performance Pack, claimed to reduce your lap times by eight per cent… assuming you have the skill to get anywhere near the car’s limits."
You'll be able to buy a Honda Urban EV this year
"Enter Honda’s little ray of sunshine, the smiley-faced Urban EV. Easily the coolest small electric car, a proper production car has been confirmed off the back of the concept that won everyone over in 2017."
Video: designing our own Aston Martin Valkyrie
"Imagine you were one of the 150 buyers lucky/rich enough to have a £2.5m Aston Martin Valkyrie on order… we imagine this quite often. Fortunately, Aston invited us along to experience the exact steps every customer will go through when deciding the spec on their 1,100bhp hypercar."
Bugatti will never build an SUV
"In its review of 2018, Bugatti noted that while 'speculation is rife and the time appears to be appropriate, there will be no SUV from Bugatti'."
This is McLaren’s 300mph+ vision for Formula 1 in 2050
"The crystal balls have been out in Woking. McLaren’s Applied Technologies division has now presented its vision of what the sport will look like in just over three decades."
Mercedes-AMG A35 review: S3 and Golf R rival tested
"Hardcore hatches such as the Civic Type R and Focus RS are all well and good, but a larger majority of people want their speed with a measure of style and desirability. That and some ridiculously tempting finance deals were what made the current Golf R such a ballistic success."
TG drag races: VW Up GTI vs Suzuki Swift Sport
"The Volkswagen Up GTI has but 113bhp. The Suzuki Swift Sport? 138bhp. Each weighs just under (SSS) and over (GTI) a tonne. Which one of these excitable pups wins?"
Maserati Levante review: new SUV tested in the UK
"First impressions are good – on its arrival to the TG office car park the frisson of excitement was enough for several members of staff to head down and take a look – you don’t get that very often for a diesel SUV."
VW Golf GTI TCR review: harder edged hot hatch driven
"The engine is fantastic, actually, and a full run through third gear is an experience to savour, boost building strongly from 2,000rpm before a final (and surprisingly vocal) soar to the redline that makes hanging onto every last rev worthwhile."
There’s an awesome Abarth 124 competing in the Monte Carlo Rally
"Abarth announced the rally spec 124 back in 2016 and privateer Enrico Brazzoli has picked the 296bhp, white-wheeled ballet shoe for the tarmac events of this year’s WRC."
It's the future! ROBOTS will park your car at the airport
"No matter how well you think you can park, Stan can do it better."
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