Brand new Top Gear magazine: out now!

Alfa Romeo 4C – the verdict!

Buying an Alfa Romeo is more often a decision made with the heart, not the head. And up here in the Alpine sun, as we stare at the new Alfa 4C, it’s easy to see why. It’s low, wide and muscular – a stunning shape and so very near to perfection. But is the future of Alfa good enough to cast aside old prejudices? This month, Top Gear magazine gives our verdict.

Richard Hammond also gives us his thoughts on the 4C. A man who knows that you’re not a real petrolhead until you’ve owned an Alfa, he is now seriously thinking of making the big step; and we look back at our love affair and passion for Alfa over the decades.

Also this month, we drive the new BMW 4-Series to see whether it can compete with the rivals in its class. And we speak to some very clever people from the Daimler advanced development department about its Mercedes S-Class that has just driven 60 miles in normal traffic – unmanned!

We find out if the new Monza concept can make Vauxhall cool again and pitch the Rolls-Royce Wraith against the Bentley Continental GT and the Range Rover SDV8, in our most luxurious road test ever.

As always, we bring you all the latest motoring news from across the planet and review all the cars that you need to know about.

And, of course, Top Gear magazine is the only place where you can get the intellectual ramblings of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May each and every month.

Free Top Gear Guide to Watches 2013

This month’s issue also comes with a fantastic free supplement – the Top Gear Guide to Watches 2013. Covering all the shiny new watches worth knowing about, the future of timekeeping and some incredible timepieces inspired by Mercedes, Ferrari and Bentley.

Our editor-in-chief, Charlie Turner gets ‘hands-on’ at the Bremont workshop, and we look at the evolution of the ultimate motoring racing watch, the Tag Carrera.

We also visit Detroit, a city that once produced four of every five cars sold in the world, to see how Shinola watches are taking the local workforce’s mechanical expertise and scaling down the production lines to produce some engines of a smaller nature.

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Concepts, more concepts... and velvet Ferraris

In this month’s News section, we take a first glimpse at Caterham’s new AeroSeven concept. The light, involving, deeply, obsessed with power-to-weight road car that Caterham hopes will be the basis for expansion in the coming years.

On the subject of concepts, we check out the Sport Quattro and the Nanuk, recently unveiled by Audi at the Frankfurt motorshow. Moving on to the BMW i8, looking like a concept but already in production, this stunning machine will bring the future a lot closer to the present.

We also look at the new brand of posh crossovers with the Mercedes GLA, Lexus LF-NX and Infiniti Q30. Mercedes introduces us to formidable levels of tech and luxury with the new S-Class Coupe (expect a formidable price tag).

In Planet Top Gear, we get scared by Russia’s insane roads, Hammond drives the iconic Lotus Elan S3, we check out the new animated movie Turbo and Lewis Hamilton takes this month’s Driving Test.

And this month, Jeremy discusses car wrapping (velvet Ferraris and pink Rolls-Royces anyone?), Richard is intent on reviving single horsepower transportation and James tries to improve his much-loved Ferrari 458.

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And that’s not it...

If you want the best in luxury transport, then you need to buy British... Rolls-Royce, Bentley or Range Rover. We bring all three together for without doubt our most opulent road test ever.

The BMW 4-Series has arrived; we send it out to face-off against two of its closest rivals – the Mercedes-Benz C-Class Coupe and Audi A5.

Until recently, self-driving cars were still relatively unthinkable. However, as drivers are waking up to the idea, we’re starting to ask not if, but when. We speak to Mercedes-Benz about its self-driving S-Class that has just driven 60 miles in normal traffic with no driver.

The height of high-performance luxury 34 years ago came in the form of the Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9; we see how the new S63 AMG compares in our double S-Class Generation Game.

Paul Horrell talks to the man tasked with bringing the Griffin back from the brink. Can his Monza concept make Vauxhall cool again?

We also meet Bruce Meyers, the 87-year-old inventor of the Baja 1000 and creator of one of the world’s most iconic cars – the Manx dune buggy.

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First drives and new car reviews

Elsewhere this month, we take a first drive in the new Cherokee to see if it can rekindle our love affair with Jeep. MG (re)enters the cheap and cheerful city-car market with the MG3 3Style. The fleet-buyers’ favourite, the Vauxhall Insignia, has a facelift, and the Volkswagen Group uses its plug-in hybrid system on the Audi A3 e-tron.

At the quicker end of the new arrivals, we check out the fastest Aston Martin ever, the V12 Vantage S; not far behind is the Porsche 911 Turbo and making a good account for itself is the Megane RenaultSport Red Bull Racing.

We also check out the bonkers Twizy RenaultSport F1 (above) – quite possibly the craziest car of 2013.

Also reviewed this month is the Skoda Rapid Spaceback, VW e-Up, Audi A3 Sportback, Vauxhall Corsa Eco, Dacia Sandero Stepway, VW Scirocco GTS and Renault Scenic Xmod.

In the TG Garage this month, we have the BAC Mono, Peugeot 208 GTi, Subaru BRZ, Mazda CX-5, Jaguar XF Sportbrake, Fiat Panda 4x4, Fiat 500e, Lexus GS, BMW 3GT, Jaguar F-Type, Clio RenaultSport and Ford Fiesta ST.

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