New issue out now: TG drives the Porsche 911 Dakar

Getting some face time with any one of these industry giants is a huge opportunity, hard earned. Getting John Hennessey, Gordon Murray, Mate Rimac and Christian von Koenigsegg together at the same time, in the same place... yeah, good luck with that one.

And yet, through dogged determination, the juicy carrot/potential deterrent of a night out with us at the TopGear.com awards and some sizable planet alignment, there we were, on the top floor of a pub next to TG HQ. Editor Jack, squeezed into his wedding suit, fumbling in the golden tombola of topics, perched opposite four of the world’s most influential men in shaping what the high performance car did, does and will do in the future. It was quite the scoop.

You can read all about this once-in-a-lifetime pub chat by picking up the all-new March issue of Top Gear magazine. Click here to order a single copy with delivery direct to your door.

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It’s not just car chats in this month’s issue though. We also took the new BMW M3 Touring to meet some St Bernards in Switzerland and tested the bonkers Porsche 911 Dakar on both sand and snow, because off-road supercars are for go not show…

But that’s not all – there’s also our big group test that pits the new Honda Civic Type R against its rivals, a deep dive into the Porsche Vision 357 concept and Chris Harris pays tribute to Gymkhana pioneer, professional rally driver and all-round hero Ken Block.