The Top Gear Magazine Podcast: Recent Episodes
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A peek behind the scenes at what it’s really like to drive other people’s cars for a living. Car chat, interviews, special guests and games – all brought to you from the team behind the world’s favourite car media brand
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Join Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle, Ollie Kew, and Ollie Marriage to find out why we put a new Ford Mustang on a boat to Hawaii, what a silent Lamborghini is like and how we ended up driving one of the world's rarest cars on Europe's best road. Plus we attempt to name the best-looking engines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Well, live-ish. Last week Jack Rix visited the world's poshest car show in California - hundreds of highly-polished classics lined up on the fairway of one of the world's most famous golf courses, plus a load of new concept and production cars... and some top-class people watching. Join him for some car and celeb-spotting around the Pebble Beach Concours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tom Ford recalls the time he drove the world's most reliable car to visit the Great Hungarian Plain, or 'Puszta', and the cowboys, or 'csikósok', that patrol it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Is the BMW M2 a backwards step, or do we need to celebrate its type while we still can? Do Americans secretly love estate cars? Is the life-size Tamiya Wild One Max as nerdy as it sounds? All these questions and more are answered to varying degrees of success by the team behind TopGear Magazine, as they bring you the inside stories from this month's mag. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Love it or loathe it, Lotus’s new electric Eletre SUV will help keep the firm’s balance books in the green. But is it a Lotus in anything but name? We sent Top Gear Magazine’s Tom Ford to Norway to see if Lotus’ Chinese-built EV really topple Tesla? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Time for a throwback feature as Top Gear Magazine's Rowan Horncastle tells the tale of riding shotgun in one of the rawest off-road races on the planet: The Norra 1000. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Swedish Tesla Model 3 rival has been a smash hit for Polestar - Volvo's EV-only, performance-focused sister brand. We answer the internet's most asked questions on one of its most searched for cars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Join Top Gear Magazine's Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle as they guide you around this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed. Pop your headphones in and prepare for an hour-long audio tour that takes in the latest and greatest cars, an impromptu hillclimb in French concept car and a discussion about whether Koenigsegg should make carbon fibre Trunkis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Join Jack Rix, Ollie Kew and Tom Ford for a healthy debate on fast, British GTs. Is the new pure-EV Spectre the best Rolls ever? Is the Bentley Batur more than just a Continental GT in a £2m frock? Also, Jack drives a bone-stock Jeep Wrangler on one of America's gnarliest off-road trails... and lives to tell the tale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Porsche is 75! To celebrate we produced a magazine, free with issue 374, tracking the company's highs and lows from 1948 right up to the present day: the greatest cars, the pivotal moments, the story so far. Here, we attempt to cram three-quarters of a century of automotive history into a 45 minute pod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Are you a fan of small Japanese sports cars? Do you have a frankly unhealthy obsession with the MX-5? Well do we have a holiday idea for you! Ollie Kew recounts the time he stayed in a the Mazda MX-5 themed hotel, aka Miataland... inexplicably located in Italy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lamborghini's Aventador is no more. Having been on sale for over a decade, Sant’Agata’s big V12 supercar is finally being replaced. So is now the time to buy one? And why has the Aventador been such a success? And how much does one cost to rent? In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine Podcast, Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Kew try and answer all your burning Aventador questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Join Jack, Rowan and Ollie for a run through the latest issue of TopGear Magazine. Up for discussion is the Lamborghini Huracan Sterrato, the rise of the Chinese car industry and a 911 dedicated to the devil. Plus, the world's greatest central driving position cars Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Porsche's 75th birthday present to itself... is a new electric hypercar called the Mission X. And we were there in Stuttgart to see the covers come off and gather all the details that matter on this successor to the 918 Spyder, Carrera GT and 959. But why is it brown? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Imagine being given the keys to Lamborghini's entire mid-engine V12 back catalogue - from Miura to Aventador - up in the Italian hills. Well that's precisely what Tom Ford took on recently for our 60 years of Lambo special. We even got a Revuelto along for a photo opp. Surprise, surprise, it wasn't a terrible day Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Golf R is the ultimate Golf. Big exhaust pipes, four-wheel drive, and more blue cabin highlights than a British Airways jet. And you may think the Golf R formula hasn’t changed much over the years, but you'd be wrong. So here's your ultimate guide for the ultimate Golf. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What happens when you hand Christian von Koenigsegg, Gordon Murray, John Hennessey and Mate Rimac a drink, some random topics and hit the record button? Well, you have yourself a conversation for the history books. Strap your brain in as Top Gear Magazine’s Jack Rix referees the biggest names in fast car making as they debate the biggest topics in motoring right now.
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Another story behind a story from the TopGear archive. This time, Jack Rix recalls when he recreated the Bandit's beer run from Atlanta to Texarkana in a Trans Am homage
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Time to answer the internet's most asked questions on the world's most iconic sports car... the Porsche 911
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Join Jack, Rowan, Ollie Marriage and Ollie Kew as they discuss the 23 new cars that matter in 2023. Featuring the Hyundai Ioniq 6, VW ID.Buzz, Porsche 911 Dakar and more
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Ever wondered what it would be like to shoot the world's most outrageous hypercar with a £75k large format analogue camera? Well wonder no more! Paul Horrell headed to Italy to photograph the latest Pagani with the latest Pagani camera... and things didn't go exactly to plan.
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The first in a new series of bonus pods that brings the best stories from the TopGear archive back to life, and tells you what really went on. First up, that time Ollie Marriage went hunting for dinosaur fossils in Mongolia, in an Infiniti. As you do
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Join Chris in conversation with Top Gear Magazine's Jack Rix where they discuss how the FL5 Type R stacks up to its predecessors, where it sits in the pantheon of hot hatch greats, and potential death of the hot hatch category all together.
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In first in a new series of pods we answer the internet's most asked questions on one of the world's most multi-talented cars...
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Rowan and Jack sit down with Romain Dumas - the man who's broken records at Pikes Peak and Goodwood, won at the 24hrs of Nürburgring, Spa and Le Mans, and now has his sights set on Dakar glory
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It’s that time of year again when we name the finest automobiles on planet earth and adorn them with a TG rosette. Yep, the votes have been counted, the arguments have simmered down and the results are in. Unsurprisingly, the class of ’22 is an absolute belter, with everything from single-seater fan cars to retro EV buses, and off-road supercars to trusty hot hatches.
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Remember when people were up in arms about Ford putting a four-cylinder turbo in the Mustang? Well, now they're really stoking the fire by plonking a Mustang face on their new electric SUV. But will Chris' opinion on it surprise you?
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Join Top Gear Magazine's Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle for a stroll around the 2022 Los Angeles Motor Show. Discover their impressions on the Porsche 911 Dakar, the new and surprisingly good looking Toyota Prius and find out why the death of the traditional motor show is near.
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Join Chris in conversation with Top Gear magazine's Jack Rix where they discuss their first impressions of the One when news broke out back in 2017, the incredible engineering feat of making a Formula 1 engine work inside a street-legal hypercar, and compare the noise to an Aston Martin Valkyrie.
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We're all feeling the financial pinch, fortunately TG is here to help. Four sub £30k cars, £300 for food, bed and fuel and a very wet Wales to play in. Find out what really happened on the affordable fun road trip. Plus Chris Harris on the new GT3 RS and why Ford killed the Fiesta.
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Join Chris in conversation with Jack Rix, where they talk about driving a near-2000bhp, pure-electric, Croatian hypercar - as hooned by Chris in the first episode of the new series of the TopGear TV show. Listen to Chris' thoughts here, then head to BBC iPlayer to watch the power test in all its smokey glory
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Chris Harris talks Jack Rix through the cars that impressed him most from 2021. From the Porsche 911 GT3 through to the Lamborghini Huracán STO, the Ferrari SF90 Stradale and the McLaren 765LT. And the things that haven't impressed him? Well, you'll have to listen to find out.
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Speed Week is Top Gear Magazine’s annual hunt for the greatest new performance car in the world, this year taking place at Autodrom Most in the Czech Republic. Jack and Rowan are joined by Ollie Marriage and Tom Ford to discuss the behind the scenes, warts and all story of what it takes to pull off the most ambitious performance car test in the world.
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Speed Week is Top Gear Magazine’s annual hunt for the greatest new performance car in the world. But can you guess this year’s contenders purely from the sounds they make? Jack Rix plays quizmaster, Ollie Kew and Ollie Marriage do the guessing. Volumes up!
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Join Chris in conversation with Top Gear Magazine’s Jack Rix, where they discuss Tesla's stainless steel wedge of a pick-up truck. Will it ever actually make production? Chris has his doubts...
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Join Chris in conversation with Top Gear Magazine’s Jack Rix, where they discuss Ford’s hybrid WRC contender, the current state of rallying, electrification in motorsport, and the ultimate racecar garage.
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In this month’s episode we’re talking about whether AMG’s F1-engined hypercar, the ONE, actually works, why is Aston Martin struggling again, and we pay a visit to the freak show to discuss the new 911 GT3 RS, Ariel Hipercar and McLaren Solus GT.
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Join Chris in conversation with Top Gear Magazine’s Jack Rix, where they discuss why Maserati is an unkillable brand, what the new MC20 is like to drive, why you would buy one over a Ferrari, and what the greatest Maserati of all time is and why.
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What would happen if you took a classic 911 and made it as light as humanly possible? This is Tuthill’s answer - an all-carbon, high revving, featherweight designed for maximum fun on the road. Here’s the full story behind an engineering exercise… that got a bit out of hand
Over 40 years since the DMC12 launched, there’s a new Delorean on the way. Alpha5 is a 2+2 electric coupe with gullwing doors, but (shockingly) no stainless steel panels. We quiz the new boss on how Delorean got here, what the future holds and whether a flux capacitor is on the options list…
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Dario Franchitti has a glittering racing CV and one of the coolest jobs in the car world right now – development driver for the GMA T.50. We discuss how the job came about, what Gordon’s really like to work for and what the T.50 – Murray’s spiritual successor to the McLaren F1 – is really like to drive
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Mate Rimac is only 34 years old, but is already one of the biggest names in the car business… and a certified genius. We talk about how he juggles his time, how he fought hard to stop Bugatti going all-electric, why the Bolide will blow our minds and reveals if he could only ever drive one car for the rest of his life, it would be a BMW M5.
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In this episode we're celebrating 75 years of speed, noise and red paint as it's Ferrari's birthday. Instead of simply blowing out some candles on a Prancing Horse cake, we’re talking about the top 5 Ferraris EVER, breaking a lap record at Fiorano, why petrol is so expensive and the top 9 delayed cars.
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Chris Harris chats to Top Gear Magazine’s Jack Rix about the all-new Lotus Emira, comparing it to rivals such as the Porsche Cayman. Plus, Chris talks about his first-ever experiences with Geely, the Chinese car giant that acquired Lotus back in 2017.
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Chris Harris speaks plainly to Top Gear magazine's Jack Rix about some of the latest SUVs and off-roaders. Expect no-nonsense views on the BMW X6, Porsche Cayenne, Ford Bronco, Mercedes G-Wagen and Ineos Grenadier as well as on how the new Land Rover Defender compares with the old model. As for electric pick-ups, well, no spoilers on what Harris thinks of the F-150 Lightning, Rivian R1T and Hummer EV.
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For this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, we took our microphones with us and shoved them in the faces of some of the most powerful and interesting people behind the most exciting cars in the world. In this limited series you’ll hear from seven of them. Thomas Ingenlath, the designer turned CEO of Volvo's rapidly expanding electric performance off-shoot, Polestar, is next in the firing line.
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For this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, we took our microphones with us and shoved them in the faces of some of the most powerful and interesting people behind the most exciting cars in the world. In this limited series you’ll hear from seven of them. Catie Munnings, rally driver extraordinaire and TG Mag contributor (although we've never met her until now) is up next.
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For this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, we took our microphones with us and shoved them in the faces of some of the most powerful and interesting people behind the most exciting cars in the world. In this limited series you’ll hear from six of them. With Singer’s CEO, Rob Dickinson, being our latest microphone victim.
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For this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, we took our microphones with us and shoved them in the faces of some of the most powerful and interesting people behind the most exciting cars in the world. In this limited series you’ll hear from seven of them. This one was recorded in front of a live audience on Lotus’ Goodwood stand, and this man - the 2006 F1 world champ - needs no introduction…
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For this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, we took our microphones with us and shoved them in the faces of some of the most powerful and interesting people behind the most exciting cars in the world. In this limited series you’ll hear from six of them. This one being the incredibly brainy CEO of Koenigsegg, Christian von Koenigsegg.
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In this month’s episode we’re talking about supercar road trip heaven, clinging on to Hennessey’s F5 Venom and the Top 9 UK forbidden fruits. Plus there’s all the usual killer filler; including what we’ve got in the issue, Paul Horrell on hybridisation and service station selfie sticks.
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For this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, we took our microphones with us and shoved them in the faces of some of the most powerful and interesting people behind the most exciting cars in the world. In this limited series you’ll hear from them. This time, it’s the fastest man up the Goodwood hillclimb ever, Max Chilton.
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For this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, we took our microphones with us and shoved them in the faces of some of the most powerful and interesting people behind the most exciting cars in the world. In this limited series you’ll hear from six of them. Starting with Lamborghini’s CEO, Stephan Winkelmann.
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For this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, we took our microphones with us and shoved them in the faces of some of the most powerful and interesting people behind the most exciting cars in the world. In this limited series you’ll hear from six of them.
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Woah, Red Bull’s Advanced Technologies division has announced that it will design, develop and build a brand-new hypercar that will deliver the “ultimate on-track driving experience”. This sounds very special indeed. The new hypercar will be called the RB17 and of course the design comes from the mind of Adrian Newey – the man behind many of the greatest F1 cars ever built and the original creator of the Aston Martin Valkyrie. To find out more about this mad project, Jack and Rowan sat down with both Red Bull’s Christian Horner and Adrian Newey.
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Classics. Restomods. Replicas. Continuations. All have the gorgeous vintage looks, but each is fundamentally different under the skin. Chris Harris and Top Gear Magazine editor Jack Rix discuss the differences of things like the Alfaholics GTA-R, Eagle Lightweight GT and GTO Engineering's recreation of the Ferrari 250 SWB.
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In this month’s episode we’re talking American EV pick-up trucks, the Slow, Loud and Banging scene in Houston, and the new Nissan Z… or should that be Zeee? Plus there’s all the usual filler, including what we’ve been driving, Paul Horrell on finance acronyms and the Top 9 wide-arched cars.
Chris Harris joins Top Gear Magazine Editor Jack Rix to discuss the new Tesla Model S 'Plaid' - a revision of the Model S with 1100bhp, a 0-60 time under two seconds, and a steering wheel suspiciously devoid of its roundness.
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By 2030 every Rolls-Royce will be electric... but the ice cool Spectre is the first. In this bonus episode, Jack heads to the Arctic Circle to have a passenger ride and interview the RR's big boss, Torsten Müller-Ötvös.
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Despite the different design philosophies behind the two cars, the Gordon Murray T.50 and the Aston Martin Valkyrie are always going to draw comparisons. Both house Cosworth V12s behind their driver cell. Both will cost well into the millions of pounds. And both are... well, really rather special. So here's Chris Harris talking Top Gear Magazine's Jack Rix through his opinions on both machines.
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Strap in, as this month we’re chatting about a royal mission in the new Range Rover, why the new V12 Vantage is a bit confused and a rather nerdy discussion on forced induction.
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With Ferrari's first ever SUV on the horizon, we check in with Chris Harris to get his opinion on Ferrari's future, and whether this new high-riding Fezza is going to be warmly received by Chris... or not.
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This month we’re chatting about the Topgear.com Electric Awards, driving the VW ID. Buzz and why the Porsche GT4 RS is a 10/10 car. Plus, Marques Brownlee joins us to discuss all things American EVs and we argue about fan cars.
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Chris Harris and Top Gear Magazine Editor Jack Rix discuss the future of the 911. Will it even exist? Will it go electric? Is there a future for internal-combustion? Let's find out...
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In this episode we’re talking about Gran Turismo 7, getting in the way at a pre-season F1 test and why the Ferrari 296 GTB is a 10/10 car. Plus, all you need to know about the chip shortage and new Lotus Emira.
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Chris Harris sits down with Jack Rix - Editor of Top Gear Magazine - to chat about the upcoming all-electric, reimagined Renault 5. Is utilising the back catalogue demonstrative of an imagination deficit, or should it be plundered at will? Let's find out.
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This month we’re dishing out the dirt on the Dakar rally, hearing Gordon Murray call the 911 GT3’s engine delicious and wondering how long it will be until your car can drive you back from the pub.
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From the Aston Martin Valkyrie and the BMW M3 Touring to V6 hybrid supercars and the VW ID. Buzz: Top Gear magazine's Jack Rix finds out which cars Chris Harris is most looking forward to driving in 2022 and which leave him feeling a little bit, er, deflated...
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In this episode we’re talking about actually driving off-roaders off-road, espionage in a Genesis G70 Shooting Brake and why we love a good Wankel. Plus, we argue about the world’s greatest go-faster stripes.
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Tesla Model 3. Honda E. BMW i3. Peugeot e-208. The electric cars keep on coming, and it's fair to say there are many, many questions about the practicalities of all-electric motoring. And in this half hour interview with Graeme Cooper from the National Grid, there are many, many answers.
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In this episode we’re chatting about driving a tiny Hyundai across the Outback, almost crashing a £2m Pininfarina Battista… and how Tesla became so big. Plus, John Hennessey joins us to talk 2,000bhp six-wheeled EVs and we try and rattle off the greatest Nurburgring cars of all time.
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Chris Harris talks to Slow Horses star Gary Oldman about EVs, first cars and fast cars - namely his Chuck Beck replica of a 550 Spyder. Oldman chats about giving his son driving lessons in a Porsche Cayenne, the other vintage car he has in his garage and why taking on the role of Jackson Lamb was quite a grubby experience.
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In this episode we’re discussing what it’s like driving a Ferrari 812 Competizione at Fiorano, a Bugatti Super Sport on the Nurburgring and our hydrogen future. Plus, Andy Wallace joins us to talk all things going really flipping fast and when is a GT not a GT?
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A peek behind the scenes at what it’s really like to drive other people’s cars for a living. Car chat, interviews, special guests and games – all brought to you from the team behind the world’s favourite car media brand
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