Ferrari has issued an official recall for its 458 Italia following a spate of fires that destroyed a handful of cars.Speaking to TopGear.com, a Ferrari spokesman said the company had investigated the five reported incidents of spontaneous fires in the 458, and traced the problem to materials in the  Read More →

One car burnt to a crisp can be put down to an accident.Two… it’s a bit of a coincidence. Ten? This is getting ridiculous… another red Ferrari 458 Italia is exterminated by fire, this one in Costa Mesa, California. The cause? Engine bay fire. Just like the one in the video below, in China…  Read More →

You will hear a lot of talk in the world of motoring about cars which "handle like a go-kart", blah-blah-blah…Well, we’re guessing this bit of Gran Turismo 5 actually does handle like a go-kart. Because, well, it is a go-kart.The latest episode in the ongoing saga of Gran Turismo 5 is this little  Read More →

It’s come a long way, baby; this is the first fully functional prototype of the 41kW Arash AF-10 supercar.Conceived by Arash Farboud and announced way back in 2006, this working model of the long-awaited AF-10 features a 7.0-litre Corvette V8 and quite a lot of weapons-grade tech. See more pics of  Read More →

Despite pouring more concrete in the last ten years than the rest of the world combined, China just can’t build roads fast enough to cope with its exploding middle-class aspirations. As a result, this jam on the Beijing-Tibet Expressway is entering its 11th day. Tailing back about 100km, thousands  Read More →

All this month on topgear.com, we’ve been featuring a list of what we perceive to be the 100 sexiest cars of all time. Not the fastest, or the most powerful, or even the most significant, but the sexiest – those cars that, as James May Esq would put it, get you all a bit fizzy. No doubt you’ll agre  Read More →

This is apparently what a 800kW, $10 million Aston Martin hypercar looks like. An undisclosed coachbuilder – together with a company which builds electric golf-carts – is planning on building eight Aston Martin ‘Super Sports’ models.See more pictures of the Aston Martin Super SportsEach will a  Read More →

Big News for Small Cars, TopGearers – the Peel P50 is making a comeback.The diminutive wonder was given a big boost after Dragon’s Den star James Caan pledged a massive investment to Peel Engineering’s new owners for a relaunch.Entrepreneurs Faizal Khan and Gary Hillman bought Peel Engineering a cou  Read More →

Jaguar is throwing the mother of all parties this year and has decked out the XJ in the automotive equivalent of the Little Black Dress.Dubbed the Jaguar XJ75 Platinum Concept, this one-off was built to showcase the customisation potential of the luxury four-door. See more pics of the XJ75 Platinum  Read More →

If you’ve been anxiously watching the web for the latest on Kyle Sandiland’s new girlfriend, you may have missed this little nugget…The Internet’s automotive cognoscenti have been mulling the return of an icon. Following a grainy image of a Lancia Stratos-type machine testing, there was much rumin  Read More →

Another Ferrari 458 Italia has been killed. This one, the SIXTH 458 to die, was reportedly a mere pup at just 24 hours old, before its owner better acquainted Maranello’s finest with a big tree. You will see the big tree survived. You will see the 458 didn’t. You will also notice it&rs  Read More →

GT3 racing is the domain of the cashed-up gentleman racer – this is the category where yuo’ll see Porsche 911s duking it out with Ferrari 430 Challenges (soon to be 458s), BMW Z4s and Aston Martin Vantages. From next year, the revamped class will see the arrival of the sexy Mercedes-Benz SLS in its  Read More →

It will wear an M badge. It will be fitted with six petrol-burning cylinders. It will almost certainly be bloody good. This, dear readers, is the BMW 1-Series M Coupe.Filmed entirely from inside the cabin while on a hot lap at the Ascari race track in Spain, this new footage clearly shows the rather  Read More →

A promo has surfaced in the US in the last couple of days previewing a home-grown version of Top Gear USA. Somewhat surprisingly, the car-loving Americans have never taken much of a shine to the world’s biggest car show – could it have something to do with the boy’s trip across the USA a few years b  Read More →

Is there an automotive deity? Looking at the pics of this one-off shocker, we’d suggest not. The donor vehicle for this patina of puke is a Chevy Spark, soon to be known to you as a Holden Barina Spark. It’s not destined for production in this guise; rather, it’s a Chevy Art Car that was displayed  Read More →