The Hardknott Pass is the steepest, gnarliest, twistiest, narrowest and most pointless road in the whole of the UK. So what three cars did we decide to throw up it a few years ago? The Lamborghini Aventador SV, McLaren 675LT and Porsche GT3 RS – all in the name of science of course. In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine Podcast Ollie Kew and Ollie Marriage tell Jack Rix why they thought that was a good idea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 22, 2023•27 min
13 years ago, Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle went to Cuba to meet Havana’s underground drag racers who turn their classics up to eleven and compete on the streets. In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine podcast, they relive that adventure, explain how to modify a car during a trade embargo, and details Cuba’s complex relationship with motorsport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 15, 2023•24 min
Join Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle, Ollie Kew, and Ollie Marriage to find out if the Ineos Grenadier can keep up with the new Defender Land Rover in the mud, why it took 12 hours to drive to Margate in a Citroen Ami, what it's like hanging out with Mick Schumacher in Tokyo and why four-cylinders rule. Plus we talk motorised gimmicks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 08, 2023•58 min
Gordon Murray's astonishing £2.8m T.50 is a 963kg, 654bhp three-seater that aims to right the wrongs of the McLaren F1. But is it the greatest supercar ever? Having spent four days driving one solidly across Europe's best mountain roads, Ollie Marriage delivers the verdict to Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Kew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Have you ever wondered what a billionaire car enthusiast gets up to on the weekend? Well, wonder no more. Ollie Marriage has been to Spain and peeked behind the curtain at The Supercars Owners Circle – an exclusive fraternity of discerning car collectors that, refreshingly, don’t mind getting their ultra-exclusive cars out of their temperature-controlled humidor garages and take them for a good old thrashing. In this episode of the Top Gear Magazine podcast Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle integrat...
Oct 25, 2023•48 min
The Aventador replacement, Lamborghini’s biggest beast, is now a plug-in hybrid. It features three electric motors, and a 6.5-litre V12 revving to 9,500rpm, for a total of 1,001bhp. Jack delivers his verdict live from the pit-lane at the Vallelunga track and bumps into a special guest - TopGear America host Jethro Bovingdon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 18, 2023•34 min
In this second instalment of TG mag's mega two-part Speed Week monster pod, Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Marriage discuss which 911 is the best to wheelie, the rest of our epic car list and how chaotic Performance Car of the Year can really be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 11, 2023•45 min
15 contenders, seven wind turbines, five barrels of biofuel, many sets of tyres... it’s time for TG’s annual festival of fast! In this first installment of a mega two-parter, Jack Rix, Rowan Horncastle and Ollie Marriage dish the dirt on what went down at Top Gear Magazine's 2023 Performance Car of the Year in Sweden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 04, 2023•36 min
It all began with an idea. Could a Hindustan Ambassador actually be converted into a convincing replica of the Peugeot 208 GTI? A question not plucked from thin air, but based on one of the greatest car adverts ever. In this episode, Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle talk about the time they went to India to answer that exact question. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 27, 2023•30 min
Now in its fifth generation, the Range Rover invented the idea of a Luxury SUV... and has continued to improve it ever since. 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
Sep 20, 2023•37 min
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
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 19 min
TopGear Mag is 30 years old... hard to believe, we know. To celebrate we brought together all 30 of TG's Cars of the Year for one incredible shoot on the Brooklands banking. Ollie, Ollie, Jack and Rowan take you through the list and discuss the hits and misses over the years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr 6 min
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
Aug 30, 2023•30 min
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
Aug 23, 2023•28 min
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
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr 7 min
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
Aug 09, 2023•39 min
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
Aug 02, 2023•35 min
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
Jul 26, 2023•35 min
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
Jul 19, 2023•1 hr 5 min
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
Jul 11, 2023•49 min
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
Jul 05, 2023•50 min
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
Jun 28, 2023•20 min
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
Jun 21, 2023•46 min
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
Jun 14, 2023•51 min
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
Jun 09, 2023•27 min
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
Jun 07, 2023•46 min
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
May 31, 2023•31 min
Remember Brexit? Well, here's the story of the time Jack Rix and Rowan Horncastle drove 2,500 miles through 15 countries in one new DB11 to try and smooth over negotiations with our European neighbours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 24, 2023•29 min
What's it like to ride in the back of Gordon Murray's successor to the McLaren F1? We experience GMA's new V12 fan car at 12,000rpm on the TopGear test track and take a road trip down to Goodwood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 17, 2023•41 min
OK, technically the Alpine A290_B isn't a Renault and has no turbos, because it's electric, but it's damn cool nonetheless. Also, we nearly hit 250mph in a Bugatti Chiron at the space shuttle landing facility in Florida, and save the rhinos in South Africa in a VW Amarok. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 10, 2023•1 hr 1 min
