Automotive
BBC TopGear India
"A REAL WORLD RANGE OF 150 MILES IS SURELY CHOCOLATE TEAPOT STUFF"
We leave the company’s Hethel HQ on Wednesday morning bound for the French Riviera. We use the Channel Tunnel and push on to Reims. This was the scene of various F1 triumphs for Lotus, including Jim Clark's win in 1963. Then we head southwest towards the Circuit de Charade, a track aiming to become the world’s first fully sustainable motorsport venue. From there, we overnight in Millau - home to the amazing viaduct over the Tarn gorge - and go south through Cévennes and Provence before winding up our journey in the Côte d'Azur. Beaulieu-sur-Mer, in fact, home to the Hôtel Métropole, an old school showbiz destination. We fly home...
3 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
DUCATI SCRAMBLER ICON
₹10.39 LAKH [EX-SHOWROOM]
1 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
VOLKSWAGEN GOLF GTI
Hot Hatch, Cold
5 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
MARUTI SUZUKI DZIRE
MUMBAI SAW EARLY MONSOONS THIS YEAR, and that's when my experience with the Maruti Dzire started to shift a little.
1 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
HONDA 0 SERIES
If these two cars reach production exactly as they are, Honda won't be winning any awards for its naming strategy.
1 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
POWER TRIP
The 2,011bhp Lotus Evija has the potential to change everything... Jethro is first to brace his neck and cut loose on track
5 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
MERCEDES-BENZ GLE 450 4MATIC
₹1.15 TO ₹1.36 CRORE (EX-SHOWROOM) WHY IT'S HERE? To find out if the SUV that started it all is still the one to beat
2 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
THE FIVE BIGGEST TALKING POINTS FROM THE 2025 MOTOGP SEASON SO FAR
As MotoGP 2025 charges toward its midway mark, the grid is a cauldron of surprise resurgences, costly mistakes, rising stars, and shifting loyalties.
4 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
Bank canvas
Meet Chloe Dowsett, the artist who can make Rolls-Royce owners' design dreams come true
3 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
TESTER'S NOTES: LOTUS EVIJA
In the 1970s the Lotus test drivers used to 'pop' from the factory to the south of France for the weekend to put the latest car through its paces. We decided to do the same albeit with a little more 'pop'
10 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
INTO THE RED
Can a completely normal electric family hatchback drive coast to coast across the Australian Outback? Welcome to TopGear's most ambitious electric roadtrip yet...
6 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
2025 MERCEDES-AMG GLE 53 COUPÉ
SPENDING A MONTH WITH THE 2025 Mercedes-AMG GLE 53 Coupé in Mumbai has been an indulgent, sometimes challenging, but always exhilarating experience.
1 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
THE HIDDEN PERSONA
The thing that unleashes the need for adrenaline in you...
4 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
EV PRO MAX? MG WINDSOR PRO
Once upon a time, the term “Pro” was rather serious business. In football, it meant you'd made it.
5 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
HYUNDAI EXTER
THIS COMPACT/MINI [HOWEVER YOU prefer to call it) SUV is a well-suited city dweller.
1 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
"THE EV3 IS STABLE ON THE FINE SILTY DUST"
Josh, the Tesla owner, wants to be home in Alice Springs 120 miles north of here tonight. I explain we need an hour’s charge to make it to the same destination tomorrow.
4 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
CHARGEY BARGEY
Can the Lotus Emeya 900 dethrone the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT as our favourite fast EV with four doors?
3 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
RENAULT 5 TURBO 3E
The facts are ridiculous. Here is an electric hatchback with only two seats and the potential to cost over £200k if you “take full advantage of the customisation on offer”. One of these, or nine standard R5s? Something doesn’t add up.
1 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
EPIC FAIL 1980 FORD MUSTANG V8
Many wise, knowledgeable car enthusiasts will sagely inform you the third gen 'fox body' Mustang is anything but a fail.
1 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
Protection racket
Keeping your prized possessions safe is common sense, hence these toughened up timepieces
1 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
DEATH BY DOWNFORCE PORSCHE WORLD ROAD SHOW EXPERIENCE
I drove them all. I felt them all. I may now require adult supervision
7 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
MORE FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS: KIA CARENS CLAVIS
KIA CARENS CLAVIS
6 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
NEXT BIG THING: ELECTROSTATIC SPEAKERS
CAR HI-FI SPEAKERS ARE HEAVY, bulky and wasteful of power. Packaging the speakers in the doors or dash is a headache. So is getting rid of the heat they generate.
1 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
Slim. Fast
Meet the lighter, quicker 296 Speciale... guaranteed to give driving satisfaction
2 min |
June 2025
BBC TopGear India
HERO SPLENDOR+ XTEC 2.0
₹46.05 LAKH [EX-SHOWROOM] WHY IT'S HERE: Because Hyundai wants to prove it can do EVs just as well as the Germans—and maybe even better. RIDER: AKAASH BHADRA
1 min |
May 2025
BBC TopGear India
HYUNDAI IONIQ 5
₹46.05 LAKH [EX-SHOWROOM]
1 min |
May 2025
BBC TopGear India
BORN TO RUST
Kept under lock and key for decades, Rudi Klein's collection is the stuff of myth and legend. We take a tour before it crosses the block
5 min |
May 2025
BBC TopGear India
All ABOARD THE MEGA BUS
Whisper it, but there could be an MPV revival underway. Spearheading the renaissance is this, the Li Auto Mega
6 min |
May 2025
BBC TopGear India
"I'll do a proper, proper E30 restomod, with a V10.Not just the technical stuff, but also design.I don't know when I will get round to that - it might be my retirement project
Mate Rimac is a man on a mission. What next for Bugatti?
7 min |
May 2025
BBC TopGear India
MARUTI SUZUKI DZIRE
₹6.79-10.14 LAKH [EX-SHOWROOM] WHY IT'S HERE: To see why it is one of the top-selling sedans
1 min |