Category Archives: Top Gear’s Cars

Corvette E-Ray vs Porsche 911 GTS: The Perfect Modern Sports Cars?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EWJC6j6ksk

America’s sports car champion is the Corvette, Europe’s the Porsche 911, but what happens when two icons from either side of the Atlantic get electrified? This is the first hybrid Corvette, the E-Ray, against the first (road-legal) hybrid Porsche 911, the 992.2 generation Carrera GTS.

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FIRST DRIVE: Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale – As Good As It Looks?

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The 1967 Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale is, arguably, the most beautiful car of all time. Now there’s a new one, with Alfa riffing on the design of its forebear to create a limited run of just 33 (very expensive) vehicles. Is it, though, style over substance?

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FIRST LOOK: Ferrari 296 Speciale – Lighter, Faster, Better?

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The 458 Speciale is perhaps Peak Ferrari, the Italian company’s finest mid-engined V8 supercar. So, putting the revered Speciale badge on a V6 hybrid – especially as Ferrari doesn’t usually rehash names from its past – is either a marketing ploy, or a sign that Ferrari thinks very highly indeed of its new 880hp track-focused 296…

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