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Stig Laps are back! That’s right, The Stig is once again roaming free at Dunsfold, and in this eight-part series we’ve gathered, well, eight cars, to set new timed Power Laps at the Top Gear Test Track. So far, we’ve seen the Koenigsegg Jesko Attack, Ford SuperVan 4.2 and Porsche 911 GT3 RS set lap times, all wildly different types of vehicles, but all with huge big splitters and wings sprouting from them. Today’s contender is no different! It’s the Ariel Atom 4R, and this particular one has had many options thrown at it, including carbon wings and panels and a pneumatic six-speed sequential gearbox. This one's on forged wheels and steel discs, but you can have those in carbon too. It costs about £140,000 with all options, almost double the standard 4R. But what price progress? Thirteen years ago a first-generation Atom fitted with a 500bhp V8 blitzed the TG track in 1:15.1. This new one might have an inferior power-to-weight ratio and half the cylinders, but brakes, tyres and aero have come a long way. Over to Top Gear’s Editor-in-Chief, Jack Rix, and The Stig… Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGear WANT MORE TOP GEAR?
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02:05 Walkaround
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04:49 Stig POV
06:15 Leaderboard
06:53 Bonus Lap
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Faster than an F1 car! Well, we’ve heard that claim before, but New Zealand-based entrepreneur David Dicker and his self-funded Rodin Cars outfit are laser-focused on that goal, to the extent that the Red Bull RB17and Adrian Newey might not have everything their own way. The car in question is the FZero, a single-seat, closed-canopy, closed-wheel, all-carbon spaceship, with a bespoke twin-turbo V10 at its heart. In production guise, Rodin is aiming for over 1500bhp, 3000kg of downforce, and a 698kg kerb weight – which comfortably undercuts an F1 car! And although you might scoff, Rodin is a company that counts a racetrack and an engine foundry among its own facilities, while Dicker has the passion (and resources) to see it through to fruition. Over to Top Gear Magazine’s Head of Car Testing, Ollie Marriage, to find out more… Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGear WANT MORE TOP GEAR?
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01:12 Chat with Rodin founder David Dicker
05:46 The Engine
09:16 Exhaust
11:04 Inside the cockpit
13:04 The rear
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Stig Laps are back! That’s right, The Stig is once again roaming free at Dunsfold, and in this eight-part series we’ve gathered, well, eight cars, to set new timed Power Laps at the Top Gear Test Track. So far, we’ve seen the 1578bhp Koenigsegg Jesko Attack and 2000bhp+ Ford SuperVan 4.2 set lap times, and this time out we’ve got the Nürburgring King: the Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Sure, the Mercedes AMG One might be a little faster at that well-known German circuit, yet not much else is because of the Porsche’s active aero (have you noticed the rear wing?!) and trick suspension that can be adjusted corner-to-corner by dials on the steering wheel. The GT3 RS set a 6 minute and 49 second time at the Nürburgring in 2022, which shows the power of downforce – but what lap time can it do on our turf? Over to Top Gear’s Editor-in-Chief, Jack Rix, and The Stig… Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGear WANT MORE TOP GEAR?
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00:35 Walkaround
03:10 Stig Lap
04:59 Stig POV
06:28 Leaderboard
07:16 Drift Lap
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Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig. This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios. Service & Feedback https://www.bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us/

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What you’re looking at is the first finished TWR Supercat prototype – and we’ve just driven it in California, USA. As a reminder, 88 of these beasts are being built (a reference to the TWR Jaguar Le Mans win in 1988) and with the first batch coming in 2025, TWR will actually build more cars next year than Jaguar itself. Strange, but true! Anyway, the starting point for a Supercat is an old Jaguar XJS, to which TWR gives it the restomod treatment. There are chassis and brake upgrades, of course, and a new interior with mod cons. But the most noteworthy amends are the widened and be-winged all-carbon body. And the engine, which starts as an original 5.3-litre V12, but then gets bored out to 5.6 litres, dry sumped, equipped with a new cylinder head, new valve train, billet cams, oh, and a supercharger and charge cooling system. TWR reckons on north of 650bhp and 516lb ft… How then, does this prototype TWR Supercat drive? Over to Top Gear’s Contributing Editor, Jethro Bovingdon… Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGear WANT MORE TOP GEAR?
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Stig Laps are back! That’s right, The Stig is once again roaming free at Dunsfold, and in this eight-part series we’ve gathered, well, eight cars of course, to set new timed Power Laps at the Top Gear Test Track. In the season premiere we put the road-legal lap record on the line, as the 1578bhp Koenigsegg Jesko Attack went chasing the Ferrari SF90 Stradale’s time of 1 min 11.3 seconds. This time around, we’re going after the non-road-legal record, which was set by Renault’s R24 F1 car, way back in 2004 when it dipped below the magic minute. In the damp! In remains the fastest thing on four wheels around the Top Gear Test Track. Or does it… Two decades on a man in a van, or rather The Stig in the Ford SuperVan 4.2, could beat it. This electric Transit features four motors, over 2000bhp, almost 2000kg downforce at 150mph, and was specially built to dominate Pikes Peak. More recently, it broke the lap record at Bathurst and won the 2004 Goodwood Hill Climb Shootout. Over to Top Gear’s Editor-in-Chief, Jack Rix, and The Stig… Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGear WANT MORE TOP GEAR?
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This is the new Valhalla, the first series-production, mid-engined Aston Martin supercar (as the Valkyrie was somewhat of a limited-run special). Said mid-mounted engine is a 817bhp 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8, ably assisted by three electric motors, taking the combined output of the PHEV powertrain to 1064bhp and 811lb ft. Four-wheel drive (with two of the three motors powering the front axle) helps get the 0-62mph time down to a scant 2.5 seconds, while the tub is carbonfibre, and active front and rear aero generates more than 600kg of downforce between 149mph and the (limited) 217mph max speed. Only 999 will be built, and prices start at £850k. That’s twice the price of Ferrari’s (aluminium) SF90, but half the price of the recently revealed Ferrari F80 and McLaren W1 hypercars. So, is the Valhalla stacking up to be an overpriced rival to the SF90? Or is it the 4WD son-of-Valkyrie that is going to give the F80 and W1 nightmares for a fraction of the price? Over to Top Gear Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, Jack Rix, for the full lowdown… Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGear WANT MORE TOP GEAR?
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Veyron! Another Veyron! Chiron! Mistral! This orange and black quartet are Bugatti’s top speed ‘World Record’ cars – and this is the only time all four examples of such models have ever been together. Such a public gathering will only happen in the future at the behest of this Mistral’s owner, too. See, while there are multiples of the (deep breath) Veyron 16.4 Super Sport World Record Edition, Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse World Record Edition and Chiron Super Sport 300+ – and said owner has one of each – there is only one W16 Mistral World Record Car. So, with this specially commissioned one-of-one Mistral still warm from its 282mph top-speed world record run earlier that day, we grabbed Bugatti’s Director of Design, Frank Heyl, for this once-in-a-lifetime walkaround. Over to Top Gear Magazine’s Deputy Editor, Ollie Kew… Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGear WANT MORE TOP GEAR?
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00:31 Veyron 16.4 Super Sport World Record Edition
03:43 Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse World Record Edition
08:21 Chiron Super Sport 300+
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