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Less metal. Same mettle. When asked for feedback on the C60 Trident, our Forum said “…make one that still gets noticed, without feeling its presence as much on your wrist.” This new C60 Trident Pro 300 is the result. Same widths. Same lug-to-lugs. Yet an average 1.75mm lower profile across the range. By using a sapphire case back, it’s an average 14.67g lighter. too. This means its depth rating is now only as good as a Submariner. To compensate: we’ve added extra lume, a new bezel and an optional screwed-link bracelet. Plus actual compensation of £94 average saving. Less. And more, then? Do your research. christopherward.com



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“ONCE INSIDE, THE i VISION DEE GOES FULL ON MATRIX” Dee (Digital Emotional Experience) is the also the name of the new, AI-powered voice assistant in the BMW concept BMW has resurrected an old name for its new our heritage,” Langer said, “but we have to the right solution, you have to find the electric car. And this isn’t it. This isn’t BMW’s innovate them, transform them into the right balance.” new, um, “Neue Klasse” – a reference describing new digital world and give them a meaning. its game-changing saloons from the Sixties that But they’re still there.” While there’s no technical info on the morphed into what we now know as the 5-Series – but the BMW i Vision Dee’s various sensors or second in a triplet of concepts exploring various aspects What’s also there is the ability to change self-driving tech – or indeed its powertrain, of what the neue Neue Klasse will represent. the exterior of the i Vision Dee in up to 32 performance or range – be assured it’s been colours. The tech’s evolved substantially designed for a world in which it’s possible. Where 2021’s BMW i Vision Circular concept since it was first launched on the iX Flow; Langer was keen to note, though, that explored notions of sustainability, this new BMW i there’s an ‘ePaper’ film applied to the body, despite all the tech, the driver would always Vision Dee concept instead goes far deeper, to the divided up into 240 E Ink segments each of be in control. “It’s not that technology very future of the car itself. At least according to which can be controlled individually with a controls you, but it could help you a lot.” BMW. “Whoever excels at integrating the customer’s choice of up to 32 colours. everyday digital worlds into the vehicle at all levels will BMW Group design boss Adrian succeed in mastering the future of car building,” said Furthering this interactivity is an van Hooydonk takes it one step further. BMW’s development boss Frank Weber. avatar of the driver projected onto the “Implemented the right way, technology side window as you approach as a sort of will create worthwhile experiences, make And so it is a look at how the digital aspects of ‘welcome scenario’, while sensors detect you a better driver and simply bring BMW’s Neue Klasse will take shape. And speaking of who’s approaching and open the doors. humans and machines closer together.” shapes, you will have already noticed that this i Vision And once inside, it goes full on Matrix. Dee takes the form of a classic BMW. A three-box saloon. For all the talk of pared back proportions The key focus here is what BMW calls and onboard tech, the i Vision Dee is still a “That’s the core, that’s the heart of BMW,” BMW i its Mixed Reality Slider, which project five BMW. Resurrecting an old name for a class design boss Kai Langer told TopGear. He spoke of stages of information/interaction directly of car renowned for its handling smarts transforming the ‘icons’ of BMW’s past; retooling onto the windscreen as a super-advanced brings expectation. But never fear, says the design flourishes the company has traded on for head-up display. van Hooydonk: “We have been dynamic and we always will be.” Vijay Pattni a new generation of consumers. And should the outside world become So this three-box, midsized i Vision Dee a nuisance, you can dim the windows to “gradually fade out reality”. Back features the company’s most famous – in the real world, BMW will roll out a and recently controversial – of flourishes, production version of the i Vision Dee’s the kidney grille. Here it’s made both head-up display spanning the full width digital and interactive, incorporated of the windscreen from 2025. Is there a with the headlights, so that the danger of too much info, though? “You car can actually convey facial have to see the risks and benefits and expressions via the rather balance it out,” Langer told TG. “You have excellent E Ink technology. to consider the whole driving experience. The Hofmeister kink is present Overloading information is probably not and correct too. “We have to keep 012 M A R C H 2 0 2 3 › T O P G E A R . C O M

COFFEE BREAK IMAGE: MANUFACTURER FAIL OF THE CENTURY #103 What we’re watching/ Y ou could see where Lotus was coming from. Its listening/doing, while featherweight, bare-bones Elise was famously great we should be working for whanging down a B-road, but terrible for whanging across a continent. So why not transform the Elise into a bit The Great Pottery of a grand tourer? Throw Down, Channel 4 Throw that clay, drip that slip, fire that pot As it turned out, plenty of good reasons why not. Trying with the pinched lil lip. Teary eyed joy that to GT-ify an Elise proved rather like... trying to transform a pottery has returned for another series – whippet into an Arabian stallion. Can’t be done, at least not ceramic brakes will not, I repeat, not feature without violating several important laws of ethics and nature. TWIST museum, London Not that Lotus didn’t give it a good shot, ditching the Elise’s Mind-altering immersive rooms at the nat-asp Toyota engine in favour of a Vauxhall-sourced turbo home of illusions in Oxford Circus. This unit, treating it to a leatherier interior, raising the roofline, and isn’t estate agent patter for a studio improving NVH levels from the Elise’s baseline of ‘zero NVH’. apartment in London, it’s actually an Problem was, what Lotus ended up with wasn’t an Arabian incredibly fun half day out stallion, but something very obviously still a whippet, now wearing a fake bushy mane and tail, a small saddle, an ill-fitting TopGear magazine fix set of horseshoes and a confused expression. You can download the latest edition and back issues direct to And the further problem was, the fake mane and tail and your phone or tablet from the App horseshoes not only failed to transform the whippet into an Store. Because when life gives you Arabian stallion, but also made it significantly worse at lemons... settle in and read TG doing all its original whippet stuff. The Europa wasn’t a GT, it wasn’t a sports car, and no one wanted one. Super Bowl LVII, 12 February Not a fan of Roman numerals? Then this is the T O P G E A R . C O M › M A R C H 2 0 2 3 013 57th Superbowl to you. Want to stay up and watch in the UK? Coverage starts at XXIII:XXX. Live from Arizona means Rihanna shouldn’t need her ‘Umbrella’ for the half-time show... TopGear TV, BBC iPlayer Don’t forget that ALL of TopGear telly is ready and waiting on iPlayer

CAR NEWS N o factory Corvette has ever been in between the seats. Altogether, this this fast. Or this electrified. electrified Corvette – the first ever Vette SHOCK Marking 70 years of one of the to feature electric propulsion – kicks out FACTOR world’s most famous car names comes a 655bhp, sprints to 60mph in just 2.5secs bit of a shock: the all-wheel-drive hybrid and blitzes a quarter mile in 10.5secs. Chevy marks the Vette’s Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray. 70th birthday by filling it It’s possible to hit up to 45mph using just with electricity and traction Yes, it’s a play on Stingray, but there are the e-motor, while there are six selectable no games to be had here, just pure pace and modes that determine the level of electric YOU CAN’T BUY TASTE traction. There’s the familiar naturally assistance, or allow you to maximise battery aspirated 6.2-litre small block V8 onboard, charge. It also features a 12V battery that mounted in the middle which was already a supports start/stop, carbon ceramic brakes first for a Vette. That sends 495bhp to the and Chevy’s fancy adaptive ‘magnetic ride rear wheels alone. There’s an eight-speed control’ dampers. dual clutch box at work here too. It’ll go on sale later this year in the US, Then comes the electricity, in the form of costing £84k for the coupe, and £90k for a 160bhp electric motor sitting on the front the convertible. America’s former blue axle powered by a 1.9kWh battery mounted collar hero just went green. Vijay Pattni 014 M A R C H 2 0 2 3 › T O P G E A R . C O M

CAR CONTROL. . WITH CATIE #10 DRIVING IN THE WET Extreme E driver, TV presenter and British rallying star Catie Munnings shares some driving wisdom WIPEOUT GENTLY DOES IT Full wet or drying? Damp? Somewhere in between? Slicks or wets? Straighten corners as much as possible – the more you lean on Driving in wet conditions is always a lottery, but there are basics the tyres the more risk you take, so think about driving lines and that could save your skin. Before you even think about setting off gentle steering inputs. You need to be able to feel what the car is to get in the flow behind the wheel, make sure the windscreen doing, the quicker you can feel the start of oversteer, the quicker wipers are on! This mistake lost me a race last year, although it you can react. At that point, brakes are a no-no – straighten the wasn’t raining, there was a lot of standing water – one mud steering, but don’t snatch an armful of opposite lock as puddle was all it took to put me at the back of the semi-final heat. overcorrection will snap you violently the opposite way. STEER WITH YOUR FOOT STAY ON TRACKS In the event of a slide... rear-wheel drive: lifting off the gas In a race situation, ultimately you drive through the seat will allow the rear tyres to reconnect to the road, hopefully... of your pants, get a feeling for the surface and keep your Sometimes this can snap back the other way when they grip, inputs sympathetic. In the real world, never underestimate so practice is key. Front-wheel drive: gentle acceleration standing water in the inside lane no matter how good your pulls the car forward stopping the rear trying to go sideways. tyres are. If you do find yourself splashing through it, try to Four-wheel drive: keep the wheels pointing the way you want keep your tyres in the lines left by the vehicle in front – to go and acceleration pulls you out. aquaplaning at speed is no fun at all. T O P G E A R . C O M › M A R C H 2 0 2 3 015

WAT C H E S L ightweight and strong, titanium has been used for everything from armour plating and alloy wheels, to replacement hips and Russian subs. But for more than a METAL century after its discovery by a Cornish vicar, the metal was little more than a OF THE name on the periodic table with no real practical use. And its use in the watch industry GODS has always been rare... until now. Titanium was once rarer than rare in the world Landed gent, clergyman and amateur chemist William Gregor first extracted of watches, but that’s no longer the case titanium in 1791, while analysing black sand taken from the beach near his family estate in Cornwall. The metal was initially called gregorite after the good vicar, but a man in Germany discovered it independently a short while later, calling it titanium after the Greeks’ mythological Titans, and the name stuck. Titanium did not quite live up to its godly name at first. It is abundant, but not easy to extract from its ore, so wasn’t produced in any significant quantities until the mid-20th century. Among its earliest uses was as a paint additive, but it really took off in the Sixties with the launch of the largely titanium Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, the US air force’s record breaking superjet. It was heat resistance that made titanium a favourite for the aerospace industry, but its corrosion resistance also means it is useful at sea, where it is fashioned into propeller shafts and marine pipelines. Titanium is also non-toxic, making it suitable for a whole range of medical purposes, from heart valves to hearing aids. All of these qualities brought titanium to the attention of the Japanese watch firm Citizen, which was testing out innovative materials. In 1970 it launched the X-8 Chronometer, the first titanium watch. The company has continued to develop the material and has its own trademarked version, called Super Titanium. Despite this, other watch companies were slow to get on the titanium bandwagon. As well as the costs of extraction, it is more difficult to process than other metals, as the prized hardness and heat resistance make it tougher to mould and polish. But the modern watch industry loves a challenge – with thousands of companies competing for wrist space, boldness is a must. It’s taken a while, but there are now loads of titanium timepieces from pricey to high street for anyone wanting an über tough watch. Richard Holt 016 M A R C H 2 0 2 3 › T O P G E A R . C O M

UNDER £2K HERBELIN NEWPORT CARBON TITANE France’s watch industry lost out long ago to the Swiss. Herbelin is one of a few names keeping the French in the game, but still relies on Switzerland for technical support. This watch has a 43mm case made from a DLC-treated carbon-titanium alloy. Swiss-made automatic movement. Water resistant to 200m. £1,799; herbelin.com BLOW UNDER THE £1,500 BUDGET VICTORINOX I.N.O.X. PROFESSIONAL DIVER It doesn’t get much more Swiss than a watch from the SEIKO PROSPEX company that makes the Swiss army knife. To make the Seiko sells entry level watches, but prices head steeply point, this watch comes with its own matching pocket knife. The 3D dial pattern reflects the oxidised brass upwards, even before you get to the lux Grand Seiko found in shipwrecks. Quartz movement. One of 1,200 super-brand. Anyone prepared to drop several thousand on individually numbered pieces. £1,295; victorinox.com a Seiko knows that the Japanese company prides itself on CIRCA quality for your cash. As well as 300m water resistance from £300 the 45mm titanium case, this watch, codenamed SNR031, is powered by the Spring Drive movement – a mega-smooth CITIZEN SUPER TITANIUM As we mentioned on the left, Citizen has been pioneering quartz-mechanical hybrid. £5,400; seikoboutique.co.uk ways of processing titanium since it first began using it over 50 years ago. Its current offering has a 43mm case made from a scratch resistant alloy called Super Titanium. Powered by Citizen’s Eco-Drive solar-powered movement and water resistant to 100m. £319; citizenwatch.co.uk T O P G E A R . C O M › M A R C H 2 0 2 3 017

GAME OF THE MONTH THE KNOWLEDGE GEAR Need-to-know nuggets of automotive news RING CAR CAM VENOM’S ADDED FANGS If you thought your Hennessey Venom F5 was too much of a pussycat, the US firm is offering a track version called the Revolution. Same engine and gearbox, but bespoke aero, suspension tweaks and weight saved for max attack ROSSI’S BACK TO WORKS Most celebrate retirement by signing up for swimfit and a book club, but Valentino Rossi has bagged himself a BMW M works drive. He’ll make race and testing appearances, so he should still have some time for golf SELF-DIVING PRICES Tesla has generously lopped Model 3 and Y prices by over 10 per cent, the cars now starting at £43k and £45k. The firm says it’s passing on inflation drops and build efficiencies – can’t hurt stalling sales either... UNLIMITED ADDITION Missed out on one of Bugatti’s limited run of 40 Bolides? No fear, there’s now a £45 Lego version you can build at home. With that thirsty little W16 in the back you might want to buy a Lego petrol station too 018 M A R C H 2 0 2 3 › T O P G E A R . C O M

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CAR NEWS BYE BYE RANGE ANXIETY 5 THINGS YOU NEED The fully electric version of the CX-30 has TO KNOW ABOUT THE. . been heavily criticised for its poor real-world range of around 100 miles (WLTP is 124 miles) MAZDA that makes it impractical for venturing beyond MX-30 R-EV the city. The 73bhp motor and 50-litre fuel tank will net you a total range of over 400 miles to Engine nerds rejoice - the rotary has complement the battery’s 53-mile capacity. returned... but not how you’d expect IT’S QUICKER THAN THE PURE EV YOU SPIN ME RIGHT ROUND BABY, ETC The 168bhp e-motor’s job is to always drive Mazda’s rotary engine is back in action in the the front wheels, while the 73bhp 830cc rotary catchily named new MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV. Don’t petrol engine acts as a generator. The standard get too excited though – it’s been popped in a new EV makes do with a mere 143bhp, so R-EV is a range-extender version of the MX-30 crossover bit quicker. Its 0–62mph time of 9.1 seconds in to charge up a comparatively small 17.8kWh the range extender plays 9.7 seconds in the EV. battery and isn’t connected to the wheels. Top speed in both is just 87mph, though. Today a rotary range extender, IT’S JUST AS PRACTICAL TOO tomorrow a successor to the 787B at Le Mans? Seems logical Mazda says it went for the rotary engine because it’s more compact than an equivalent reciprocating engine, meaning there’s no noticeable impact on cabin space. You still get the funky RX-8-style rear-hinged doors, and Mazda’s interior designers are still at the top of the game. ORDERS ARE OPEN NOW Mazda is celebrating the return of the rotary with a special ‘Edition R’ trim. Just 400 will come to the UK and all with Jet Black paint, Maroon Rouge side pillars and a black roof. That’ll cost £37,950, but the Prime-Line and Exclusive-Line entry trims will cost the same as the EV (£31,250 and £33,150). WORDS: GREG POTTS 020 M A R C H 2 0 2 3 › T O P G E A R . C O M

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TOPGEAR’S GUIDE TO THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING MY T H R BUS T E “PLUG WARS AREOVER” NOW Recently Tesla renamed its proprietary NACS. So Tesla can collect grants connector the North American Charging for Superchargers. Was this Tesla’s Standard (NACS). motivation for opening up NACS? Surely only a hardened cynic would say so. Tesla claims that by opening its patent Tesla says its connector is technically it’s generously moving to common ground. superior. Well yes, it is marginally smaller But other makers already have CCS. Huh? than a CCS and can run slightly higher As background, you might be interested to power. But EV drivers don’t care about a know that the recent US Infrastructure slightly better connector. They care about Act provides subsidies for installing EV certainty that every charger can charge chargers, but only if those chargers can their car. Tesla is claiming to help with juice up more than one make of car. And that, while actually not. Paul Horrell now EV minnow Aptera has adopted WHO KNOWS? EV UPDATE LATER I MAG ES: G E T T Y, MAN U FAC TU R ER SURPRISE, SURPRISE FATAL ATTRACTION DREAM TEASER Woah! The Jeep Avenger has just VW has teased its all-new electric saloon, Meet the Inception Concept, Peugeot’s won European Car of the Year... the ID.7, dressed in digital camouflage. radical vision for what its electric cars Tesla must be shaking in its boots yes, you did read that right probably won’t look like from 2025 ›T O P G E A R . C O M M A R C H 2 0 2 3 022

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THIS MONTH: STORAGE KING MARQUES BROWNLEE FLAIR STYLE The rather imposing stripe down the car is part of HARD the £25,000+ Assetto Fiorano package which also DRIVE adds some extra aero bits, lots of carbon fibre, fancy Multimatic dampers and a polycarbonate We download YouTube’s #1 tech expert on engine cover. That’s a whole lot of cash, though. whatever he’s been driving this month H ybrid supercars are happening, people. For decades 024 M A R C H 2 0 2 3 › T O P G E A R . C O M we have been used to large engines and lightweight cars, but we are now entering an era of smaller displacement petrol burners that are supplemented by a little battery and an electric motor or two (or three in the case of the bonkers 986bhp Ferrari SF90). This is the Ferrari 296 GTB – the SF90’s smaller, friendlier brother, which has a paltry 818bhp going to the rear wheels alone. There’s an all-new combustion engine at its heart too – a 3.0-litre twin-turbo V6 that makes 663bhp on its own. The extra 165bhp of electric boost brings two major advantages. The first is the performance advantage, because the electric motor fills in any torque gaps left by the turbo’d V6. And it really does work – the 0-62mph time of 2.9 seconds proves that. The second advantage is that you get between 10 and 15 miles of all-electric range if you charge it up. So, if you’re pulling out of your driveway at 8am in a bright red Ferrari, you don’t have to be that annoying neighbour who wakes up the whole street with a cold start. Pull away in ‘eDrive’ mode and you can whisper out to the nearest good road or highway where you can transform into a proper combustion supercar once again.

DOPE TECH MB’S FAVOURITE FEATURE Has to be the passenger display. Why don’t more supercars do this? You can use it to control the tunes, but you’re probably not listening to music – best to use it to show off and agile. TOUCHY SUBJECT SELF-CENTRED Can someone please tell I love how everything Ferrari buttons are better is so driver-focused in than capacitive touch the cabin. The display areas. There are way too in front of you includes many touch sensitive all you need to know functions in the 296 GTB. It’s and it all feels very incredibly annoying. purposeful. VERDICT CONSUMER TECH I had reservations, but COMPARISON... it blew me away. The Samsung X5 SSD hard performance is incredible. drive. We have these in The brakes have so much the studio. They’re hard bite and it doesn’t feel to get, the fastest SSDs heavy. Drive it and you’ll I’ve ever used and understand why Ferrari they’re also bright red took this direction. and very expensive. THE DRIVE: THE TECH: THE WANT: T O P G E A R . C O M › M A R C H 2 0 2 3 025

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Special editions are released thick and fast these days, but what message does that send, ponders Chris ILLUSTRATION: PAUL RYDING How many standard Bugatti Chirons were built? Not Ford was the master at this – base level Escorts would be a question I ask myself beyond extended soaks in the bath burnished with some fancy wheel trims and an electric aerial for when my mobile phone battery has died and my brain is close the cassette player, then a snazzy advertising campaign would to shutdown, but one I find interesting nonetheless. The process lure in the punters. They were all at it – even BMW shunted of ‘uniquifying’ massively expensive production cars offers a 6-Series loaded with extra goodies and called them Highlines. fascinating window into a world where the words ‘bespoke’ and ‘narcissistic’ seem to be indistinguishable from each other. There was an honesty about this. To all involved, manufacturer and consumer, the process made sense. When something was new, It was the same with the Veyron. There was the Grand Sport it sold on merit, but as it became older and less competitive against and the Vitesse (wasn’t that a Rover?) and the orange and black its peers, it needed an extra streak of lip gloss and a shorter skirt. one. And the one with porcelain bits. But how many were just bog The way this process works now makes absolutely no sense to me. standard Veyrons? Not many judging by the ones that come up for sale. I’m fairly sure the rarest Veyron is the base model because Take Mercedes. In the Eighties, it never would have reduced the company pandered to the billionaires and gave them special itself to the special edition game, but now it actually launches models to make them feel even more special. AMGs with a special edition model. I find it baffling. Viewed through my Eighties goggles all this says is: “We’re struggling to If, like me, you’re a child of the Seventies and Eighties, you’ll sell this brand new car and we have so little confidence that people find this special model business completely confusing because will buy it, we’re going to jazz it up and add some silly paint.” a special model of a car – and by that I mean a mostly cosmetic There couldn’t be a more negative marketing message. exercise and lick of paint – was a sure sign of one thing. That the car was soon to end production and the manufacturer Ask yourself this – of the great cars, how many have special desperately needed to flog a few more before it was euthanised editions? There were 36 Ferrari 250 GTOs made, and that’s that. to make way for the snazzy new one. There aren’t 14 painted some silly colour and called ‘Ravioli’ – there are just GTOs. I suppose this simply shows that the ultra rich were “I’M FAIRLY SURE THAT THE less insecure back then – they didn’t need to prove their GTO was a RAREST BUGATTI VEYRON bit more special than the next man’s. Because that’s what this all IS THE BASE MODEL” comes down to: being able to tell people yours is better than theirs. Imagine being so lost in yourself that you’d need to have one over on someone else who could afford a £2m car? Hopefully the last Chiron build will be a vanilla, boggo one. And if not, Bugatti could at least paint it flat blue and slap a ‘Bonus’ sticker on its arse. Need more of the TopGear telly show in your life? All episodes are now free to stream on BBC iPlayer T O P G E A R . C O M › M A R C H 2 0 2 3 027

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Yes, times are a-changing, but not so fast as we might all imagine, says TGTV’s Sam Philip ILLUSTRATION: PAUL RYDING There’s an old Mini parked on the street in front of my house. Because go backwards 64 years from 1959, and you end up in Mid-Seventies vintage, in a shade of yellow I believe British 1895. The big automotive launch of 1895 was something called the Leyland called ‘Citron’, and the rest of us would call ‘Berocca De La Vergne, a six-seat, 8bhp “motor drag”. If you can’t picture Alarm’. Hasn’t moved for the last week or so, quite possibly the De La Verge, fear not, nor can literally any other human alive. because it’s suffered terminal mechanical decline. Suffice to say it didn’t look like anything recognisable today as a car. It looked like a horse-drawn cart that had lost its horse. Spotting the Mini for the first time, tucked surreptitiously into a lineup of Qashqais and Kugas and X3s, I wish I could say Point is, the leap from De La Vergne to Mini is far, far greater my first thought was, “My goodness, what a stellar example of than the leap from Mini to, say, Qashqai. The Nissan might be British engineering genius”. But it wasn’t. My first thought was, eight times the volume, but in terms of layout, mechanical “Wow grandad, you look proper old”. configuration, even general silhouette, Mini and Qash are basically twins. (Schwarzenegger and DeVito twins, admittedly.) Unsurprising, I guess. The Mini’s wearing an old N-plate, which means it was registered in 1974, which means it’s nearly I guess you wouldn’t necessarily hold up a Qashqai as the half a century old. In car years, that’s basically prehistoric. epitome of cutting edge motoring circa 2023. So let’s take something a bit more avant-garde. Hyundai Ioniq 5? OK, different And conceptually it’s older still. The Mini launched in 1959, fuelstuff, powertrain at the opposite end of the car, but beyond and barely changed in its first 15 years. It’s a 64-year-old design. that, fundamentally still Mini-esque, no? Two-box shape, couple No wonder it’s looking a bit please-just-let-me-die-in-peace. of rows of seats, pedals, steering wheel, all present and correct. Show an alien an old Mini, then show her the De La Vergne, and But, as the days wore on and the Mini sat there – small, stoic, the Ioniq 5, and ask which is also a car, she’ll go for the Hyundai. yellowing, increasing patina of pigeon crap – more thoughts occurred. First: yup, definite terminal breakdown, only way that It can feel, in these strange days, that the car landscape is thing’s moving is on the back of a truck. But also: in the grand shifting at impossible speed, old certainties sinking beneath sweep of history, maybe it’s actually shaping up pretty well? the waves, strange new realities rising in their place. But cut through the noise, and the fundamentals remain unchanged. “IN TERMS OF LAYOUT, EVEN We’re not tooling around in autonomous hover-pods. Cars are GENERAL SILHOUETTE, MINI AND still car-shaped, they’re still operated by arms and legs. Below QASH ARE BASICALLY TWINS” the frantic surface, the tectonic plates shift slowly. Sam Philip is the TopGear telly script editor, and a TG mag and website regular for 15 years. Once wrote a Vauxhall Corsa joke that Paddy McGuinness described as “not totally crap” Need more of the TopGear telly show in your life? All episodes are now free to stream on BBC iPlayer T O P G E A R . C O M › M A R C H 2 0 2 3 029

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Jaguar joining the Formula E circus is for absolutely no good reason, says Paul Horrell ILLUSTRATION: PAUL RYDING Jaguar launched its 2023 Formula E effort recently. I went to which means made in small numbers. We have no evidence the party. Well, I didn’t. I went to the press briefing beforehand Jaguar has the slightest idea how to do the part of ‘luxury’ that and became so downcast I departed, no longer in a party mood. goes beyond the product, the edifice of ‘brand experience’ that Having listened to the briefing and asked a few questions, I makes customers feel special and strokes their egos. couldn’t see why Jaguar was bothering with Formula E at all. On the contrary, it might even be harmful to the brand’s future. I asked Jaguar’s executive director of product development Thomas Müller how many models Jaguar will build and what Why have a racing team when JLR is driving Jaguar into the they’d be like, and however many times I rephrased the line of ground? All the current range is on life support. No, that’s the questioning he wouldn’t be specific. All he really said was an wrong expression. These cars’ lives are not really being supported. enigmatic, “You can’t compare the Jaguars with anything. They’ll All the combustion cars are getting older and the facelifts and be a copy of nothing. They won’t be stuck in the past.” But then updates are threadbare. That’s because they die soon: from 2025 he said how much he enjoys driving the E-type. Sorry, we all love Jaguar will be reinvented as a modern luxury electric-only brand. it too but I really think leaning on that stuff will be Jaguar’s undoing. This company has spent too long remembering the Fortunately there is a modern luxury electric-only car, the rakish sports cars of old white men. It needs to move on. I-Pace. But it too has been abandoned. Which is odd because it’s delightful. It came out in 2018, before the Audi e-tron. The e-tron There was lots of talk about Formula E being good for has since been given a choice of two battery sizes, two body styles technology transfer. It teaches engineers to work fast, and it will and three power outputs. And then it had a facelift and more give critical lessons about energy efficiency, battery software capacity for both those batteries and even a new name, Q8 e-tron. and thermal management, and high voltage electronics. Not The Jaguar meantime remains one model. And that’s it. component transfer to the road cars, but knowledge transfer. Jaguar steadfastly refuses to give us clues about the upcoming But the team shouldn’t have been called Jaguar. If they won’t range of cars, apart from the label ‘modern luxury’, and expensive, talk of the road cars, the racecars will be all the world knows of Jaguar. And therefore the world might naturally assume that “JAGUAR STEADFASTLY REFUSES Jaguar isn’t about “modern electric luxury”, but instead bone- TO GIVE US CLUES ABOUT THE shaking carbon-fibre sports cars. Why not tell us a little about the UPCOMING RANGE OF CARS” new road cars – which despite the Formula E entry don’t even have ‘sporty’ in the new brand definition – so we don’t get the wrong end of the stick? It’s not like disclosure will harm sales of the current bunch. They’re moribund already. TG’s eco-conscious megabrain, Paul Horrell, is one of the world’s most respected and experienced car writers. Has attended every significant car launch since the Model T T O P G E A R . C O M › M A R C H 2 0 2 3 031

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