BBC Top Gear Magazine February 2025

Editor-in-chief @jack_rix @rixjack jack.rix@bbctopgearmagazine.com It’s been a tough month. The Rix household just changed its supermarket delivery service from Ocado to Tesco (the cost of living crisis is real – and yes I’m worried that my kumquats won’t be quite as plump), but what I didn’t do was stomp around the house swearing at my wife for giving our weekly groceries a radical rebrand. You can see where I’m going with this… Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but watching the pile-on reaction to Jaguar’s rebirth and subsequent Type 00 concept car has, at times, made it a bit embarrassing to be a human. Do I think Jag should be ignoring its entire heritage? No. Do I think the company needed a total rethink? Yes. My point is, none of…

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Dan Bythewood always wanted to be an F1 driver and having spent most of his life chasing his dream, and 15 years rebuilding a BAR-Honda, it’s nearly ready to race. He grew up in Long Island in the 1980s but caught the bug for F1 on Wide World of Sports, about 40 years before Netflix made it cool. A self confessed “Senna guy”, he couldn’t wait to start driving. So under the pretence of visiting his grandparents, he flew out to Florida to get his licence two years earlier than was allowed in New York. Hey, if you see a gap, etc. Then he snuck out to his first track day in an MR2 Turbo… not knowing his folks were waiting for him in the pitlane. Uh oh. To his…

FAREWELL, A90 SUPRA, WE… KNEW thee very well, actually. Because the reveal took seven years and arrived 21 years after the A80 dump-valved itself into the horizon. Now, after just five short years on sale, Toyota has confirmed this jet black special edition is the last one. Hence why it’s called the ‘Final Edition’, with just 300 available worldwide. It’s bowing out via a series of updates that draw inspiration from the A90’s competition pedigree. Stuff like drifting, endurance and even NASCAR, as well as the championship winning GT4. So it’s more powerful. Much more powerful. That (BMW) 3.0-litre straight six – matched up exclusively to a (BMW) six speed manual gearbox – has been treated to a new intake air path and ‘optimised’ engine controls to somehow liberate a…

CAT DOW TG’S STAFF WRITER RECKONS THIS IS A FITTING GOODBYE With its sizeable power upgrade to 429bhp, track honed suspension, an unconfirmed but likely.sub 4.0secs Q-62mph sprint time and a bodykit that screams Supra in a silen t 'I’ll let my exhaust do the talking’ kinda way, the A90 Final Edition is spot on. It’s almost flawless. Whether by fate or design Toyota’s even left a little headroom for the modding community to do its thing. Since, the 1970s, the Supra has epitomised power in a package that’s easy on the eye. Butall good things must come to an end, and with the Supra’s cuttlike foilo wing, goodbye was inevitable. Fortunately, the Final Edition has enough going on to keep the legacy of the Supra alive for a bit longer.…