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1 This is the best 30 million you’ll ever spend • Singer and Williams create the ultimate air-cooled 911... maybe the ultimate car, full stop
2 Bugatti is building a new hypercar • Get ready for an entirely rebodied Chiron with an appetite for corners
3 Audi’s R8 special has an exceedingly long name • Carbon, downforce and specialness aplenty for ultra-limited R8
4 Bonneville Bullet • Volkswagen has built a very mad Jetta for Bonneville
5 Lambo sets a new ’Ring record • Move over, Porsche 911 GT2 RS – the Aventador SVJ is now the fastest production car around the Nordschleife, and we’ve driven it
6 Audi’s new Q3 isn’t just a smaller Q5 • Audi takes brave pills, makes Q3 not quite identical to its bigger brother
7 McLaren to go all hybrid and replace P1 by 2025 • Senna, BP23 then a true P1 successor – McLaren reveals seven-year plan
8 Lego has managed to turn the Aston DB5 into a minger • Bond’s favourite ride given the Lego treatment, results are mixed
9 LFA and GT86 have a baby… • There’s a bit of new info on Toyota’s turbo sports coupe. You might like it
10 Aston Martin is no longer just a car company • Zero emissions, vertical take-off and a 200km range. If Bond had a licence, this is what he’d fly
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View • #17: Hugo Spowers, Founder of Riversimple
MY LIFE IN CARS David Coulthard • You might have heard of DC, MBE, even if you’re not a ‘Twynosi’. The F1 driver and commentator does a pit walk
ECO CAR FALSE STARTS
CRYSTALLISED THINKING
CALIBURNUS : MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
FAKE NEWS ? • Overheard on the internet, so it must be true...
BREITLING NAVIMETER 8 B01 CHRONOGRAPH 43
PLAN B • Across America in the Focus ST. No interstates allowed Issue 232 – this month in 2012
Torque show • Aston Martin DBS Superleggera Due: November 2018 R 5 650 000
SPECIFICATION
Class lasts forever • Mercedes-Benz C200 sedan R613 500
SPECIFICATION
Two-thirds Kuga is a triple • Ford Ecosport 1.0 EcoBoost Titanium 6-speed auto R339 900
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Innovation through Innovision • Volkswagen Touareg 3.0 TDI Executive R1 088 200
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Schporty Intentions • BMW M2 Competition DCT R1 037 506
SPECIFICATION
How Urus will save the V12 supercar • Lamborghini Urus R3 495 000
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The business behind competition • BMW M5 Competition R2 062 307
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Blade Runner • Toyota C-HR 1.2T Luxury CVT R422 100
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TG GOES TO THE MOVIES • Welcome to movie land, where there’s a new Mustang in town. Time to re-live the greatest car chase cinema has ever seen... this is Bullitt, reloaded
BULLITT FILM FACTS
THE BOSS • Still haulin’ ass on her 50th birthday – get ready for a meet and greet with movie car royalty
I BOUGHT ONE... • CONTRIBUTING EDITOR PAT DEVEREUX THOUGHT ALL HIS BULLITT FANTASIES HAD COME TRUE... HE WAS WRONG
THE BEST MOVIE CARS EVER • Imagine movies without cars. It’s a bleak place. So come with us and celebrate the best (and worst) unions of celluloid and 98 RON
STUNT DRIVING 101 • STARRING MARK HIGGINS
THE BEST MOVIE CAR STUNTS
ANATOMY OF A STUNT CAR • STARRING JAGUAR C-X75, FROM SPECTRE
THE WORST MOVIE CARS EVER
Financial fork in the road...
