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1 day ago | 
topgear.com.ph | Vijay Pattni |Anton Andres
When the Volvo EX60 arrives next year, it will debut a “major improvement” to one of motoring’s oldest and simplest safety measures. Once again, the Swedish carmaker has sought to improve the humble seat belt, and this time, it’s got sensors.
Lots of sensors, each one feeding back real-time traffic and situational data into the EX60’s brain so that it can better distribute the load of the belt – adapting it to an individual – in the unfortunate event of an accident.
PHOTO BY Volvo
How?
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1 day ago | 
topgear.com.ph | Phil Iwaniuk |Anton Andres
CD Projekt Red has just shown off new gameplay footage of its blockbuster RPG The Witcher IV at the ‘State of Unreal’ livestream, and you’ll probably want to sit down for this one.
Ready? Sure? Okay, go ahead and watch the livestream footage below and jump to 30:00.
Watch: State of Unreal 2025 Official Livestream
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6 days ago | 
topgear.com.ph | Mike Channell |Anton Andres
Mario Kart, but in an open world. It’s one of those combinations that didn’t seem blindingly obvious until Nintendo went and did it, at which point suddenly it made perfect sense. For the developers, it must have been a moment akin to the first time someone accidentally elbowed a salt shaker into a batch of caramel and invented the best flavor on the planet.
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1 week ago | 
topgear.com.ph | Jason Barlow |Anton Andres
When is a BMW Touring not a Touring? When it’s a Speedtop, an M8-based, £500k (P37 million) limited run special that’s just been unveiled at the annual festival of loveliness that is the Villa d’Este Concours d’Elegance. “The BMW Concept Speedtop is characterized first of all by its profile,” head of BMW Group Design Adrian van Hooydonk explains. “It is unique in the automotive industry.
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1 week ago | 
topgear.com.ph | Joe Holding |Anton Andres
For the second time in its life, Michael Schumacher’s F2001 has become the most expensive Ferrari F1 car ever sold at auction, after going under the hammer for £13.4m big ones (or about P100.56-M) in Monaco this weekend.
Rewind seven-and-a-half years and this exact chassis fetched about half that – $7.5m, or closer to $10m today – when it became the most expensive F1 car in history.
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1 week ago | 
topgear.com.ph | Vijay Pattni |Anton Andres
Well, if it ain’t broke and all that. With that, a series of updates to its all-conquering and quietly excellent Land Rover Defender, chief among which are a new set of head and tail lights.
The front ones apparently feature new “signature detailing” and fog lights as standard, while the rears are flush with smoked lenses.
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1 week ago | 
topgear.com.ph | Greg Potts |Anton Andres
Here’s the plan: We get ourselves a Honda NSX-R and hold the world ransom for—dramatic pause and pinky finger to corner of mouth—one million dollars.
Yep, Dr. Evil would certainly approve, because the NA2 Honda NSX is now officially a $1-million car.
PHOTO BY TopGear.com
That’s because this 2003 NSX-R just sold at Broad Arrow’s Villa d'Este auction for $1,064,257 (around P59.4 million).
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1 week ago | 
topgear.com.ph | Vijay Pattni |Anton Andres
BMW has given its baby M car a helluva lot of horsepower. Meet the brand-new—and not-really-a-baby-anymore—BMW M2 CS, a two-door, rear-wheel-drive German sports coupe with 526hp. Five hundred and twenty-six!
That’s 82hp more than the old M2 CS, a car that precisely nobody got out of thinking, “Hmm, bit underpowered, that, could use a little more wahey.” And boy, is there plenty of wahey.
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1 week ago | 
topgear.com.ph | Vijay Pattni |Anton Andres
The next Nissan GT-R could very well be a hybrid, according to Nissan brand ambassador Hiroshi Tamura. It could also very well take another 10 years to get here, but more on that later.
Tamura-san, former GT-R product planner and one of the R35’s ‘fathers’, told us that he’s not entirely sure Godzilla’s return will be powered entirely by electrons.
PHOTO BY Toby Thyer
“I’m not sure it will be 100% EV,” he said. “I believe Nissan will get customer opinions on the next GT-R.
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2 weeks ago | 
topgear.com.ph | Cat Dow |Anton Andres
BMW has started testing fancy all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) in a prototype i7 with its tech mate Solid Power. Over the next several months, the two companies will work out how to get these fancy batteries to handle extreme temperatures and pressures, out of BMW’s Cell Manufacturing Competence Center (CMCC) in Parsdorf, Germany.
