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We Went To Jeremy Clarkson’s Pub, And Here’s What We Thought

We stopped by The Farmer’s Dog during its opening week to see what’s on offer

Celebrate The New V12 Aston By Rewatching One Of The Greatest Top Gear Films

Remember when Jeremy Clarkson took an emotional drive in the original V12 Vantage?

11 Times The Safety Car Was Anything But Safe

Bernd Maylander’s strange Aston crash ahead of the 2024 Italian Grand Prix was unusual, but it’s far from unheard of for the safety car to fly completely in the face of its name

The 10 Best Audi RS Cars Ever

We pick our 10 favourite cars to emerge from Audi Sport, masters of four-wheel drive performance, over the years

Here’s Your Chance To Help Develop Forza Motorsport

Forza Insiders is a new programme launched to give players the chance to test Motorsport updates ahead of their official releases

Monster Jam Showdown Review: Backflipping Into Mediocrity

Is Milestone’s latest virtual take on Monster Jam worth your time? We’ve been playing to find out

The Ariel E-Nomad Is An 896kg Electric Buggy Made Of Plants

The battery-powered Nomad is just a concept for now, but Ariel says it’s going to monitor customer response to this electric fun machine

There’s Another Sort-Of New Classic Land Rover Defender

The Classic Defender V8 by Works Bespoke is the latest in a line of factory-converted V8 specials and offers the greatest amount of personalisation yet

322bhp VW ID3 GTX Performance Costs Golf R Money

The fastest version of Volkswagen’s inaugural crack at an electric hot hatch starts at £46,225

China retail July 2024: BYD places 5 models in Top 6, smashes records as do Li Auto, NIO, Leapmotor

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The BYD Qin L is up to #5 in China in July We can share with you today All brands and All models retail sales data for China in July. Sales for the selection of vehicles included in this report edge up 2.9% year-on-year to 1,767,231 units. The year-to-date volume is also in positive at +2.2% to 11,148,670. BSCB is the only non-Chinese medium to cover both wholesales (ex-factory shipments) and retail sales data for China so you can get the most complete picture of the largest new car market in the world. Retail sales tend to give a more authentic picture of the market as they roughly correspond to registrations by end-customers and are more difficult to artificially boost with exports which can sometimes be the case for wholesales data. BYD (+48.9%) smashes its monthly volume record, beating its previous best achieved in June by almost 36,000 units. The Destroyer 05 (+187%), Seal (+65.2%), Seagull (+54.1%) push the brand up but once again its stratospheric level is reached thanks to a...