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TG GP ‘09: the results

Posted by Paul Regan at 5:18 pm on Thursday August 27, 2009
Aston Martin V12 Vantage

So that’s it. Eighteen hours of mechanical torture across city, country and track in an army of 11 cars totalling 4,791bhp. And, as you’ll know if you’ve got a copy of Top Gear magazine, no winner.

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TG GP ’09: the poll

Posted by Paul Regan at 10:00 am on Thursday August 27, 2009

UPDATE: VOTING NOW CLOSED.
…so this post turns into an official results list for those that care about the numbers. For an easier-to-digest look at the results, follow this link.

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Lotus Evora

Posted by Paul Horrell at 11:44 am on Wednesday August 26, 2009

What an extraordinary company Lotus is. These few chaps from Norwich have managed, not for the first time, to build a car that does the very hardest things with transcendent brilliance.

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Ford Focus RS

Posted by Bill Thomas at 5:51 pm on Tuesday August 25, 2009
Focus RS

If there had to be a winner of this ‘group test’, if ‘group test’ is what you want to call it, then you could construct a valid argument for every one of the TG GP ‘09 cars to win.

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Lambo Murciélago SV

Posted by Tom Ford at 12:06 pm on Tuesday August 25, 2009

The SV is not a subtle car. As soon as it appears, childish you starts jabbering and capering about in your head: ‘Look! It’s got a massive wing! And look, the exhaust is a lozenge-shaped cave… And it’s so BIG, and WIDE and NOISY and orange’. You are reduced to a state of pure gawp.

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Stig Showdown: one day to go

Posted by Paul Regan at 12:20 pm on Friday August 21, 2009

UPDATE: Just one day to go before our TG GP ‘09 poll closes. If you’re not one of the 7,500 who have voted so far, get clicking.

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KTM X-Bow

Posted by Matt Master at 10:13 am on Friday August 14, 2009
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The alliance between X-Bow and self was uneasy, initially due to a certain physical discomfort, and latterly thanks to a repeat inability to actually keep it pointing in the right direction.

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This is going to be fast

Posted by Bill Thomas at 11:52 am on Thursday August 13, 2009
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On the cover of Top Gear magazine this month it says, ‘18 hours, 11 cars, 4,791bhp, our track and the ultimate driver’. But of course, it was much, much more than that.

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