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He particularly liked the superb power-to-weight ratio and the fact that with its all-wheel drive and limited-slip differential it made him feel “like a driving God.” Lexus LFA: “The noise beggars belief. This is not a car that shouts or barks or growls. It howls. Up there, on the moors, it sounded otherworldly. Like a werewolf that had put its foot in a gin trap.” But of course, Clarkson was won over by the “slayer-of-worlds” 635 horsepower (“What a rush”), the motorsport cornering sophistication even on bumpy, potholed roads, the familiar carbon-fibre-clad interior and the understated exterior. Like every other car maker on the planet, Ferrari has started embracing electrification. There was the LaFerrari hypercar with F1-derived HY-KERS hybrid tech, and then the SF90 Stradale plug-in hybrid. In 2025 we’ll get the company’s first pure-electric vehicle and by 2030, four out of every Ferrari sold will be hybrid or fully-electric.

While he found the interior good — even practical — the seats he described as offering little lateral support for the driver, and the optional extras were expensive, making the Roma not especially good value. But those grumbles aside, it is a Ferrari Clarkson can get behind.But Clarkson said there was a significant caveat: because the hybrid power is really there as a result of government policymakers, he said, “Ferrari didn’t build [the 296 GTB] to be the best it could be — but built it to be the best current political thinking says it can be.”

According to Clarkson this G82 M4 Competition M also has: “the best seats ever to envelop my nether regions”; 90% of the drama of early M cars with “10,000 times” the refinement; two “perfect” driving modes that you can switch between via a button on the steering wheel; steering so good “it’s like you’re being pulled around on God’s apron strings”; an infotainment system even he could operate; and rear seats and a boot that are genuinely usable. Are these the 23 ugliest cars ever made? Gran Turismo movie review The 31 most ridiculous car names ever › More here... The only problems are that if he wanted a sports car he’d get a convertible, and because James May owns a standard Alpine A110, Clarkson couldn’t admit that it’s good in his co-presenter’s presence. He also found fault with the appearance of his test car, which he said caused him to “burst out laughing.” Ferrari’s press demonstrator was finished in the classic red paint but it also came with “a massive blue stripe on the roof and bonnet. The rear valance was blue and so were the wheels, but the rest of the car was red. It looked absolutely ridiculous.”A BMW M4 should be rear-wheel-drive, according to Clarkson, and perhaps the styling “is a bit off”, but other than those two quibbles he really couldn’t find anything to fault this car and awarded it five stars – the only model to receive the full complement this year. Clarkson believes the passion for cars, and for driving, seems to have boiled away. Now all people worry about is how easily they can power their devices. This is a car that made me laugh out loud. I took it into my fields one morning and made a terrible mess, but I didn’t care because it was a complete riot.” 2. BMW M550i xDrive Jeremy Clarkson found driving in Cornwall so slow he had time to count the hand stitches in his Bentley Continental GT Mulliner While he didn’t really like the looks of the new model or the interior touchscreen that “baffles and annoys everyone over the age of twelve,” he found it powerful, good to drive and, as has always been a characteristic of the Golf GTI, just as comfortable on a hard B-road blast as it is for sedate, everyday driving.

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