BBC Top Gear Magazine

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- Mercedes says there’s no AMG ‘Two’ in the works, to capitalise on the R&D secrets unlocked by the F1-engined ‘One’. A lighter ‘Minus One’ and circuitonl­y ‘One Track Mind’ remain unconfirme­d at this stage.

Launching Vietnamese car brand VinFast at the Paris motor show, ambassador David Beckham (really) opined: “It’s incredible, I mean, to create something in such a short space of time is really, it’s really incredible, you know, it really is. It’s beautiful. It’s sleek. It’s modern. It’s high tech. It’s premium. It’s incredible. Congratula­tions.” The latest prototype spotted scurrying around VW’s German workshops is a T-Roc crossover with a folding canvas roof. With the Beetle crushed and no Golf cabrio mooted, a crossover will be VW’s only soft-top. Are niches still niches when they’re mainstream? US buyers of the 2.7-tonne, 6.75-litre Rolls-Royce Cullinan will be forced to pay a $5k gas-guzzler tax, because it’s classed as a ‘station wagon’. Purchasers of the 660bhp Lambo Urus – which gets worse official economy – will not, as it’s officially ‘an SUV’. In other news, it may be too late to stop global warming.

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