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Gallery: Groundbreaking cars that changed the industry, part 1

Posted on 06/19/2026 by in TopGear

1) Benz Patent-Motorwagen PHOTO BY TopGear.com Right—hopefully, we don’t need to explain this one. While there were some semi-viable attempts to build self-propelled carriages as far back as the 1760s, the fact is that before the 1886 debut of Carl Benz’s Patent-Motorwagen, the only practical form of personal transportation had hooves. For most people, that…

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It’s watching you: This MB&F piece is a robot watch face with an attachable body

Posted on 06/19/2026 by in TopGear

Although MB&F does make watches, it’d probably push back at the notion that it’s a mere ‘watchmaker.’ Founded 20 years ago by Maximilian Büsser (and friends), it’s a self-styled ‘horological concept laboratory’ where avant-garde designs are crafted into something wearable. It makes all the sense in the world, then, that its latest creation, the Horological…

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This 911 GT3 Touring is a homage to the first-ever Porsche in the UK

Posted on 06/19/2026 by in TopGear

On the surface, this is but another special-edition Porsche 911, built to commemorate something or other, offering a special new bespoke colorway applied to one half of a single door handle, limited to 3.5 units, and yours for a few hundred million bucks. But dig deeper, and…okay, fine, it’s another special-edition Porsche 911. But this one…

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The Bovensiepen 05 GT is a lesson in how to make a classic Alpina

Posted on 06/19/2026 by in TopGear

This is the Bovensiepen 05 GT. It is a big, heavy, five-door hybrid V8 wagon with an astronomical amount of power and a design aesthetic crafted by a man who’s done an astronomically powerful British hypercar. So IYKYK. For those still catching up, this is the work of the family who started Alpina. Not to go…

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The plug-in hybrid BYD Atto 2 DM-i has just made its first PH appearance

Posted on 06/19/2026 by in TopGear

BYD Cars Philippines and ACMobility have set up shop at SM City Clark for the latest iteration of the BYD Tech Tour. Surprisingly, taking center stage is the BYD Atto 2 DM-i; we’ve seen the fully electric version at the 2026 Manila International Auto Show, but this plug-in hybrid configuration is something completely new. Color us…

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