TopGear.com Awards 2022: The Greatest Cars Of The Year Crowned

hello and welcome to the top gear.com

awards

2022

, it's that time of

year

again where we name the best

cars

on the planet, according to us most of them look very shiny but I don't want to give the game away too soon and it's that's why the camera is looking at the messy part of the studio. I haven't really thought about this, it doesn't matter, we have 19 trophies to go around, we're all busy people, so let's get on with it. so we will do it and we start strong our first award is the hypercar of the

year

and it goes to the Koenigsegg tinder, take a look at this if you don't know Christian bomb Koenigsegg and his boutique hypercar company for a foreign gift, congratulations to the yes, congratulate me for not crash and our next award is the hot hatch of the year, a segment that is decreasing a little in numbers but not in quality, if we take into account our next winner, and that winner is this one, the new one, much less ugly.

Honda Civic Type R and this is what happened when Chris Harris got one on the Top Gear test track. The most powerful delinquent stop configuration ever. 324 horsepower from a two-liter turbocharged engine. Well, that's only a few more horsepower than the last one, but. It will still run to 170 miles per hour to 60 in five seconds. I mean, how much more do you want? That's huge for a handsome little hatchback. Chris Harris is proving that there's still nothing like an old-school hot hatch, but don't go away. on stage still Civic Type R because there's more, you've won another award, you're also Chris Harris Car of the Year, not exactly a surprise after seeing that clip, but here's Chris to explain why my car of the year for

2022

is the Civic.

Reasons why the Type R, first of all, I'm very happy that Honda still has the balls to make a hot hatch, no one else seems to want to do it and it reminds me how well suited that type of car is. to UK roads, many roads in fact. I love the nod to his heritage. The red interior. The Alcantara. The little metal gear lever. It's a car that makes me smile. It's just the right size in a world where everything seems a little excessive and overpowered. Simply. It seems to hit the nail on the head. I loved driving it and when we filmed it in Dunsfold I found myself misbehaving and that's what really matters.

Next up is our instant icon award, which goes to a car whose design blew us away the moment we laid eyes on it and it goes to this beautiful thing here this Hyundai Envision 74 concept how ridiculously cool is this it actually looks like a A little like a DeLorean, right? Except it's really good and not only does it look tasty, no, it can drive itself on the track like Ollie who discovered the foreign welcome to Bilsterberg, probably the scariest racetrack I've ever seen. you've heard of, so it's a good place to drive a Priceless concept car, of which there is only one driveable in the world.

I'm a former military base and I'm on a hydrogen powered weapon, yes concept car price, so what happens if you set it to drift? I'm going to try to do it. Three and a half million views that the videos had on YouTube or qtube as we like to call it now and from one. from one sports car to another, except this one, which you can actually buy in theory and for less than 30 grand because our sports car of the year is the Toyota gr 86 and here is Mr. Ollie's married couple taking on one in Wales. Oh my god, I could do this for days, that's what I'm talking about, the core balance this thing has is brilliant, so along the way, what a small thing this is, but I assure you, why did it take so long?

Toyota order it? In fact, they have. Now it is said that it may only be on sale for two years, next for some Ying to our affordable Toyota Yang, it's time for our noise of the year coming through the extravagant back of the track, only 2 .5 million pounds Pagani Huayra R through its nature. 6 liter aspirated V12, listen to this good foreigner, Sir, the next one is by far the best title of the night, the MPV MVP of the year, genius. Now I think minivans are due a big comeback and this bus slash fan slash minivan is leading the charge, yes the winner is the all electric VW ID buzz and here's a reminder of what happened when we took one to meet the VW Camper faithful in Como.

You can keep your Ferrari 296 or your Lotus Amira, this is probably the most important car of 2022. Because it has the ability to change our perception of what a family car can be. It almost looks futuristic but elegant and modern. It's really nice to be able to turn on the heat all the time with the air conditioning. All the time as a camper you know great options, yes, it has the modern nuances that I really like, but it is still very reminiscent of the foreign original and now, for our time of year, no, not when Jeff counts but the national one. anthem at the Christmas party, although it was undeniably impressive, was when this little all-electric car turned on its fans that dragged it onto the road and Max Chilton rocketed out of the Goodwood hill climb in 39.08 seconds faster than any car that would have If you haven't seen the footage from that full race, head over to Top Gear.com immediately and no, we haven't previewed the footage if you haven't heard of McMurtry launching ahead of the Goodwood Festival of Speed ​​this year.

Now you've moved on to Freddie Flintoff's favorite new car of the year, he once again studied the rules and then completely ignored them, but here's Freddie to explain why he chose a Peugeot 205 GTI. My car of the year for 2022 is the 205 GTI. It's almond. and I know people say it's not a new car but it's a fighter mod and I have to admit that of all the cards I've driven in this series it's the one I've had the most fun with. I wanted one when I was 19 years old. 20 I could. I'm not insured and it's my first time driving one and it was a real pleasure when I got in.

Didn't disappoint on the Dunsfold track. It was beautiful, no gadgets, none of the high-tech stuff, just a The proper car wasn't as fast as a modern hot hatch, um, but the thing is, it was agile and in the corners it just didn't want to let go, it just It would get stuck and keep going the harder I pushed it, better driving I think, could have gotten a little more out of it too. A disadvantage of the 205 GTI tournament is that you buy 45 Grand with the price of

cars

today, when you can get a Peuge or a family car for 60 Grand.

I don't think it's that bad. Next up is a big deal: our Manufacturer of the Year. Now this goes to a manufacturer that impressed us with the consistency of their cars. It also took a few small risks along the way and the winner is here: the Sportage blew it away. sales charts and then this line of electric cars that is expanding rapidly and leaving all the competition in the dust, things like the Nero EV, the ev6, ​​the ev6 GT with 570 horsepower and around the corner from the corner, the seven-seater ev-9, everything moves forward. to our performance car of the year award which was never really in doubt as this car took the win at Speed ​​Wheat which is our annual performance car of the year test which this year took place at Auto Draw Mosque in September and the winner is this one.

Ridiculously talented and ridiculously loud Porsche Cayman GT4 RS and here it is letting its hair down at Czech Republic Speed ​​Week in 2022. Take a deep breath because the big name is the Porsche 718 Kevin gc4 RF Portia has taken the best all-round sports car in the world. world, the Cayman featured the world's best sports car engine from a GT3 and, as expected, the results are spectacular, so why is the Cayman RS here? Well let's ask the car, yes, a pretty good argument, you have some good points, the time is right for a little less speed. and a little more sensible since we announce the hats of the year from the top gear.com family that go to this one, the new voxel Astra.

Now voxels have been as bland as cold porridge for quite some time, but it's amazing what a complete design rethink can do. It is not like this? The new mocha looks fantastic. This new Astra arguably looks even better. I mean, how is this? Even if it's a voxel. It's quite difficult to know. Isn't it with the blacked out badge on the front? In fact, I want one that has gasoline. engines diesel engines this is a plug-in hybrid and there will be a fully electric version next year, okay, the next award for Supercar of the year and for this it is the Ferrari 296 GTB, a car that came in a very close second to the Cayman GT4 RS In our recent Speed ​​Week test, what is it?

It's a mid-engine, rear-wheel drive V6 hybrid that uses a combination of gasoline and electrons to such devastating effect that it's hard to see how a human being could or would want to go faster, and just a warning. As for the clip below, if you don't like watching the tires fade away, you might want to look away now at the Ferrari 296 GTB, the entry-level mid-engine hybrid supercar. Entry-level supercar with 800 horsepower. This thing is so much fun and it's such a fucking powerful and sensational car, but if I have anything bad to say about the 296, it's not very affordable, but don't worry, that's where our next winner comes in, because the best deal of the year from Gear.com is the electric mg4.

It's not as quick as the 296 granted, but it does absolutely everything you could want from a practical electric family hatchback and gets the long-range spec you really want - this costs around £8,000 less than a VW ID3. See what we mean, trust the Chinese to draw the line firmly between the pigeons. Our next winner with prices starting at £99,375 isn't exactly a bargain but it's very luxurious, which is why the new Range Rover is our luxury car of the year. Jason Barlow floating around in one somewhere near San Francisco thinking the original Range Rover had a cabin that could be hosed down just fine in theory.

I'm not sure how many people would have thought that was a lovely car to drive - it still is, but this is next. level, I mean listen to that exactly, you could drop a pin on a show mat it would make more noise than that, even with 23 inch wheels the ride is pretty sublime and that's not all because Paddy the man in the People, McGuinness, it's a serial Range Rover. The owner himself also chose this car as his, Paddy's, his car of the year, to explain why my 2022 car of the year has to be the Range Rover.

Absolutely beautiful ticks all the boxes, especially if you want to drive an off-road car. It will cost you around 140 Grand, you will never cost it, but it has the capabilities. Chris and I take it off-road and it's very capable, but it's a beautiful thing to float in the seats, it's so comfortable and it has everything that car has. It really ticks all the boxes now, if you're the kind of person who's a little fed up with bigger, faster, heavier SUVs being literally everywhere, what did I tell you? There was a car that had genuine off-road capability, but all the speed and excitement of a mid-engined V10 supercar, yes, well that car now actually exists, which is why the award for the car we most look forward to driving in 2023 goes to Lamborghini Huracan Serato, roll the tape overseas, now we like Hurricanes here at Top Gear they have the looks, they have the handling and they have the noise that you don't have, most of them have four wheel drive, it's the ability to drive on a very bumpy back road at high speed so far because the Lamborghini Huracan Serato is a special stage Lamborghini that IMHO is almost perfect, there are only two

awards

left and the next one is our American Car of the Year, one piece of forbidden fruit that you can't buy in the UK, you can only buy it across the pond and it goes to the Ford F-150 Lightning and the all-electric version of the best-selling truck in the United States and it's much more than just starting the engine and charge the batteries; it's just a better F-150 period, so This is what happened when we drove one around Texas, thanks, that's the thing about a 40 minute EV charging stop, doesn't it always end up with some things that you do not need?

Do you think America is ready for an electric truck? traditional like people from Texas they like the power of an engine but you know this one has 580 horsepower north 60 4.3 I don't think you'll let me see the keys thank you and now is the moment we were all waiting for the car top gear.com of the year 2022. Previous winners include the 458 Italia, the BMW i8, the Fiesta ST and last year the Hyundai i20m and yes, it's another hot hatch winner, we quite like them around these parts because this year's 2022 car is The Honda Civic Type R, is a car that takes everything we love about its predecessor launched in 2017 and simply makes it a little more pleasing to the eye and it is a car that sweats the fine details, the quality of the seats, the shift of changes. the joy in the chassis is a classTotal masterful from top to bottom, so big congratulations to Honda and all our other winners here, a great crop.

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