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Top Gear
21-07-2025
- Automotive
- Top Gear
Apple's new CarPlay Ultra: hit or miss?
Apple's new CarPlay Ultra: hit or miss? Does it create a more seamless user experience, or will it make car manufacturers lazier with infotainment? Skip 4 photos in the image carousel and continue reading Turn on Javascript to see all the available pictures. 1 / 4 Jack Rix: 'At last, the Apple Car has arrived! Sort of...' If you're already hooked on Apple, and a user of CarPlay, you're going to love this even more. Everything is integrated and shot through with Apple's hallmark clarity and familiarity – something that carmakers are so hit and miss with when it comes to their in-house software. By the way, you can always switch back to the manufacturer's UI if you prefer, or MkI CarPlay if you must. Advertisement - Page continues below I'm pumped to see how other manufacturers, especially those with multiple screens measured in acres, interpret this new found freedom. At last, the Apple Car has arrived! Sort of... Ollie Kew: 'Now we can't have a bespoke digital experience' First, they came for our lovely, uncomplicated physical dials, with their characterful clock faces and subtle illumination that didn't erase every trace of serotonin. Now we can't even have a bespoke digital experience, because all Apple's interior invasion will promote is carmakers getting even lazier with infotainment. Why flush away trillions on a brand-specific skin for each readout when half the global smartphone population is going to default to a rounded corners playschool interface? I'm not an Android user, by the way. I just miss a time when car interiors felt special. Advertisement - Page continues below 18 minutes 32 seconds Top Gear Newsletter Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter. Look out for your regular round-up of news, reviews and offers in your inbox. Get all the latest news, reviews and exclusives, direct to your inbox. Success Your Email*
Top Gear
10-07-2025
- Automotive
- Top Gear
Here's how you service a V10-engined Lexus LFA supercar
Advertisement Video Need to coax your ten-cylinder unicorn back into the world of the living? Here's how you do it 17 minutes 43 seconds Congratulations on owning one of the best supercars ever made! Should you have absolutely won in life an own a V10-engined Lexus LFA, and then somehow left it languishing in your collection for a while, you might be interested in what it takes to maintain a V10-engined Lexus LFA. And spoiler alert: it is not as simple as driving it to a back-alley garage and lobbing them a couple of hundred quid. No, it requires something a little more... specialised. Top Gear's Ollie Kew tags along to witness the most famous LFA of them all being slowly coaxed back into life. Includes such hits as: jacking it up! Taking off the wheels! Changing the oil! Advertisement - Page continues below So be still thine beating hearts and click above to discover all... You might like Advertisement - Page continues below Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter. Look out for your regular round-up of news, reviews and offers in your inbox. Get all the latest news, reviews and exclusives, direct to your inbox. Lexus Video Supercars Retro Top Gear Advice News
