Chris and Freddie check out a new hot hatch from Honda and an old hot hatch from Peugeot. Paddy tries to get a team of...

Some say that the original Volkswagen Golf GTI is the one to go for if you have a soft spot for classic hot hatchbacks. Others would...

Perhaps the best hot hatch ever has been brought up to date, thanks to Tolman - form an orderly queue...

You’ve seen Freddie drive Tolman’s development car on Top Gear TV, now check out one someone actually bought...

Peugeot’s well-loved 205 GTI has been given a modern-day update, ‘reimagining’ this iconic 1980s hot hatch. Courtesy of...

Today’s best hot hatches originate from the Far East, but 30 years ago Europe was the epicentre. So how does one of the icons...

‘It feels like a 205 GTI after a few months at the gym: fitter and more focused,’ said my review. ‘You can push harder in corners, while the...

The Peugeot 205 GTI not only roamed the streets during the 1980s, it ruled them. Respectful of its era-defining legacy, Chris Tolman’s restomod is modest yet full of surprises...

The hot hatch, aka high-performance hatchback, is a religion in the UK, and the Peugeot 205 GTI has sacred status. The original Volkswagen Golf GTI set the template in the 1970s, making British ...

In the late 1970s, Des O’Dell, the head of the Chrysler-Rootes competition department, wanted to take the company into top-level rallying. The ideal winning formula for a rally car was simple...

Remember the 1980s? The music? The fashion? The Hoff bringing down the Berlin Wall at the very end of it? The thing is, when you revisit all that “rad” stuff it’s rarely as good in reality as it is in memory ...

It isn’t just the impressive expansion, but the sheer variety of work that Tolman is successfully involved in that’s really impressive. There is of course the auto engineering that began it all—everything from...

Has there been a hot hatch more eulogised than the 205 GTI? Doubt it. Which means this one is even more special. Tolman Engineering has reconditioned the 1.6-litre four-pot, given it a lighter flywheel...

Chopping 26 contenders from this year’s Top Gear Speed Week down to five was hard enough… now we have to pick a winner. It’s time to unleash the...

Pandemic leads to shift in emphasis for former British GT race team British GT race winners Tolman will debut its freshly built FIA specification Lotus Elite at this year’s Silverstone Classic. Its entry in the RAC Historic Tourist Trophy marks the first time the Warwickshire-based specialist has competed at the event since 2014. Craig Dolby […]

When it comes to modifying cars, or almost any project for that matter, the question is: where do you start? For masters of procrastination, of which I am a skilled practitioner, that question can help you...

What I want tacked onto the side of my multi-million-pound house is an immaculate, fully-equipped workshop. We’re talking two- and four-post lifts, a wall entirely covered in fresh toolboxes, an uncluttered bench and retractable airlines falling from the ceiling. If I have to sacrifice, say, the kitchen to make this happen, so be it. Pop …

British GT race winners Tolman will debut its freshly built FIA specification Lotus Elite at this year’s Silverstone Classic this weekend. Its entry into the RAC Historic Tourist Trophy marks the first .…