We round up this week's hottest stories, pictures and videos for you to devour in your Friday lunch break

As the working week draws to a close, you no doubt want to catch up with everything that has happened in the world of motoring over the past few days. 

So we’re bringing you our favourite videos, stories, photos and quotes of the week all in one place. Here are today’s picks:

HOT NEWS

Downsizing seems to be the order of the day, but nobody told the BMW M5. The latest version - revealed this week - adopts a dark new look, various software tweaks and a new infotainment display, but keeps its thumping great V8 motor. That means the 616bhp Competition variant we have here in the UK lives on, and should be even more pleasing to drive than it was before. 

2021 BMW M5 gets fresh look and new technology

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

The Lamborghini Huracan is one of the most exciting supercars in the world, taking its power from a suitably dramatic 5.2-litre V10 engine with not a turbocharger in sight.

But previously it's left us wanting a little more in the dynamic department, compared to, say, the Ferrari 488 Pista and McLaren 720S. Could the lively new RWD version change all that? We strap in to the rear-driven missile and attack some UK tarmac to find out.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

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With concept car looks, a plush interior and a proper 'last-of-its-kind' V8 motor, the Lexus LC500 really is in a class of its own. Add an exclusive new styling pack and some gorgeous Terrane Khaki paint, and it's a real winner, surely? Well, actually, its GT-cum-sports car billing means it has to bat off the Porsche 911 at one end of the scale, and the new BMW M850i at the other. So, can it? We found out. 

Lexus LC 500 Limited Edition 2020 UK review

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“Anyone looking for first-hand proof of the world-class engineering capabilities of the modern car industry could use this as a fine example of how effectively expectations can now be exploded by cars like this, surely even among those with the means to afford life’s finer things.”​

 

Well, well, well. Here we have a 2.3-tonne luxury cruiser that packs all the niceties of your average mansion but can carve apexes with the best of them. The V8 has always been our engine of choice for the Bentley Continental GT, but what of the new convertible version? We hit British roads for a taste of how much sporting potential and decadence you get for £160,000.

Bentley Continental GT Convertible V8 2020 UK review

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When Autocar exclusively reviewed the McLaren F1 in 1994, our testers were sure they'd never get their hands on anything faster. Then, in 2005, Bugatti unleashed its 250mph Veyron. The rest, as they say, is history.

The Super Sport version upped the ante yet further, and when we took it for a spin, it broke every record on our books. Read the full review below.

Bugatti Veyron 2005-2015 review

POPULAR OPINION

To the Ship of Theseus and Trigger’s Broom, now add Matt Prior’s Bicycle. 

Our columnist is plotting a radical overhaul of his trusty mountain bike, but wonders whether a raft of shiny new parts will make it a different machine altogether. The same applies to Aston Martin's 'Continuation' DB5s, which look old but, well, aren't. How best to preserve authenticity, he wonders?

Matt Prior: When is a DB5 not a DB5?

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7 April 2020

The nicest 5 series ? Especially the 535 i and M5 pre-facelift.

 

 

15 April 2020

  is that the same ford Biff had in back to the future?

17 April 2020

China should be treated as a pariah state for all sorts of reasons: outrageous copycat car designs, totalitarian government with an appalling human rights record, releasing coronaviruses.....

22 April 2020
streaky wrote:

China should be treated as a pariah state for all sorts of reasons: outrageous copycat car designs, totalitarian government with an appalling human rights record, releasing coronaviruses.....

while some of what you say might or might not be actually true, what your saying about the Coronavirus could be scaled up to something more sinister.....

22 April 2020
streaky wrote:

China should be treated as a pariah state for all sorts of reasons: outrageous copycat car designs, totalitarian government with an appalling human rights record, releasing coronaviruses.....

 

You should have stayed stuck under that rock from which you crawled out from..."releasing"?. You are a significantly dangerous foolish moron, who should be stamped on promptly. "coronaviruses" plural?...name the others apart from covid19?. Pariah, a euphemism for YOU.

289

27 April 2020

....since you seem to have set yourself up as the Autocar 'official' English language moderator....you may like to review your own offering! - "from which you crawled out from"

Really? this qualifies you to be dismissive and judgemental !

28 April 2020
289 wrote:

....since you seem to have set yourself up as the Autocar 'official' English language moderator....you may like to review your own offering! - "from which you crawled out from"

Really? this qualifies you to be dismissive and judgemental !

 

You are correct, though it detracts not a jot from my choosing to post exactly what form of words I like...just as you do...now see below...:)

7 May 2020

Take it slowly - you are f****** idiot. Why? Because Coronaviruses is a scientific term for a group of viruses. And yes, it can be used in plural form.

289

27 April 2020

....totally agree.

Ignore TiS, hes a twat with nothing remotely useful to say.

28 April 2020
289 wrote:

....totally agree.

Ignore TiS, hes a twat with nothing remotely useful to say.

 

Punctuation has no less a place than grammar, so..."hes"?...a slip from your perfect record...try either he's or he is. Now we shall all find out if you are as quick to acknowledge your error and my post, pointing it out, as I was with your comment. Clock is ticking...

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