With Top Gear in a state of … transition, it seems as if someone forgot to shut the Stig down before packing up the set. He’s still out on the track, banging out hot laps on the test track with whatever he can get his hands on. His latest track toy has been the Hennessy VelociRaptor, a mad sport truck more designed to rip through road unpaved.
Hennessey has taken Ford’s already tremendously fun F-150 Raptor and added — among other things — a 2.9-liter supercharger to the Raptor’s 6.2-liter V8. This brings the output of the monstrous engine up from 411 horsepower to a mighty 600 ponies.
Fully loaded with a spare tire in the truck bed, an optional winch, and light bar accessories, the VelociRaptor also has a damp track to contend with. Not that any of this is going to hinder the Stig in any way. It is programmed to do one thing: Drive things. Fast.
This is evident in even the first turn as his Stigness chucks over 6,000 pounds of truck through the bend, tires and suspension desperately fighting the conditions. Liberal application of the extra power on hand gets the VelociRaptor to slide sideways around hammerhead corner shortly thereafter.
After much struggling to keep the truck in check, the finally crosses the line in … well, we don’t know. The guy who usually does that part isn’t there anymore.
The VelociRaptor really showed its prowess in this most recent, albeit truncated series, when co-host Richard Hammond was left alone on a mountain in British Columbia, prompting the other two hosts to recover him. While James May drove the Chevrolet Silverado, Jeremy Clarkson, appropriately, drove the very shout-y, yellow, and ridiculously overpowered Velociraptor. It did well to trudge through the mountain snow until a tire punctured and began shredding off… heck it did well even as the oafish presenter soldiered on in that state.
While the future of Top Gear cloudy, we at least feel comforted that, no matter what happens, the Stig will still be out there, endlessly looping the track.
Apple won the PC market’s worst quarter, but that’s not the entire story. It won the race by stumbling less than everyone else.
PC makers shipped just 57 million computers worldwide in Q3, which might look good, but it’s a 21% year-over-year plunge (via Counterpoint Research). And despite Apple’s Mac shipments falling by 11%, to 5.6 million, its market share rose from 8.7% to 9.8%. How did that happen?
Update (October 22 23:54 PT): In response to our query, GM clarified that offline recording support is already available on eligible vehicles. Like Tesla's Sentry Mode, it requires owners to connect a USB drive to save incident recordings, which can be viewed on the vehicle's infotainment screen. The upcoming Connected Cameras feature will build on this by giving owners remote access to these recordings via the revamped OnStar app, allowing them to check footage without walking out to their car.
General Motors has announced plans to add a new Connected Cameras feature to its OnStar service starting next year, giving drivers a way to monitor parked vehicles remotely and capture footage of certain incidents.
Missing out on the self-driving future is a tough pill to swallow, especially as a car enthusiast. But that is what Tesla handed us on Wednesday, without a hint of mercy.
During its October 21, 2026 earnings call, Elon Musk told investors the Cybercab is meant mainly as a ride service. Further, nearly all of them will be owned and managed by Tesla.