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Manual gears and a V16 fill Top Gear's week

Jethro Bovingdon tries the BMW M3 CS Handschalter, joining Ollie Marriage's Bugatti factory visit and ride with Mate Rimac.

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Flat Out In The 1800hp V16 Bugatti Tourbillon! | 4K

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2:35An exposed Tourbillon chassis reveals the packaging and cooling challenges behind the hybrid powertrain.
3:48Rimac demonstrates 3D-printed components, including suspension wishbones and front crash structures.
12:02Marriage rides with Rimac on public French roads to experience the Tourbillon.
17:41Rimac explains that hybrid assistance makes the naturally aspirated V16 possible.
20:00Rear-wheel-drive mode lets Rimac demonstrate his requirement that the car drift smoothly.

Does a lighter, rear-wheel-drive M3 with a manual gearbox sound like the obvious enthusiast choice? Top Gear gives Jethro Bovingdon that question in "New BMW M3 CS Manual! The Perfect M3? | 4K," with price providing the less comfortable half of the proposition. The review has reached nearly half a million views since Wednesday.

It's the fresh arrival in a three-upload week whose biggest draw remains "Flat Out In The 1800hp V16 Bugatti Tourbillon! | 4K," now at roughly 2.8 million views. Ollie Marriage's visit offers more than a passenger-seat soundtrack: Mate Rimac walks him through exposed chassis, tightly packed cooling systems and 3D-printed components before taking him onto French roads.

Rimac's explanation turns the usual combustion-versus-electric argument sideways. "Basically, the hybrid is there to make this bonkers engine possible," he says. Later, he demonstrates another personal requirement: the Tourbillon must drift. Viewers are discussing the engine's sound and the contrast between Rimac's electric-car background and his commitment to this naturally aspirated V16.

The third upload, "Ad feature: How AITO Is Redefining Luxury," is an advertisement for AITO, covering its Paris Motor Show appearance and planned European arrival. Together, these three releases also occupy the channel's busiest spots right now, with the Bugatti attracting the most daily views.

Top Gear added subscribers over the week, while its daily viewing is a little above its usual pace. Among nearby motoring channels, carwow had a particularly substantial week for views and subscriber growth; ChrisFix and Donut recorded no subscriber gain. Top Gear's own newest review keeps the engineering question pleasingly hands-on: fewer driven wheels, a manual gearbox and a chassis built for track work.

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Also in Cars and motoringViews jump 31x the channel's usual paceStable Ronaldo lets CORE drive his custom PorscheThe driving handover arrives as The Stable's daily views climb to more than thirty times their usual level.Channel: The Stable · Story of October 31, 2026

A different discovery todayVideo taking off 47x its usual first dayDiane Sawyer's Patrick Stewart interview closes World News TonightThe October 29 edition also covers Alaska's Senate probes and a Pentagon firing, but its comment section belongs largely to the actor.Channel: ABC News · Story of October 31, 2026

What viewers say

The best new engine noise in the world right now?
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Who would of thought the guy who started a successful electric car company would bring back passion in gasoline cars. Bravo!
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How many car bosses have as much of a handle on their product as that, impressive.
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I was NOT, NOT PREPARED for that sound. Good lord!!
This sounds insanely different from W16.
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Bugatti is in good hands.
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a car made by someone who truly loves cars, brilliant.
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The videos drawing views on Top Gear right now

New BMW M3 CS Manual! The Perfect M3? | 4K480,521 views · 2026-10-28

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The facts

Channel: Top Gear
Subscribers: 9,560,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 7,262,885
Videos published this week: 3
Video published: October 25, 2026
Video views so far: 2,800,416
Views on its first day: 1,444,408

The numbers

Here is Top Gear's week in views, subscribers and uploads.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

25,021,632

7,400,805

7,262,885

5,871,406

4,007,578

3,300,963

2,883,249

2,584,384

588,553

subscribers

9,560,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

4,267,065,868

views per day

1,092,817

typical day: 1,006,308

first-day views of each video posted this week

Flat Out In The 1800hp V16 Bugatti Tour…

1,444,408

New BMW M3 CS Manual! The Perfect M3? |…

404,211

Ad feature: How AITO Is Redefining Luxu…

50,876

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

11,300,000

11,200,000

10,800,000

9,560,000

9,360,000

7,880,000

7,000,000

6,660,000

6,020,000

As of October 30, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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