10 Most Important New Cars of 2025: Your Cost To Get Behind the Wheel

The new year brings with it a new lineup of cars, some of which will be game-changing. BBC’s “Top Gear” recently released its list of the “most important cars of 2025,” noting that “the new year will bring some hugely controversial new cars” and that these 10 cars represent “the most pivotal.”

Here’s a look at Top Gear’s 10 most important cars of 2025, plus your cost to buy them.

• Starting MSRP: TBD
• Top Gear’s take: “It’s Italy’s 1,000PS answer to the Tesla Plaid and Taycan GT.”

• Starting MSRP: TBD (Starting MSRP for the 2025 Audi RS 5 Sportback is $79,900)
• Top Gear’s take: “The RS Quattro Avant story goes plug-in hybrid, with a 530bhp V6.”

• Starting MSRP: TBD (Starting MSRP for the 2026 BMW iX3 is expected to be $60,000, according to Car and Driver)
• Top Gear’s take: “BMW reinvents itself (for the second time ever) for the electric age.”

• Starting MSRP: TBD (Estimated at $500,000, according to Car and Driver)
• Top Gear’s take: “Purosangue? Pah! FF? Ffforget it. Simply the most controversial Prancing Horse ever.”

• Starting MSRP: TBD (Estimated at $50,000, according to Car and Driver)
• Top Gear’s take: “Lower, lighter, ‘wiser’ and kickstarting a(nother) family of EVs. Honda needs a seat at the electric table before the buffet closes.”

• Starting MSRP: TBD
• Top Gear’s take: “The most ambitious reinvention of a car brand ever. The end. (Of Jaguar?)”

• Starting MSRP: TBD (Expected to be under $150,000, according to SlashGear)
• Top Gear’s take: “No pressure: just a successor to the LFA, with a motorsport-ready bi-turbo V8 heart.”

• Starting MSRP: TBD (Starting MSRP for the 2025 Mercedes AMG EQE Sedan is $106,900)
• Top Gear’s take: “EQ has tanked (else why would Mercedes be slowly dropping that name, like on the new electric G-Wagen), while the hybrid C63 is a travesty. Mercedes badly needs a tech-led win.”

• Starting MSRP: TBD (Estimated at $78,000, according to Car and Driver)
• Top Gear’s take: “The world’s best sports car goes electric only — just as the world cools on EV.”

• Starting MSRP: TBD (Estimated at $27,500, according to Electrek)
• Top Gear’s take: “It’s the big reset moment for Europe’s mass car giant, amid growing disquiet from the workers in its homeland over job losses and EV strategy.”

Editor’s note: Photos are for representational purposes only and might not reflect the exact makes and models of the vehicles listed in this article.