Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 09:58 pm
Top Drives – Car Race Battles – Racing Game Review
Top Drives – Car Race Battles is a Racing/Strategy game from Hutch Games Ltd, first launched in 29th August 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 52,745+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Top Drives – Car Race Battles Stand Out
Petrol-heads, motor-heads, turn to Top Drives, the high octane driving challenge – test your skills and knowledge to the limit. Think you know cars? Top Drives is a new card collecting game with over 4000 real life cars to collect, compare and compete in racing battles with other players.
Build a garage of the best customized cars and create your very own perfect racing deck for supercharged action against your friends or other drivers. Whether you prefer a tuned up American muscle, a feisty Japanese hot rod or go turbo with European and agile, you’ll find a car that gets your motor running in Top Drives – the FREE car racing card collection game.
Top Drives is about racing cars across a variety of roads, tracks and challenges. If you like your driving fast and furious, you’ll love Top Drives. Hit the gas on asphalt circuits, slide your wheels around twisty circuits, master drifting in the G Force tests or speed to the chequered flag in a 1-100mph drag race. Choose Mustang, Camaro, Porsche Turbo, Audi TT or Nissan GTR, just make sure you’ve got the right car for the right track. You’ll need a garage of cars fast in the wet, good off-road, can take corners and burn rubber for drag races.
Why is Top Drives the ultimate motorsport experience for every car enthusiast?
Features:
- Build the perfect car racing deck from over 4000 officially licensed cars
- Marques such as McLaren, Bugatti, Pagani, Porsche, Mercedes, Audi, Mustang and many more
- Real car stats sourced from Evo makes this the ultimate bench racing game
- Unleash your cars on 100s of racing track challenges with our all-new Card Racing System
- Manage, upgrade and tune your stock cars – be the best motorsport manager
- Compete against your friends in thrilling scenarios including drag strips, race circuits & hill climbs
- Compete against rivals to win exclusive cars in live multiplayer events
- Weather effects and multiple surface types, including dirt tracks, asphalt and snow
- Stunning car photography from one of the world’s top car magazines
- Turbocharged, addictive, fun racing strategy gameplay
Own the road, start collecting the coolest new rides, customize with upgrades then sell on your tuned- up cars to build the perfect garage! Top Drives has fast single player campaigns and multiplayer mayhem modes with speed battles to the chequered flag. Top Drives is a combination of strategic card collecting with a motor-head racing theme!
Get an edge by fusing your cars and push your hot wheels to the limit. Become driving champion with the best combination of performance, handling and grip. Start your engine. Hit the road with Top Drives and unleash exciting updates, take to the track with the coolest, fastest cars including Porsche, McLaren and Mustang, plus enjoy new game modes and new events themed around global car culture.
So, buckle up, stop dreaming and start driving.
Download Top Drives today and let them eat your dust.
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Top Drives is FREE to play but offers some optional in-game items that can be purchased for real money. Top Drives includes loot boxes that drop the available items in randomised order. Information about drop rates can be found by selecting a pack in game and tapping the 'Drop Rates' button. Packs can be purchased using in-game currency (Gold and Cash), which can be purchased through IAPs or earned through gameplay. Top Drives is an online game and requires a persistent internet connection to play.
This Racing game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Top Drives – Car Race Battles is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 1st December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Christmas is coming, and we’re ready to celebrate!
5,000 Cars Special
Join our month-long celebration marking our 5,000-car milestone! Compete for exclusive variants of iconic Top Drives cars & other big prizes!
Prize Cars
This festive season we have many prize cars up for grabs including the coveted McMurtry Spéirling Prototype – Goodwood Edition 22!
Advent Calendars
Open daily rewards all December!
Festive Tracks
Your favourite tracks are now decked out for Christmas!
Download & Availability
Top Drives – Car Race Battles is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Top Drives – Car Race Battles on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We havent even played it yet, it sounds so good! Our brother plays it and Im downloading it RIGHT NOWWW thank you.
So first, Top Drives was the BEST. GAME. Uhhhever! But then one very day, we went to collect our daily reward, and it froze. So we logged out, and back in. And then this is what we found. The frozen daily rewards page. Im so mad that we can never play top drives again. If its Hutch Games reading this, please give us a solution.
We have been playing this game for at least 3 years! It never gets old! We just wish the super cars were easier to access unless you spend lots of money.
Amazing game but literally p2w and luck based. Ive had multiple accounts over the years and one main/serious account and there is just no real support for non paying players. Every event is just p2w players gatekeeping anyone from winning and earning the anything of value. Opponent players always have 5 perfect S cars or some event car no longer available and you will never win. The top 10-20 players in every event just gatekeep any new players from winning anything. One can get lucky but Ive had enough accounts to know that without money theres no winning anything that matters. The events and currencies have no instruction and can be super confusing, you need coins to play certain events but theres no info on what events you need to beat in order to receive the currency just to race. Either way you can only pay, get lucky over the years (yes years) or stay at the bottom of the barrel.
We have been logging on daily for nearly 2 years. Ive probably bought a pack of cars once or twice for less than 5$. We couldnt believe our eyes, seeing 250$ for a singular adventure calendar pack. 250!!! Greedy much? Every vehicle that is better than decent is locked behind these exorbitant paywalls. Good luck newer players without unlimited credit card spending.
Love the game, play it daily and will continue to.
This game we joined in 2015 but we were to little to understand what a wonderful game it was and what the possibilities they had for us lol we are a little bit of a spender but its besides that a wonderful game.
Please add more campaign. This game is awesome.
Literally all they need to do in this game is just fix the graphics and change the way the cars look because they all look the same other than that its perfect.
Before you take away us Fullback Cross, we just got this upon logging into the game. It was an Italian Renaissance premium with an extra dollar. Just telling you about it now just in case our cars and money could get raptured out of existence. Good game :) Yeah Ive played before. No need to write another review EDIT: and they dont exist, for some reason.
Yeah, its just so good.Nothing else to say.
Spending money on this game is pointless. We have cars that have similar stats. We go against a car with the same speed rating and they are pulling ahead of us increasing speed. Game is rigged. Wish we could get our money back.
Ive had this game for a long time and it goes in fazes for us for multiple reasons. Although we do love the collecting cars aspect warning money can feel boring and the majority of the money we get is handouts and free packs wich doesnt feel right and we wish there was a online racing mode you could just cue up and race somebody your RQ level. This way you could also just race when ever and you dont have to wait for events. We also was looking at our car garage earlyer and trying to compare cars and thought there used to be a feature where we could do that so if someone could tell us how to do it again or if they removed it add it back because it was actually so nice.
Great game! Lots of fun, very strategic! A whole lots of cars from around the world, and history. Car graphics could be better, but the game is still great to play.
This game was good at one point Ive seen a couple reviews that say everything we would say in this review hutch you should pay attention. T10 lost the Motorsport franchise because of bad management and not listening to fan feedback your not above the same How is there still no new campaign or atleast have the base one reset and made harder it would increase play time and increase pack sales you could even use the tracks from events in the online mode like what are yall doing.
We play this game for 5 year long. And it becomes better and better. We also have a question Should we wait Toyota in this game? :).
Fun to play: lots of variety and tons of vehicles. But you have to grind. Wish it was easier to upgrade and you can make more money.
The games great but it wont load and for the past three days its been acting weird Ive been playing for about a month now and we have never had this problem before Ive tried reloading the game many times and its not working somebody please help us to fix this.
Everything we loved about this game has been replaced with monotonous tasks that now feels like a chore to complete. Its the same challenge blueprint on repeat to increase playtime. Hutch now even forces you to play completed rounds up to 6x to earn enough points to trade for Prize Cars (why would anyone find that fun???). Every couple weeks they look at the least used cars on their spreadsheet, slap a tag on them so that players will max them to pass a challenge. Rinse and repeat. We played Top Drives almost entirely for the Tri-Series but apparently thats gone now too. Any sense of competition is now obsolete. The Tri-Series seems to have been replaced with the Eliminator series which forces players to max even more garbage cars if you want to advance. All forms of strategy have pretty much been removed from the game. Hutch refuses to acknowledge that their new UI is completely unreadable for a large portion of their player base. Good luck trying to put a hand together quickly toward the end of an event if youre one of many that struggles to read it. It was 7 good years so its really unfortunate that Hutch decided to make it a completely different game out of the blue. Oh well.
Im so glad we have this game, every time we got a new phone this was first to download. Its not complicated, no ads every 10 seconds, and really addicting. One request is you add a few more car brands like Ferrari or maybe Tesla. Im really happy with how the game is, and how much cars there is.
This is a petty one but if it happened to your country Im sure you would do the same. The spelling for Columbia is incorrect, the correct spelling is with an O so Colombia. Anyways great game otherwise but thats one thing that irked us since its such a common mistake.
Its a cool game but be patient, youll endure a lot of beat downs before you really start winning races- we hope. Also, really wish garage space was unlimited, but Ill make due.
Game is fun and unique. But, after a few days you run out of things to do. We have multiple events we cant play because we dont have a certain car or enough of a certain brand. So we have like 6 possible events that we cant do. Next thing thats dumb is collecting required items. There is absolutely no guidance or explanation how to collect certain things. Will be deleting soon.
All in all it a fun game we just got a new phone and wanted to play again and it saved our progress we just cant play the game anymore after we redownload it.
We abosultely love this game and it also has our favorite cars but can you make the cars in the races more realistic.
We have a bunch of games and this by far is our favorite thank you so much for making this game if there were 10 stars we would put 11.
Can the developers add more car models for the races and add an electric suv.
We like the game but the game itself doesnt have jeep we want a jeep in top drives.
Great game huge information about cars but it needs a lot of money ;).
We love this game and how intricate it is. Very satisfied with the upgrading of vehicles and type of terrain requires certain vehicles with certain capabilities. We dont like that it doesnt show the exact car racing or even the shape of some vehicles but we make do!! Very upset however about buying a car pack named, 2x Nissan Fiber! Which we paid for twice and did not receive due to an error showing up on screen in top left corner but the app still took our money twice at $19.99, $21.97 so a total of $43.94. Very unhappy with that and why we gave 2 stars.
Top Drives has been our favorite game for the last 6-7 years and being able to play on our backbone we would lose our mind.
Incredible game and play style we play with our Son and we were wondering if some how him and we could compete directly with each other. Thank for this happy game.
This game is great but we would add to trade cars with people so if someone needs our car and we need theirs we could trade (pls do in next update?)this game is the best racing game we have ever played and thanks to the team of this game for making and taking your time on it.
Can there be a free mode and can we see the cars better.
Love the game itself, great idea, only problem we have is that if you get unlucky, the campaign is basically impossible. Especially around the Japan Section. We kept getting horrible cars that wouldnt help us at all. Other than that its a good game.
This game was fun at first. We were able to earn a nice collection of cars by completing challenges and playing campaign mode. However, after a few months of gameplay we can no longer compete with the competition or advance through campaign mode without spending lots of $$$$$.
The game is fun collecting and upgrading cars but thats all it is we have had cars cross the finish first and still lose just cause the other car has a higher top speed you could pretty much max out a few cars and never lose. And we dont get the match making or how they choose opponents Ill have one rare care and go up against someone with 3 super rare type cars make that make sense. We have seen a lot of the developer responses that you can play events to win packs but the matchmaking is not fair you will never see above top 20 cause you go against people who payed to get there. Seen others with similar reviews.
Problems. We had this game for the longest time loved it. But now it was accidentally deleted, and we cannot reload it. We have deleted the game and re-downloaded it several times, but it will not load. It starts to sometimes and then other times it just immediately flashes right back to our home screen. Can you fix it please.
Either update the game to have better rarity chance with the crates or Im deleting this game . Theres no reason why Im playing so much grinding up 42k 3 -8 times to get horrible cars . Its a great fun game but somethings gotta give leaving 3 stars because its not horrible.
If you know the difference between torque horsepower quick fast and speed you are in Not for the faint of heart/get them.
When we saw the advertisements for this game, we downloaded it, thinking it would be a high quality first person racing game, but we were misled and very disappointed. Instead of the actual racing we were hoping for, Its just an overhead view of low quality cars racing with hardly any action. We do not recommend.
10/10 we sell all of our vehicles and we got a lot of money.
This is by far our favorite game to play on the phone. The combination of collecting, strategizing and achievement – all focused on cars makes this a must for us.
Nearly impossible to get good cars or gold. Pack chances are near zero for legendaries.
The game is so awesome. We have nothing to say you should definitely get it.
This game has an amazing and unique concept that keeps you coming back and doesnt take up too much time to play. We love that it doesnt ever force ads on you they are optional in exchange for things like a free upgrade. We could list so many things we love about this game, it is almost perfect we just wish they could add some more car manufacturers like Kia, Ferrari, Jeep, Lexus/Toyota, those are just a few we noticed are missing but Im sure its mostly due to the companies policies etc. We also wish they would expand upon or add more single player missions because once you complete the story mode there really isnt a good way to grind for money or cars and the multiplayer can get a bit stale and/or hard to compete against other players who have way better cars due to either playing longer or spending real $ on packs.
Love the game, play it daily and will continue to. Only issue we have is the events, Ill rank 50 and Ill watch the time run out and our rank is instantly 100-150 or Ill rank low 30s and still be 100-150.
Im a periodic player of this game. Ive been on and off for over 5 years. We think its a great game. However, it seems like every time we log in after a long break, a major component of the game is changed in a way that impacts us. For example, as of late, all the cars are getting re-ranked. While, yes, we support innovation and balancing, this completely upends our garage that we have worked for many years on. Cars that we had maxed, often because they were very good for their rarity class, get bumped up to the next rank and are all of the sudden not worth upgrading. Its frustrating and makes us want to stay away from the game, although we understand it is necessary for balancing. Thanks for listening.
This game is unlike any racing have Ive played. We love the concept and everyday we just cant wait to open this app and try to snag new a brew stuck vehicle from Duke packs as well as whip suns racers.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 29.10.00
- Size: 2,550.00 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Hutch Games Ltd
Last updated: 1st December 2025 | Genre: Racing, Strategy | Developer: Hutch Games Ltd