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The Stig’s Top 5 Worst Cars List; a Clarkson Favorite Included
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We don’t know if he read Forbes’ list of worst cars for 2011. All we do know is that he’s made his own list, and that he is called the Stig. That’s right, Top Gear’s ‘the Stig’ has released his list of the worst five cars he’s ever driven, with some shocking surprises and some…
Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson Is Accused Of Having An Affair With Coworker, No Not Hammond Or May
Jeremy Clarkson is well known for his antics on screen, but it is his recent actions off screen that are causing quite a stir at the moment. According to British tabloid newspapers, Clarkson is having an affair with a coworker during the Top Gear Live World tour. Before you jump to any conclusions, its not…
Future Mad Max Interceptor Concept, Prepared By Ford And Top Gear Australia
There once was a time, when Mel Gibson was mad only on screen and drove a modified black Ford Falcon Interceptor in a movie called Mad Max. The movie is full of high speed chases and destruction in typical 1980’s fashion. You’d either love this movie or think it is one of the biggest time…
Tesla Suing BBC Over “Malicious” Top Gear Episode
American electric car maker Tesla Motors has filed a lawsuit against the BBC over an episode of its popular Top Gear show that Tesla says is libelous and contains, “malicious falsehood.” The issue surrounds a test Top Gear did of the Tesla Roadster in which Tesla claims the show faked aspects, including having the Tesla…
Top Gear Magazine For Sale, Likely Sold To German Publisher
Over 70 years ago, the Battle of Britain was waged in an effort to stop Hitler’s army from invading the United Kingdom. While Britain may have won that pivotal contest, it looks like the Germans are about to make off with one of the UK’s cultural jewels, as the BBC prepares to sell the print…
TopGear’s Richard Hammond Is Selling His Morgan
The Morgan Aeromax is a rare and beautiful thing. Only 100 examples of this V8 supercar were ever made, one of which was purchased by Richard Hammond of TopGear fame. Since Hammond’s car was one of only six right-hand drive examples, it is even more rare. Well now his very car can be yours, because…
Top Gear Star Jeremy Clarkson’s Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder For Sale
Televisions biggest motoring loud mouth is undeniably Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear fame. He is known to either really love a car, or hate it to bits, nothing comes in the middle. Back in 2006, he raved on and on about the Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder, a car he loved so much, he actually put his…
Top Gear China to Launch This Year
Apart from the news, Top Gear might just be the biggest thing to ever come from the BBC, spawning local versions from Australia to the U.S. with the original watched by millions around the world. Now another country is set to get in on the irreverent fun, China. China isn’t big on free speech, however,…
BBC Apologizes for Top Gear Remarks on Mexicans, But Says Stereotyping OK
“Our own comedians make jokes about the British being terrible cooks and terrible romantics, we in turn make jokes about the Italians being disorganized and over dramatic, the French being arrogant and the Germans being over-organized,” the corporation said.
Mexican Government Upset over Top Gear Remarks
In response, said ambassador sent a letter to the BBC saying that the presenters had used vulgar and bigoted language to describe the people of his country, describing the remarks as xenophobic and humiliating.
AutoGuide’s Matt Farah To Host TV Show With Adam Carolla, Dan Neil On SPEED
Matt Farah, host of The Smoking Tire and an AutoGuide contributor, has been tapped to host a new SPEED channel show featuring comedian and car buff Adam Carolla, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dan Neil and former NBA player John Salley. Carolla, who was once tapped to host a stillborn version of Top Gear USA, will head…
Top Gear USA Season 1, Episode 1: Watch it Now [Video]
It looks as though the marketing machine behind Top Gear USA is at it again, offering the first episode of the show online for free. You can watch episodes at History.com, or right here, thanks to the kind folks at History allowing us to embed their video. Alternatively, you could watch it on TV, with…
The Stig, aka Ben Collins, Sacked Over Plans To Publish Autobiography
The reputation of Top Gear‘s “The Stig” has become synonymous with anonymity and was quite possibly one of the industry’s greatest mysteries. In a way it gave viewers a lot to chat about, with this growing aura of secrecy around The Stig. But now Ben Collins has been ousted as The Stig from Top Gear…
Top Gear Host James May Awarded Honorary Doctorate
James May, one third of the popular BBC show “Top Gear” and the presenter known as “Captain Slow”, was awarded an honorary doctorate at his alma matter of Lancaster University. May, who graduated with a degree in music, took a somewhat different path, despite being a passionate musician. Stints at major car magazines, the Channel…
Top Gear’s James May (Captain Slow) Drives Bugatti Veyron Super Sport 259.11 MPH
Were it not for Top Gear‘s incredible production and entertainment value, surely we wouldn’t be telling you that James May, aka Captain Slow, managed to drive the new Bugatti Veyron Super Sport slower than the world record setting time. In fact, in case you can’t tell from his nick name, going under the car’s top…
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Hyundai Spoofs Top Gear In Latest Animal Themed Car Ad
Hot on the heels of Kia’s awesome advertisement for their Soul compact car, Hyundai‘s South African arm has just launched a new spot for the Tuscon crossover (known as the ix35 in South Africa) taking off the wildly popular TV series Top Gear. The spot, features a mock driving show called “Top Deer”, and features dead-on voice…
VW Boss Piech: New Veyron Will Have 1200 Horsepower
Volkswagen patriarch Ferdinand Piech is no stranger to grandiose projects, having overseen the Volkswagen Phaeton uber-luxury sedan, as well as the Bugatti Veyron hypercar. While Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear lamented that the worst part about driving a Veyron is that after it was over, he’d never be able to experience it again, it looks…
Top Gear Bugatti Veyron Involved In Scam
A Bugatti Veyron that appeared on the BBC hit show Top Gear was owned by a man recently sent to jail for pretending to be a member of Kuwait’s royal family and bilking retired nurses out of their pensions. Koroush Pour operated a leasing firm in the upscale Kensington district of London. According to the UKPA,…
Top Gear USA Caught Filming On Mulholland Highway
Yesterday, a batch of journalists (excluding this one, I’m obviously not cool enough) attending the North American launch of the new Jaguar XJ sedan came upon an interesting roadblock in their pre-determined and very obvious drive route: Top Gear USA had shut down the famous Mulholland Highway and brought out some sports cars to play…
Jeremy Clarkson Calls BMW X1 “Rubbish”
To call Jeremy Clarkson an automotive gadfly would be incorrect. Quite possibly the most influential automotive journalist in the world, when Clarkson speaks, people listen, and this will not bode well for BMW‘s new X1 crossover. The new mini-ute from the Bavarian automaker is an important product, but Clarkson was suitably unimpressed, saying its looks…
Top Gear USA Back On Track
After a series of delays, The History Channel will finally launch an American version of the hit series Top Gear. Expected to premiere this fall, the series, produced in association with BBC Worldwide, will feature Formula D driver and X Games gold medalist Tanner Foust, alongside comedian Adam Ferrara and renowned NASCAR analyst Rutledge Wood. While the…
Report: Forget Waldo, BBC Planning “Where’s Stig?” Kids Books Based on Popular Top Gear Character
The BBC is about to expand on the mystery surrounding Top Gear’s ‘The Stig’ by asking not only who he is, but also where. Now while 40 year old men who play with cars can wonder who the Stig really is, their children can hunt for the silent hot-shoe in a new series of books…
Jay Leno To Guest Star on Top Gear
Jay Leno has confirmed that he will make an appearance on the most famous (and infamous) car show in the world, Top Gear. Leno has been traveling through the U.K. all week, including introducing the world to the new Jaguar XJ yesterday. Leno will appear in “The Star in the Reasonably Priced Car” segment, where…
Ferrari FXX Destroys Record on Top Gear Test Track
Top Gear kicked off a new season in the U.K. with two big stunts. For starters, it revealed that The Stig is none other than Michael Schumacher. More amazingly, however, the seven-time Formula 1 World Champion piloted his very own black Ferrari FXX around the Top Gear test track completely obliterating the previous record held…
