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Next in line to get irked by Jeremy Clarkson? The Romanian government [w/VIDEO]

Another day, another country that hates Jeremy Clarkson's guts. Or at least, another country that is seeking an apology from the Top Gear host for his no doubt rude, but no doubter funny comments about said country. In this case, it's the former Iron Curtain nation of Romania. Seems that during the series' season 14 opener, Jezza had some less than flattering observations about the country that shot former "Conductor" Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife before they could even be tied up and blindfolded. Clarkson's offending remarks? He ... Read more →

Top Gear: A little history about everybody's favorite TV show Jonny Lieberman

What if the Stig was known as the Gimp? It's doubtful Top Gear's mysterious racing driver – or the show itself – would have proved as enormously popular. Would you walk around in a ...

VIDEO: Top Gear Season 14 returns this Sunday Jonny Lieberman

Guess what boys and girls? Everyone's favorite car-related show is coming back for a fourteenth season! That's fantastic news for gearheads everywhere, especially considering that at the end of ...

Top Gear faces mounting criticism over costly new stunts. Again. Jonathon Ramsey

Top Gear fans greet each new season with more eager glee. Top Gear critics have taken to welcoming each new run with more criticism. According to the Belfast Telegraph, the latest "How dare they!" ...

Hammond says Top Gear crew's scariest moment was infamous Southern U.S. episode [w/VIDEO] Jonny Lieberman

Seems like forever since we've run a Top Gear post, no? And hey, when the world's most popular car show is on hiatus we tend to get a bit... withdrawn. Because, well, we just love the antics. Like ...

VIDEO: Top Gear Live holding design-your-own-stunt contest 1 month ago on Autoblog

We love Top Gear for a lot of reasons, but we love the British motoring series most for its big-budget creativity. After all, how many shows are going to storm a beach in a Ford Fiesta? And from everything we've seen and heard, Top Gear Live takes the creativity to the next level with its gold ...

REPORT: Top Gear host James May crashes camper-dirigible near freeway, unhurt 1 month ago on Autoblog

No guts, no glory, and it wouldn't be a Top Gear episode without some kind of outrageous stunt or challenge. The propensity of autodom's favorite trio to flirt with danger has led to mishaps in the past, most famously, Richard Hammond (right) and his near-death tussle with a high speed rocket car, ...

Top Gear posse spotted filming with bevy of exotics in Romania 2 months ago on Autoblog

The Top Gear crew is preparing the show's 14th season and they've gone to the home of Vlad the Impaler for some help. Piloting a Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Spyder, Aston Martin DBS Volante, and Ferrari California, the production closed down the Transfagarasan Road that climbs over Romania's ...

REPORT: Mos-Def High-Def: Top Gear shooting in 1080p 2 months ago on Autoblog

Regardless of what viewers may think of the opinions of Jeremy Clarkson and his cohorts at Top Gear, no one can argue with the production values. The cinematography is magnificent and even those who couldn't care less about cars find themselves getting sucked into the BBC program's visuals. ...

Remember that 'No Women on Top Gear' thing? Forget it. Hammond wants Angelina 2 months ago on Autoblog

Last month, Jeremy Clarkson said that introducing a female host to Top Gear "would be a disaster." The relative youngster among the Top Gear crew, Richard Hammond, isn't so sure he'd call it a disaster, depending on the female in question. Hammond's opinion is that old fogies Clarkson and May ...

Richard Hammond says Top Gear to go out on a surprise high 2 months ago on Autoblog

It's not pretty to watch once-popular shows and their stars drag things on years beyond their relevance. Everything that's hot, hip, and new right now -- the media creations that set tongues wagging -- they're all headed for their respective versions of Vegas Elvis. Even Top Gear, regarded by many ...

Stig and the boys immortalized in bricks as Top Gear makes it to Legoland 3 months ago on Autoblog

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/Top_Gear_Immortalized_in_Legoland_w_pic'; Another Saturday, another LEGO car story. This time, the little Danish bricks have been used to immortalize the presenters from our favorite automotive television show, Top Gear. In honor of the show naming the ...

VIDEO: Richard Hammond's Honda Fireblade vs... a rocket and a golf ball? 3 months ago on Autoblog

We're not fans of the term "crotch rocket" in general when referring to motorcycles, but in the case of the video embedded after the break, it clearly applies. The sportbike in question is a previous-generation Honda Fireblade (that's a CBR1000RR here in the States) and it's being ridden by ...

eBay find of the Day: Clarkson's Cheap Car Challenge Mitsubishi Starion [w/VIDEO] 3 months ago on Autoblog

Oh, yes. Think back to when you first really fell in love with Top Gear. For this author, it was actually the Cheap Porsche Challenge. But it may as well have been the Cheap Coupes That Aren't Porsches Challenge that came later. To refresh your memory a bit, May shows up in a hopeless smoking ...

BREAKING: Top Gear not dead [w/VIDEO] 3 months ago on Autoblog

Internet rumors are a funny thing. Back during the last presidential campaign, 10% of voters polled thought Barack Obama was a Muslim... until his campaign staffers came out and denied he was a Muslim. Then 14% of us thought he was a Muslim. And you can see the same thing happening with another ...

No. 5 celebrity that U.K. men most want to have a date with: The Top Gear crew? 3 months ago on Autoblog

No, really. At least according to Madbid.com, a British auction site (£1,000 cash for £8.06) that arranges celebrity auctions for charity. First, which celebrity topped the list? The sultry, three-kinds of sexy Megan Fox, of course. Second place was British singer/soccer wife Cheryl ...

Top Gear to recreate the Italian Job Mini sewer chase scene in Belfast? 4 months ago on Autoblog

It's been six years since director F. Gary Gray assembled an all-star cast including Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Jason Statham and Donald Sutherland to recreate the Michael Caine classic The Italian Job. And though the remake bore little resemblance to the original, the one part ...

Sandra Bullock: "I live for Top Gear" 4 months ago on Autoblog

When Sandra Bullock married motorcycle builder and former Monster Garage host Jessie James, we were a bit surprised. After all, how many Hollywood mega stars marry glorified mechanics? Now comes news from the California Chronicle that Ms. Bullock is a big Top Gear fan, adding "I love Top Gear. I ...

VIDEO: Express mail Top Gear style - Porsche Panamera vs. U.K. postal service 4 months ago on Autoblog

The latest Top Gear challenge pits the Panamera against Britain's postal service. James May and Richard Hammond race a stamped and mailed letter from the Isles of Scilly to Zanzibar Bungalow, Birsay, Orkney -- about 900 miles over land and sea. The stakes: according to James May, arriving in ...

VIDEO: The Superest of Supercar Shootouts: Bugatti Veyron vs. McLaren F1 on Top Gear 5 months ago on Autoblog

Episode 2 of Top Gear's 13th season aired last night in the UK, and the main event was a one-mile drag race between the McLaren F1 and the Bugatti Veyron. Notice that we didn't say a McLaren F1 and a Bugatti Veyron. These two supercars are so super (and rare) that any single example tends to ...

VIDEO: Top Gear teases new season in childish fashion 5 months ago on Autoblog

Season 13 of Top Gear is just around the corner, and the crew isn't wasting any opportunity to build buzz before the Sunday, June 21 air date of the first episode. Perhaps in a nod to the BBC's much-publicized pay cuts or the franchise's new children's magazine, the video above doesn't really ...

Gambon Street? Project reportedly afoot to turn Top Gear test track into housing development 5 months ago on Autoblog

Come on, England: Leave Top Gear alone. We know they can make a lot of noise and take away air time from your precious Antiques Roadshow, but deep down inside you know you love them as much as we do. And don't try to deny it: the ratings don't lie. So isn't it about time everyone just leave Jeremy ...

Top Gear episodes now available on Xbox Live Marketplace 5 months ago on Autoblog

Here around Autoblog's virtual offices, there are few things on which we love to spend our down time more than watching Top Gear and playing on our Xbox 360. So it comes as a special bit of parenthetical news that the hit British BBC show has now become available directly on the Xbox Live ...

Wedding Crashers: Top Gear interrupts UK nuptials in classic fashion [w/VIDEOS] 6 months ago on Autoblog

We're reasonably sure that most people would rather their wedding remain limited to invited guests only, but at least some of us would probably make the exception if one (or more) of our favorite celebrities crashed our nuptuals. In this case, Jeremy Clarkson and James May evidently ...

As Top Gear Series 10 DVD hits, BBC begins testing children's and travel-sized versions of magazine 7 months ago on Autoblog

Depending on where you call home, we have different news on the multimedia juggernaut that is Top Gear. If you live Stateside, the biggest news is that Season #10 of the series arrived on store shelves yesterday, so you can now relive Jeremy Clarkson terrorizing his BBC office mates with the ...

'World of Top Gear' to open at UK's National Motor Museum 7 months ago on Autoblog

Take an already popular motor museum and add a dash of the world's favorite automotive entertainment show and you have a recipe for something even more extraordinary. One of the UK's most popular tourist attractions is the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu. It features some amazing road and race ...

Top Gear returns in June with Series 13 8 months ago on Autoblog

If life without new episodes of Top Gear is too depressing to bear, you only have a few months to wait for Series 13. Clarkson, Hammond, May and the Stig will be back for more automotive mayhem in June. The terrific trio will undoubtedly have a whole new arsenal of automotive hi-jinx waiting for us ...

Comic Relief to auction ridealong with Stig 9 months ago on Autoblog

We still don't know who the White Stig is, and he could be replaced by the Black Stig, the Purple Stig, or the Rainbow Stig pretty soon. But before he goes, you can win a ride with him around the Top Gear test track. Red Nose Day is a fundraising event put on by the British charity Comic Relief, ...

Chopper carrying Top Gear's Clarkson, Hammond makes emergency landing after seagull strike 9 months ago on Autoblog

A chopper carrying Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond had to make an emergency landing after a seagull flew into the rotor after takeoff. The incident took place in Auckland, New Zealand. where the pair are currently on tour with the Top Gear Live show. As photos published by ...

Top Gear headed for outer space? Could be... 9 months ago on Autoblog

They've launched an original MINI off a giant snow-covered ski jump, nearly sent a Reliant Robin into orbit and now, the Top Gear crew may toy with space exploration again, except this time, they'll strap themselves inside before pulling the trigger. According to Will Whitehorn, president of Virgin ...

Top Gear's Stig Revealed! 10 months ago on Autoblog

Fans of Top Gear might want to prepare themselves for another Stig death soon. When "Black Stig" Perry McCarthy revealed himself, Clarkson, Hammond and May offed him. Now, according to the UK's Telegraph, the "White Stig" has apparently ended the mystery, revealing himself as 33 year-old Ben ...

Top Gear Australia replacing Charlie Cox? 11 months ago on Autoblog

Anyone who's been watching the original Top Gear knows it took a bit of switcheroo to get the chemistry right before things really took off (James May replaced the rotundish Jason Dawe after Series 1 of the current show concluded), and TG Australia is no different. Charlie Cox (the bloke on the ...

Top Gear Series 12 officially starts November 2nd 1 year ago on Autoblog

It's incredible that there can be so many goings on around a little car show. There was a spot of turmoil in the last shortened season of Top Gear, a few grumblings of unhappy presenters, and then the hallowed BBC couldn't figure out when the next season was going to begin. But here we are, the ...

More pics from Top Gear testing American metal 1 year ago on Autoblog

Not long after we learned that the famous Top Gear trio was in the U.S., a fan managed to snap some shots of Clarkson, Hammond and Mays testing their favorite examples of American muscle at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The hosts made their way to salt flats by way of Reno, Nevada where ...

UK Top Gear testing CTS-V, Challenger and ZR-1 in Reno 1 year ago on Autoblog

The blokes from the real Top Gear are back in the States to test what us 'Mericans do best – big V8s, rear-wheel-drive and powerslides. Clarkson, Hammond and May flew into San Francisco on Wednesday and then made a B-line for Reno before heading south, reportedly to test the out a trio of ...

Tension off-camera? Top Gear pay dustup rumored 1 year ago on Autoblog

It should come as no surprise that Jeremy Clarkson is pulling down more cash than his Top Gear cohorts. Not only does Clarkson own a stake of the show's rights, he's more of a figurehead for the series than either James May or Richard Hammond. Clarkson has become nearly an adjective to describe any ...

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