Top Gear


STUDY: If you're gonna make us pay for a bloke's writing, it bloody well better be Clarkson

We'll admit up front that this news item is minimally car-related, but bear with us. In response to News Corp's Rupert Murdoch's repeated threats to bury all of his content behind a pay-for-it-wall, the UK's Guardian conducted a poll asking readers which online columnists they'd pay for. The not so shocking result: Jeremy Clarkson, number one. Number two is Charlie Brooker, who we've heard of. The next eight? Not so much. But here's the point. Jeremy Clarkson writes about cars. The other day, we were arguing with a burned out (and ... Read more →

VIDEO: Jeremy Clarkson drifts a Jaguar XKR Convertible... in flippers Jonny Lieberman

We missed the first part of this skit, as the video you're about to watch isn't from Top Gear, but rather from JC's newest DVD Dual Duel. Still, it does feature the Stig. And some ...

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 in trouble for mock ad depicting suicide Jonathon Ramsey

It should be well known by now that if you play with suicide on screen, you're going to hear about it. Sometimes it's from prevention groups who want shows to "stop using suicide as a punchline." ...

UK adventurer challenges Clarkson to cross Sahara in 1937 Austin 7 Ruby 22 days ago on Autoblog

Now we're talking! If there's one thing we're in favor of its pushing cars to their breaking point. See LeMons. But what about pushing cars past their breaking point? Like across Africa? That's exactly what British journalist and adventurer Brian Milton did in 1968 when he took a 1937 Austin 7 Ruby ...

VIDEO: Simply the Best - Clarkson shows Ferrari 348 much love on Top Gear circa 1991 26 days ago on Autoblog

The Sixties came back for a while. Then the Seventies returned for an encore performance. Now, even things from the Eighties are coming back into style. But we're praying to everything holy that the Nineties stay far, far behind us. Especially after taking this trip down memory lane to a 1991 ...

Top Gear reports Stig arrested in both Dublin and Mojave Desert 27 days ago on Autoblog

Some say he has a problem with authority. Others say he's actually capable of being in two places at the same time, and getting arrested in both. All we know is that Top Gear is making less sense with every passing day. One of the BBC car show's myriad blogs reports that the enigmatic test ...

VIDEO: Ultima claims Top Gear track record without show's authorization 29 days ago on Autoblog

Automotive records can be funny things. While everyone seems to be interested in knowing what vehicle is the quickest, fastest, most expensive or rarest, there always seems to be plenty of dissent when one automaker claims its product takes the coveted prize away from another. Such is the case ...

STUDY: Jeremy Clarkson has world's best job. In other news, grass is green, sky is blue. 1 month ago on Autoblog

We'll be the first people to admit that we find ourselves in a pretty cool line of work, but if we were offered the chance to swap jobs with any one person in the world, it very well might be with Jeremy Clarkson. Not surprisingly, it turns out we're not alone. According to a survey of over ...

Rendered Speculation: Top Gear cooks up a Bugatti Galibier LM 1 month ago on Autoblog

As much as it dominated pre-war grand prix racing, Bugatti's is a heritage forged at Le Mans. Both the original concept and the subsequent production car which Bugatti built under its current ownership were named after Louis Chiron and Pierre Veyron, two of the most famous drivers from the marque's ...

Trouble in U.K. TelevisionLand: Has Fifth Gear been canceled? 1 month ago on Autoblog

News coming out of the U.K. today suggests that everybody's second-favorite British motoring television show may be facing the axe. According to the Daily Mail, Fifth Gear, which has never quite mustered the following of rival Top Gear, has been put on ice. Or has it? A quick check on ...

Top Gear faces mounting criticism over costly new stunts. Again. 1 month ago on Autoblog

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!" comes from a Minister of Parliament (MP) and Friends of the Earth, who want to run TG up the flagpole ...

Hammond says Top Gear crew's scariest moment was infamous Southern U.S. episode [w/VIDEO] 1 month ago on Autoblog

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 the time Clarkson had a Bugatti Veyron and Hammond was stuck in the back of May's Cessna as they ...

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 1 month 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 1 month 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. ...

Brick By Brick: James May's Lego house comes down 1 month ago on Autoblog

Top Gear host James May went to Dorking, England and built a Lego fort house in an orchard with more than three million Lego pieces. Now it's time for him to vacate the premises, and the house has been torn down. Mays had tried to get the structure taken to the Lego park in Windsor, but the cost ...

Environmentalists treat Jeremy Clarkson's lawn driveway to steaming pile of manure 2 months ago on Autoblog

There are many things Top Gear front-man Jeremy Clarkson could be labeled as. Celebrity? Check. Petrolhead? Check. Environmentalist? Um, no. Whenever Clarkson has gotten the chance to get some seat time in what might be construed as an eco-friendly automobile, he always seems to find plenty not ...

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 ...

REPORT: Jeremy Clarkson against female Top Gear host, calls audience members 'oafs' 2 months ago on Autoblog

Top Gear chief oaf (read: presenter) Jeremy Clarkson is no stranger to controversy when he speaks. In fact, he rather seems to thrive on it, which undoubtedly is a big part of the appeal of the show. Earlier this week, he spouted off again apparently in an attempt to irritate (or bemuse) women ...

REPORT: Thieves derail James May's bid for toy train record 2 months ago on Autoblog

Railroad enthusiasts are a pretty passionate bunch. They're not auto enthusiast crazy, but they're close. Top Gear presenter James May fed off that steam-powered energy by working with 400 volunteers to build the longest ever toy train track for his new BBC series James May's Toy Stories. The track ...

Forget Waldo, BBC Books coming out with Where's Stig? for kids 2 months ago on Autoblog

Wasted time. All the wasted time we spent as children looking for that ridiculous, bespectacled, striped goon when we could have been seeking out the world's most enigmatic racing driver. As with so many other things, however, future generations need suffer no more thanks to illustrator Rod Hunt and ...

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: World's longest Scalectric track assembled at Brooklands, James May officiates 3 months ago on Autoblog

When Great Britain's Brooklands motor racing circuit opened in 1907, it was the first purpose-built motorsport venue in the world. At 2.75 miles, the course is an oldie but a goodie, and the perfect place to make automotive history. To that end, on August 16, legendary slot racing brand ...

Stig's identity voted as Biggest Mystery of the Century 3 months ago on Autoblog

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/people/The_Stig_s_Identity_Voted_Biggest_Mystery_of_the_Century'; The assassination of John F. Kennedy? The existence of the Bermuda Triangle? Bah! What Brits really want to know, more than anything else, is the true identity of the Stig. This according to a ...

Shooting Fake: Porsche Cayman Shooting Brake a Top Gear hoax [w/VIDEO] 3 months ago on Autoblog

Punked, we've been punked! And that's OK. In the high powered, fast paced deeply sexy world of car blogging, mistakes are going to be made. And every once in a while a group of mayhem minded jokers can easily gum up the gears of the machine by providing an elaborate prank as grist for mill. Such ...

REPORT: Jay Leno's new show to put stars in green cars 3 months ago on Autoblog

Unlike many, we haven't been losing sleep over Leno leaving The Tonight Show. Partly because we're in bed by that time. Mostly though, despite Jay's well-known obsession with automobiles, the Tonight Show was essentially car-free, instead choosing to focus on Miley Cirus, American Idol and ...

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 ...

VIDEO: Jay Leno drives the Reasonably Priced Car 3 months ago on Autoblog

Last week we saw AC/DC's Brian Johnson on Top Gear's Star in a Reasonably Priced Car segment and for the first time ever the consensus was, "no need to fast forward." Now, we're not going to say that the former Tonight Show host and pistonhead extraordinaire Jay Leno is as mesmerizingly fun as ...

VIDEO: Top Gear flogs the Vauxhall VXR8 Bathurst and HSV Maloo 3 months ago on Autoblog

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/Top_Gear_Flogs_the_Vauxhall_VXR8_Bathurst_and_HSV_Maloo'; Let's just say that Richard Hammond rightfully digs the blown, delightfully obscene Vauxhall VXR8 Bathurst (above, bottom), which costs a not-insignificant £45,000 in Blighty. For that ...

VIDEO: Young Jezza? Jeremy Clarkson gets his gangsta rap on... sort of. 3 months ago on Autoblog

We don't have to tell you that we're big fans of Top Gear, and lucky for us, most of you are, too. We've seen the show's star, Jeremy Clarkson, do plenty of things ranging from clever to wonky in the name of entertainment, but what we haven't yet witnessed was a Clarkson rap. Until now. ...

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