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

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 episode of Top Gear. Yes, in case you were wondering, Jeremy Clarkson was hosting the BBC car show even back then, having started in 1988. And yes, his Brit-fro was even bigger then, even when juxtaposed against his big-shouldered, blinged-out biker ... Read more →

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 withdrawn.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 ...

REPORT: Top Gear host James May crashes camper-dirigible near freeway, unhurt Dan Roth

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 ...

Top Gear posse spotted filming with bevy of exotics in Romania Jonathon Ramsey

The Top Gear crew is preparing the show's 13th 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 ...

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. ...

Remember that 'No Women on Top Gear' thing? Forget it. Hammond wants Angelina 1 month 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 ...

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 ...

VIDEO: World's longest Scalectric track assembled at Brooklands, James May officiates 2 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 ...

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 ...

REPORT: James May to build life-sized Lego house. But what's in the garage? 3 months ago on Autoblog

James May, a.k.a. Captain Slow on Top Gear, has a BBC show called James May's Toy Stories. After building an award-winning Plasticine garden and the world's largest model airplane, the next thing on May's list is a house built of Legos. A two-storey house. And he intends to live in it for a ...

Top Gear to recreate the Italian Job Mini sewer chase scene in Belfast? 3 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 ...

Top Gear coming to America in HD?! 3 months ago on Autoblog

Pinch us. Could it be that our dreams – which, incidentally, we proudly share with Sandra Bullock – of watching Top Gear in High Definition may soon come true? It certainly seems like a real possibility now that BBC America officially launched its HD programming on Monday, July 20 at ...

Sandra Bullock: "I live for Top Gear" 3 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 ...

Jay Leno filming Star in a Reasonably Priced Car for Top Gear? 4 months ago on Autoblog

Citing an unnamed though supposedly reliable source, the boys at Jalopnik are reporting that Jay Leno – fresh from his appearance at the Goodwood Festival of Speed where he's believed to have piloted an awesome McLaren F1 GTR up the hill – was spotted filming a Star in a Reasonably ...

Jeremy Clarkson upsets Scouts, Catholic Church with Skoda commentary 4 months ago on Autoblog

What do you get when you mix Clarkson, May, a Skoda, and the Catholic church? Controversy, of course. During a review of the Skoda Scout, May and Clarkson engaged in a bit of banter that mingled scouts -- as in Boy Scouts -- the church, and inappropriate touching. And when you "have a dig at two ...

VIDEO: Schumacher's Ferrari FXX blitzes the Top Gear test track 4 months ago on Autoblog

Alright, so whether you've seen it already or not, most of the enthusiast world is aware that Top Gear has revealed its mystery "tame racing driver" as none other than F1 maestro Michael Schumacher. That unhelmeting came as part of the new season's first show which aired in the U.K. on Sunday, ...

REPORT: The Stig is to be unmasked unhelmeted on tonight's Top Gear! 4 months ago on Autoblog

Jeremy Clarkson has written that some time after the new season of Top Gear begins tonight at 8 p.m. on British televisions, "Stig barges into the studio and in an atmosphere that you could cut with a knife removes his helmet." Ostensibly, that means we'll finally learn the identity of the ...

VIDEO: Top Gear teases new season in childish fashion 4 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] 5 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 ...

UK may force Top Gear to diversify cast 6 months ago on Autoblog

This past Monday, the UK's Labour deputy leader, Harriet Harman, unveiled the so-called "Equity Bill" which requires state-funded organizations (like the BBC) to increase the amount of female, black and gay staff to better reflect the diversified population of the island. If the reforms go through, ...

As Top Gear Series 10 DVD hits, BBC begins testing children's and travel-sized versions of magazine 6 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 ...

Michael Harvey steps down as editor of Top Gear magazine 7 months ago on Autoblog

Reports that the editor-in-chief of Top Gear, Michael Harvey, is stepping down from his post have now been confirmed. Sort of. According to correspondence received from Harvey and the BBC by our El Camino-lovin' compatriots over at Jalopnik, Harvey will be resigning as editor-in-chief in favor of a ...

Top Gear officially reveals Stig's identity, and he's even more impressive than we thought 9 months ago on Autoblog

Fair warning: This is our third Stig post in about a week, so if you're not a fan of the Top Gear and its Tame Racing Driver, feel free to mosey on down the page. Speculation about the Stig's identity has always been a fun way to pass the time with fellow car buffs. It's one of those secrets that ...

Dream Team: Coulthard, Jordan join BBC F1 coverage 11 months ago on Autoblog

Remember how excited we got when rumors started flying about the short-list of candidates to host NBC's version of Top Gear? Well, the BBC's original version isn't about to change any time soon, but another motor-related program is coming to the Beeb, and racing fans over on the British Isles have ...

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 ...

Clarkson and BBC team up to take Top Gear global 1 year ago on Autoblog

A new business deal signed between the BBC on the one hand and Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson and producer Andy Wilman on the other could see the vast expansion of the Top Gear brand worldwide. The deal involves BBC Worldwide, the international commercial arm of the government-owned television ...

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 ...

First Top Gear Series 11 commercial: Tigers racing Badgers 1 year ago on Autoblog

They really are dragging out the introduction of the 11th season of Top Gear, and we don't mean in the tire smoking way, either. But a commercial like this one after the jump helps to pass the time. There is nothing we could say that could best the BBC trio in this first ad for the telly. As for ...

A visual history of the BBC "TV Detector" van 1 year ago on Autoblog

To subsidize the BBC's programming, UK residents are compelled to pay a TV licensing fee (this is what we also call a "tax") if they choose to watch television programs in their homes. To encourage compliance, the Beeb invented the myth of the "Television Detector" van, which supposedly contained ...

We've been lied to: New episodes of Top Gear actually not coming June 15 1 year ago on Autoblog

Remember when we told you that Top Gear would be returning on June 15? Well, um... Top Gear isn't returning on June 15. In fact, not only is Top Gear not returning on June 15, but there is no word on when it will return. And not only is there no word on when it will return, but there isn't expected ...

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