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VIDEO: Top Gear Live holding design-your-own-stunt contest

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 envelope challenge. This year, the live theatrical extravaganza starring Clarkson, May and Hammond is looking for even more bombastic challenges for the its new season. While we're sure the TGL team will come up with some amazing stunts, this year, ... Read more →

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

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 ...

Top Gear to lose exotics in favor of practical iron? Chris Shunk

The Top Gear we know and love includes hordes of outlandishly expensive exotic and luxury cars that we could never afford. Lamborghini and Ferrari will still be represented for Series 13, but if ...

Top Gear returns in June with Series 13 Chris Shunk

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 ...

Top Gear goes to Vietnam Chris Shunk

The Top Gear team is going global. Location shoots are planned to take the British trio all over the planet, starting with Vietnam. Clarkson, May, and Hammond loved the idea when they were plotting ...

Liability in Hammond crash falls on dragster maker, BBC 2 years ago on Autoblog

Britain's Health and Safety Executive faulted both the BBC and the makers of the Vampire dragster, Primetime Landspeed Engineering, for Richard Hammond's dastardly crash. The HSE said that the risk assessment that Primetime gave to the BBC didn't take into account that Hammond didn't have the ...

VIDEO: Hammond's first interview since crash 2 years ago on Autoblog

Despite the fact that doctors predicted he would be in the hospital for 15 months, Richard Hammond exited the ER after only a couple of weeks following his horrific accident involving a jet car that he lost control of at over 300 mph. Last Friday Hammond gave his first interview on Brit Jonathan ...

Top Gear's back, with Hammond, airing Jan28 2 years ago on Autoblog

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Top_Gear_s_back_with_Hammond_airing_Jan28'; The Hamster's back! We're pleased to report that after a miraculously brief recovery period following his mishap with a 300-mph jet-powered dragster, Richard Hammond is back in action, and so is Top ...

Richard Hammond, released from hospital, describes crash and recovery 3 years ago on Autoblog

Defying all the odds, we're glad to report that Top Gear host Richard Hammond has been released from the hospital and is recovering with his family at an undisclosed private location. Despite the very serious nature of his crash and the potential brain damage incurred, Richard's doctors all expect ...

VIDEO: Hamster dragster crash footage! 3 years ago on Autoblog

As we reported earlier, Richard Hammond was volunteering, if not lobbying from his bedside, for the BBC to show the footage of his 300-mph dragster crash that put him in the hospital and Top Gear on hiatus. Meanwhile, here at Autoblog we've been happy to report that the Hamster is on the fast road ...

BBC won't sTop Gear: show resumes filming 3 years ago on Autoblog

Some feared that anti-motoring opportunists would use Richard Hammond's crash as a pretext to have the show shut down, but the BBC is making good on its pledge not to cancel Top Gear. While Richard recovers from his injuries at a hospital in Bristol, England, fellow host Jeremy Clarkson test drove ...

Hammond Watch: the grueling road ahead 3 years ago on Autoblog

The next six months will prove to be the most crucial for Richard Hammond's recovery, his doctors have revealed. For those joining the saga a bit late, the Top Gear host crashed at 300 mph while attempting a land speed record in a jet-powered dragster on film for the BBC program. Shortly after the ...

Hammond to BBC: show the crash and me in the hospital 3 years ago on Autoblog

From his hospital bed, Top Gear's Richard Hammond is asking the BBC to show on television the footage of the crash that put him there. But the BBC has said the show will only continue when Hammond is able to appear on it. With forces at work to have the show canceled (or prohibitively curtailed), ...

Top Gear fights for survival as BBC postpones show indefinitely 3 years ago on Autoblog

As Top Gear host Richard Hammond recovers from his 300-mph crash, the show's future remains in limbo. The crash occurred while filming a segment for the upcoming series, but with Hammond still in hospital with the full scope of his injuries still unknown, the new season is being postponed ...

Hammond Update: "Was I driving like a tw*t?" 3 years ago on Autoblog

Here at Autoblog we've been inundated with comments and news updates from well-wishers praying for Richard Hammond's full and speedy recovery following his shocking 300-mph crash this past Wednesday. And so we're pleased to report that the Hamster's condition is improving dramatically. According to ...

Top Gear's 'Hamster' in stable but serious condition day after crash 3 years ago on Autoblog

Top Gear's Richard "Hamster" Hammond is in serious but stable condition today in the Leeds General Infirmary, with his family and Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson and James May in attendance. The 36-year-old Hammond was driving a jet dragster, similar to the British land speed record-holding Vampire, in ...

UPDATE: Details on Richard Hammond crash 3 years ago on Autoblog

Sky News is reporting more details on the circumstances surrounding the crash involving Top Gear host Richard Hammond. Apparently Hammond was making an attempt at the British land speed record in the Thule Vampire, a 30-foot Rolls-Royce jet-powered dragster made in Sweden capable of reaching 272 ...

Top Gear's Richard Hammond in critical condition 3 years ago on Autoblog

It's been a shocking day in the world of automotive journalism as we receive the terribly upsetting news that BBC Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond lies in a Leeds hospital in critical condition. Hammond was airlifted to the hospital following a terrifying crash at the wheel of a jet-powered car ...






Autoblog Podcast #153: With Phil Berg

Phil Berg puts his reputation on the line and hangs with the podcast crew.

 
 

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