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Top Gear USA trio returning in a non-Top Gear role

Wood, Foust, and Ferrara apparently have a new car show in the works.

The airwaves will be saturated with car shows featuring a three-host format.

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Tanner Foust drives all the things in this Quantum Leap spoof

Oh, boy ...

Some drifting and jumping fun to tide you over until the next Gymkhana.

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VW pits GTI against GLI in the name of Fastivus

C'mon you're sick of Pokemon. This has the GTI.

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History Channel gives Top Gear USA the axe

Tuesday night’s episode will be the last for the American Top Gear crew.

The History Channel has canceled Top Gear USA, which features hosts Adam Ferrara, Tanner Foust, and Rutledge Wood.

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Watch Tanner Foust flog a 400-hp tuned Polaris Slingshot

Tanner Foust unleashes a turbocharged Polaris Slingshot with over 400 hp on San Diego's quiet streets and an empty parking garage.

VW pits Foust against Winslow in epic sound-effects battle

Volkswagen highlights its new Golf R in a humorous pair of videos featuring racing driver Tanner Foust and sound-effects master Michael Winslow. Watch as they get the Rrr on.

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Coast-to-coast drive on NEXBTL renewable diesel nets 66.7 mpg

CLP Motorsports' Superlite Coupe Is Pretty Cool, Too

CLP Motorsports puts NEXBTL renewable diesel – and Tanner Foust – in its Superlite Coupe for a 2,500-mile drive on one tank of fuel.

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Tanner Foust and Scott Speed get VW internships

Global Rallycross Championship racers Tanner Foust and Scott Speed put aside their motorsports duties to try out a new job at VW. The two of them briefly become the summer interns at a dealership.

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Tanner Foust drifts Rockstar Passat around US Cycling TT course

The USA Cycling Time Trials take place on Saturday in Chattanooga, TN. That's also where Volkswagen has its US headquarters. So in honor of the event, VW decided to have a little fun involving Tanner Foust and a 900-horsepower Rockstar Drift car.

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2015 VW Beetle GRC packs 553 rallycrossing horsepower

Behold the Volkswagen Beetle that Tanner Foust and Scott Speed will be driving in the 2015 Global Rallycross Championship, packing a bigger engine with more power.

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Tanner Foust drifts in with new VW Passat [w/video]

Tanner Foust gears up for Formula Drift in his new Volkswagen Passat, with a nitrous-fueled 7.4-liter V8 driving up to 900 horsepower to the rear wheels.

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VW TDI ads star four 'salty' ladies and a stinky dog named Tuna

Volkswagen enlists the Three Golden Sisters - a trio of New York grandmothers - to help dispel erroneous ideas about diesel engine in four new 30-second commercials, with help from Tanner Foust and Tuna the Dastardly Dog.

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Tanner Foust Racing ENEOS RWB Beetle is more pumpkin than Porsche

"Many Porsche owners like the Beetle. The Beetle is a very good car and it looks like a Porsche a little bit," according to Akira Nakai, the man at the helm of Japanese tuning house RAUH-Welt Begriff. "It is similar, but a Beetle is not a Porsche, so we made a completely new design for this Beetle."

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Tanner Foust checks out his new VW Beetle GRC rally car

Racing driver and Top Gear USA host Tanner Foust is a very busy guy. After all, he's competing in rounds of both Global Rallycross series and FIA World Rallycross Championship, not to mention his TV duties. However, we probably shouldn't fee

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2015 VW GTI makes movie magic with a heaping helping of GoPro

Quick, what do a Volkswagen GTI and a GoPro have in common? Well, the answer is quite obvious. They've both become an ever-present item at track days and autocrosses over the years. Now, though, they're finally teaming up.

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Tanner Foust signs on for FIA World Rallycross Championship

Organizers of the FIA World Rallycross Championship are getting serious, but if they're going to challenge the Global RallyCross Championship for status as the premier rallycross series on the world stage, it's going to need some star power – big names to put it on the map. Because whil

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Mustang pinball game will feature art by Ford GT designer

To celebrate 50 years of Mustang, Ford and Stern Pinball are collaborating on a new pinball machine that will feature the muscle car in all its glory, Polygon reports. Even better, Camilo Pardo, the guy who designed the Damon Lowney

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Autoblog Podcast #358

Top Gear joins us, LA and Tokyo show previews

Episode #358 of the Autoblog podcast is here, and this week, Dan Roth and Jeff Ross talk about the sights we'll see at the LA Auto Show and Tokyo Motor Show. Dan also had a chance to talk with Adam Ferrara, Tanner Foust and Rutledge Wood from Top Gear on History. We start with what's in the garage and finish up with some of your q

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Ford pits Cobra Jet versus GRC Fiesta ST, worlds collide

Racing takes on many forms in the automotive world. There are sanctioned events that are as varied and diverse as NASCAR, Formula One, Global Rallycross and drag racing, and to be good enough to win competitively in one discipline, you need to have a specialized vehicle. Or do you?

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Amazing Forza Motorsport 5 commercial is 'world's fastest zoetrope'

In Filmspeed, the latest ad spot for Forza Motorsport 5, what at first seems like a video aided by computer-generated graphics suddenly becomes much cooler when you realize that it was shot with a high-speed video camera on a racetrack - with no help from computer generation - making it the "world's fastest zoetrope," as Damon Lowney

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