Top Gear
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The James Bond franchise is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and it seems like everyone wants in on the action. To help mark the occasion, even Top Gear, everyone’s favorite motoring show, has produced a special episode with a Bond theme. It’s a safe bet that classic Bond vehicles will have a starring role, as the promo image shows Richard Hammond posing with the Aston Martin DB5 that debuted in Goldfinger. The show will also have interviews with Daniel Craig and Roger Moore, who have played the world’s best-loved spy in a total of 10 films. Since it’s Top...
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Top Gear Revisits The Deadly 720 - On A Bike: Video
Back in June, Top Gear announced that it would attempt the world’s first back-to-back loop-the-loop, a stunt it called the “Deadly 720” as part of an upcoming Top Gear Live event. Perhaps indicating how risky the stunt was (or perhaps to build hype around it), a special buggy was...
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Top Gear's Clarkson, Hammond And May Sign On For Another Three Years
If the thought of a future without the BBC’s hit automotive show Top Gear is too bleak for you to imagine, take heart: the network has just signed Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May to a new three-year deal, which also features a big payday for Clarkson and show producer Andy...
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Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson Is The BBC's Biggest Earner
If you believe that cynicism and snark can’t be turned into a lucrative career, perhaps you’ll want to rethink that position after we disclose Jeremy Clarkson’s approximate 2011 income from the BBC. As reported in The Telegraph, Clarkson took home some 500,000 pounds ($781,150) in...
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Top Gear Live Team Completes Deadly 720 Loop-The-Loop: Video
A driver from the Top Gear Live Stunt Team has set a new world record by becoming the first to complete a spectacular double loop-the-loop on four wheels. The ground-breaking feat--dubbed the ‘Deadly 720’, for obvious reasons--was the amazing finale to the first of four Top Gear Live...
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Top Gear Live To Attempt Back-To-Back Loop-The-Loops
If you simply can’t get enough of Top Gear, and happen to live in Europe, Russia, South Africa, Hong Kong or Australia, Top Gear Live gives fans a chance to see some of the shows staples (like the “Cool Wall” and exotic supercars) up close and personal. Top Gear Live also brings...
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If you're jonesing for another dose of the goofy, sometimes hilarious, sometimes awful trio of Clarkson, May, and Hammond, you may have wait until 2013. According to Final Gear, Clarkson recently told the South African radio show Ballz Visual Radio (seriously, that's what it's called) that Top Gear wouldn't be back this year--as Clarkson put it, "There's no Top Gear on this year." While that could be taken a number of ways, it seems to indicate the show won't return until 2013. Whether that's due to the Summer Olympics in London, Clarkson's frequent foot-in-mouthery, or Top Gear's overall...
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Former Stig Hired As Stunt Driver For Bond Flick 'Skyfall'
With a resume that includes stints in the army and motorsports, plus the role of the Stig on the popular television show Top Gear, there are probably few others more suited to be a stunt driver for the latest James Bond movie Skyfall than Ben Collins. It should come as no surprise to hear then that...
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Forza Motorsport 4 May Top Gear Car Pack
If you're a gamer and into racing titles, you'll know the rivalry between Forza Motorsport 4 on the Xbox 360 and Gran Turismo 5 on the PS3 is as intense as that between Ford and GM. Gran Turismo has always had the realism and car diversity, Forza the greater fun factor and better online play. With...
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Richard Hammond And Jimmie Johnson Talk NASCAR And Top Gear, Pastrana's Mullet
So Richard Hammond and Jimmie Johnson hopped on a NASCAR conference call that was quickly sidetracked into the minutia of NASCAR racing and politics. But from the mists emerged a few choice nuggets of wider appeal. Among them was Travis Pastrana's new mullet. Given to Pastrana by Jimmie Johnson...
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Jeremy Clarkson, On The Bugatti Veyron: Video
If you’ve watched Top Gear long enough, you’ve probably come to the realization that aside from the Toyota Hilux pickup and most Italian sports cars, Jeremy Clarkson isn’t a fan of many cars built outside of the United Kingdom. While willing to overlook the faults of vehicles from...
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Top Gear USA Season Three Premiers On February 14
Top Gear USA returns for its third season on Tuesday, February 14. Expect more of the same antics from hosts Tanner Foust, Adam Ferrara and Rutledge Wood.
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The world's most-watched automotive (more or less) TV show is about to get underway with its 18th season (or series, as the Brits style it). That's a good thing. A video teaser is better. Promising just as much ridiculous tail-out, smoky action, goofy Clarkson voiceover action, and action-filmy explosion action, plus pure action action, the action-packed teaser also features NASCAR action. Get in on the action yourself January 29th, though for those of us outside the U.K., that'll probably be the 30th, when the ... alternative channels open up. Action!
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Tesla Loses Major Part Of Its "Top Gear" Lawsuit
Tesla has lost the libel half of its case against Top Gear.
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TomTom Pulls The Plug On Clarkson-Voiced Top Gear GO Live Models
BBC's editorial guidelines specifically prohibit presenters from endorsing products that could be used on BBC shows. In other words, there can't be a Top Gear themed TomTom GO Live nav system after all.
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UPDATE: TomTom Ceases Production Of Top Gear-Branded Units
Earlier this week, we told you about a new, Top Gear-branded satnav system from TomTom. Unfortunately, someone failed to clear the licensing of Jeremy Clarkson's voice with BBC's editorial staff, and now, TomTom has been forced to cease production of the devices. It's a classic problem of the left...
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TomTom's Top Gear Edition Puts Jeremy Clarkson & The Stig On Your Dash
We admit that we've been critical of TomTom, Garmin, and other aftermarket satnavs. After all, in the age of smartphones and factory-installed telematics systems, dashtop devices can seem as outdated as your grandmother's VCR. But you have to give them props for trying, and TomTom is trying very...
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The Stig Burns Rubber In The 2012 BMW M5: Video
Top Gear's Stig may or may not be the most incredible, alien-talented driver on the planet, depending on the fanboy status of who you're talking to, but the 2012 BMW M5 is a known quantity. Here, the two come together in a tasty bit of teasery goodness, more info of which is detailed on the show's...
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General consensus among Top Gear fans wasn't too positive for the first season of Top Gear USA. For anyone who'd caught episodes of the UK version and enjoyed the crazy antics of Clarkson, Hammond and May, it just wasn't up to scratch. Heck, even if you'd not seen an episode of the UK series it wasn't that great. Luckily the History Channel gave Top Gear USA another chance. That perseverance has paid off with better ratings, and season two is now being extended by a further eight episodes. Season two, which premiered back in July, has seen 30 percent more people watching Tanner Foust, Adam...
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Video: Creating Hockenheim For The Forza Motorsport 4 Game
The 1980s was an exciting time to be a young person. The reason? Video games. From coin-operated arcade games to the advent of home games consoles a whole generation had a new form of entertainment and for the budding gearheads, the best fun was provided by racing games. Just as car technology has...
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Jeremy Clarkson To Voice Forza 4 Game, Can Be Turned Off
Many consider the Forza series of XBox racing games to be the best console racers... in the world. One thing is for sure though, it's the only racing game that's voiced by BBC Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson. Known as "Motormouth" to some and several unrepeatable things to many other people, the...
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Top Gear Season 17 Airs In UK: Video
The boys are back for another season of hilarity and mishaps involving cars in a variety of location, with episode one of season 17 of the original--and still the best--Top Gear airing last night in the UK. This is season 17 of the ever popular show and as this gallery reveals, we can expect some...
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Second Trailer For Top Gear Season 17: Video
Last week we learned the BBC's Top Gear would return for its 17th season on June 26. Today, we get a new trailer previewing the mop-headed trio's antics. The recipe once again boils down to hoonage, intentional idiocy, ridiculous use of small cars, and funny accents. Now if only the BBC would let...
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Top Gear Returns June 26, Teased In New Video
Love it or hate it, Top Gear is back for another season of silliness, hijinks, and mildly offensive banter.
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