Top Gear

  • Richard Hammond's Crash Course. Images © Gilles Mingasson for BBC AMERICA

    Don’t you worry, “The Grand Tour” faithful. Despite having yet another accident, Richard Hammond is “not dead.” And that comes straight from The Hamster himself, who posted to his personal DriveTribe account to confirm he did indeed have a spill on a motorcycle but was recovering. Hammond was reportedly taping a segment for the second season of Amazon’s “The Grand Tour” when he “came off” the motorcycle at high speed. The crash left the host unconscious on the side of the road in the South African country Mozambique. It’s...

  • Antron Brown is ready to race. Photo: Anne Proffit
    'Top Gear America' to return with new cast, new network

    Mention to car guys "Top Gear USA" and they are likely to sneer. After an aborted first attempt by NBC that was centered around Adam Corolla, the History Channel version could never live up to the British show it was named after. The trio of rally racer Tanner Foust, auto journalist Rutledge Wood...

  • Top Gear teaser
    New 'Top Gear' trailer spurs renewed hope

    To say the relaunch of "Top Gear" went as planned would be a lie. With the original boys moving over to Amazon for "The Grand Tour," the show relaunched with Chris Evans as the main host. It was a disaster. Now it's set to relaunch, again, with a new trio of Chris Harris, Matt LeBlanc, and Rory...

  • New ‘Top Gear’ hosts Chris Harris, Matt LeBlanc and Rory Reid
    New season of ‘Top Gear’ starts March 5, coming to BBC America March 13

    Is there any hope for a “Top Gear” revival now that the show’s former hosts are causing up a storm on Amazon’s “The Grand Tour” rival? With Chris Evans out and Chris Harris in, we say there’s a good chance. And the first trailer out for the new season with...

  • Top Gear sits down with the insurance department
    'Top Gear' hosts visit with BBC insurance department ahead of new season

    "Top Gear" appears ready to move forward with a promising team firmly in place. That would be the team of Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris, and Rory Reid. All three sit down with the BBC insurance department for a new teaser trailer that gives us a glimpse at what's in store for the show's next season...

  • Top Gear - Season 17
    Top Gear Test Track to become housing development

    Over the years, the "Top Gear" team has produced some great video memories at its home base. That would be the Dunsfold Aerodrome, which is where the Top Gear Test Track is laid out. Or was, as it seems that this corner of the UK is set to be paved over and become a housing development. CHECK OUT...

  • Scene from 'The Grand Tour'

    On Friday, the first episode of Amazon’s new car show The Grand Tour starring former Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May went live. There had been concerns Amazon might have trouble recreating the magic of the old show, but now that the first episode is out we can safely say that they’ve done it. In fact, they’ve even improved it. Without the minders at the BBC breathing down their necks, the crew are funnier, sillier and more crude than ever, which is perfect given all the politically correct hoopla we seem to be inundated with constantly by...

  • Chris Harris in a scene from 'Extra Gear'
    Chris Harris and Rory Reid to join Matt LeBlanc as lead hosts on ‘Top Gear’

    Top Gear producer the BBC has confirmed Chris Harris and Rory Reid will join Matt LeBlanc as lead hosts for future episodes of the struggling show. Harris and Reid were previously relegated to the spinoff series Extra Gear but proved to be more popular with fans than former lead host Chris Evans...

  • Jeremy Clarkson's P45 on Top Gear [Image: BBC]
    Former BBC exec admits letting Clarkson go was a mistake

    I'm not sure if you're aware, but Jeremy Clarkson was fired from his job with the BBC. He worked for a show you might've heard of called Top Gear. There was a fracas. There was an apology. There was no turning back really. Still, it seems the head of the BBC at the time wishes it all shook out a...

  • Matt LeBlanc and his 2016 Ford Focus RS
    ‘Top Gear’ host Matt LeBlanc buys Ford Focus RS

    Actor Matt LeBlanc, famous for playing Joey on the hit sitcom Friends, turned out to be one of the few bright spots for the new season of Top Gear, which recently concluded. That’s partially due to the fact that LeBlanc is a real gearhead, frequently working on his machines himself. DON'T...

  • Chris Harris
    Chris Harris to host new car show on BBC America starting tonight

    While "Top Gear" hasn't exactly worked out for Chris Evans, his co-host Chris Harris is certainly riding the wave. The BBC has announced that its American subsidiary—the creatively named BBC America—will soon air its "Chris Harris on Cars" show. Spawned from the presenter's popular...

  • Matt LeBlanc, Chris Evans and the Stig
    'Top Gear' host Chris Evans resigns amid dismal ratings

    New Top Gear frontman Chris Evans has called it quits after just six episodes. Evans, who has starred on both radio and television, confirmed the news via Twitter. “Gave it my best shot but sometimes that's not enough,” Evans said in a Twitter post. “The team are beyond brilliant...

  • Matt LeBlanc, Chris Evans and the Stig

    A new report lends more credibility to rumors that new Top Gear presenters Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc aren't exactly best buddies. The latest out of England comes courtesy of The Sun. The report cites unnamed sources in the battle between Evans and LeBlanc, with the latter saying that he will leave the show unless Evans is replaced. READ: 'Top Gear USA' was just killed by the History Channel “The team does not gel and the atmosphere between the presenters is decidedly frosty," the source reportedly said. LeBlanc is said to have criticized Evans for his rude attitude toward the...

  • Cast of Top Gear USA
    'Top Gear USA' was just killed by the History Channel

    Tomorrow evening's episode of Top Gear USA on the History Channel will be the show's last. Co-host Rutledge Wood announced the show's demise on Facebook. Hosted by Tanner Foust, Adam Ferrara, and Wood, the show was supposed to give Americans our own version of the popular Top Gear by the BBC. The...

  • Chris Harris
    New Chris Harris web series coming to 'Top Gear' website

    Judging from your feedback the new season of Top Gear is a dud. But it's not all bad as the season also features the lovable Chris Harris, though for some inane reason he barely gets any screen time. That situation may change should viewer numbers continue to dwindle but regardless we’re...

  • Complete cast for 'Top Gear' revealed
    New 'Top Gear': A hit or miss?

    The automotive world isn't talking as much about Alexander Rossi's fuel-saving win in the 2016 Indianapolis 500 as much as it is about the BBC's rebooted Top Gear series, which also aired over the weekend. Initial response online appears to have been largely negative, with the bulk of the criticism...

  • Chris Harris
    New 'Top Gear' host Chris Harris to race with Bentley in Blancpain Endurance Series

    In addition to playing a host on the new season of Top Gear, as well as the spinoff series Extra Gear, both of which start this Sunday, Chris Harris will be racing a Bentley Continental GT3 in the 2016 Blancpain GT Endurance Series Cup (formerly Endurance Series). Harris is one of the world’s...

  • Chris Harris in a scene from 'Extra Gear'
    'Top Gear' spinoff 'Extra Gear' gets its own trailer

    When the producers of Top Gear announced there would be six new hosts to replace Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, questions were immediately raised on how the producers planned to squeeze in all six personalities without ruining the recipe. It turns out at least two of the...

  • New trailer teases Top Gear

    Is the new, dynamic trio-free Top Gear finally here? Sadly, not quite. A new trailer posted to the web has given us another taste of what's to come. Sure, the less-than-a-minute trailer posted to the Internet by the show's producer, the BBC, contains plenty of the expected "car porn" with beautiful images showing classic Ferraris, Vaughn Gittin Jr.'s vintage RTR-X drifting Mustang, and more, but what really set the old Top Gear apart were the segments where the presenters had a set budget to find a cheap car within certain parameters. The good news is that it looks like this tradition is set...

  • James May, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond starring in “The Grand Tour”
    Clarkson, Hammond and May’s new show called 'The Grand Tour'

    We can finally confirm that the new car show starring former Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will be called The Grand Tour. The new show will premiere this fall on Amazon Prime and is already being billed as a Top Gear rival. MUST SEE: Extended trailer for new...

  • Scene from trailer for new season of "Top Gear"
    Extended trailer for new 'Top Gear' drops

    The new season of Top Gear is almost here. You know, the one without Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May but rather six new hosts led by fellow Brit Chris Evans. The show’s producer, the BBC, has now dropped an extended trailer that gives us a good taste of what’s to come...

  • Scene from trailer for new season of "Top Gear"
    Watch the second trailer for new 'Top Gear'

    We’re just weeks away from the start of the new season of Top Gear and to help build the excitement a second trailer has been released. The first was released in March and showed that the new hosts, all six of them, aren’t trying to copy the style of previous hosts Jeremy Clarkson...

  • Extra Gear will follow Top Gear.
    BBC planning Top Gear spinoff: Extra Gear

    What's one more gear than the top gear? If you're the BBC, it's Extra Gear, a new spinoff of the network's wildly popular car show. Extra Gear won't have the dynamic trio who made Top Gear into such a success, of course. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May are set to launch a new...

  • Complete cast for 'Top Gear' revealed
    New 'Top Gear' episodes coming to Netflix

    New episodes of Top Gear will be coming to Netflix, one of the bosses of the popular online streaming service has confirmed. Speaking with The Guardian, Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said distribution would match “the same deals” previous seasons of the show fell under...

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