Top Gear
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Aftermarket tuner Hennessey Performance Engineering has added more power to Ford's ferocious F-150 Raptor pickup with the Hennessey VelociRaptor 500, and now "Top Gear USA" has had a chance to test it, with the Stig behind the wheel. The truck has a 501-horsepower supercharged 5.4-liter V-8, high-flow air induction, stainless steel headers and catback exhaust, and special exterior and interior badging. There's also a 1-year/12,000-mile limited warranty. Hennessey claims the truck can run 0-60 in 5.6 seconds and hit the quarter-mile in 14.1 seconds. Take a gander at the video below to see the...
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Former Stig Ben Collins Lists The Five Worst Cars He’s Driven
If you've ever wondered what it might be like to suddenly stop being the least-known person on the world's best-known automotive TV show, Ben Collins is probably the best person to ask. That’s because he was the man behind the mask--or should we say helmet--of The Stig, Top Gear’s tame...
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Top Gear’s Richard Hammond Buys Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Spyder, Wife Gets Fiat 500
It’s always interesting to see what cars the people who get to drive virtually everything buys for their own personal collections. And the hosts of Top Gear--Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond--have probably driven the most varied assortment of autos: Everything from high-end...
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk Calls Top Gear “Completely Phony”
In the ongoing battle between Tesla and Top Gear, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has finally spoken, comparing the BBC’s popular automotive television program to a Milli Vanilli concert. That’s right, the music band whose Grammy award was revoked when the lead performers admitted they didn't...
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Top Gear Responds To Tesla Lawsuit
Following last week’s shock announcement that Tesla is suing BBC’s Top Gear for libel and malicious falsehood stemming from a review of its all-electric Roadster, Top Gear executive producer Andy Wilman has released insight on the topic coming from the show’s side. Due to the...
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Tesla vs. TopGear: Only Half Of The Story
Electric car maker Tesla is suing U.K. hit TV show TopGear for libel and malicious falsehood, seeking to right the record about its Roadster electric sports car, which the company thinks was treated unfairly by the sometimes witty, sometimes boorish hosts of the show. Unfortunately, this is no...
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Tesla is no stranger to lawsuits, having been on both the receiving end and acting as instigator in several nasty cases in the recent past. The Californian electric car startup is now at it again, this time taking on the formidable forces of the BBC, more specifically the network’s Top Gear program, for libel and malicious falsehood. Tesla served Top Gear with a lawsuit yesterday, claiming that it had no other recourse. The company claims that it reluctantly took legal action after its repeated attempts to contact the BBC, over the course of months, were ignored. The issue in concern...
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Ford, 'Top Gear Australia' Envision Pair Of Mad Max Interceptor Concepts
Wild, post-apocalyptic scenes, a young and as-yet not off-the-rails Mel Gibson, and a heavily modified 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT Coupe: without these, Mad Max wouldn't have been the success it was, and it certainly wouldn't have made its way into the cockles of car-loving hearts as it has over the...
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Top Gear USA Partners With NASCAR For ‘Top Gear 300’ Nationwide Series Race
What better way to drum excitement for your show than to partner with one of the country’s most watched events, the NASCAR Nationwide Series. That's exactly what the producers of Top Gear USA have done, signing a deal with Charlotte Motor Speedway to rename the May 28 NASCAR Nationwide Series...
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Pilot Filmed For Top Gear China
There have been rumblings that a new edition of the Top Gear franchise, one filmed in China, was in the works, and today we have news that a pilot for the new show has been produced. Carrying the title of Top Gear China, if successful the pilot will eventually lead to a full series. Top Gear China...
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Video: Top Gear Returns For Season 16
The lads are back for yet another season of all out hilarity on four wheels, this time with a brand new Stig and plenty of new antics. Some of the goodies we can expect include a comparison between two classic supercars, the Ferrari F40 and Porsche 959, a test of the new Rolls-Royce Ghost as well...
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Adam Carolla Takes On Top Gear USA. We Have Some Suggestions.
Look, we know that Top Gear USA just launched, and we know that sometimes it takes a few episodes for a show to get warmed up (e.g. Mad Men, Nurse Jackie, Facts of Life). But as much as we (pretend to) hate jumping to conclusions, in this case, there's only one we can reach: Top Gear USA is...
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The BBC's Top Gear is perhaps the most well-recognized and widely-watched motoring program on earth, and the series' dependence on a hired gun that plies the world's best supercars at the show's test track is equally well-known. This hired gun, commonly referred to as the Stig, came to be almost as popular as each of the show’s three hosts and one of his key virtues was the fact that his identity was a closely guarded secret. That was until it was found out that the Stig was actually racing driver Ben Collins, who revealed his identify in his self written autobiography. Now there is a...
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Ben Collins Revealed As 'Top Gear' Stig, Gets The Sack
The BBC's Top Gear is perhaps the most well-recognized and widely-watched motoring program on earth, and the series' dependence on a hired gun that plies the world's best supercars at the show's test track is equally well-known. That driver's identity has been a closely guarded secret of the show...
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Video: First Trailer For Top Gear USA Released
We were briefly excited last year then quickly had our hopes smashed when word of an American version of the UK's hit car-related show Top Gear was released, then quickly canceled after filming the pilot. It had been slated for NBC, then confirmed for The History Channel and today we have the first...
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Video: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz Take A Lap In Top Gear's Reasonably Priced Car
Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz both appeared on last night's episode of Top Gear in the U.K. According to reports, the duo were in Britain on a junket for Knight and Day, and while there, they each made laps in the show's Reasonably Priced Car -- these days, a Kia cee'd. We haven't bittorrented...
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Top Gear USA Will Live On At History Channel
Adam Carolla's CarCast hints that the U.S. version of the show may yet see production.
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Top Gear Caught Filming On Erupting Icelandic Volcano?
The nutty Brits at Top Gear are apparently in search of even more bang for their buck.
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Ever wondered what happens if you put one of motoring media's wildest wild cars in a small enough car into a wide enough empty sewer tunnel?
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Think You Have The Write Stuff? Prove It And Win Top Gear DVDs, Bonus Gifts
Write a submission to High Gear Media and you'll be entered to win a two-season DVD pack of Top Gear.
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Michael Schumacher latest to be revealed as 'The Stig'
Michael Schumacher was unmasked as the BBC car programme Top Gear's mysterious 'The Stig' on tonight’s episode of the long-running show. The enigmatic white-overalled, gloved and helmeted figure, who for years has anonymously tested cars for the TV show, appeared on the floor of the British...
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Top Gear's Stig revealed as racing legend Bill Collins
The BBC's Top Gear is perhaps the most well-recognized and widely-watched motoring program on earth, and the series' dependence on a hired gun that plies the world's best supercars at the show's test track is equally well-known. That driver's identity has been a closely guarded secret of the show...
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Ultima GTR Unofficially Fastest Around Top Gear Track
The Ultima GTR may not look a world beater but the British-built supercar has racked up a string of first place titles over the years with the latest being the fastest lap time set by a production car for the Top Gear circuit. The time posted for the standard production Ultima GTR720 road car was...
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"Top Gear" presenter Richard Hammond survives 280 mph crash
"Top Gear" presenter Richard Hammond has been seriously injured during an attempt to break the land speed record for Britain while driving a Thule Vampire, a 30-foot jet-powered Swedish dragster. Hammond was reported to be still speaking as he was lifted from the wreckage. Remarkable considering he...
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