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Clarkson Decides Not All American Cars Are Rubbish, Would Take Cadillac CTS-V Over BMW M5

We had some outrage from the readers when that Jeremy Clarkson fella (who recently crashed and is not at all dead) from across the water done made the Chrysler Sebring convertible one of them- whaddya call it- metaphors for the entire United States and dissed 'em both. Well, you disgruntled types can go ahead and regruntle yourselves, because now The Stig is shopping for a 4-door saloon and Clarkson thinks the Cadillac CTS-V looks like a helluva lot better deal than the BMW M5. His logic goes something like this: 1) The Cad is £19,000 cheaper than the M5, 2) The CTS-V is faster around the Nürburgring, and 3) The Stig won't worry about the insatiable thirst of the CTS-V, because he saved so much money buying it in the first place.

[Times Of London]

10:00 AM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,265 views, 36 comments

Latest by Rock517 is... Kyle Thrustmaxer.: @stoneman: So you're basing your opinion of GM based on a used CTS-V from a couple years ago? Ummm, ok... more »

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Jeremy Clarkson In Head-On Accident Filming Top Gear, Doing Just Fine

Proving he's as bull-headed as we suspected, Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson was reportedly in a head-on collision during filming for the show. Says the Mirror, Clarkson "suffered minor injuries to his legs, hand and back." What, exactly, are minor injuries? Clarkson elaborates: “My right index finger looked like a burst sausage, my left shin was fatter than my thigh and my back felt like someone had driven over it with a pile-driver.” For her part, Clarkson's wife claims "my husband is fine." In other words, shut up Jeremy, and put on a band-aid. So, just for the record: Jeremy Clarkson is not dead. But, if he were, we've got a very nice obituary. [FinalGear]

9:20 AM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By Andrew Stoy
1,673 views, 25 comments

Latest by TetrisMaster: He's got nothing on Hammond. more »

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Real Top Gear Returns November 2

Originally intended to start on October 26th, Top Gear is now officially slated for a return to television on November 2nd. We can hardly wait for Series 12 to start, particularly because of the American road trip Jeremy and the boys had in a 2009 Corvette ZR1, 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 and a 2009 Cadillac CTS-V. Though we'll have to see if their hour-long special trip to Vietnam is part of the upcoming series, or a stand-alone. [via TopGear]

2:05 PM on Fri Oct 10 2008
By Mark Arnold
1,730 views, 29 comments

Latest by FutureCarDesigner: They should test these cars:1.Saleen S7 Twin Turbo2.SSC Ultima Aero TT3.Ferrari FXX Evolution4.Brabus TKR more »

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Jeremy Clarkson Loves The ZR1, But Says It Began "To Disintegrate” After Three Days

Writing in his weekly column in the ever-so-slightly left-of-center Sunday Times, Jeremy Clarkson expressed his love for the 2009 Corvette ZR1 before claiming “after three days the damn thing was beginning to disintegrate.” He may have just been "doing it wrong." Of course, this being Clarkson, the rest of the column was about the Chrysler Sebring, the War of Independence and his own insecurities that arise from him being a balding, fat idiot from a backwater nation who’s made a career on the tenuous appeal of his jackassery, so we don’t know if he was talking about the overall build quality (which we found to be peerless) or the interior (which we agree is unfittingly cheap for a $103,300 car). The rest of what Clarkson had to say and more of our analysis after the jump. More »

12:45 PM on Wed Oct 8 2008
By Wes Siler
9,028 views, 175 comments

Latest by Nitrous Oxide: @layabout: "Maybe America could stop calling for the Brits when they get in wars they cant handle." It's just to make more »

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Top Gear Australia's Ratings Slump Despite Holden Vs. Ford Shootout

If we lived down under, we would have tuned in to SBS on Monday at 7:30 to watch the Top Gear Australia shootout between the iconic Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon...but we don't. Watch the clip and judge for yourself, but we think that even though it may not be quite as polished as the UK original, this segment wasn't all that bad. So why did the ratings for this second episode drop off significantly from the series premiere's, even though they were actually expected to go up? More »

12:43 PM on Tue Oct 7 2008
By Mark Arnold
3,784 views, 54 comments

Latest by K5ING: @Uncle Bo, ironically aestheticized: Remember that not all of us have cable or satellite, much less the premium channels. more »

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Top Gear Spotted Filming Episode In Vietnam

Top Gear is expected to return next month; we've already seen that Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May will be coming to America for an episode, and it now appears they'll also be headed to Vietnam for a tour of duty. Unlike their American trip to the Bonneville salt flats in which the chaps drive a Corvette ZR1, Dodge Challenger SRT8 and Cadillac CTS-V, the journey in Vietnam is allegedly happening on motorcycle. Well, three motorcycles we presume. Either way it's not going to be an easy trip from Ho Chi Minh City in the south to Hanoi in the north, but it will definitely make for entertaining television.


[via AUSmotive]

12:20 PM on Mon Oct 6 2008
By Mark Arnold
2,564 views, 37 comments

Latest by TopGearDog: @manic-cynic: Totally agree, but at least we could easily start a drinking game: every time Jezza dis's us you have more »

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Clarkson Drives Sebring Convertible, Declares It "Worst Car In The Entire World"

Back when we shared the tale of the Perodua Kelisa-driving holdup men, some commenters took issue with the claim that the cheap Malaysian subcompact was #1 on Jeremy Clarkson's Most Hated Cars list. Fair enough- Clarkson hates a lot of cars… but his loathing for the Chrysler Sebring convertible plumbs new depths of bile. American cars (and foreign policy) are bad because Americans have no sense of history, according to Clarkson, and the Sebring is worst of all: "The insurgency problem in Baghdad and the wonky gearlever on the Chrysler Sebring. They are both caused by exactly the same thing." Too bad we don't know any history, or we'd be able to come back with some clever cracks about the map-drawing Brits who drew up the crazily arbitrary national boundaries that facilitate such lively ethnic conflict in the Middle East, the Balkans, and South Asia today. [Times Of London]

10:00 AM on Mon Oct 6 2008
By Murilee Martin
5,364 views, 117 comments

Latest by hapless: The Solara only costs $500 more than a Sebring. Additionally, the stripper model Solara comes with a 3,3l V6 and various more »

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Top Gear's World War, From The German Perspective

Remember when the blokes at Top Gear squared off against their German counterparts this past season? Well, now the German perspective from the show DMotor has aired. Hosted by none other than Sabine Schmitz—and a couple of other guys—the episode has been subtitled into English now by some intrepid fanboys at FinalGear. Even if you've seen the complementing episode of Top Gear already, it's interesting to see things from the very serious German angle. For instance, the idea of this drag race in the clip below was to match 3 cars fom Axis countries (Germany, Italy, Japan) against 3 cars from Allied countries (Britain, America, India). However, for some reason the DMotor hosts strangely fail to make any mention of this. In fact, there's not a single mention of WW2 in the entire program. Check it out for yourself in the video after the jump. More »

5:00 PM on Wed Oct 1 2008
By Mark Arnold
5,252 views, 46 comments

Latest by Viper007Bond: @mhlaxp: Ton of them in this thread: [forums.finalgear.com] more »

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The Stig Breaks In Top Gear Australia's Test Track

In case you missed it, the first episode of Top Gear Australia aired this week, and while we're still not sure how much we like the down under counterpart to the British original, it's still good entertainment. One thing we weren't sure of until we watched was what exactly the test track would look like. This clip shows Aussie Stig pounding out the first power-lap on the estimated 1.28-mile circuit in the new 2009 Porsche 911

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2:00 PM on Wed Oct 1 2008
By Mark Arnold
4,516 views, 51 comments

Latest by GameBreaker: Wow... that was horrible. I cringed when he was trying to make jokes to introduce the Stig, absolute silence. more »

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James May Takes An Ekranoplan For A Spin

Moonlighting in this clip for his Big Ideas program, Top Gear UK presenter James May got behind the wheel of a Soviet-era ekranoplan. Piloting the small example of our favorite non-wheeled mode of transportation over a frozen body of water, Captain Slow stayed true-to-form, only bringing the ekranoplan up to not-quite-flying speed. Of course, the ekranoplan doesn't really fly in the traditional sense anyway...or does it? We'll let May explain. [BBC]

12:30 PM on Mon Sep 29 2008
By Mark Arnold
4,875 views, 38 comments

Latest by the good dr zero: @muhnkee_2: I blame Davey for my love of ekranoplanes. The FAF loving bastard. more »