http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png http://jalopnik.com/tag/isle of man http://jalopnik.com/tag/isle of man Vandals tossed the fence Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson erected around his Isle of Man vacation home into the ocean after a dispute over a walking trail he diverted. Maybe the anti-fence crusaders didn't like being called "militant dog walkers." More »
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LOL–707 has a rare trick: twofold rotational symmetry. Turn it around a point in the middle of the dash separating the letters from the digits and you end up with the same license plate. More »
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Legendary motorcycle racer and Formula 1 driver Mike Hailwood was a hero. Elizabeth McCarthy knew him better than most — she dated and loved him before his tragic death. She touchingly wrote about Hailwood, and their lives, for 8W. —Ed. More »
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Jeremy Clarkson's beach may lead to the frigid waters of the Irish Sea, but the nearby roads lead to driving nirvana — the Top Gear presenter's property is a lighthouse on the speed-limit-free Isle of Man. More »
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Rallying, surfing, drifting, and more, all of it set to Oh My God the Suspense music and played in slow motion. It's Michael Bay flick meets Top Gear turned up to eleven. Thrill or bore? You be the judge. More »
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There are no speed limits on most of the roads within the Isle of Man, which is something to think of when watching this video. More »
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The guys at Top Gear Magazine are doing a comparison test of supercars on the Isle of Man, and while they're at it they've been blogging their driving impressions. That's all well and good, but when it came time for everyone's favorite anonymous racing driver, The Stig, to tell us all what he thinks of the Nissan GT-R, there seemed to be something lost in translation. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=400032&view=rss&microfeed=true "Mad Sunday" on the Isle of Man must truly be one of the most epic examples of common men allowed to live their boy-racer fantasies. It opens a section of the course to the general public, allowing Joe Hooligan and his Speed Triple to hoon it through the misty Manx mountains, risking life, limb and the pursuit of sanity. While a number of Los Jalops own or have owned two-wheeled motorized contraptions, we wonder if any one of us is quite so sturdy in the testicular department as to participate. But a man can dream. If one clicks on the video, one can also listen to the wail of a Gixxer 750 accompanied by the vocal stylings of one Ronnie James Dio, as backed by Iommi, Butler and Ward. – Davey G. Johnson More »
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Our favorite posts are those that inspire our readers to go out and find new random oddness, and our previous bit on Peel did just that. Intrepid loyalist Alex hunted down a fully-awesome Peel Trident video, which we can in no way, shape or form front on. It's as if Big Daddy Roth designed the Isetta. Oh holy crap; there were maybe only 50 of these made, max, but somebody, somewhere needs to find one and stuff a Hayabusa motor in there. This simply has to happen. No ifs, ands or buts. More »
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