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The Beeb has started running promos for Top Gear's upcoming 18th season. Among the highlights: A very short Richard Hammond looking very worried in a very large NASCAR stock car. More »
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The previous Top Gear Christmas special saw the three not-so-wise men from the UK's premier motoring show try to survive Mesopotamia in a fleet of cheap sports cars. This year's special has the boys in formerly-British India for a spiritual journey in cars of the former colonizers. More »
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A tattoo is a deeply personal act of bodily adornment; asking why a person chooses something is not always a reasonable question. Still, and despite our rabid love for "Captain Slow," we cannot understand why someone would want a portrait of Top Gear's James May on his thigh for the rest of his life. More »
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According to a former Top Gear employee the video you see here could have replaced the current credits if Jeremy Clarkson hadn't put a stop to it. More »
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BBC's American cable cousin will put Richard Hammond in a new U.S. show where he tackles "difficult" vehicles; it's also working on an 'Murican edition of James May's "Man Lab." Next step: making "The Interceptor." More »
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For his "Man Lab" show, Top Gear host James May designed his own clothes and modeled them on a London catwalk. It's like formal wear for a prom at ComicCon. More »
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As Top Gear continues filming for its new season, the BBC gave a sneak peek this weekend showing the trio tooling around Monaco in those hot hatchbacks. Why do Jeremy Clarkson and Formula 1 chief Bernie Ecclestone look like they're on a date? More »
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Looks like Top Gear's planning a show on mini hot hatches like the Abarth Fiat 500, Citröen DS3-R and Renault Clio RS. Bystanders caught them chilling in Lucca, Italy's Piazza dell'Anfiteatro, a space large enough for some serious paving-stoned hoonage. Great news! More »
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Undeterred by Tesla's publicity campaign-via-lawsuit over its last experience with electric vehicles, Top Gear has another EV segment in the works for this season, with footage of Jeremy Clarkson and James May pushing a discharged Nissan Leaf in the can. More »
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The 1973 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona that Richard Hammond drove in a season 12 episode of Top Gear is going up for sale at a British auction in May. To celebrate the Ferrari Daytona's 40th anniversary, Top Gear featured the Daytona in a race from Portofino in the Italian Rivera to Saint Tropez, France. Racing against Hammond and the Daytona was the world's fastest diesel production boat co-piloted by the UK's slowest Top Gear host, James May. More »
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After a Top Gear fan in Melbourne tried to take several pictures of Jeremy Clarkson and James May at a casino restaurant, Clarkson grabbed the man's iPhone and launched an angry standoff before the two were separated. More »
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Clarkson, Hammond and May are taking heat over jokes about a Mexican-made sports car in a Top Gear episode. Referring to the Mastretta MXT, Hammond implied Mexicans were "lazy," "feckless," "flatulent," and "overweight." Cross the line much? More »
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James May, co-host of the fabulously successful Top Gear UK, explains the reason why he hates the presenters of the not-quite-as-successful Top Gear USA. It's because of their names. Also, because America is awesome. Maybe not the last part. [Telegraph] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5738750&view=rss&microfeed=true To those upset by Top Gear's mild blasphemy, we have two words: Moving on. [DailyMail] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5719873&view=rss&microfeed=true James May, the Top Gear presenter, was knocked out while filming the show's Christmas special in Syria. But don't worry, he's OK. [Telegraph, The Sun] More »
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Before the Jump Jet was retired and its flight manual posted online, Top Gear presenter James May rode in one and experienced the awesome aerodynamic freak show known as viffing: vectoring in forward flight, the Harrier's signature move. More »
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In advance of its post-Christmas Christmas special, Top Gear loosed a little preview showing Jezza, the Hamster and Capt. Slow surprised to be in the Middle East. Happy Birthday Jesus! It's three not-so-wise men in convertibles. (H/T to Travis!) More »
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The UK version of Top Gear has produced a Very Special Christmas Edition, with its own trio of wisdom trekking to the Holy Land via second-hand convertibles. Every proper Nativity scene does need an ass or two. (Thanks Brownstar!) More »
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Top Gear's top geek James May says the show's almost a sitcom, one which he occasionally thinks "Can't we do something properly that will work, not that has to catch fire or fall over?" So, no British cars, then? [EveningStandard] More »
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James May just purchased this Grievous Angel custom cafe racer from hip Austrailian builder Deus Ex Machina. Based on the JDM Yamaha SR400, Captain Slow's new bike puts out 27 HP and costs around $20,000. More »
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A British public broadcaster apologizes to a British government agency for Jeremy Clarkson saying James May's Ferrari F430 Speciale appeared to have "speciale needs" and "looked like a simpleton." Real punishment: selling this shot as a Halloween mask. [UKPA] More »
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If you missed last night's Top Gear segment on 60 Minutes — or jumped off something because of the unemployment segment — here's an American news magazine finally covering the most popular television show... in the world. Plus bonus footage! More »
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This Probe 16, a.k.a. the Durango '95 driven in "A Clockwork Orange" that was last seen sitting in pieces under the glare of Top Gear's cameras has been restored to full guttiwuts-vibratey capacity. More »
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Jalopnik's contest to find Top Gear filming in Manhattan succeeded in getting Jeremy Clarkson to butcher our name. Now, Clarkson tells us Jalopnik commenters also helped him and James May find a lost-and-scared Richard Hammond in Manhattan. Video below. More »
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If you haven't read the story of how we brought two Jalopnik readers together with the crew from Top Gear, do so now. It'll help you get this demotivated poster created by 99op. Hint: they're hungover. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5643106&view=rss&microfeed=true Top Gear's U.S. invasion continues at Virginia International Raceway today. Someone send us pictures and video! More »
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Top Gear UK's invading the US again. Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond were spotted filming along North Carolina's Blue Ridge Parkway with the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, Ferrari 458 Italia, and Porsche 911 GT3. (H/t to the_stig's_american_cousin!) [MotownMuscle] More »
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In June, La Sarthe hosted the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the 78th time. 57 years ago, Jaguar showed all present how to stop a racing car… driven by a drunken man. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5558010&view=rss&microfeed=true Captain Slow is now Dr. Slow. [BBC] More »
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When Top Gear tackled the Icelandic volcano, James May brought lamb chops with him. Why? Because barbecuing with lava has the "very evocative flavors and aromas" of outdoor cooking "but with an element of possible horrible death thrown in." More »
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The popular BBC motoring show Top Gear returns for its 15th season on June 27th, so set your BT client for around 1:00 AM June 28th to catch three cranky Brits enjoying totally rubbish motorhomes. (H/T to wox42!) [FinalGear] More »
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The guys from Top Gear hate caravans with a passion, so being ordered to build three of them for an upcoming show must have killed them. The three motorhomes they built? Anything but conventional. More »
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These two parents spotted the Top Gear crew filming an upcoming challenge and went a little bit insane. Although we'd be excited if we saw Jeremy Clarkson in a Citröen-based house too, we don't think we'd be this excited. More »
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By modifying the same truck they took to the north pole with water-cooled tires and a roof-mounted ash-guard, the Top Gear team just scaled an active Volcano in Iceland for an upcoming episode. More »
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A strange concept it is, handling. It’s probably the most important aspect of a car, yet it’s the hardest to describe. In his latest column for The Telegraph, Top Gear host James May offers a concise summary. More »
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Top Gear presenter James May, in a recent column published in The Telegraph, has called for artistic depictions of cars. We explore the possibilities using his example: the Porsche 911. More »
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England is in uproar after James May's obviously staged blimp stunt on Top Gear last Sunday was revealed as a fake. The segment featured a police helicopter intercepting May as he flew into an active airport in a homemade airship. More »
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Enjoyable cars are neither expensive nor bad for the environment when you use them as replacements for boring cars that spend all their life stuck in traffic. More »
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One of motoring journalism’s enduring myths is the inability to test drive Bristol cars, enforced by the experiences of Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson and James May. A Hungarian road test editor has beaten the odds. More »
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