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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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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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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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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 »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5788294&view=rss&microfeed=true Top Gear's Richard Hammond apologized for joking that Mexicans were "lazy," "feckless," "flatulent," and "overweight." Hammond says he didn't mean to be offensive, blaming Westerns he said were made by racist, ignorant, redneck, and porky Americans. More »
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After we noted the sale of Jeremy Clarkson's old Lambo, commenter Kamikaze5-0 noted that Richard Hammond has put his 2008 Morgan Aeromax up for sale as well, with an undisclosed price. If James May sells his Super Decathlon, something's up. More »
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The appropriate "punishment" for Top Gear's slurs against Mexicans has arrived: sweatshop-rate Taiwanese computer animation showing poorly-made avatars of the three hosts pelted by burritos and neon-green butt gas. Even Esteban, everyone? 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 »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5749167&view=rss&microfeed=true To those upset by Top Gear's mild blasphemy, we have two words: Moving on. [DailyMail] 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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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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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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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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Last week we shared news the BBC's Top Gear was filming on an active volcano. Turns out it's Eyjafjallajökull, the same volcano causing European airplane havoc. Luckily, cast and crew escaped just hours before the volcano erupted. Amazing gallery below. 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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Top Gear is allegedly banning same sex couples from its studio audience, dictating that all ticket bookings must have a 50/50 male to female split. The move has outraged fans of Richard Hammond's wardrobe. More »
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Daily Mail readers apparently hate Stewart Lee's bit about Richard Hammond's famous jet car crash, in which Lee says he wishes the Hamster had been "decapitated." We're guessing Lee was joking, you prats. [Daily Mail] More »
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Top Gear star Richard Hammond's reportedly been involved in a road crash while driving his £110,000 Morgan Aeromax. The star, who escaped death after a 288 MPH jet car crash, was apparently involved in a four-car incident near Gloucester. More »
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Top Gear is planning to recreate the most famous scene from The Italian Job, racing Minis through Belfast's Sewers. Belfast? Well, James May doesn't like Italy. More »
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During Sunday's episode of Top Gear, Richard Hammond let loose for a spirited drive through the Abu Dhabi desert, drag racing a Mercedes-McLaren SLR 722 in Sant'Agata's newest "snot-nosed kid," the raucous Lamborghini LP670-4 SV. More »
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BBC's put together an adorable mini-trailer for Top Gear's upcoming season 13 (coming June 21st!) featuring everyone's favorite four-some as young rapscallions (our favorite's mini-Stig!). But as you can see, they're not the only little people in the trailer. More »
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Last month, Top Gear was busted for using MR2-based fake Ferraris in their live show. Now the Italian stallions at Ferrari are demanding Top Gear only hoon authentic Ferraris in the future. More »
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"That's been canned," said Jeremy Clarkson speaking of Top Gear USA in this video. "[Americans] just don't understand a single word we're on about." More »
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Looks like Top Gear co-host Richard Hammond has decided to part with one of his cars, in this case a 1997 Ferrari 550 with just 49,000 miles on the clock. Despite the fact this supercar was owned first by EVO magazine before falling into the hands of Hammond, the advertisement states the 550 has "had every care possible by Maranello to keep it pristine." Hammond's Ferrari is the requisite red with black interior and has a proper manual gearbox, but with right-hand drive, US buyers need not apply, even at the asking price of about $66,200. [Motorbase] More »
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The teaser commercial is out for season 12 of everybody's favorite car show, Top Gear, and it packs a lot of teasing into 30 seconds. Aside from the much-anticipated American power tour, we see shots from all kinds of shenanigans set to start in two weeks, including what looks like double-decker bus racing — or at least tipping, the Stig in a Bugatti Veyron and Captain Slow getting punished at the helm of a very slick speed boat. We've snapped a couple of screen grabs and listed out what to expect from the new season, all available after the jump. More »
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Apparently Top Gear's aggressive television expansion is now no longer limited to people who speak some form of English. The world's greatest, and now most franchised, automotive TV show in the world has just confirmed they'll be expanding to Russia. Yes, folks, that's right, a Top Gear made for Russians, by Russians will air 15 episodes starting around the end of this year. Sorry, but we're so excited we're even too stunned to make a "In Soviet Russia, something-something-something you!" joke. So take your bearskin caps and the rest of the report after the jump, you Capitalist pigs! More »
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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] More »
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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. More »
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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 »
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The crew from Top Gear UK, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May, are out in Nevada with no less than a Dodge Challenger SRT8, a 2009 Cadillac CTS-V and a 2009 Corvette ZR1, according to the forum fanboys over at FinalGear. The boys arrived in San Francisco on Wednesday and apparently proceeded to Reno where they were snapped hopping into their respective rides for what we can only assume will be an "America, Fuck Yeah" edition of Top Gear. More »
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Self-promotion is something the boys over at Top Gear have never had a problem with, and as part of the build-up to Top Gear Live, they've pulled out another stunt ready to become an instant classic: Driving a tank across the Tower Bridge following a line of supercars. Why'd they do it? Although initially we thought maybe Clarkson's ego finally convinced him an invasion of London made sense or perhaps Captain Slow finally found something to drive that he felt he could keep up with. No, in reality the Tower Bridge stunt was part of an attempt to promote the live stage show kicking off in the UK this October before it goes global. All we know is, although it was an interesting play, we'll keep our remote-controlled tank, thank you very much. More »
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