Tiff Needell is a man used to driving some very serious, very fast cars. It's amazing to watch him in action. But everyone's probably getting pretty sick of seeing him drive finely-tuned, expensive sports cars all the time, right? It's time he took something else on the track. Something that looks more like a washing…

Tiff Needell. My wife's Scion xB. More details soon.

The new Jaguar F-Type is designed to go head-to-head with a Porsche 911. But is it better? There's only one way to find out: Give both to Tiff Needell and set him loose on a race track for some drifting hot lap action. This is the video you need to see today.

Welcome to Sunday Matinee, where we highlight classic car reviews or other longer videos I find on YouTube. Kick back and enjoy this blast from the past.

Welcome to Sunday Matinee, where we highlight classic car reviews or other longer videos I find on YouTube. Kick back and enjoy this blast from the past.

Fifth Gear presenter Tiff Needell nearly lost an expensive Swiss watch to a trio of muggers. That is, until a five-foot-tall — 5'5" in stilettos — blonde packing a sharp heel and fists of fury stepped in. Lindsay Orridge, a marketing manager for Ford Motorsport, attacked the muggers and sent them scurrying, saving Tiff…

In many ways, The Stig is like Santa Claus. So is this driver doing insane donuts in a modified London Taxi Cab as part of the Top Gear Festival 2011 really THE Stig or a similarly skilled driver in Stig clothing? Do we care? The spirit is in him.

After a nine-year absence hosting pale competitor Fifth Gear, old Top Gear presenter Tiff Needell temporarily steps in for The Stig to teach Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle how to drive the Top Gear test track. [Mirror]

Heston Blumenthal, the mad scientist of contemporary British cuisine, cooks with liquid nitrogen and serves food with built-in iPods. He’s also got a thing for M5’s…health and safety be damned.

John Barrowman, the actor who portrays Captain Jack Harkness on hte BBC's Torchwood walked away from a terrifying 80 MPH crash in a special rally-prepped Subaru with Fifth Gear's Tiff Needell for the Channel Five motoring show. [Daily Mail]