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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 and his watch. More »
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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. More »
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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] More »
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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. More »
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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] More »
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Fifth Gear's Tiff Needell and Jason Plato have taken it upon themselves to pit the rally-bred AWD Mitsubishi Evo X against the brand-spanking-new, touring car-inspired FWD Ford Focus RS in an epic turbocharged game of soccer. More »
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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=296016&view=rss&microfeed=true It's no secret that Los Pedran Jalop is not a massive Porsche obsessive. Most of his favorite sons of Ferdinand are racing vehicles, with only the 550 Coupe and 928 to really stoke his passions. But there's something about the new GT3 RS. It's the most immediately soulful road car Porsche has produced since the 928 left the line. A different beast to be sure, but an assured loin-stirrer it is, even to oddball dorks who've always loved 914s and think 912s are rad. It is an undeniable car, and we constantly castigate people who buy mere GT3s for not going full-awesome and waiting for the RS. We do not say this lightly, but the new GT3 RS is simply one of the coolest cars Porsche has ever built. And at a time when German cars are getting consistently more complex, to their own detriment, the latest Rennsport 911 has arrived to restore the mantle of merely essential awesome. As Ferry himself said, "This is why functional designs are so beautiful; so calming." We'd add that they look fabulous in wild-ass-yet-somehow-understated color schemes too. And with that, we hand things over to Mr. Needell to simply race the coked-up snail along Castle Coombe's asphalt straight razor. – Davey G. Johnson More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=270914&view=rss&microfeed=true When we were on the Gumball a month and a half ago, founder Maximillion Cooper showed up driving an XJ220 wrapped in flat black vinyl with gold-wrapped wheels. On one hand, we were flabbergasted, having never actually seen one in real life. We were also rather flummoxed at how cheap the thing seemed. We would have loved to have checked out the twin-turbo, over-200-mph V6 supercar sans covering. Here's a trip back in time, back to when the XJ was still officially the fastest car in the world. Tiff Needell wrings it out. – Davey G. Johnson More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=268694&view=rss&microfeed=true If by the 12-second mark this isn't your favorite video then Jalopnik isn't the site for you. Head over to [CENSORED] — they'll have tons of stuff that will float your boat right up your alley. We apologize for the shit soundtrack in advance — why on earth the jokers that pieced this excellent example of all my hopes and dreams big-grin hoonage together felt the need to provide us with anything other than the sounds of the motors is very far beyond us. Maybe they've been reading [CENSORED]. – Jonny LIeberman More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=258863&view=rss&microfeed=true It's no secret that our favorite V8 is the 4.2 from the RS4. It is also no secret that a dry-sumped version of that engine lives in the back middle of the the Audi R8. So, turn your speakers way up cause Fifth Gear's Tiff wrings its neck around the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. And it sounds absolutely beautiful dazzling pulchritudinous divine. We'd write more, but we're working on a few different get rich quick schemes... for some reason or other. – Jonny Lieberman More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=256831&view=rss&microfeed=true Fifth Gear is kind of like the off-season version of Top Gear. Both have that unmistakable British narration, with liberal use of adjectives like "brilliant", "mega", "amazing", and "fantastic". There's plenty of high priced sheet metal, tire smoke, and blatant favortism of British cars. But Fifth Gear doesn't have the jaw-dropping visuals of Top Gear, nor the comic absurdity, nor Hammonds extra-bright teeth. Fifth Gear presenter Vicki Butler-Henderson is much nicer to look at than Clarkson, though, so that's worth something. Plus she can probably drive better than us. Check it out for youself as she and Tiff Needell present the "Best Fast Car" award. More »
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