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You'd think Rutledge Wood would have a chip on his shoulder, with all the crap he and his co-hosts get about Top Gear America. He doesn't. In fact, his family sends him links to all the horrible things people say about him and his co-hosts, and he just laughs. He's one funny, thick-skinned bastard with an awesome car "collection," as we found out in this first episode of Jalopnik TV. More »
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The season premiere of Top Gear USA drops tomorrow, February 14th, on History at 9:00 PM EST. We saw a preview of the episode in Detroit and it is — literally — explosive. Find out how to win some autographed swag below. More »
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British motoring show Top Gear is a popular stop on the U.K. interview circuit for two reasons: 1.) It's the most watched show... in the world; 2.) Entertainers get to measure up against their peers on a race track. In last night's episode, Ryan Reynolds takes on Tom Cruise's time. It's charming. More »
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Still waiting for Streetfire to load? Check above and in the comments for videos for the third episode of the 18th season. Enjoy the small hatches, big Jaaaaaaaaags, and discussion of English cooking. More »
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Is your torrent of the first episode of Top Gear Season 18 not yet done? Then click through for our open thread on the episode that sees Jeremy, Richard and James travel to Italy for a Supercar Shootout in the Lamborghini Aventador, the McLaren MP4-12C and the Noble M600. Also, Will.i.am gets behind the wheel of the reasonably-priced car! More »
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The eighteenth season of Top Gear kicks off Sunday, and on top of the promo trailer the Beeb has posted a few behind-the-scenes photos from the set of the most popular car show... in the world. More »
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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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Is your torrent of the Top Gear India episode not yet done? Then join our open thread and argue about how a trio of aging Brit cars might or mightn't promote trade between Britain and the former colony, and future superpower, and how the episode compares with special episodes' past. 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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We might be a little partial to that other British motoring show, but how could we resist a brand new Lada Niva test drive? More »
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Are you a government employee on strike? Like Top Gear? Here's what Jeremy Clarkson thinks of you: "I'd have them all shot. I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families." Clarkson made the characteristically over-the-top remark on The One Show, a daily, magazine-type program on BBC One. 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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Reigning king of hyperbolic auto enthusiasm Jeremy Clarkson has released his now-traditional year-end DVD, featuring his pick for best car of the year. This time around, though, the decision involves a bit of bifurcation and elaboration. 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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Some say he dreams entirely in Times New Roman and that he was once engaged to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's corset. All we know is, his name is Jeremy and he can deliver a line as well as Jimmy Carr. What's Jeremy Clarkson's best line on Top Gear? More »
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Tesla Motors has lost a major part of its high court libel claim against Top Gear, the BBC's hit motoring show, but is still suing the corporation for malicious falsehood over an episode that showed the company's Roadster model running out of battery during multiple runs around their Dunsfold track. More »
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Next month, on Jeremy Clarkson's new DVD bonanza "Powered Up:" Two supercars get driven 100 feet. Jeremy gets sunburned in France. And an old Bentley backfires. More »
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Part of Forza Motorsport 4's tie-up with Top Gear, the BBC's hit motoring show, is a walk-through review of 24 special vehicles by the show's co-host, Jeremy Clarkson. The videos that I not-quite-painstakingly unlocked while playing the game, were buried deep down in yesterday's review of the game. So if you missed them, let's rectify that situation — because they're too cool to miss. I mean, it's basically like watching 24 never-before-seen Top Gear car reviews. More »
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One of the Easter eggs from the most recent edition of "Top Gear" magazine was this little trinket: The Stig driving the snot out of the sonically altered BMW M5. Lucky for us, we get to hear the car from the outside. More »
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The History Channel revealed yesterday they planned to extend the second season of Top Gear USA and new episodes are already in production. The question is will you, the automotive obsessed at large, be watching it? More »
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Some say The Allman Brothers live under his helmet, where they'll rouse you from slumber by playing "Jessica," and that he projects the time on the wall using spheres of hot gas from Alpha Centauri. All we know is it's The goddamn Stig Projector Alarm Clock. More »
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If you've ever wanted to hear the Top Gear star drawl "light plasma cannons", you should watch this clip of Jeremy Clarkson giving the rundown on the Warthog that'll feature in Halo 4. More »
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God bless the ancestors of technology that toiled for decades at shrinking transistors and mapping images into math so that we could have this: the best mash up of Top Gear you'll ever see. Twilight Sparkle and her pals from "My Little Pony" mashed up with Jeremy, James and Richard. More »
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When Jeremy Clarkson hit 207 mph in a Lamborghini Murcielago in the April 2008 episode of Top Gear it wasn't actually Clarkson hitting the number, unnamed sources tell The Daily Mail, but rather Formula 3 driver Aaron Scott. But we thought Top Gear was a documentary!?! More »
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Do we pause to take note of Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson calling Detroit a city full of "murder" and "terror"? Yes, yes we do. But do we get angry, upset or lash out? No, we have something better. More »
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Nissan took a swipe at the hit BBC motoring show Top Gear over Jeremy Clarkson and James May having the same problem with electric cars we have — where do you charge? Now Top Gear's hitting back. More »
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It turns out The Stig doesn't like it when you tell him halfway through a hot lap of Top Gear's UK test track, "I think Schumi was faster through here." How do I know? Because I told him just that. The result? He tried to scare me to death. Watch and see for yourself. More »
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As part of the tie-up between Microsoft's Turn 10 Studios and the BBC's smash-hit motoring show, Top Gear, Forza Motorsports 4 will include a number of single-player and multiplayer modes ripped right from the TV show. Yes, it will include "Car Soccer." More »
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Ratings for SPEED's The Car Show with Adam Carolla and the second season of History's Top Gear USA show the latter with an audience of approximately 2.0 million viewers, compared to just 249,000 for the former. 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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Is your torrent of Top Gear Season 17, Episode 4 not yet done? Then click through for our open thread on the episode that sees Jeremy review the Jaguar XKR-S under the — yet again — hammering beats of Daft Punk's Tron: Legacy soundtrack, James and Richard build a train with an Audi, and Rowan Atkinson shows why he could absolutely take over for Jeremy Clarkson. More »
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Watch as Jay Leno takes a tour of the McLaren factory and gets some seat time in a MP4-12C with a factory driver on a very familiar test track. Leno, a longtime McLaren F1 owner, recently finalized the order for a MP4-12C to add to his very impressive car collection. You can read the details of the unique McLaren ordering experience by following the Wired link below, but first watch/control your jealousy as Leno tours the impressive factory and hoons a brand new MP4-12C on the Top Gear test track. More »
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Given that McLaren tuned the MP4-12C on the damp tarmac of Top Gear's Dunsfold track, its not surprising it would perform well under the New Stig's guidance. But the MP4-12C's official time was so outstanding McLaren staff celebrated the moment today in frosting. More »
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Andy Wilman, the executive producer of Top Gear, provides 16 great quotes on the BBC's long-running motoring series, including how nobody "realizes how much work goes into making these three look like f—-wits." (Hat tip to Jonathan! More »
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Is your torrent of Top Gear Season 17, Episode 3 not yet done? Then click through for our open thread on the episode that sees Jeremy review the McLaren MP4-12C under the hammering beats of Daft Punk's Tron: Legacy soundtrack, and James May gets the Range Rover Evoque stuck in Death Valley. Also, yes, some guy named Sebastian Vettel who lost the race yesterday due to alien invasion. More »
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Yesterday we asked you to help us come up with the best episode to bring a member of the uninitiated, unwashed and unknowing masses into the cult behind UK motoring show Top Gear. Here's your ten best choices. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5819342&view=rss&microfeed=true The all-'Merican version of Top Gear USA returns to the History Channel for its second season of silliness on July 24. Given what happened in the off- season, we have high hopes for this one. Maybe they'll drag race desks. More »
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Is your torrent of the first episode of the 17th season of Top Gear not yet done? Then click through for our open thread to see Richard Hammond buy a cup of coffee with a Marauder fighting vehicle, James May slip on some snow, and a picture of Steve McQueen. No, not this one. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5815659&view=rss&microfeed=true "Yes. I was interested in having a s**t Golf, but can it be even s*****r? Well, sir, how about this steaming pile of horse manure? Plus, and here's the clincher, sir, there's no vase." More Beetle love here. More »
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