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Video: Top Gear ‘Three Wise Men Christmas Special’

Video: Top Gear ‘Three Wise Men Christmas Special’

Is Top Gear USA not tickling your fancy (for those of you not familiar with British slang, click here to see what ‘tickle your fancy’ means). Top Gear UK is back with the original crew Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May as all three take on most of the Middle East in a Christmas special [...]

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Video: Top Gear’s Wild Ride on 60 minutes

Video: Top Gear’s Wild Ride on 60 minutes

As reported earlier this weekend, Steve Kroft paid a visit top the Top Gear UK team. Here is the 15 minute segment that was shown last night on 60 Minutes. Steve Kroft reports on the TV show whose witty humor, outrageous speed, destructive vehicle stunts and car reviews attract an estimated weekly worldwide audience of [...]

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60 Minutes visits Top Gear UK

60 Minutes visits Top Gear UK

As car enthusiasts, you and I can do nothing but lament the lack of exposure and coverage of Top Gear UK in the US of Americaland. Sure there are ways to view full episodes of Top Gear over the Internetz. And yes there”s Top Gear USA on the way in November but some of us [...]

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Video: Top Gear UK caught in NYC with Ferrari 458 Italia, Mercedes SLS AMG, Porsche 911 GT3 RS

Video: Top Gear UK caught in NYC with Ferrari 458 Italia, Mercedes SLS AMG, Porsche 911 GT3 RS

Just by the title you can tell that the upcoming Top Gear episodes will feature some amazing segments. The Top Gear crew including Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May were recently caught in New York City with the Ferrari 458 Italia, Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG and the Porsche 911 GT3 RS. The video is pretty [...]

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The next Stig could be a girl… with a pink suit?

The next Stig could be a girl… with a pink suit?

Now that everyone knows that the Stig is none other than Ben Collins, James May says that the popular Top Gear character “will be viciously killed off – then replaced by a new driver.” Things might even go so far as to Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson beating the Stig first. James has vowed to [...]

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Video: Top Gear’s James May hits 257 mph in Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport

Video: Top Gear’s James May hits 257 mph in Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport

Back in 2007, Top Gear’s James May, otherwise known as ‘Captain Slow’ by his colleagues Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson, surprised us when he took the original Bugatti Veyron all the way to its top speed of 253 mph. Well, James is now back with the new Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport, which now holds [...]

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Captain ‘not so slow’ James May hits 259.11mph in Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport

Captain ‘not so slow’ James May hits 259.11mph in Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport

A couple of days ago, Top Gear released an article saying that it was somehow involved in the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport‘s new landspeed world record for a production car hitting a top speed of 267.81 mph. Well, the new Top Gear Magazine is out and it shows that James May, who is usually referred to [...]

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Set your DVR, or torrents: Top Gear Series 15 kicks off this Sunday

Set your DVR, or torrents: Top Gear Series 15 kicks off this Sunday

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will be back this Sunday for the series 15 of our favorite TV show in the world – TopGear The first episode will feature May taking the Toyota Hilux pickup for a final assignment before the active volcano in Iceland decided to erupt. The Stig will rip up [...]

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Video: Hyundai does Top Gear spoof for ix35 / Tucson commercials

Video: Hyundai does Top Gear spoof for ix35 / Tucson commercials

BBC’s Top Gear is everything and more that any auto enthusiast would expect from a car show and Hyundai seems to agree. In its latest TV ad spots for the new ix35 (known to us Americans as the Tucson), Hyundai has put together a Top Gear spoof to cater to the UK market. We’d go [...]

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Report: Top Gear and Toyota Hilux are responsible for causing Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption

Report: Top Gear and Toyota Hilux are responsible for causing Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption

The Top Gear crew and James May and Jeremy Clarkson were filming near the top of Eyjafjallajokull, the volcano in Iceland that recently erupted causing massive flight cancellations. The crew was there filming a red Toyota Hilux pickup. They were accompanied by Toyota and a bunch of local scientists that set up a monitoring system [...]

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