The Australian version Top Gear Magazine knows the perfect combination to generate some buzz in this day and age. Mix a little YouTube, with Kenny from the Block, The Stig being his non-emotional self and burnouts in a 335-hp Ford Falcon FPV Boss. The video you’re about to watch is for the cover shoot for [...]
The new Top Gear magazine is out and this month, The Stig meets the new 2012 BMW M5. Click here for more news on the BMW M5. “But forced induction remains a theme; every car on the cover sports a turbo. Including – whisper it – the new BMW M5. It may have incensed the purists, [...]
BBC has released the trailer for Top Gear Season 17, which will air on June 26. What can we expect? According to Top Gear Blog: “Well, there’s some affordable performance cars, some electric cars, some actual racing, some proper demolition, some silly cars, and Top Gear’s attempt to improve public transport, which I think is [...]
Being The Stig on Top Gear has its privileges but the best perk that comes along with the job is driving every single vehicle that hits the Top Gear track. Writing over at Drive.com.au, former Stig Ben Collins listed the five worst cars he’s ever driven: Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione: “…the worst supercar I ever [...]
Earlier this week it was reported that Top Gear offended Muslim viewers by wearing burkhas to cheer up co-presenter James May after he was injured. Apparently, Muslims weren’t the only one offended the show’s special “Three Wise Men” Christmas edition. Christians were also offended by the Christmas episode. What was so offensive? According to reports, the [...]
Earlier this year, BBC and Top Gear lost a court battle with former Stig Ben Collins, which ended up revealing his identity as the Stig. After revealing himself as the race car driver in the white suite. Collins went on to publish an autobiography and co-host Five’s Fifth Gear – a competitor of Top Gear. [...]
Last week, we saw picture of what is known as “the Stig breeding farm.” Jeremy Clarkson and the Top Gear crew have been hard at work picking out the new Stig as the former race car driver for the show ousted himself as Ben Collins. We now have a video of what goes on inside [...]
BBC’s Top Gear is working hard to find a replacement for the third Stig, who recently ousted himself as Ben Collins. Top Gear presenter and Sun columnist Jeremy Clarkson recently joined fellow presenters of the show to inspect a herd of carefully bred of the show’s tame race car drivers. A source said: “Fans don’t know [...]
The white helmet worn by the Stig on Top Gear fetched a surprising £3,400 ($5,388 USD). The helmet was sold by Sophia Vaizey, 30, of Hove, who worked on Top Gear for 18 months as a production coordinator. She received the helmet as a gift from the Top Gear crew as her departing gift. The helmet, [...]
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 [...]
