Top Gear - egmCarTech

Clarkson: Only way Top Gear wouldn’t offend anyone would be if the hosts didn’t talk

Posted: Nov 04, 2009

49-year-old Jeremy Clarkson said that the only way to ensure that Top Gear doesn’t offend anyone would be if none of the hosts spoke.
“One day we’ll do an episode of Top Gear in which none of us speak,” Clarkson said. ”It’s the only way they will have nothing to complain about. I don’t think I’ve done [...]

Continue Reading

Survey says: Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson has the best job in the world

Posted: Oct 21, 2009

Filed under: Industry News

One out of every three respondents to a new survey by Shell and AutoExpress said that they are envious of Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson’s job. Clarkson came ahead of Nigella Lawson, an English food writer, journalist who beat Bear Grylls, host of Man vs. Wild, who came in third.
Coming in fourth was Simon Cowell, followed [...]

Continue Reading

Top Gear’s STIG arrested in the Mojave desert

Posted: Oct 15, 2009

Filed under: Industry News

Writing over at TimesOnline, Jeremy Clarkson reports that the famous white-suited Top Gear driver, the Stig, was arrested while they were filming at the Mojave desert.
“Last week I wrote about my recent trip to America, and to be honest it didn’t go down well,” Clarkson said. “I don’t think I’ve ever been on the [...]

Continue Reading

Top Gear’s James May crashes camper van held by blimp, comes out unharmed

Posted: Oct 01, 2009

Filed under: Industry News

The accident happened during a filming of a stunt for Top Gear where James May was on board a camper van held up in the air by a blimp. According to the Daily Mail, strong winds blew the blimp off course and May ended up crashing in a farmer’s field.
The aftermath, as described by Top [...]

Continue Reading

James May’s Lego house to be broken down, bricks donated to charity

Posted: Sep 23, 2009

Filed under: Industry News

About 2 months ago, Top Gear host James May set out to build a two-story house made entirely out of Legos. Well, the house is now being broken down after no-one showed any interest in purchasing it. Originally, May planned on moving the house to Legoland for their theme park; however, plans fell through since [...]

Continue Reading

Crystal clear: Next Top Gear season will be in HD

Posted: Sep 22, 2009

Filed under: Industry News

The blokes at BBC have just confirmed that the next-series of Top Gear will be in HD. That means you’ll see all the supercars, Ken Block drifting, racing and The Stig in crystal clear high-definition.
Jeremy Clarkson has confirmed that the filming of Series 14 is well underway and if all goes as planned, it should [...]

Continue Reading

Jeremy Clarkson gets manure dumped on his lawn by climate change activists

Posted: Sep 19, 2009

Filed under: Hybrids, Green News, Industry News

Imagine driving up to your £2m ($3 million) Cotswolds house and finding six bags of horse manure dumped on your driveway and front lawn? How would you react? Well, Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson was fairly amused by the actions of seven members of Climate Rush who dumped manure on his property and raised a [...]

Continue Reading

Miscellaneous Thoughts: We want BBC’s ‘Where’s Stig’ book and your input on upgrading egmCarTech

Posted: Aug 25, 2009

Filed under: Miscellaneous Thoughts

BBC’s ‘Where’s Stig?’ Book: As a kid I loved looking for Waldo; however at times I would get so pissed over not being able to find the little stripped shirt sucker that I ripped the book into pieces. Now, as a huge car fanatic, I would love spending hours looking for none other than – The [...]

Continue Reading

Miscellaneous Thoughts: Traders buying old GM stock, UK’s graphic anti-texting video, Legoland pays tribute to Top Gear

Posted: Aug 21, 2009

Filed under: GM, Industry News, Miscellaneous Thoughts, Videos

As you can see by the title, we came across a bunch of random things on the Internet today – so let’s get started.
Traders keep buying old GM stock: Even though GM and the government have warned that the old General Motors’ stock will someday be worthless, traders continue to purchase it hoping they’ll profit from [...]

Continue Reading

The Stig’s true identity is the biggest mystery of the century

Posted: Aug 18, 2009

Filed under: Industry News

Some say he is none other than Michael Schumacher, which is highly impossible. Some say that there is more than one of him; all we know is – he is none other than The Stig – Top Gear’s ace driver. According to a quarter of Brits recently surveyed, the true identity of The Stig is [...]