Archive for 'Top Gear'
March 14, 2007 11:10am
Jeremy Clarkson has hinted that the famous British automotive TV show Top Gear may be finished. Over the weekend, Clarkson closed the season’s final episode saying that, “We don’t know when we’ll be back.”
“After last week’s Top Gear, the TV announcer said it would be back in the summer,” Clarkson wrote in his column in […]
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February 27, 2007 7:26pm
For those of you that missed this week’s Top Gear episode, Jeremy Clarkson reviews the Lamborghini Murcielago LP640. The LP640 features a 6.5L V12 developing 640 bhp. Besides the increase in horsepower, the LP640 features a reshaped front and rear bumpers to channel air more efficiently, and a new exhaust shaped into the rear diffuser […]
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February 22, 2007 7:07pm
For those of us that missed Top Gear on Sunday — which in the States is all of us, Jeremy Clarkson reviewed the 997 Porsche 911 Turbo.
Clarkson admits that the 911 Turbo is superior to (ok, faster than) his beloved Ferrari in the real world, but he also says he rather have the Ferrari. Why? […]
Posted in: Porsche, Supercars, Video, Top Gear
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February 13, 2007 6:46pm
The team from Top Gear came to America for a “knockabout journey full of tomfoolery.” In the latest episode, Jeremy Clarkson, Jay Mays and Richard Hammond went to the Deep South for a road trip. But it wasn’t any road trip, the Top Gear team had to write slogans on each other’s cars to incite […]
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February 5, 2007 9:02pm
In last night’s Top Gear episode, “the slowest man in the entire world”, James ‘Captain Slow’ May took a Bugatti Veyron around Volkswagen’s Ehra-Lessien test track facility located near the automaker’s home in Wolfsburg, Germany
May’s target was to reach the Veyron’s astonishing top speed of 407 km/h (252 mph). And he made it.
Captain Slow may […]
Posted in: Bugatti, Supercars, Video, Etc, Top Gear
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January 30, 2007 2:22pm
Top Gear is back! Now that Richard Hammond is back to full health and the footage of Hammond’s jet car crash has been broadcast and is behind us, Clarkson, Hammond and May can get back to doing what they do — thrashing cars.
In last weekend’s show, Clarkson pits Ford’s PAG cousins against each other, on […]
Posted in: Aston Martin, Jaguar, Video, Top Gear
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January 29, 2007 1:43pm
BBC’s Top Gear made its long-awaited return last night, including footage of Richard Hammond’s famous jet dragster crash. There was plenty of debate whether footage of the crash would be shown, but the BBC finally agreed to show it.
Hammond also offered his perspective on his crash and how it may benefit viewers to see that […]
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January 23, 2007 7:04am
In less than a week, Top Gear will return to the British airwaves for season nine. While new episodes of Top Gear are highly aniticipated by the show’s fans, other season pale in comparision following Richard Hammond’s terrifying jet car crash. Hamster is back in top shape, and the show is ready to roll.
We will […]
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December 31, 2006 4:24pm
In this classic Top Gear challenge from 2004, Jeremy Clarkson races James May and Richard Hammond to Monte Carlo. Clarkson is at the wheel of the Aston Martin DB9, while May and Hammond can take anything but a car, like buses and trains.
Does Clarkson and the car win or will it be May, Hammond and […]
Posted in: Aston Martin, Sports/GTs, Video, Etc, Top Gear
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December 31, 2006 3:04pm
In another classic Top Gear challenge, Jeremy Clarkson accepts his own challenge to drive from London to Edinburgh and then back — on a single tank of fuel. The car for the challenge — the Audi A8 twin-turbo diesel. The Audi A8 diesel will have to get over 40 mpg to make the 800 miles […]
Posted in: Audi, Sedans/Saloons, Diesel, Video, Etc, Top Gear
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