Cars UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
We have video of Top Gear’s Richard Hammond driving the ultimate road-going Zonda – the Pagani Zonda Cinque – round the hills near Modena. Whilst we were busy wandering round the interweb today to make sure we’d got our facts right for the ‘Top Gear builds an Electric Car‘ piece, we came across a video of [...] News from: Cars UK | UK Car News Pagani Zonda Cinque...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
RICHARD HAMMOND is in chirpy mode. Indeed, when is he not?
http://techwoo.com/feed (Free subscription) | yesterday
Not Available Being a Top Gear presenter is often described as being the best job in the world, especially if you work in a factory gutting chickens, (which I used to do). So in this DVD, featuring stunts and tomfoolery never seen on TV, I show you how to master the dark art of being a Top Gear host, and how to make your own Top Gear show.
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
TOP GEAR'S presenters Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond have put their foot in it again.
Anglo-Buddhist Combine (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Apologies for the lack of posts recently - I have had a virus all week. This has led to much sitting around and doing nothing, since when I tried to do something on Thursday I fainted. Well, actually, I felt dizzy and lay down on the kitchen floor for fifteen minutes. Sort of a controlled faint. After that, doing nothing some more seemed like a sterling plan. This, of course, has allowed me to indulge...
Classic cars, rallies and races (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Click on the picture to enlarge Winner of the invitational Autoglym Concours was a brilliant white 1935 Riley Imp, one of the best-presented cars in Autoglym Concours history Other Autoglym Celebrity Concours Photos For the third year in succession, TV chef and renowned car enthusiast, James Martin, triumphed in the Autoglym Celebrity Concours at MPH The Prestige and Performance Motor Show . Following...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
MoD deployed equipment worth billions for Jeremy Clarkson BBC show The Ministry of Defence has been forced to answer more awkward questions about how it allocates resources after admitting that military personnel spent the equivalent of 141 days taking part in stunts for the television show Top Gear. It has also deployed equipment worth billions of pounds in scenes for the show in the past five years....
eGMCarTech (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
For those of you that admire Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, you probably knew that yesterday was the premiere of Top Gear Series 14. We’ve just found some YouTube videos cover a segment of the show where the Top Gear crew drives the Aston Martin DBS Volante, Ferrari California and the Lamborghini Gallardo [...]
Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
A closer look at Decibel and just how well it works It's not the first time that Clarkson & Co. have whipped out their iPhones, but last night the Top Gear team used the Apple handset twice over in their feature on the grand tourer super cars. ? Bluetooth The first tech trial for the three TV motor journos was to pair their mobiles with their in-car stereos. Mercifully, the iPhone plugged that...
The Fellowship of the NurburgRing (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Here's a new, and interesting, article that talks about the sucsess of Top Gear, and how it all began with Clarkson and Wilman, two loud-mouthed boys at a boarding school... Top Gear isn't just a TV show: it's a phenomenon. With its ludicrous stunts, enormous budgets and defiantly non-PC edge, it's become a global smash hit. What is the secret to its success? In 1977, the television equivalent of a...
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Filed under: Etc. , Celebrities What if the Stig was known as the Gimp? It's doubtful Top Gear's mysterious racing driver - or the show itself - would have proved as enormously popular. Would you walk around in a shirt proclaiming, "I Am The Gimp?" Doubtful, but if Jeremy Clarkson and the show's producer Andy William had had their way, that's what we'd be calling old Stiggy. Luckily, cooler...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Top Gear isn't just a TV show: it's a phenomenon. With its ludicrous stunts, enormous budgets and defiantly non-PC edge, it's become a global smash hit. What is the secret to its success? In 1977, the television equivalent of a beige Austin Allegro trundled on to our screens. With its quaint name and features about road safety, Top Gear undertook the serious business of reviewing new cars. In the...
TV.com (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
TV.com's pick of the best TV shows on Aussie screens this week. Top Gear: Winter Olympics Special Never mind that this was filmed in 2006, it's first-run in Australia, and in its usual cheeky style, is outrageous fun. The boys travel to Norway where they race a speed skater around an ice rink, pit a bobsled against a rally driver, test whether Richard Hammond can outlast a car in temperatures of 40...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
The host of 'Top Gear' aims higher. He recounts his childhood fascination with space travel, endures astronaut training and travels in a U-2 spy plane. Any big questions, though, go unexplored. James May begins his new documentary, " James May on the Moon " (BBC America, 8 p.m. Tuesday), where he belongs: in a car, on the ground. He's a host of " Top Gear ," the cheeky British automobile...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Programmes 'ignore consequences of dangerous behaviour' The violence portrayed in children's programmes such as Scooby-Doo and Batman should be more realistic, an international expert on child safety will tell the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents this week. Children's television should be given cinema-style ratings that encourage parents to choose programmes where characters sustain realistic...
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