Last weekend, in Earls Court, the folks from Top Gear hosted the incredible MPH 07 show and what a show it looks to have been. With stage events being hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, a car show, vip hospitality stuff and more, it sounds like this may have been the car show of the year.
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After being shunned by the Top Gear blokes, the folks at Ultima decided to take matters into their own hands. What matters you ask? It seems the Ultima crew wanted to take a shot at the Top Gear test track record, currently held by a Koenigsegg CCX and they weren’t going to let the snub stop them.

They loaded their very own Stig into a street legal GTR720, had him drive it to the Top Gear test track and beat the living daylights out of it! Not only did they beat the Koenigsegg’s time, they obliterated it by almost 5 seconds!

The video after the break is a killer in car of the lap, with awesome V8 soundtrack. Be sure to crank it up for this one.
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So a few more things and then The Garage feed reader will be reset.

Jensen Button won his first Formula 1 race, an eventful affair in Hungary. It’s been a long time coming. Meanwhile, Villeneuve’s F1 career seems to be nearing it’s end.

Norris Macdonald at The Star has some interesting comments about Jacques options.

Sarah Fisher is getting another shot at IRL. Maybe she can take some of the spotlight away from that also ran Danica.

Nissan is invading the Anime world with starring roles in the Ghost in the Shell series

Autoblog speaks with James Glickenhaus about his stunning new one off Ferrari P4/5

Maybe best of all, the BBC has offered up Top Gear downloads for free on their own site!

There is so much more that I can’t possibly read or post it all. We are cleaning up now & tomorrow’s news will be all new.

It seems those British media bullies just don’t want to share Top Gear with us poor North Americans. Leftlane News is reporting that the BBC has forced video file sharing services like Youtube to stop hosting Top Gear footage. Citing copywrite infringement, I think they just don’t want to share.

Maybe Speed might anti up the budget to broadcast the series and then we can all be happy.