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Top Gear Season 13 begins tonight

January 25, 2010

Get ready gearheads, Top Gear Season 13 kicks off tonight. Here in North America, that means those of you who receive BBC America can watch it at 8pm Central. If you are a poor sod like me who is too cheap to get satellite but does get BBC Canada, you’ll have to settle for the [...]

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British Ultima GTR supercar destroys Top Gear Ferrari FXX lap record. Without The Stig!

October 27, 2009

Brits are a funny lot. What some may call stubbornness, others might call nationalistic pride. Either way, that hard headed manner is what has led them to win wars. It helped create the BRM Grand Prix car and it most likely had a role in creating the simply incredible Ultima brand of motorcars.
Strangely it would [...]

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Captain Slow crashes a caravan…attached to a balloon!

September 30, 2009

Think in your very best Monty Python voice while you read this quote from the Daily Mail:
“I was walking through the village and suddenly this giant airship appeared carrying a caravan, it was a very strange sight,” said Peter Clarke, 37, from Eltisley.
It goes further…
“I understand they were planning to land on the village cricket [...]

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Captain Slow meets Ken Block

July 7, 2009

“Hey – that was a DC-2!”
One might say that Ken Block is the closest thing us North Americans have to Top Gear. One who does exactly what he wants on film, rather than what the sponsors will approve of. Of course the blokes at TG answer to The Beeb, while Block answers to…well, nobody I [...]

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Win a free dvd copy of Top Gear Season 10!

May 4, 2009

Have you ever sat around with your gearhead buddies and consumed a pint or 5 while looking at an automotive project of some sort? You know the scene: Johnny Wrench says “you know, we could put a big block in it and set a new lap record”. We’ve all done it at some point or [...]

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And The Stig is?

January 19, 2009

It is one of the most closely guarded secrets in automotive media, one that motoring enthusiasts around the globe have speculated about for ages: who is The Stig.
The elusive high speed character from The Beeb’s popular show Top Gear is undeniably fast and versatile, seemingly capable of turning super quick times in all manner of [...]

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Images from across the pond: MPH 07

November 6, 2007

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 [...]

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Ultima Spanks Top Gear

November 1, 2007

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 [...]

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Cleaning out The Garage part deux

August 7, 2006

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 [...]

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BBC flexes copywrite muscle over Top Gear

July 26, 2006

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 [...]

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