Category Archives: Top Gear

Top Gear
Thursday:
‘Top Gear’
Wins
Prestigious
Award,
‘Doctor
Who’s
Matt Smith Hits
the Track

By staff | Posted on Thursday,
May 17th, 2012

'Top Gear' producer Andrew Wilman (left) with Jeremy Clarkson at the Rose d'Or Festival in Switzerland last week. (Rose d'Or)

Top Gear has received a special prize from the Rose d’Or festival in Switzerland. The 2012 Honorary Rose Award recognized the show’s extraordinary global reach.

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Top Gear
Thursday:
Richard Hammond
is Demolition
Man

By staff | Posted on Thursday,
May 10th, 2012

Forget about the nineties action movie starring Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes. This century’s demolition man is… The Hamster.

My Other Car Is
A Garage
Door…

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Thursday,
May 10th, 2012

Chris Smart and his garage (Rex Features via AP Images)

Hey, we’re all aware of the global situation, we know times are tough. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have dreams.

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Top Gear
Thursday:
Richard Hammond
– Out of
the Landfill
and Into the
Fire

By staff | Posted on Thursday,
May 3rd, 2012

“I’m off to a good old-fashioned Texas barbeque,” said Richard Hammond of his challenge in next week’s Crash Course (premiering Monday, May 7, 10p/9c).

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Top Gear
Thursday:
Richard Hammond
Says NASCAR
Driving is
‘Like
Climbing into
the Belly of a
Dragon’

By staff | Posted on Thursday,
April 26th, 2012

Richard Hammond with NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson. (Oisin Tymon/BBC Worldwide)

It seems as though Richard Hammond has become Top Gear’s go-to guy for anything about cars – or about life, for that matter – in these former British colonies.

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Gallery:
Britain’s
Swankiest
Luxury Cars

By staff | Posted on Wednesday,
April 25th, 2012

Each week Top Gear tells us about fast cars, or cars that compete in all sorts of weird competitions, and in Crash Course, Richard Hammond learns about vehicles that perform very specialized tasks, but right now, we’re going to take a look at another very specific category of cars: the luxury car. And we’re not going to look at just any old luxury cars – we’re going to look at British luxury cars, which have historically set the gold standard for automotive excellence. (We’re also trying to see if we could write ad copy for cars.) We’re going to look at the top of line, the crème de la crème of super luxury cars. They’re the cars of the ultra wealthy, the conveyances of the 1% of the 1%, cars that cost so much that we can’t keep track of all the zeros. And the closest that we’re ever going to get to any of them is looking at this photo gallery.First up: an entry from Aston Martin. The name Aston Martin is perhaps most familiar to us through James Bond, who drove a DB5 in Goldfinger. The Aston Martin One-77 (above) gets its name from the fact that there were only 77 made. Each one sells for about $1.85 million. But you’ll probably have to pay more for an ejector seat. (via The Super Cars)

Five Greatest
‘Top
Gear’
Stars in a
Reasonably
Priced Car

By staff | Posted on Monday,
April 23rd, 2012

Hugh Grant and the Stig on 'Top Gear' back in 2007.

UPDATED 4/23/2012: The votes have been tallied, and readers have revealed their choices for the greatest stars who ever strapped in and gave it some welly in Top Gear‘s Reasonably Priced Car.

Top Gear
Thursday:
Richard
Hammond’s
‘Crash
Course’
with a Dangle
Head Processor

By staff | Posted on Thursday,
April 19th, 2012

Richard Hammond takes on logging machines in 'Crash Course'

This past Monday (April 16), in the premiere of Richard Hammond’s Crash Course, Richard’s challenge was an Abrams tank, a 1500-horsepower deliverer of destruction, nicknamed “Whispering Death.” Fortunately, there were no ...

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WATCH:
Surveying
Richard
Hammond’s
Career Away
from ‘Top
Gear’

By Paul Hechinger | Posted on Friday,
April 13th, 2012

As you surely know, Richard Hammond is setting out on his own – without the other two rascals – in his first American series, Richard Hammond’s Crash Course, which premieres this Monday, April 16, at 10p/9c.

Top Gear
Thursday: In
‘Crash
Course,’
Richard Hammond
Says,
‘Tanks
for the
Memories’

By staff | Posted on Thursday,
April 12th, 2012

Richard Hammond is, of course, used to driving fast cars. Very fast cars. But it wasn’t a fast car that gave him the biggest challenge in his new series, Richard Hammond’s Crash Course (premiering Monday, Apr.