Tag Archives: James May

Top Gear Personality Quiz: Are You Jeremy, Richard or James?

By | Posted on November 26th, 2012
Three blokes, in the modern, British sense of the word.

The thing you have to realise about the Anglophenia personality quizzes is they are an inexact science. So inexact, in fact, that if you made a car using the kind of sweeping generalisations in the place of precise measurement that we ...

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Top Gear Thursday: Richard Hammond ‘Would Be a Great Stuntman,’ Says Mentor

By | Posted on October 25th, 2012
Richard Hammond: just park it on the side. (BBC America)

This week, Richard Hammond survived being thrown off a bridge and being set on fire as a Hollywood stunt man. The challenges he faced all presented threats to life and limb.

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Top Gear Thursday: Hammond Says U.S. Slang is Missing Important Word

By | Posted on October 11th, 2012
Richard Hammond's offers a crash course on British slang.

Richard Hammond has spent a good deal of time over here in the U.S. He enjoys getting to know us Americans through our jobs, and he even tries to see if he can learn to do them himself in his show, Richard Hammond’s Crash Course.

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Top Gear Thursday: Richard Hammond’s Back in the Saddle

By | Posted on September 27th, 2012
Cowhand Richard Hammond

Perhaps Richard Hammond didn’t get the “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor” nursery ditty straight when he was a kid. Maybe his non-rhyming version went “cattle rancher, cab driver, stuntman, barber.

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Top Gear Thursday: He Steals Marlboros From Jeremy Clarkson, and They Call Him ‘The Cig’

By | Posted on September 20th, 2012
James and Jeremy dealing with the technologies of modern life.

 

We wuz robbed, Jeremy Clarkson and James May said (more or less).

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Top Gear Thursday: Hiring the Show’s Crew for ‘The Sweeney’ Was ‘Touch of Genius’

By | Posted on August 23rd, 2012
Richard Hammond, standing outside of car, with Ray Winstone, gesticulating in the foreground, and Ben Drew, aka Plan B.

When director Nick Love needed to get some help filming car chases for The Sweeney, his movie version of the famous British TV police series, where did he turn?

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Top Gear Thursday: Top Gear Magazine’s Journalistic Coup

By | Posted on August 16th, 2012
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The editor of Top Gear magazine has test driven the ultra-swanky Aston Martin One-77 and lived to tell about it.

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Top Gear Thursday: BMW Art Cars Take Over a London Car Park

By | Posted on July 26th, 2012
A BMW re-envisioned by Jeff Koons - at ART DRIVE! in London."These racing cars are like life, they are bursting with power. My design is meant to represent the energy of the BMW M3 GT2" - Jeff Koons, BMW M3 GT2, 2010

London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts is closed for the Olympics – but the ICA is taking over a parking garage for a very special exhibit about cars.

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Summer of London: Four of the ‘Top Gear’ Hosts’ Best Moments

By | Posted on July 19th, 2012

Top Gear hosts – Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and  Richard Hammond– pride themselves on their automotive performance and, of course, outdoing one another. A bit of friendly competition never hurt anyone.

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Top Gear Thursday: The Batmobile Rises

By | Posted on July 12th, 2012

The Dark Knight Rises opens next week, and the folks at TopGear.com dug up some interesting facts about the cars in the movie.

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