Tag Archives: Richard Hammond

Top Gear Thursday: It’s Springtime for ‘James May’s Man Lab’ Christmas Special

By staff | Posted on May 9th, 2013

It may not be Christmas in July for James May, but it’s Christmas in *May* for James May’s Man Lab.

Top Gear Thursday: Jeremy, James and Richard – and Phineas and Ferb!

By staff | Posted on April 11th, 2013

Richard Hammond, center, flanked by cutouts of Phineas, right, and Ferb, left. (Disney)

Top Gear may be the most-watched factual program in the entire world, but you know the show has really made it when its hosts are asked to make a guest appearance on the animated show Phineas and Ferb.

Top Gear Thursday: Africa Trip Revives Subaru Impreza’s Popularity

By staff | Posted on March 21st, 2013

Richard Hammond drives his Subaru Impreza in Africa. (BBC America)

Last week, Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond rewrote the annals of exploration in their search for the source of the Nile and there are indications that they also changed the way Britons perceive estate cars (station ...

Top Gear Thursday: Jeremy, Richard and James Take American Road Trip

By staff | Posted on February 7th, 2013

Road trip. Do any two words — with the exception of Top Gear, of course — strike such excitement in the hearts of car lovers, especially American car lovers?

Top Gear Thursday: Top Ten ‘Top Gear’ Moments of 2012

By Paul Hechinger | Posted on December 27th, 2012

The Stig thanks his lucky stars. (BBC America)

Could we have used the word “top” any more times in that headline? But at least you get the idea: we’re aiming for the top here, and we’ll look at the high points of Top Gear over the past year.

Top Gear Thursday: For Richard Hammond, It Is Rocket Science

By staff | Posted on December 6th, 2012

Richard works on welding rocket parts. (BBC America)

In the season two finale of Richard Hammond’s Crash Course, Richard Hammond is aiming high — 40,000 feet high — by joining scientists to launch an actual rocket from the Mojave Desert.

Top Gear Thursday: Richard Hammond Demonstrates Animal Magnetism

By staff | Posted on November 29th, 2012

In the pink: Richard attempts to feed flamingos. (BBC America)

Top Gear Brit Richard Hammond may have learned how to speak American, but next week’s Crash Course is all about, as Dr. Doolittle might say, talking with the animals.

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

By Fraser McAlpine | 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 ...

Top Gear Thursday: Richard, the Cowboy, Deep in the Heart of Texas

By staff | Posted on November 22nd, 2012

Richard Hammond on a one-horsepower vehicle. (BBC America)

“You can always tell a cowboy, but you can’t tell him much.”

The saying could have come from the old West. Or it could be from the vaudeville circuit.

Top Gear Thursday: Richard’s Career as a Barber – Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

By staff | Posted on November 15th, 2012

Richard and the Levels Barbershop crew: Tony “Tony Touch” Harrison, Enrico "Rico" Charles and Mario David. (BBC America)

Could the two professions of barber and helicopter test pilot be any more different? Aside from the use of the word “blade” and the phrase “take off” (and even that’s stretching it), we couldn’t think of any ...