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May 21, 2013

Top Gear filming in China for new series

Top Gear China

Escaping from the furore over his One Show comments, Jeremy Clarkson is in China with James May filming for Top Gear. After all the grief over his One Show comments (which, although a bit OTT, were actually not his views but an attempt to humorously demonstrate the BBC’s obsession with ‘balance’), Jeremy Clarkson has decamped to China [...]

Top Gear: TomTom SatNavs voiced by Jeremy Clarkson pulled

Top Gear Clarkson TomTom SatNav

It’s been revealed that the deal for Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson to voice a TomTom SatNav has been shelved as it breaches BBC guidelines. It seemed like a cracking plan for all concerned to get Jeremy Clarkson to add a voiceover for a TomTom SatNav, particularly with the Top Gear live show rapidly approaching and [...]

Top Gear Nissan LEAF & Peugeot iOn Electric car episode spoofed

Top Gear Electric Car Test with May and Clarkson Spoofed

Two young English guys have put together a 10 minute spoof of Top Gear’s May and Clarkson testing the Nissan LEAF and Peugeot iOn electric cars. Yes, boys and girls, there is a new series of Top Gear looming, with the boys back on the box this month. And already a so far unseen episode is [...]

Top Gear’s Clarkson & May run out of charge in a LEAF & iOn

Jeremy Clarkson and James May run out of charge in a Nissan LEAF and Peugeot iOn in Lincoln

Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson and James May have been testing the Nissan LEAF and Peugeot iOn in Lincoln, and appear to have run out of power. Top Gear and electric cars don’t really mix. Unless of course they build the electric car themselves, and then you have a world-beating product in the Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust. But Top [...]

Top Gear: Just like Milli Vanilli, says Elon Musk

Elon Musk likens a Top Gear Episode to a Milli Vanilli Concert

Tesla boss Elon Musk has weighed in to the Tesla v Top Gear row by suggesting Top Gear is like a Milli Vanilli Concert The ongoing spat between Top Gear and Tesla – mainly in the form of CEO Elon Musk – is still rumbling on. In fact, it’s starting to get a bit silly. [...]

Top Gear v Tesla: Andy Wilman has his say.

Tesla are taking Top Gear to court over its review of the Tesla Roadster. Andy Wilman defends the piece and attacks Tesla’s PR angle on the case. A few days ago we reported that Tesla are taking Top Gear to court, claiming defamation and malicious falsehood over the Top Gear episode where they tested the [...]

Tesla sues Top Gear. Oh, dear. +video

Top Gear Tests the Tesla Roadster against a Lotus

Tesla has decided to sue Top Gear over comments made two years ago about the range of the Tesla and broken brakes during a Top Gear Test. Just over two years ago Top Gear took a Tesla Roadster to Dunsfold and played. And Tesla got the arse because Top Gear ‘staged’ the Tesla running out of juice. [...]

Top Gear: Skoda Yeti, Ariel Atom V8, Porsche 911 & John Bishop tonight

Top Gear Skoda Yeti Helipad

Top Gear Series 16 starts for real tonight with Skoda Yeti, Ariel Atom V8, Porsche 911 and John Bishop as the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car. We thought that Top Gear had kicked in to the start of a new series – Series 16 AB (that’s ‘After Boring’ Top Gear) – when we had [...]

Top Gear Christmas Special – Equality & Diversity remit fulfilled

Top Gear offend Christians and Muslims

Top Gear has fulfilled its remit on equality and diversity by offending both Muslims and Christians in its Christmas special. We know that the entire Top Gear team – from Messrs Clarkson, Hammond, May and Wilman on down – are steeped in modern sensibilities. We know, for example, that every item Top Gear runs is [...]

Top Gear East Coast USA Road Trip tonight

Video thumbnail for youtube video Top Gear East Coast USA Road Trip tonight

Tonight sees Top Gear back on BBC2 with a road trip up East Coast USA to New York in a Mercedes SLS AMG, a Ferrari 458 Italia and a Porsche 911 GT3 RS It’s a bit of a Top Gear day today with not just this morning’s news that Top Gear drafted in Tiff Needell [...]