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
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 China launches +video
It appears that the first episode of Top Gear China has been made. We have a fifteen minute video clip. Well, we’re assuming Top Gear China has launched. Or at least they’ve had a crack with a pilot episode, fifteen minutes of which you can see in the video below. We’re struggling to work out the banter, […]
Morgan AeroMax For Sale: Hammond Morgan – just one prang
Richard Hammond has his Morgan Aeromax up for sale for £100k, despite a prang just after he bought it. As well as the joy of having a BBC budget to play with endless cars around the world, being a Top Gear presenter is also quite lucrative. Beyond the not inconsiderable salaries attached to presenting TG, […]
Top Gear: John Prescott, Jaguar XJ, Porsche 959 Ferrari F40 & Moon Buggy
The last of this Top Gear series sees Jezza take on John Prescott, Richard drives the Porsche 959 and Ferrari F40, Jeremy the Jaguar XJ & James goes to NASA That’s it, then. The end of Top Gear ’til later in the year, so the Sky+ won’t have much work on a Sunday until F1 returns […]
Top Gear: BMW M3 Competition, Audi RS5, Snowbine Harvester & Amber Heard
This week’s Top Gear sees Jeremy compare the M3 Competition Pack & the Audi RS5 to the M3, the Snowbine Harvester to clear snow and actor Amber Heard. Another Sunday, another Top Gear. Although this is the penultimate show of Series 16 so just one more Sunday wake up call for Top Gear to come. For this […]
Mastretta MXT: Orders UP thanks to Top Gear
Top Gear’s Mexican joke has seen visitors to Mastretta shoot up and orders for the Mastretta MXT increase You might reasonably have thougt that Top Gear’s recent Mexican stand-off would have had the butt of its joke – the Mastretta MXT – suffering a severe downturn in sales. After all, according to Mexican Ambassador to […]
Top Gear: Pagani Zonda R, cheap convertibles, Eddie Irvine & Simon Pegg – & McLaren MP4-12C?
Tonight’s Top Gear -Series 16, episode 4 – sees the boys in cheap convertibles, the Zonda R, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Eddie Irvine – and maybe the McLaren MP4-12C Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun? Here we are – not even at the middle of February – and we’re already more than halfway through […]
Top Gear: Albania, RR Ghost, Merc S65, Mulsanne & Jonathan Ross
This week sees the 3rd Episode of the latest series of Top Gear, with a luxury car shootout – Mercedes S65, Bentley Mulsanne & Rolls Royce Ghost – and Jonathan Ross. As we said last week when Top Gear played host to Boris Becker as the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car – he can’t […]