Jeremy Clarkson takes a break from creating a new ‘Top Gear’ for Amazon Prime with Hammond and May to explain Amazon’s Prime Air delivery drone plans. The deal Jeremy Clarkson (and Richard Hammond and James May) managed to do with Amazon Prime to deliver a new Top Gear after Jeremy’s ‘fracas’ is reckoned to be […]
Jeremy Clarkson (Fire) Sticks it to the BBC in new Amazon commercial (video)
Jeremy Clarkson is about to pop up on TV screens promoting Amazon’s Fire TV Stick, taking a swipe at the BBC and his Top Gear ‘Fracas’ in the process. It’s been an interesting year for Top Gear, with a new series at the start of the year – Series 22 – and Clarkson, Hammond and […]
Top Gear: Jeremy Clarkson’s LAST Top Gear lap was in the Ferrari 488 GTB
Jeremy Clarkson has driven his last lap of the Top Gear Track at Dunsfold in the new Ferrari 488 GTB, raising £100k for The Roundhouse in Camden in the process. A few months ago – when the brouhaha around Jeremy Clarkson’s ‘fracas’ was everywhere, but before the BBC actually ended JC’s contract – Clarkson offered to […]
Top Gear missing episodes WILL air this summer
BBC2 boss Kim Shillinglaw has declared that the footage from Top Gear’s series 22, cancelled after the Jeremy Clarkson ‘Fracas’, will air this summer. The corporate self-flagellation at the BBC over Jeremy Clarkson’s fracas with a producer now seems to be dwindling, and more practical considerations are taking over. Not before time, we must say. […]
Top Gear filming in China for new series
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
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
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
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
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 […]