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. […]
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: Skoda Yeti, Ariel Atom V8, Porsche 911 & John Bishop tonight
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 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
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 […]
Top Gear Christmas Special: Video trailer
We have a video trailer of this years’s Top Gear Christmas special – a road trip from Iraq to Bethlehem. The first clue we had about what the Top Gear Christmas Special would be this year was back in October when we caught the boys out playing in the Middle East with a trio of […]
Top Gear: Three Wise Men Christmas Special
The BBC has confirmed that Top Gear’s Middle East Excursion last month was for the Top Gear Christmas Special tracing the route of the Three Wise men – in open-topped cars. Last month we caught up with Top Gear’s Messrs Clarkson, Hammond and May as they played games in the Middle East for what we had assumed […]
Top Gear in the Middle East: Israel & Jordan &…
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are out filming for Top Gear in the Middle East in a trio of beaten-up Roadsters – MX-5, Z3 and Fiat Barchetta As we said back at the end of September when we reported that Top Gear were busy filming for the next series in New York, this […]
Top Gear in New York with SLS, 458 Italia & GT3 RS +video
The Top Gear crew – Clarkson, Hammond & May – have been in New York with a Mercedes SLS, a 458 Italia and a Porsche 911 GT3 RS. We have Video. It’s that time of the year when Top Gear is off air. So Top Gear off air means the boys must be out playing somewhere in […]
Top Gear tonight: Merc 190E, BMW M3 & Sierra Cosworth for under £5k
Top Gear Series 15 Episode 2 sees a trio of super-saloons for under £5k, May testing Porsches and Alistair Campbell ‘Spinning’ in the reasonably priced car. Here we are at week two of the latest series of Top Gear already, so as ever a reminder that the boys are on the box at 8pm (BST) […]