Following on from last year’s reports that Top Gear UK’s Season 13 budget would be cut, Clarkson himself is now reportedly in the bean-counter’s cross hairs.

UK’s Daily Mail reports that Clarkson brings in an estimated £2,000,000 annually (around AUD $4.4 million) but could see this figure drop by as much as £500,000 (AUD $1.1 million).

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Clear your schedule for November 2nd as that’s when BBC’s (in)famous Top Gear will return to the small screen for season 12. We’ve got a teaser video for you that gives a tantilising glimpse into what we can expect (it looks like season 12 will be a cracker).

In the brief clip we managed to spot [...]

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Top Gear and Youtube isn’t a new concept. In fact we’ve all enjoyed Top Gear videos on Youtube before, the only issue being that they haven’t been strictly legal. In the past it has been a serious cause of concern for the BBC, and a thorn in the side for Youtube, who’ve been under pressure [...]

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The BBC seems to be of the opinion that we can never get too much of a good thing when it comes to Top Gear. The UK edition, that we all know and love, continues to entertain while American and Australian versions get ready to hit the airwaves. All this moving and shaking is likely generating [...]

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I think we all know that, like a school kid’s lunch money and the comic book shelf at the newsagents down the road from school, I’m bound to break that promise.  But let’s move on.

I’ve just crawled home from a function at a warehouse here in Melbourne’s outer suburbs loaded with racing simulators—replete with the [...]

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The Herald Sun has reported today that SBS are looking to produce a “quintessentially Australian” version of BBC’s Top Gear motoring program. Australia is the first country in the world to secure the rights to a local version of the hit motoring show.

“This is fantastic news for SBS, for Top Gear fans and for Australian [...]

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Richard ‘The Hamster’ Hammond well known for co-presenting BBC’s Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson and James May made headlines less than a year ago when the jet powered dragster he was driving crashed.

Hammond spent 5 weeks in hospital recovering from brain injuries as a result of the accident that occurred when a front tyre [...]

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Landrover has announced the Introduction of a new Premium Pack for its Freelander 2, as well as some new upgrades and options for the 08MY.

The new Premium Pack delivers both exterior and interior enhancements to the top specification Freelander 2 HSE. Vehicles with the new pack are distinguished by a distinctive rear spoiler, body-coloured bumpers [...]

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We know Jeremy doesn’t have a lot of time for Americans in general and American cars in-particular which is a shame (about the people) but in some ways understandable about some of their cars.

It is a stance no-doubt at least partly contrived for the benefit of his large worldwide following for whom the latest [...]

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FANS OF BBC’s Top Gear will no doubt remember the episode when Richard Hammond road tested a pink Nissan Micra convertible. He refused to drive the car without a bag on his head and, eventually, to avoid further embarrassment, left the car on the side of the road and walked.

The convertible Micra was described as [...]

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