Some say….

The New Zealand press were given a rare opportunity to interview The Stig as the Top Gear Live juggernaut rolled into the land of the long white cloud. An unidentified being of no words, The Stig answered numerous probing questions with that trademark stare.

Not one generally prone to public displays of emotion (it has [...]

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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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The identity of The Stig has been a hotly-debated topic of late and now Top Gear’s own Jeremy Clarkson has waded into the controversy. You just know things are starting to get serious, and likely to turn completely stupid, when Clarkson gets involved.

Clarkson has now used his column in British publication The Sun to poke fun at [...]

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The world’s most famous motoring journalist thinks that all Americans are fat, they build big shoddy gas guzzling cars and generally use them for cruising between hamburger joints.

Or does he?

Clarkson shuns the Europeans and embraces big fat American cubic inches

Jeremy Clarkson used his Sunday Times column to reflect on the year that almost is, and [...]

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Despite the recently announced Motor Show troubles in Adelaide and Brisbane, the Melbourne International Motor Show is all set for 2009. Lotus Cars Australia has chosen the 75th annual Melbourne Motor to give its new Evora flagship a southern hemisphere debut.

Expected to go on sale in Australia in the third quarter of 2009, Evora has generated extensive interest [...]

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This Sunday just gone (UK time) saw the return of the one true Top Gear to British television sets, and to computer screens of net-savvy fans around the world this morning.  Let me tell you: they’ve still got it.

Clarkson pits the Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 against the Porsche 911 GT2 – describing the latter as “terrifying”.  [...]

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It was always going to be a tough gig, that’s a fact. We all know that sequels are generally rubbish, (with the obvious exception of Die Hard of course…), books are usually better than the movie and re-makes rarely live up to the original. Making a colonial version of the world’s most popular motoring show, [...]

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Eric Bana has announced that he’s working on a documentary-style feature film that explores people’s passions for their hobbies and interests. Love the Beast will not be exclusively car-oriented, but will focus heavily on passions of the automotive kind. Given Bana’s 25-year love affair with his own Ford XB GT Coupe, the Targa contestant will feature prominently in the [...]

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As I write this the fourth episode of Top Gear’s local franchise has finished.

This week, Steve thrashed the HSV W427 around Lang Lang (although Charlie seemed to think it was a Holden creation).

Warren trekked through the bush with a rather subdued Aboriginal tracker named Diesel, taking on the TRD HiLux and its satellite navigation system. [...]

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According to the UK’s Daily Mirror, Jeremy Clarkson has added more injuries to his Monaro-generated bad back, with a crash while filming Top Gear. While exact details of the incident are in short supply, it is believed to be the Top Gear presenter’s first serious crash in 31 years.

In typical Clarkson style his descriptions of [...]

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The British motoring press wait on new model releases like saltwater crocodiles. They are every bit as reasonable and forgiving. They are like that, paradoxically, because Poms love their cars in a wholly unique way. And love – passion – can hurt; it can exalt and disappoint in equal measure.

All those defining British marques - [...]

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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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