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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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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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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 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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Aston’s V8 Vantage Roadster features the same 4.3-litre V8 that is found under the bonnet of the Coupe. That means 283kW / 380bhp and 410Nm of torque. 0-100km/h is “seen too” in 5 seconds dead.

Click through for the video and watch Hammond take on a jet powered roller-skater…

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Clarkson describes the Audi R8 as faultless perfection but the Hamster doesn’t agree. He thinks his 997 Carrera 2 is a better driving experience. They both cost around the same so who is right…? Click the link to watch the video that sees both cars pitted against each other on the Top Gear test track [...]

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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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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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