TOP GEAR’S TAME RACING DRIVER The Stig may be poised to tackle Mount Panorama in October after his rumoured alter-ego, Ben Collins, agreed to compete in V8 Supercars endurance events this season.

Collins has been signed by Jack Daniel’s Racing to line up alongside Nathan Pretty in a Holden for the Bathurst 1000 and Phillip [...]

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TOP GEAR UK is back on the air - in England, at least - and it hasn’t taken long for the boys to stir up a dash of controversy and intrigue.

The first episode of series 13 of the world’s most popular car show (by any decent reckoning) saw Michael Schumacher “revealed” as the head [...]

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Above: Shannon Noll poses with The Stig

The best advertising is free advertising: even better than that is free advertising plus great feedback. According to Proton Cars Australia’s Billy Falconer, that’s exactly what the Proton Satria Neo has been receiving on the set of Top Gear Australia.

The Satria Neo is driven each episode in the ‘star in [...]

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My partner, eagle-eyed observer that she is, spotted this extremely brief appearance of The Stig (or more likely one of his halfwit poser cousins, twice-removed) in an otherwise pretty funny TV commercial for the British phone directory service, 118. I wouldn’t bother watching the video just to see Stiggy – the [...]

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Some say, it don’t matter if they’re black or white, as long as they can drive fast and shrug off a 25 percent pay cut. All we know is, they are both called The Stig…

The higher paid folks behind Top Gear, including Clarkson himself, are apparently taking 25 percent pay cuts, but that doesn’t appear [...]

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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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Some say he eats glass because he likes the ‘crunch’ and that he cut off his ears to aid his personal aerodynamics. All we know is that he’s called Ben Collins.

Hmmm…that doesn’t sound right.

While we slept, it appears that The Stig’s true identity (this time around) has been revealed to be that of 33 year-old Ben [...]

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Top Gear Australia co-host Charlie Cox is, well, host no longer. Citing media and business commitments in the UK – where Cox has spent a good chunk of his life and career – the inaugural TGA presenter will step aside for the 2009 season.

Cox’s current co-hosts Steve Pizzati and Warren Brown will be joined next [...]

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As we followed the weekly Australian series of Top Gear earlier this year, it became apparent (through the comments left by readers) that the seemingly purposeless abuse of some test vehicles was not considered a joke. It started in episode one with Charlie launching a Toyota RAV4 V6 over a sand dune, stoving in the [...]

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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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Well folks, episode three is over and in this writer’s opinion there is a little potential peeking through the cracks. The guys are relaxing a little in their roles and even the studio audience managed a brief chuckle, although I still whince when Charlie introduces The Stig… they need a new copywriter for that one.

The [...]

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Don’t you just love the Internet? Well ahead of Top Gear Australia’s September 29th debut, we’ve details - and pictures - on what to expect in the pilot episode. It looks like there will be plenty to talk about around the water cooler come Tuesday morning.

It will be full steam ahead in episode one with [...]

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