A chance to see the Top Gear boys famous car-boat challenge! Will any of their converted cars survive the Top Gear challenges?
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are given a terrifying challenge to cross the Okavango Delta game reserve and drive on through the border into the wild animal lands of Namibia. With lions, scorpions, snakes and the dreaded honey badger in the Okovango Delta, how will the boys prepare their super light doorless cars to defend themselves and, more inmportantly, make themselves laugh?
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May prepare for their epic adventure across the Botswanan salt flats. Never crossed by a car before, the Top Gear boys face death as they prepare their cars, meet the vice president of Botswana, and set off into the desolate wastelands. Brilliant and dramatic scenes from BBC smash hit motoring show, Top Gear.
Jeremy enlightens us with a safety video and explains in detail why you should never try to race a level crossing sign...especially without a hard hat.
David Tennant is the star in a reasonably priced car in this clip from Top Gear. Watch his lap in full here and see how Doctor Who managed when confronted with the monstrous Stig!
Jeremy drives the world's smallest production car to work and even takes it into the lift in this hilarious clip from BBC's Top Gear. Watch out for cameos from John Humphries when he kidnaps the car and Fiona Bruce in the lift!
James May reviews the new Fiat 500 in Budapest whilst racing against two BMX racers. Great clip from the BBC's smash hit motoring show, Top Gear.
Top Gear challenges are a segment of the show where the presenters attempt to prove or do different things. This time the team attempt to cheat a roadside speed camera.
Hammond and May tried to convert a Reliant Robin into a space shuttle. They were given 12 days to build it and help from the British Amateur Rocket Society. Eight tons of thrust were required to launch the Robin — the largest non-commercial rocket launch undertaken in Europe.
The Stig is the mysterious "team racing driver" of the popular BBC Automobile show Top Gear. Top Gear's mystery racing driver takes on the jets on baord HMS Invincible!
The show is presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May and The Stig, an anonymous test driver. The programme is estimated to have 385 million viewers worldwide. The Top Gear team wonder what it would be like if you were struck by lightning while in your car. Richard Hammond finds out!
Top Gear is a BAFTA, multi-NTA and International Emmy Award-winning BBC television series about motor vehicles, mainly cars. Jeremy enlightens us with a safety video and explains in detail why you should never try to race a level crossing sign...especially without a hard hat.
Formula One star Lewis Hamilton swapped his multi-million pound, 230mph McLaren to drive a modest family car for BBC Two's Top Gear. Hamilton got behind the wheel of a Suzuki Liana and took on the mark of Top Gear's resident driver The Stig. The 22-year-old's lap was 0.3 seconds behind The Stig's blistering best of one minute 44.4 seconds and also behind former F1 world champion Nigel Mansell. However, Hamilton's lap came in wet conditions, unlike the other two.
If you’re reading this then you probably have watched Top Gear before, even if you’re not an avid watcher like me. You may well then be happy to know that the series, after a nice break, has returned back to our televisions. Get it bookmarked/Sky +’ed or whatever else you want to do, then come back and read the rest of this.
Jeremy Clarkson is looking for your input. And by "your", I mean of course, you who's out there surfing YouTube's vast array of video clips for all episodes Top Gear. For those rest of you who don't know, Top Gear is the world's best automotive TV program that airs in the UK and online.
With two TV programmes in the final stages of post production, three columns a week to write for the newspapers, three children and a new series of Top Gear just days away, my diary is a complete mess at the moment. But with a bit of jiggery here and a spot of pokery there, I did manage to ease a trip to Berlin into the schedule.
A Mini Cooper fitted with a jet engine is positioned at the top of a Ski Jump Ramp and the ignition switch is hit. The Mini flies down the ramp and jumps a good distance before slamming into a barrier at the end of the slope. This was done on the British television show called Top Gear.
If anyone can match Mazda in the mildly-mental-design stakes, it's Citroen. And, perhaps as a riposte to the Kia-Ora (sorry, Kiyora) concept we saw earlier, the French manufacturer has shown off a couple of sketches of this, the Citroen Hypnos Hybrid SUV concept.
A blank sheet of paper. It's a phrase that crops up an awful lot in the world of car design. Every time a new car arrives on the scene, we're told it started with a blank sheet of paper. A clean slate. Of course, this is a lie. There's no such thing as a blank sheet of paper. There are shared platforms to work around, there are crash zones to incorporate, there are brand images to adhere to. That's why every new car launched looks a bit like something else: a bit of Mondeo about the back end, a bit of Audi TT about the roofline, a bit of oh-we've-seen-it-already.
The day dealers start designing cars is a dark one indeed for manufacturer and customer alike.
That dealers are a vital link in the car-buying chain is a regrettable yet undeniable fact of life. But the day that they start designing cars is a dark one indeed for manufacturer and customer alike.This faintly upsetting sight is the Zonda Cinque, a run-out version of the all-conquering kit car that has, in Pagani's own words, been 'born to satisfy the request of the Pagani dealer for Hong Kong'. If this sort of thing takes hold, they'll be demanding cocaine overdose kits for their 911 Turbos and emergency knickers for Lamborghinis.
Meet the Texan answer to the $150 oil barrel.
Genius and madness often seem to share the same shoes, but rarely with such gleeful abandon as they do here, in the RNNM Scorpion.The brainchild of Ronn Maxwell, Chief Executive Officer of Ronn Motor Company, no less - a Texas outfit that simultaneously deserves a slap and a biscuit for its blind optimism. The Scorpion is a hydrogen/gasoline mix supercar that generates its hydrogen on demand by fracturing molecules from a small onboard water tank.
Aston Martin doesn't actually need to face-lift the DB9. It's got its own fridge on the Cool Wall, it's still selling well and the whole world knows it's stunningly good-looking. Aston is well aware of this, so the new DB9 looks all-but identical to the last one. (For the anoraks among you, the big news is that the grille has lost a single horizontal bar. Oh, and the wing mirrors are now the same designs those on the DBS.) It's some tribute to the original design that, after four years of sales, this car still looks bang up to date. But perhaps that has as much to do with the other cars in the range looking very similar - if none of them advances the design language, none of them looks old hat.
Sometimes, I wish I was James May. Obviously, I don't want his jumpers, his hair or his collection of Bach records. Nor do I want his house, his cars, his accent, his ability to mend motorcycles or the leather ballet boots he bought recently. But sometimes I do wish I had his regimented, organised mind because that would make my life as a columnist so much easier. Take Richard Littlejohn, for example. Present him with a news story and you know exactly what he's going to make of it. And it was the same story with the late Auberon Waugh. When you read in his autobiography that he was three when he learned to hate the working classes, you know what his take's going to be on everything from the French riots to Big Brother.
Richard Hammond toasts a Nissan with a jet car.
The boys try to find out whether they can drive faster than a speed camera can detect
Top Gear's mystery racing driver takes on the jets on board HMS Invincible!
As attractive as Eva Padberg bathing in a vat of Bird's custard the Maserati GranTurismo may be, but the big coupe has never quite had the bite we were hoping for.
But now Maserati is set to give the GranTurismo a proper set of teeth. At the Geneva show next week, the Modena marque will unveil the GranTurismo S, a sportier, faster, more aggressive edition of the stunning four-seater.
The big news is that the GranTurismo's V8 powerplant has grown: from a mere 4.2 litres to a far more respectable 4.7 litres. In fact, it's a completely fresh unit, politely borrowed from the gorgeous Alfa 8C. It develops 434bhp - a jump of 35bhp over the standard GranTurismo.
If the claims that are being made about it are true, this is the fastest road car on Earth. Jeremy Clarkson took the oddly named Koenigsegg to the TG track to see if it's true. Driving for TV is one of the most brutal things you can do to a car. You have to go faster and harder than you thought possible. Then you have to do it again because the director thinks "more tyre smoke would be nice".
Okay this is nuts. We have all played with the toy radio controlled cars.
But the boys decide to go bigger - much bigger.
Imagine having a full sized radio controlled car, and thats exactly what they have.
That's how you realize how fast F1 cars actually are. They are MADE for one purpose : Going fast around a track.
Jet car vs caravan One from Top Gear's own collection to start, as a dragster toasts a motorhome to a crispy state of perfection.
What with their favourable climate, good food, successful international football team and, most of all, their stunning supercar heritage, it's difficult not to feel a pang of jealousy towards the Italians.
So it's always nice when something like this turns up to give our continental cousins a good poke in the eye.
Something odd is going on with Bentley's new face-lifted Flying Spur. On the one hand, the talk is of massively improved refinement levels, better ride quality, improved mpg figures and CO2 numbers. All entirely admirable, and all brilliant.
