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UK roadrage
Peak performance
Cabbie v sat nav
Lessons in tyre changing
Brit Motor Show review
Top Gear show 6 preview
Clarkson: race Japan
Top Gear show 4 preview
TGTV update: show 3
TGTV update: episode two
Mad, bad and dangerous to know
Clarkson's top fuel saving tips
Fuelled by air?
TGTV update: the foreign versions
TGTV update: Alfas, the Germans and 186mph

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Tuesday August 19th, 2008

UK roadrage

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 1 day ago, 0 comments Comment

"You want some?"

This much I can lip-read, as the driver in the Ford Focus is saying it with the window up. He's not saying it to me, but the man in the BMW in front who's just cut across him on the M4, behaviour he would have got away with had the traffic not abruptly ground to a halt and left them side-by-side

Friday July 25th, 2008

Peak performance

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 26 days ago, 0 comments Comment

IÃ¢Â€Â™m scrabbling for grip on the very edge of a Pikes Peak hairpin, a 1000-foot cliff just inches from my right front wheel. I'd feel like a driving hero, but in truth I'm doing about eight mph. I'm in a hired Chevy 4x4. And it's not even race day on Pikes Peak

Wednesday July 23rd, 2008

Cabbie v sat nav

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 28 days ago, 0 comments Comment

I created a competition during the week between Len Fox and my Mercedes-Benz C220 CDI Lifer's COMAND satnav system.

Lessons in tyre changing

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 28 days ago, 0 comments Comment

Had a bit of a lesson in life the other day - never, ever, under any circumstances, even if your life, wife's life, etc depends on it, fit non-standard wheels and tyres to a car if you're doing long distances.

I was in Spain covering the Spanish Baja - which you'll read about soon in TG magazine - and we'd borrowed a Volkswagen Touareg off VW Spain

Tuesday July 22nd, 2008

Brit Motor Show review

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 29 days ago, 0 comments Comment

So we've had our annual whip around the British Motor Show. And there's been some pretty cool stuff to report.

Monday July 21st, 2008

Top Gear show 6 preview

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 1 month ago, 0 comments Comment

James will go when he gets grumpy and fed up with the show, and to my memory he's been grumpy and fed up with the show since the day he started.

Friday July 11th, 2008

Clarkson: race Japan

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 1 month ago, 0 comments Comment

On Sunday night, there is a race between a Nissan GT-R and a bullet train right the way across Japan.

It is extremely exciting. I think the best film we've ever made

Top Gear show 4 preview

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 1 month ago, 0 comments Comment

Well, I've just got back from the bank with the presenters' wages, and it took a while because it's a bugger parking a container ship outside Nat West.

Anyway that'll keep them happy for a day or so, which means we can put another programme on air

Saturday July 5th, 2008

TGTV update: show 3

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 1 month ago, 0 comments Comment

I should be writing about this week's show, but if you'll excuse me I have to take a moment to say a few words about the stuff in the papers, which basically states Richard and James are leaving unless they get a million pounds a minute, and that Jeremy is already on four million pounds a minute and also trousers 98 percent of all the profits from Top Gear, Dr Who, Strictly Come Dancing, The Tweenies and Big Brother

Friday June 27th, 2008

TGTV update: episode two

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 1 month ago, 0 comments Comment

Right, show one's out of the way, the BBC switchboard is busy fielding the complaints, the British police are urgently reviewing their police car policy, and everyone's sold their Prius and bought an M3

Tuesday June 24th, 2008

Mad, bad and dangerous to know

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 1 month ago, 0 comments Comment

Where in the world was your craziest driving experience, and what stories have you got from roads that tested your taste for mortality?

Sunday June 22nd, 2008

Clarkson's top fuel saving tips

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 1 month ago, 0 comments Comment

If we're driving less, why isn't there less traffic?

Thursday June 12th, 2008

Fuelled by air?

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 2 months ago, 0 comments Comment

If we're driving less, why isn't there less traffic?

Wednesday June 4th, 2008

TGTV update: the foreign versions

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 2 months ago, 0 comments Comment

You've probably already read a bit about our foreign versions of Top Gear. Yes, the colonies strike back, with America and Australia both prepping their own TGs

Monday June 2nd, 2008

TGTV update: Alfas, the Germans and 186mph

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 2 months ago, 0 comments Comment

So Jezza told some socialist hippies at a book festival in a field that he'd driven at 186 mph through the Limehouse Link...