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Friday October 10th, 2008

New series start date

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 3 months ago, 0 comments Comment

Amidst all the excitement of sending the presenters off to Vietnam we seem to have forgotten to mention when the new series of Top Gear is actually back on the telly. TV scheduling is of course a murky business, and one that’s largely out of the production team’s hands. The BBC actually has dedicated scheduling people and [...]

Wednesday October 8th, 2008

Top Gear: back in the US

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 3 months ago, 0 comments Comment

The presenters might be out in Vietnam this week but that doesn’t mean the rest of the production team is lazing about smoking cigars and playing that Reliant Space Shuttle game on this website, oh deary me no. For one thing, there’s all the stuff we’ve already shot for the next series, now being cut together [...]

Tuesday October 7th, 2008

Hamster’s wheels

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 3 months ago, 0 comments Comment

I’ve just moved house. Nothing unusual in that and the move itself was a pretty standard, run-of-the-mill house move: utter misery, everything lost, broken or won’t fit/wrong colour/too old/too new/not ours. Having shunted our pile of Ikea tat around the place for a day or two and grown shit-bored of trying to join in with the [...]

Top Gear vs The Germans: Jerry’s view

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 3 months ago, 0 comments Comment

Remember when Jeremy, James and Richard battled the German Dmotor telly presenters in the last series? Well here’s a look at that head-to-head from the the German side. They still lost:

Monday October 6th, 2008

Hair ridiculousness

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 3 months ago, 0 comments Comment

A man in the Radio Times recently said that I presented everything through a curtain of hair. So, finally, I went and had it cut. That’ll show him. Incredibly, this means I no longer have the most ridiculous hair on Top Gear. I think Richard Hammond does. He disagrees, and so a row broke out [...]

The boys are in ‘Nam

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 3 months ago, 0 comments Comment

As the brand new Top Gear website glides elegantly onto the net-o-web we’re saddened to report that the presenters won’t be around to see it. That’s because, after years of dodging the draft, they’ve been sent to Vietnam. Fortunately, the war there ended 33 years ago so their mission is purely to make a jocular hour-long [...]

Thursday September 25th, 2008

Generation game

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 3 months ago, 0 comments Comment

Earlier this week, I invented a new game. It's called the Generation Game. OK, so Brucie will probably be on the phone in ooh, minutes, to sue my arse. But I'm claiming it as my own.

Cos it's got a car theme, see. So it's mine

Thursday September 4th, 2008

Stig's garage speculation

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 4 months ago, 0 comments Comment

The Stig's Garage? He might have one. He might not. Who could say, when The Stig says nothing to anyone or anything, except geese?

But that doesn't stop us speculating, and that's what we're doing here. In the latest issue of Top Gear magazine, we've chosen the 51 cars we think Stig would have in his garage

Tuesday August 19th, 2008

UK roadrage

From Top Gear Blogs - Planet Top Gear, 4 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 6 months 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