Posts tagged: TopGear

Video: James May on ageing, trains, Top Gear Live and sleeping

Top Gear has become part of some people's daily life thanks to Dave, the ever helpful man channel. For some the TV show isn't enough – so Top Gear Live (a live version of Top Gear, funnily...

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Tesla versus Top Gear - the war of words continues

The Tesla versus Top Gear spat gets weirder by the day, and Jeremy Clarkson hasn't even opened his mouth yet. Top Gear producer Andy Wilman wrote a blog post on the TG website this week...

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BBC prepares to defend Top Gear over Tesla row

The BBC will 'vigorously defend' the claim that the race on Top Gear featuring the Tesla Roadster was rigged. Tesla has filed suit over the episode broadcast in 2008 with appeared to show that...

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Tesla sues Top Gear over electric car 'lies'

Top Gear is in trouble again, but for once it's actually a car manufacturer it has annoyed. American company Tesla, which makes the £87,945 electric Roadster, is suing the makers of the BBC...

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Kia hails the Top Gear effect

Kia has started to see the benefits of supplying the BBC programme with the latest "Reasonably priced car", which sees a host of celebrities thrash a Ceed around the famous track each week. "Top...

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Former Stig to race in EV Cup

When Ben Collins was very publicly ousted from Top Gear's famous white suit many wondered what he'd get up to next. Well, having written a book and presented Fifth Gear he's now moving on to his...

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Top Gear in the firing line over Stig stunt

Scores of viewers angry at Tuesday's 'drive-by shooting' of the Stig on the first of two Top Gear Christmas specials have apparently been registering their disgust with the BBC and Ofcom following...

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James May hospitalised in Syria helping Clarkson out of a ditch

James May was hospitalised with a head injury following an accident in the Syrian Desert during the filming of Top Gear's forthcoming Christmas special. The 47-year-old presenter was attempting to...

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Video: Top Gear Christmas double-header revealed

Top Gear is promising to make Christmas extra special for petrolheads this year, with not one but two episodes to be screened during the festive season. The Boxing Day extravaganza will be the...

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Video: BBC teases Top Gear Christmas special

When it published its Christmas schedule last month the BBC revealed that the latest Top Gear special would see the team recreating the biblical journey of the three wise men. Now the marketing...

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