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Top Gear’s Wall of Death Cost $1.3 Million, Was Torn Down After Just 16 Minutes
Top Gear’s Wall of Death Cost $1.3 Million, Was Torn Down After Just 16 Minutes

9 Nov 2020, 04:36 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Report says taxpayers’ money was used to build the Wall of Death, which was scrapped right after the shoot. BBC insists it was “responsibly recycled”

 
Chris Harris Opens Up About Mental Health Issues Stemming From Top Gear Fans
Chris Harris Opens Up About Mental Health Issues Stemming From Top Gear Fans

4 Nov 2020, 23:40 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Presenting Top Gear isn't an easy job, and Chris Harris has confirmed that his role within the show has also led to mental abuse from petty people

 
Paddy McGuinness Sets New World Speed Record for an Ice Cream Van With Mr. Nippy
Paddy McGuinness Sets New World Speed Record for an Ice Cream Van With Mr. Nippy

2 Nov 2020, 04:15 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Mr. Nippy lands Top Gear presenter in the Guinness Book of World Records, with a speed of 80.043 mph / 128.8 kph, recorded at Elvington Airfield in Yorkshire

 
“Einride” Pod Is Ready to Bring Autonomous Shipping to the World
“Einride” Pod Is Ready to Bring Autonomous Shipping to the World

26 Oct 2020, 18:06 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / Next Gen Pod is the EV from Einride that is meant to take over local shipping needs. And it does it 100% emissions free with no driver. Completely autonomous.

 
Chris Harris Hoons New Audi RS6 Avant on Top Gear Track
Chris Harris Hoons New Audi RS6 Avant on Top Gear Track

24 Oct 2020, 16:21 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Top Gear's Chris Harris really wants the world to know that the latest RS6 isn't as boring to drive as the Audi jokes suggest

 
Top Gear Reviews Tesla Model 3 Against Volvo S60, BMW 3 Series
Top Gear Reviews Tesla Model 3 Against Volvo S60, BMW 3 Series

6 Oct 2020, 14:14 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / According to Chris Harris and gang, the Tesla Model 3 is the better choice over the BMW 3 Series and Volvo S60 as a company car

 
YouTube Trio Is on Reverse Top Gear Challenge With Set of Depreciated Supercars
YouTube Trio Is on Reverse Top Gear Challenge With Set of Depreciated Supercars

6 Oct 2020, 11:11 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / While the renowned TV show usually brings the most fabled new cars in the world, these renowned social media gurus did it backwards and went for the cheap lot

 
A Lamborghini Crash Is Good TV, Paddy McGuinness Explains
A Lamborghini Crash Is Good TV, Paddy McGuinness Explains

2 Oct 2020, 04:52 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The new season of Top Gear will premiere either in late 2020 or early 2021 and deliver the usual fun, with the usual dose of recklessness and danger

 
Top Gear First Look: A Porsche Cayman on the Wall of Death, That Lambo Crash
Top Gear First Look: A Porsche Cayman on the Wall of Death, That Lambo Crash

13 Sep 2020, 03:54 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Paddy McGuinness has his work cut out for him in the 29th series: “How can we get ratings? We’ll kill them all!” he laughs

 
New Top Gear Format for Live Shows Is Drive-In, Already a Hit
New Top Gear Format for Live Shows Is Drive-In, Already a Hit

11 Sep 2020, 11:22 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Shooting on the 29th season of the series has started, and producers have decided to keep the live audience – but with a socially-distanced twist

 
A Really Bad 1982 Porsche 911 and Good Jokes, Here’s How You Land a Top Gear Job
A Really Bad 1982 Porsche 911 and Good Jokes, Here’s How You Land a Top Gear Job

7 Jul 2020, 07:13 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Richard Hammond recalls his Top Gear audition and how he thought he’d blown it, getting a callback months later with the good news that he’d joined the team

 
The 1991 Lamborghini Diablo Paddy McGuinness Crashed Had Some Issues Passing MOT
The 1991 Lamborghini Diablo Paddy McGuinness Crashed Had Some Issues Passing MOT

28 Jun 2020, 17:39 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Top Gear spokesperson says the crash will be included on the upcoming series, insists that the car was legal and roadworthy at the time of the shoot

 
Paddy McGuinness Took a 1990 Lamborghini Diablo Off the Road, Here’s the Damage
Paddy McGuinness Took a 1990 Lamborghini Diablo Off the Road, Here’s the Damage

18 Jun 2020, 02:53 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The Top Gear presenter has just resumed filming on a new series of the BBC show when he ran off the road. He was unharmed but the car took the worst of it

 
Paddy McGuinness Crashes 1990 Lamborghini Diablo While Shooting Top Gear
Paddy McGuinness Crashes 1990 Lamborghini Diablo While Shooting Top Gear

17 Jun 2020, 02:44 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / It’s been a “mad old day,” he says in a video, assuring fans that he has not been hurt in the accident. Hopefully, the Lambo will be made to run again

 
Chris Harris Gives Hilarious "Super Fast" Reviews for Normal Cars
Chris Harris Gives Hilarious "Super Fast" Reviews for Normal Cars

24 May 2020, 20:29 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Crossovers are bad, wagons are good, CVTs and hybrids are boring, small cars should be fun but not practical - those are predictable things to say for a motorin

 
Top Gear Resumes Production in June, BBC Confirms
Top Gear Resumes Production in June, BBC Confirms

15 May 2020, 05:48 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The series has been on hiatus since March, and BBC Director of Content says it will help kick-start the TV industry – with all government guidelines being respe

 
McLaren Speedtail Races F-35 Lightning Fighter Jet, There Can Only Be One Winner
McLaren Speedtail Races F-35 Lightning Fighter Jet, There Can Only Be One Winner

26 Apr 2020, 19:40 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / It's pretty obvious which of these two is faster to 150 miles per hour and which eventually wins the race. Spoiler alert: both put up a good fight

 
2020 Land Rover Defender British Video Reviews All Come to the Same Conclusion
2020 Land Rover Defender British Video Reviews All Come to the Same Conclusion

25 Mar 2020, 13:10 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / When all is said and done, don't you think the 2020 Land Rover Defender is what the Discovery should've been in the first place?

 
Peel P50 Race Car Conversion Looks Like a Cartoon
Peel P50 Race Car Conversion Looks Like a Cartoon

20 Mar 2020, 20:20 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Peel P50 will forever be the bubble car Jeremy Clarson drove into an elevator, and no race car transformation is going to change that

 
Volkswagen ID.R Annihilates McLaren 720S in Drag Race
Volkswagen ID.R Annihilates McLaren 720S in Drag Race

24 Feb 2020, 18:17 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The ID.R was always a record-holder, but it was hard to judge the performance of this EV prototype until the drag race against a really fast supercar