Ah, the Top Gear Power Lap. Of all the arbitrary measurements of a car’s worth, it is perhaps our favorite. It’s been a damn long time since the Gumpert Apollo waltzed up and bitch-slapped the course with a blistering 1.17.1 time, and to fire off the show’s newest season, Michael Schumacher showed up in Stig [...]
It seem Richard Hammond, of Top Gear fame, has a 1968 Ford Mustang GT, complete with a big-block 390 under the hood. Unlike my relationship with American iron, Hammond’s has been largely drama free, dishing up the kind of reliability only the most crude forms of internal combustion can deliver – until recently. A recent [...]
If you haven’t heard by now, Top Gear America is hard at work on a new project. The goal? A car that gets 70 mpg, does the 0-60 dash in under 7 seconds and costs less than $7,000. It’s no surprise the team settled on none other than a 1981 VW Diesel Rabbit. After all, [...]
Ok, so it’s a Hilux. Acrtic Trucks, the same kids who outfitted Top Gear’s rigs for polar duty, tackled a set of Toyotas for work in one of the most extreme climates on the planet. They didn’t do it just for fun. The trucks were on hand to act as support vehicles for the Amundsen [...]
Looks like even Jezza’s nay-saying about the Tesla Roadster’s on-track performance can’t keep the car’s buzz from growing. Our good oil barons friends over in the Middle East can’t get enough of the battery-powered ride – so much so that many have gone so far as to import their own since the car isn’t legally [...]
Yeah, that James May. The one they call “Captain Slow,” even though in reality he’s probably the best and fastest driver of the three Top Gear hosts. And like the other two, he’s got a column where he writes stuff about cars. Sometimes he’s really good (like when he got back from Alabama and commented [...]
It’s true. White Stig has taken off his own helmet, revealing himself as none other than Ben Collins. Collins has helmed everything from NASCAR rigs to 007’s Aston Martin in Quantum of Solace and Le Mans racers. Collins let his alter-ego slip to an art-dealer in Bristol, England while asking for help producing a limited-edition [...]
I don’t think anyone was too surprised when Top Gear U.S. and NBC parted ways. Any show with the kind of raucous cajones the UK-bred show sports is just too cool for broadcast television here in the states. For those of you (and us) who still pine for the kind of hoonage only Top Gear [...]
Not so long ago, our favorite cranky auto journo Jeremy Clarkson laid the weighty crown of Top Gear’s best car of the year on the Caterham 500. And we were happy. If you’ve spent any time around Autofiends at all, you know we’re suckers for open-wheel hoonage, of which the Caterham reigns supreme. Once the [...]
Ah yes. A little while back, our favorite hoons across the pond had their way with Tesla’s wonder child, the Roadster. It’s no secret that Jeremy Clarkson has his reservations where EV’s are concerned, and during his review the Tesla received a less-than-favorable evaluation. Tesla responded by saying some of the events portrayed in the [...]
