It’s definite – Channel Nine has announced its intentions to bring Top Gear Australia back to our TV screens.
With the original Top Gear being one of its ratings winners when it was launched back in February, Nine is planning to cash in on its success. A spokesperson for Nine told media publication Campaign Brief, “We’re [...] - Tags:
Top Gear Australia
Two thirds of the Top Gear team arrived in Sydney yesterday as they gear up for the Australian leg of the Top Gear Live tour.
Jeremy Clarkson and James May will be joined on stage by supercar driver Greg Murphy who will also host the show, alongside an entourage of more than 100 cars, supercars and [...] - Tags:
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Some say he’s just a figment of our imagination, and that he’s just Michael Schumacher dressed up a bit, but Google’s Streetview camera cars have snapped a pic of the tame racing driver himself.
It just so happens that it’s a picture of offices in Hammersmith, England, taken from the A40, and if you zoom in [...] - Tags:
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This week’s report didn’t seem bogus after all, the Nine Network has taken the motoring show Top Gear from SBS as confirmed by news reports today.
Channel Nine has made a deal with BBC Worldwide Australia which includes British and Australian versions of the show.
Nine’s chief executive David Gyngell said the Top Gear agreement was a [...] - Tags:
Update: BBC worldwide spokeswoman says the report regarding Clarkson and Warne hosting Top Gear Australia is “Utter nonsense”.
Update: SBS Australia says “we are negotiating with BBC Worldwide who own the rights”.
Original Report:
Australia cricket legend Shane Warne is rumored to be the new co-host of a new series of Top Gear Australia. The show which currently [...] - Tags:
Clarkson, Hammond and May are set to return to the stage, having today officially launched this year’s Top Gear Live World Tour from London’s Royal Geographical Society in true style; suspended below a hot air balloon.
In preparation for their latest tour, which will play to over 340,000 Top Gear fans worldwide, the crew have been [...] - Tags:
According to Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond, the most popular motoring program of all time will finish its run much like any regular episode when the series eventually winds up.
Mr Hammond said that he and his co-presenters, James May and Jeremy Clarkson, have each discussed how the show should finish and believe that ending the [...] - Tags:
The latest instalment of Top Gear has had a uniquely Australian twist with Richard Hammond taking the wheel of not only the supercharged VXR8 Bathurst S but also the Maloo.
As an added bonus, both cars have also been handed over to the Stig to settle once and for all which is fastest – the sedan [...] - Tags:
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The Ken Block gymkhana films have become the stuff of internet legend thanks to the unique mix of incredible driving and even more impressive cinematography.
Now he has teamed up with the crew from Top Gear for his latest video with the one and only James May riding shotgun while Block tears through a not-so-abandoned airport.
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Just as Top Gear in the UK starts off its new series, our own home-grown version is set to come to a climactic close with the final episode of the second season due to air next Monday.
In the finale, Steve claims his prize for beating James in the mobility scooter race by reviewing the iconic [...] - Tags:
British television program Top Gear has done something none of us could have expected for its first show of the series – and it’s good, really good.
But to maintain a thin veil of secrecy we will warn you now, do not read on unless you want to know the true identity of the Stig. This [...] - Tags:
The Stig
Top Gear is set to return to screens in the UK from June 21 and the boys – quite literally – have put together a sneak preview of what we can expect from their new season.
On first impressions there seems to be more of the much-loved shenanigans which have defined the show, with May racing [...] - Tags:
Registration to be part of the studio audience for series two of Top Gear Australia has opened today, with the first episode set to air on May 11.
This new season marks the return of James Morrison to Australian motoring television, as he leads the new local ensemble following Charlie Cox’s withdrawal from the show.
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Top Gear Live arrived in Australia today, with Clarkson and the Hamster in the driver’s seat .
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The world’s best kept secret is apparently out. Some say that his tears are adhesive and if he caught fire he would burn for 1000 days. All we know is he is called The Stig.
But you’ll have to put on your detective caps and piece the clues together to figure out the name of [...] - Tags:
The Stig
SBS has today officially announced that Top Gear Australia host Charlie Cox would be leaving the show due to other media commitments.
He will be replaced by long-time CarAdvice favourite and jazz musician James Morrison, best known for his previous role in Behind the Wheel executive produced by our very own Anthony Crawford.
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Top Gear Australia (the television series) has reportedly cost several manufacturers a combined total of close to $200,000 in damages after shenanigans and stunts performed in an attempt to gain credibility and purport humour.
The Aussie trio went beyond the call of duty – not only roasting sets of tyres during burnouts and drifts, but also [...] - Tags:
In the latest Episode of Top Gear (Season 12) which aired last week in the UK, Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson made a joke about truck drivers being murderers, in reference to UK truck driver Steve Wright who was convicted of murdering prostitutes earlier this year.
Unfortunately, as is the case these days, not everyone saw [...] - Tags:
Clarkson, Hammond and May are set to make their return to the Australian small screen for a full summer of motoring, with SBS having announced it will begin airing Season 11 from November 24.
Not only that, but SBS also plans to catch up to the UK by presenting back-to-back new episodes of Top Gear each [...] - Tags:
Despite mixed criticism, Top Gear Australia is continuing to offer a very promising line-up of motoring shenanigans for its seventh instalment next week.
Among the highlights, two of the most successful V8 Supercar drivers will take their rivalry from Mount Panorama to the Top Gear Australia test track.
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