Top Gear to end on surprise high
September 7, 2009 by Matt Brogan
Filed under Car News, Random News, Top Gear
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 [...]
Peter Wherrett, world’s first TV motoring presenter, dies at 72.
March 24, 2009 by Anthony Crawford
Filed under Car News
“Torque was where motoring television all started, way back in 1973 when the Australian Broadcasting Corporation approached Peter Wherrett to produce a television program on motoring”
Executive producers Alan Bateman and Bruce Buchanan, producers David Wood and Andrew Lloyd James (of SBS fame) got together and produced a pilot, which led to the world’s first television [...]
