I don’t know about you guys but Top Gear has long been one of my favorite automotive television shows currently airing. In their latest stunt, Jeremy Clarkson, the show’s host, decided to race a BMW Z4 against a 370Z.

In the end the 370Z beats the Z4 which shouldn’t come as as surprise considering the 370Z has about 25 more horsepower than the Z4.

In the end, Clarckson says the Z4 would be a better buy because it’s “slower, less exciting, more expensive and less well equipped.” For those of you scratching your head, it’s called sarcasm, my friends.

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You can’t not love Top Gear if you love cars. What that guys have done to cars must be told to your grand kids, and if you have the chance you should definitely see it live. All the cars they have mistreated and mishandled for the greater good will be on display. All you will have to do is go to the U.K. National Motor Museum and attend to the new World of Top Gear exhibition. Besides those famous cars you will also have on display the set where Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond do all their shows. The Cool Wall and the Celebrity Lap Time board are also going to be there. All you need to do is attend!

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Yes you heard me right folks, the Russians are going to offer a local Top Gear version, but will it be as successful as the original? The American version hasn’t really been a big hit so far so it will be fun to see what the Russians make of the show. The show comes with a local Stig so with the right subtitles it might be fun to watch. Will it bring anything original to the table or will it try to copy the madness from the UK version?

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Does Top Gear America know something about fuel efficiency that we don’t? Is the company ready to offer the world a 70MPG car? And it won’t be a brand new car either. They are going to transform a 1971 VW Rabbit. And they won’t have unlimited funding for that. Only $7,000.

They plan to do it by replacing the engine. I guess we all expected that. A new, computer-controlled turbocharged VW TDI engine will be installed in CWS Tuningin Saskatchewan. Then aerodynamics professor John McNulty from UCLA will make the car more slippery. Then we’ll be all looking for the videos on YouTube to see if they managed to pull it off. We’ll keep you posted of course as this daring enterprise deserves to be recorded in all its glory. Maybe the Detroit car makers should watch closely too.

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If you think that those guys over at Top Gear have done pretty much everything a person can do to a car on this Earth then you are in for some surprises. First of all, the new episodes should prove that their imagination is virtually unstoppable and secondly, Top Gear will go into space. No cars there to play with so hopefully they will take care of the only thing between them and the void. Top Gear has been talking to Will Whitehorn, president of Virgin Galactic in order to go into space in a future episode.

Here’s what Hammond has to say about all their shenanigans:

Because of the hard times everyone is facing, we need to go ridiculous on Top Gear. We need faster cars and bigger stunts. Nobody can afford to go out and buy a car, so there is no real point in us reviewing them. We might as well concentrate on escapism and fantasy.

Wait a second there, is Virgin Galactic taking people into space?

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Top Gear fanatics might remember how the Black Stig was replaced with the White Stig after the first one drove a Jaguar XJS off an aircraft carrier. The video here shows him emerging from the sea. Obviously the water is a complicated environment and it must have taken the Black Stig five years to find his way home.

Here’s what the press release that came with the video says:

until now, the original Stig from BBC Top Gear was thought to have been killed back in 2003, when he drove a modified Jaguar XJS off the end of HMS Invincible aircraft carrier at 109mph. . . The nation was shocked that the Stig was dead. However, recent footage has been found on YouTube showing that he miraculously survived.

The White Stig has been exposed therefore Top Gear needs a new Stig. Why not go back to the Black version?

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I am sure you too prefer the original Top Gear show so if your home base is America then you’ll be happy to know that BBC AMERICA will premiere the new, original Top Gear season.

The new season of Top Gear will premiere on Monday, February 9, 8:00 PM ET/PT. So no matter if you’ve somehow seen the new episodes, and notice how I am not mentioning anything about any type of legal or illegal downloading, you will enjoy them again soon on BBC AMERICA. Top Gear 10 and 11 are available on iTunes already at special prices when getting the entire seasons.

I am not going to reveal any of the episode synopsis, which by the way are available already in more than one place, but I just want to remind you that you’ll be able to check all that Top Gear Tesla Roadster testing we’ve been talking about earlier.

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It’s a nice conflict we’re getting here. BBC has decided apparently to respond Tesla’s allegations regarding the Top Gear show in which Clarkson and the gang claimed the Roadster was not performing as one should have expected. If you remember the electric supercars have stopped because of a fuse and/or lack of appropriate power. The presenters made sure the audience got every bit of that.

In an unexpected turn of events BBC told everyone what happened. The scene where Top Gear’s crew was pushing the Tesla inside a garage was just a screen play that was followed by everyone. The car still had power to run on but BBC said that the scene was filmed to show us what would happen when the battery would have been depleted. Awkwardly BBC also states that “Top Gear stands by the findings in this film and is content that it offers a fair representation of the Tesla’s performance on the day it was tested.”

Well that’s unfortunate. It’s almost close to lying and it will change the way we look at Top Gear from now on. I mean sure we know not everything that happens during the show is actually genuine, but claiming that an electric car ran out of fuel when in fact it didn’t is simply wrong. They could have mentioned it was all a demo of a worse case scenario of some sort and all of that during the same show.

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You might remember Top Gear’s testing of the Tesla Roadster. It all seems fine except the cars Top Gear received from Tesla failed on the track. And that was all made public in the worldwide popular show. As you might have expected Tesla has fought back claiming that Top Gear has made up the problems of the Roadster in order to influence the viewers on all-electric sports cars.

Tesla claims that none of the cars got below 20% charge at any time and that the second problem was a fuse issue which has been addressed immediately. Tesla should be aware that Top Gear is a show that needs viewers. That’s why the three presenters pull all that stunts. No car is safe when Clarkson, Hammond and May are around. And that’s what that makes the show so popular.

If Tesla is right and the producers of the show played around with the car to make it sound less reliable then should find a way to prove it. What I do know is that I won’t want to get stranded with a Tesla. Or do I get extra fuses when purchasing a Tesla?

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When putting together the words Top Gear and Test Drive in the same sentence you will immediately wonder what Clarkson and Co had in mind for that particular car.

In the video above you have the chance to watch (again?) how Top Gear takes the Tesla Roadster and drives in a drag race against the Lotus Elise. Who’s better? Well it’s the electric car of course. Would you drive a Tesla? I would too! Too bad for that long recharge time…

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Which Top Gear version do you like best? While everyone likes the original BBC show, some happen to love Top Gear USA or Australia. And some happen not to like it at all. NBC has passed on the show but have no fear Top Gear USA lovers! There’s always cable and BBC wants to see that happening. When and what will happen with the American show? We’ll keep you posted. Until there’s always Clarkson, Hammond and May to watch.

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I know what you’re thinking there. If you were Jay Leno you’d have a similar garage wouldn’t you? Well Jay Leno is… Jay Leno and we all know he loves his cars and bikes. In the video above he talks mostly about his red 1986 Quattrovalvole Lamborghini Countach. It’s 22 years old but I bet it’s still a pleasure to drive. Sure you might want to change and tweak a thing or two but a Countach is a Countach. It shouldn’t be changed! Just get something else if you want to modify an original. And how about that Jay? Imagine him doing Top Gear now that he’s giving up that Tonight Show position. That would be a show to watch!

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That’s only a teeny weeny bit of the madness we’re about to see in Top Gear 12. Clarkson, Hammond and May are arriving on November 2nd so tune in to BBC somehow. No matter where you are in the world you’d have to get the original show and watch it. No other spin off, although I haven’t actually had the time or the patience to watch one, is worth watching. You get my point right?

So did you like all the supercars there? But what about the big trucks. What are the guys doing? That’s what I want to see!

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Out of all the car shows available today, Top Gear is certainly one of the most interesting and challenging. It’s always fun to watch as you never know what the guys are going to do next. It’s not like the regular let’s-describe-the-car-show.

Season 10 of Top Gear is now available on iTunes. So go ahead and download it right now. It’s $1.99 an episode or $14.99 for the season pass. The new season starts on November 2 so you have enough time to relive old seasons.

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