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Video: Hammond meets Phineas and Ferb!

TopGear.commers with children under the age of ten will already understand this headline (and probably have the theme tune aurally tattooed on their lower cortex). For the rest of you, welcome to the world of Phineas Flynn, English stepbrother Ferb Fletcher, and bossy sister Candace, three cartoon characters who can never agree, and repeatedly hatch […]

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Rutledge, Tanner and Adam chat to TG.com

So, Tuesday saw a dramatic end to a long, but fun season three of Top Gear USA. TG.com had a chat with the hosts to find out which moments of the season were tops – and which sent them into therapy…

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Top Gear USA Season Finale: Strap on your Viking Helmets

If you want to find the most extreme winter off-roading on the planet, set your compass for Iceland, located in the middle of the freezing, seething North Atlantic. In Iceland, glacial ice does battle with volcanic magma, and the locals have evolved extreme vehicles to conquer these torturous conditions. American trucks once ruled supreme in […]

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Top Gear USA gets cold. Ice cold…

While Hollywood has convinced the world that most Americans live a short walk from warm California beaches, Yanks spend much of the year quite literally freezing. Snow falls in all 50 states, and slick roads mean treacherous driving. Equipping your car with proper winter tires, a stronger battery, etc. can run upwards of $2K. Instead, […]

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Top Gear USA goes from sea to shining snow

With an astonishing number of new luxury SUVs available to buy, which is a soccer mom to choose? To help prospective owners, Tanner, Rut and Adam race from the beaches of California to an 11,000 foot, snow-covered peak in fast, expensive, and very heavy SUVs. This is also, of course, a test of whether any […]

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Andy Wilman on why Clarkson, Hammond and May should be Director General

I know this seems a bit late to wade into the whole BBC Director General hoo-ha that kicked off a while back, but I’ve been busy on Top Gear. Now however, with the series over, I’d like to share my thoughts on the matter. A couple of months ago I was driving to work, the […]

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Top Gear Doomsday Drive

Top Gear USA prepares for Doomsday

One in seven American believes the world will end during their lifetime. A subculture of “preppers” has even emerged, readying themselves for this eventuality. But what about the rest of us, who haven’t had the benefit of such planning? What would we use to escape the mushroom cloud/pandemic/zombie hordes? Rut, Tanner and Adam set out […]

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Top Gear in Africa part two: post-show discussion

Well, there you have it. A successful end to our epic trip to Africa, and indeed the end of series 19 of Top Gear. Mr James May Esq will now go down in history (unlike those other two blokes): a fitting conclusion, we feel.

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