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Top Gear Live: A special preview


Burning Porsches and rubber-shredding BMWs are the big draw at Top Gear Live, but don’t miss the motorcycle ‘globe of death’ and the Reliant...
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Top Gear Live: What to expect


Complete chaos. That’s what happens when you bring together a roomful of precision stunt-drivers and hi-tech performance cars, then enlist three...
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How Top Gear rescued Steve Harley


When the singer Steve Harley was caught speeding he didn’t imagine Top Gear would help out...
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Back with a bang: Andy Wilman, Top Gear executive producer...


Greenwich Mean Time, Eastern Standard Time, Central European Time, er, Top Gear Standard Time. As you leant back in your armchair, opened a beer and...
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Video: 30ft 'Big Stig' embarks on European road trip...


Travelling to Poland this week? Then keep an eye out for Big Stig, the lesser-known super-size version of the mysterious driver in white Nomex. Big...
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Video: Top Gear series 22 Lego trailer goes viral


The Stig's in pieces, May has lost his hair and Hammond has got himself stuck – Top Gear returns to BBC2 on Sunday (25 January) and the men behaving...
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Video: Top Gear trailer hails the start of series 22


Supercars, tyre smoke and a mysterious man who sunbathes in a racing helmet. It can mean only one thing: the return of Top Gear. The first glimpse...
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News: Top Gear Live 2015 explodes into action with...


Top Gear fans had better buckle up tight: Top Gear Live has been announced for 2015, and this time it will be touring the UK.
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News: Top Gear puts on a beret for French spin-off


Jeremy Clarkson once said that no one in France has a nice car because “France is essentially communist and anyone who displays outward signs of...
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When MI5 met special branch: cops and robbers with...


Jaguars were once the vehicle of choice for police and thieves alike, but who had the better cars? Ex-MI5 boss Jonathan Evans and the Met’s former...
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Test your knowledge: Who played the original Top Gear...


Whisper it... Top Gear's Stig is a character played by a normal, human racing driver. More than one, in fact. That's right, contrary to what Top Gear...
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News: From the UK to Turin in Bangers for Ben 2014...


Top Gear has proved time and again how tough old cars can be and now it’s the turn of driving.co.uk, our sister site sunmotors.co.uk and News UK...