Richard Hammond Spills The Beans
Current “The Grand Tour” co-host Richard Hammond recalls how he got the job as co-host for the old “Top Gear” show on BBC…
Current “The Grand Tour” co-host Richard Hammond recalls how he got the job as co-host for the old “Top Gear” show on BBC…
Richard Hammond – one of the former co-hosts of the formerly glorious UK motoring show “Top Gear” – spills the beans on previously untold tales of his time on the show…
“Top Gear/The Grand Tour” co-host and producer – Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman – give the answer to the burning question – what was the most embarrassing moment that ever happened on a shoot?…
The answer to the burning question on everybody’s minds these days – who has all the awards won by the former good version of the BBC’s “Top Gear” show? Why, the show’s executive producer Andy Wilman, of course…
The worlds of Jay Leno and the former “Top Gear” collide as race/stunt car driver Ben Collins – aka The Stig from “Top Gear” – appears in an episode of Jay Leno’s Garage…
“The Grand Tour” host Richard Hammond recently took part in a short film featuring his 1929 BMW motorcycle and Oliver – his beloved Opel Kadett from 2007’s fourth episode of series 10 of the former “Top Gear”, aka the Botswana Special – daughter Izzy Hammond films the “behind the scenes” bonus footage of the short…
The first episode of the fourth season of “The Grand Tour” on Amazon Prime began, appropriately enough – with a prolonged argument over whose boat was better. Substitute boats for cars and it was just alike any other episode of “Top Gear” or “The Grand Tour” previous to it with these three hosts – Richard […]
Oliver the 1963 Opel Kadett has resurfaced from the Botswana Special in 2007’s Season 10 of the formerly beloved “Top Gear”. Richard Hammond’s choice of car to drive across Botswana emerges from posterity to take its place alongside the Ferrari 458 Speciale belonging to James May as both of them try to ply current Ferrari […]
The boys – Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May – have a few weeks to kill until the January 2019 Season Three premiere of “The Grand Tour”, so they participate in the podcast of Adam Carolla and explain a few things about their former co-hosting roles of “Top Gear” and what they really think […]
When presented with a problem, James May – former “Top Gear” and current “Grand Tour” host – deals with that…
In perhaps some of the least surprising news, Matt LeBlanc’s time as a host of the newest BBC-ized version of “Top Gear” will be coming to a close in 2019. LeBlanc joined the series in 2016 as one of the replacements for Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May [along with Chris Harris and Rory […]
Matt LeBlanc has said he would like to retire and do absolutely nothing – presumably that means not hosting “Top Gear” as well – but before retiring, he talks a little about cars…
Remember that caravan racing episode from the good old “Top Gear”? Well, obviously, so does Red Bull – as they sent their drivers, Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen, caravan-racing with some Aston Martins around the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria, to promote the 2017 Austrian Grand Prix coming on July 9, 2017…
Everybody breathed a sigh of relief when “Top Gear USA” finally went away last year after being relegated to the History channel. But now the BBC has apparently not finished tormenting us with the concept and has announced their newest idea – “Top Gear America” – which is set to premiere in late 2017 on […]
BBC’s newest version of “Top Gear” will premiere on March 12, 2017 on BBC America – just before March Madness is set to begin -here is the just-released trailer…
The BBC’s new version of formerly good motoring show “Top Gear” has a trailer for the upcoming season on BBC America…
How low has the new BBC-ized version of “Top Gear” sunk? Low enough to release a trailer for the upcoming season on Christmas – when nobody is on [or should be on] the internet. Call it the Contractual Obligation Top Gear Trailer…
Ken Block drifts a car – specifically, his “Hoonicorn” Mustang – in London as part of a “Top Gear” production…
BBC has cut a deal with Shanghai Media Group to air 360 hours of “Top Gear” in China on Chinese network BesTV. The deal includes the upcoming Series 24 as well as “Top Gear” U.K. specials, five series of “Top Gear USA,” six series of “Top Gear Korea” and two series of “Top Gear China.”
To illustrate just how far “Top Gear” has fallen from grace, this week’s idea of excitement was to pit a Focus RS against a Mustang in a who-cares Ford-off drag race from the BBC-sponsored magazine associated with the show. This is what it has come to…