Tag: top gear
Measuring the success of British TV exports
We look at which British shows and formats have made the leap abroad to become our finest TV exports in recent years... Despite the success of platforms like Netflix and imported TV shows from the US, the UK still punches above its weight when it comes to exporting TV shows and formats across the world.…
Ultimate car is eco-friendly family estate that looks like Aston Martin!
The world’s ultimate car has been unveiled - and it’s an environmentally-friendly family estate that combines British beauty with German brawn. A survey of 2,000 adults revealed the front of the car should resemble the striking Aston Martin DBS Superleggera, pictured above, a Midlands-built sports car with a top speed of 211mph. But the rear…
Self-driving taxi wins Ford ‘New Norm Mobility Award’
A transport graduate has designed this self-driving taxi concept A transport design graduate from Staffordshire University has developed a unique solution that could help people –particularly those with restricted mobility – get around safely and securely while also adhering to current COVID-19 social distancing measures. The “muvone” concept, developed by Marius…
Guess who’s back – Clarkson, Hammond, May sign Amazon Prime deal. But no Stig!
Well it was only a matter of time and it was really only a two horse race between Amazon and Netflix (with Sky coming up on the outside maybe). But Amazon has confirmed a deal with Top Gear’s former presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May to create a new car show exclusively for…
WATCH: Top Gear recreated in Just Cause 2
If you like Jeremy Clarkson, but just don't think he's quite violent enough, then you'll love this "machinima" film - in which a Top Gear race is recreated in the game world of 2010's Just Cause 2. Its surprisingly well made and funny too.
The Stig to appear at Gadget Show Live to promote AlcoDigital breathalyser test
In what has to be fantastic timing given the interest in Jeremy Clarkson and Top Gear at the moment (can't think why), Ben Collins, otherwise known as The Stig, is to appear at this year's Gadget Show Live at the NEC on April 7th. The show sees breathalyser company AlcoDigital andCollins launch the UK’s largest…
Robox make a 3D printed “Hungry Clarkson” game
PR is all about managing to link your brand to something everyone is talking about - which is why CEL Robox is quite savvy in sending over images of a "Hungry Clarksons" game, made from a modified version of Hungry Hungry Hippos. As in the original game, the goal is to acquire food without lamping…
WATCH: Saints Row meets Top Gear
The new Saints Row stand-alone expansion: "Gat Out of Hell" is out now - and to promote it the developers have created a weird Top Gear parody that sees "The Stag" (geddit?) driving an armchair with mounted machine guns through the streets of London. You can see the parody, which goes on slightly too long,…
Top Gear’s former Stig ‘terrified’ by driverless cars
You would think that the only thing that would terrify Top Gear's former Stig Ben Collins would have been having to work with Jeremy Clarkson. Now the former test driver for the BBC motoring show has described the prospect of driverless cars as terrifying, saying that "robots are fantastic as dishwashers but they don't make…
Top Gear's Stig takes on Google Street View
Google Streetview has previously taken us to all sorts of unusual locations – from the Large Hadron Collider to the bottom of the oceans – and now it has expanded even further, to an airfield in Surrey. This isn't just…
