While Top Gear mag was drawing up its cars of the year in a glitzy Portakabin on an industrial estate near Guildford, 58 Very Serious Men from 22 countries were compiling their own list for European Car of the Year. Interestingly, the Very Serious Men have drawn some similar conclusions to our own musings. Just [...]
A couple of months back in the November 2011 issue of Top Gear magazine, we caught up with screenwriter Peter Morgan on his highly anticipated upcoming Formula One movie, Rush. Directed by Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon, Richie Cunningham in Happy Days) and scripted by Morgan (The Queen, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Damned [...]
Dan Wheldon, the two-time Indy 500 winner, has died after injuries sustained in a crash during the IndyCar Series finale in Las Vegas yesterday. During the 12th lap of the race, the 33-year-old British driver – who had started in last place – was caught up a huge 15 car pile-up. He was unable to [...]
First there was the Lamborghini Gallardo, and it was good. But then some moaning, pernickety people (who may or may not have been us) complained that, with its permanent four-wheel drive, the Gallardo was just too safe, too sensible. So, to keep these moaning, pernickety people happy, in 2009 Lamborghini introduced the limited-edition ‘Balboni’, a [...]
Regular TopGear.communards will know the score by now – we take a keenly ambiguous picture of something exciting that’s pulled into our West London underground lair, and you have to guess what it is. Today’s car is big. Big and white. It’s also rapid. And, because you’ve been frustratingly fast and accurate in your guesses, [...]
Warner Bros has released an official image of the Catwoman from next year’s Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises. Played by Anne Hathaway, the image tells us nothing of her role in the new movie, other than the fact she appears to have borrowed/stolen Batman’s prized bike, she will don a tight black leather costume, [...]
