Top Gear is an Emmy Award-winning BBC television series about motor vehicles, mainly cars. The programme is estimated to have 8 million viewers each week in the UK.
The show is presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May and The Stig, an anonymous test driver. It is one of the most pirated television shows in the world.
Here are the top 14 Top Gear moments.
Part racer, part streetbike, all Ducati. The Ducati Streetfighter ($TBA) offers riders an upright riding position, with plenty of power coming from its 1099cc, L-Twin cylinder, 155hp engine. Other features include twin stainless mufflers stacked on the right side for added effect, a slightly-exposed tubular steel Trellis frame, 10-spoke wheels, Brembo front disc brakes, and minimalist controls, instrumentation, and headlights. Ryu would approve.
Audi’s 3-series and C-class competitor just got a whole lot better. The 2009 Audi A4 ($32,700 and up) starts with either an all-new 211hp 2.0L TSFI engine or a 265hp 3.2L FSI powerplant, and builds on it with loads of high-end, high-tech features like iPod integration, adaptive cruise control, Bluetooth, quattro all-wheel drive, and our favorite, Bi-Xenon headlights with LED daytime running lights. It’s our new small luxe sedan of choice.
The all-electric MINI! Yes, Cool! 500 all-electric MINI E will be availble in the US states of the California, New York and New Jersey starting sometime in 2009. The MINI E powed by a 150 kW (204 hp) electric motor fed by a high-performance rechargeable lithium-ion battery. It can hit 62 mph in 8.5 seconds, cover about 150 miles with a full charge on a current charging station in 2.5 hours. The possibility of offering the MINI E in Europe as well is currently being considered. You can see it at the Los Angeles Auto Show on November 19 and 20, 2008.
Here’s the new 2009 Honda Accord commercial titled “All in One Place”, it is by agency Rubin Postaer and Associates in partnership with producer Motion Theory. The ad is showing that how they put everything they know into one place. see this video.
We’ve seen countless crossover vehicles over the last few years, but this is the first we’ve heard of a crossover bike. The 2009 Honda DN-01 ($14,600 and up) aims to merge the sport bike and cruiser, with a muscular four-valve, 680cc liquid-cooled V-twin engine, fully automatic transmission, low seat height, a combined ABS triple-disc braking system, and more. For maximum badass-ness, we recommend the nearly all-black model (sissy boy cherry red also available).
Hello Rally fans, your favorite is here. When comes to Rally, Mitsubishi Lancer and Subaru Impreza always come to mind. In this Best Motoring segment today, the “WRC-spec Rally EVO takes on the J’s Racing S2000 in the Touge.” The point of this battling is to see which ride can follow the closest without passing. This is the first time seen S2000 in rally. see video here
This limited-edition Fighter Motorcycle($110,000) was featured in the 2008 Christmas Book from Neiman Marcus. It caught my eyes, so cool(except for the price)! The Fighter Motorcycle from Confederate Motor Company, packs 190 mph of performance into its cutting edge carbon fiber, titanium, and aluminum chassis. It features included 64″ wheelbase, 27″H seat, integrated braking system, high-tech bells and whistles. Only 45 of these raging, right-on machines are available.
Named after the sword a matador uses in a bull fight, the Lamborghini Estoque ($TBA) lives up to its moniker with a long body and sharp styling. Still in the concept stage, this four-door beast boasts 22-inch front wheels and 23-inch rear wheels, full-time all-wheel drive, flat LED rear signal light clusters, a mid-engine design, and looks that could stop a full-grown bull dead in its tracks.
Is it a motorcycle or a souped-up bike? The eROCKIT’s inventors call it the human-hybrid machine. The cyclist’s pedaling motions assist the motor, which multiplies the rider’s effort by a factor of 50, the company says. The faster you pedal, the faster you go. Wow, a weird bike! It uses a nano-phosphate lithium battery, which it expects to last for 10 years or 50,000 kilometers of use. It likes a mini motorcycle, can reach up to 50 miles per hour. A full charge should run for 60 to 80 kilometers, depending on driving or pedaling style. It weighs about 100 kilos (225 pounds). Unfortunately RockiT plans to build just 10 machines in 2009 for $44,000 price tag!!
This Single Seat Helicopter Concept by Igarashi Design. It is small than traditional helicopter. You may can stop it at your house’s roof. This design is simple and mini, a very cool design.
The 10 Finalist in PEUGEOT Design Contest 2008.
“Create a Concept Car which is designed to evolve within the cities of the future, whilst retaining the key values of the 21st century. The projects should bear Peugeot’s stylistic codes and must contain the following four aspects included in this design competition: environmental awareness, social harmony, interactive mobility and economic efficiency”
The Pics is the Peugeot 888 conecpt by Oskar Johansen. When leaving the city, entering the highway the vehicles requirements alter to “need for speed” Lowering the vehicle to a closed shape, the car gets a long distance between the wheel axis and a low point of gravity which gives the car stability at high speed.
Marc Graells Ballve, a talented designer from Spain, came up with a creative way to protect your motorcycle from theft and bad weather.
The idea behind Protect 486 is to prevent access to the motorcycle itself by entirely covering it with a protective “shell”.
As much as we hate Mazda’s Zoom-Zoom slogan, we can’t help but like the all-new 2009 Mazda6 ($19,220 and up). The new sedan sports even more aggressive styling, and better fuel economy: drivers can get up to 30mpg with the 2.5L 4-cylinder making 170hp, or step up to the 3.7L V6 for 272hp and still get 25mpg. Manual and manual-shift automatic transmissions are available, as are a push-button ignition, Bluetooth cellular integration, and touchscreen navigation system. Mid-sized sedans just got a little less boring.
launching in May 2009?
“The fastest MINI ever. – Even with the brakes on.”
Wow! Policemen in Kuwait will get the chance to ride on Dodge Chargers as there are 150 Dodge Chargers have been ordered and to be modified as police vehicles.
“In the meantime, the lots of them are heading to Canfield Equipment Service in Michigan where they’ll be fitted for their new Kuwaiti roles in traffic, security, and emergency response.”
Besides policemen, criminals will have the chance to sit on it too. At the back please!
Wouldn’t you like to have a Porsche in your driveway? Now you can. At least, you can show a photo of a Porsche in your driveway and send it to friends and family to make them envy you.
Just take a picture of your driveway and upload it to Porsche I Can.
A 4 mega-pixel or higher will provide an optimal image but it has to be under 4 megabytes. Then select a car, and adjust the scene.
Here’s my Porsche.
Awesome, nice work! If you can afford a sports car, this is what you can do, get some Fedex or DHL box and start making your own body kit.
“Back in the mid-90s, Florian Jenett wanted to go Can-Am racing. Never one to let obstacles dismay him, he ignored people that told him, “You can’t afford to go racing on a German artist’s salary” or “Can-Am racing died in 1974.”
The above Corolla E10 was complete with homemade K&N filter conversion (necessitating a hood bulge) and sans catalytic converter and it’s capable of reaching over 100mph - at which speed its handling became unpredictable.
This is the City, Honda’s latest City, which is going to hit Asian countries. It is powered a by 120-horse 1.5-liter four cylinder i-VTEC engine, which found in Fit and Jazz models and mated with an automatic transmission.
As for my view, I will give a thumb up for the front but for the back, i will says it’s a bit squarish and the design looks like the Toyota Vios 2nd gen. More pictures after the break.
