The video shot by Shmee150 shows the three middle-aged men coming into a parking lot/dead-end road, then coming back the way they came.
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It used to hold the record for being the smallest production car in the world, but it has been dethroned. Now you can own one for yourself, if you have $26,000 with which are willing to part. It is expensive, but it is also new and modern, as it is in fact, a replica built in the UK by Modern Microcars.
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His anger was caused by a recent flight he took to Scotland, which probably didn’t go so well because of child troubles. It was not explained what caused Clarkson to make the remark, but predictably, it sparked outrage in various circles.
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As usual, the cars they were constrained to drive were not the most suitable for the rutted and broken roads they would eventually have to negotiate. However, this time Richard actually made a great choice by bringing along a Subaru WRX wagon/estate, which was easily the driving force of the whole expedition.
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This is usually the less exciting part of BBC’s show. A CarScoop reader, who goes by the nickname “Uglydawg69”, though, tipped us off that in that episode during the three lads’ bantering, James May said Toyota and Subaru have agreed that the former will sell 90 out of every 100 coupes the latter manufactures at its Ota plant located 50 miles northwest of Tokyo.
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Either way, Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson doesn’t really mind and continues doing what he knows best. He is a hard man to please, too; just ask the automakers that have been on the receiving end of his comments about their cars.
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If there’s one thing we’ve learned from watching the BBC TV car show over the years it’s that you can count on the three hosts to do much more than test cars or hand over the keys of the latest supercar to their tame racing driver for a quick lap around the TG test track.
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Even though the three hosts teased us about what was about to come, and after watching them for so long, we’ve come to expect almost everything, the season premiere that aired on Sunday, 27 January on UK’s BBC Two managed to throw quite a surprise.
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After listening to the humorous beats from Clarkson, Hammond and May in the first trailer for the new season that was published in the beginning of the year, the British broadcaster has dropped a fresh video to get our human engines primed and running again.
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While there's no official confirmation yet on the date, be that from Top Gear itself or via Clarkson who is still making jokes about Pierce Morgan on his Twitter account, according to ApplauseStore.com, which as stated on the website is the "only official ticket unit to handle Top Gear studio audience tickets" in Britain, filming for season 19 will begin on January 23.
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The time has now come for Top Gear to "tell the life story of The Stig", as it claims, through a new book titled "The Stig. The Untold Story", which was written by a journalist who followed our driving hero over the past year.
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The show's Twitter page at BBC_TopGear posted a tweet at 11:01am that read:
"Most-watched vid on #TopGear this week? Behind-the-scenes at TG mag’s pan-American race between a Bentley... and a train..."
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Perhaps we can temporarily fill the void with two fresh videos of the Top Gear gang, the first of which is a 4-minute long teaser of an all-new, never before seen on TV special titled "Top Gear: The Worst Car in the History of the World" that will be released on DVD, Blu-Ray and digital download on Monday, November 19, 2012.
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Some also say that JC (Jeremy Clarkson's initials) is an overrated, grossly overpaid and obnoxious bloke who has insulted almost every ethnicity and minority one can think of, and then some, but in spite of all this, he has made a fortune out of being… well, obnoxious (and, obviously, very smart).
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Whatever you may think of the man, you have to admit that his controversial comments have been one of the main ingredients that have made Top Gear the world’s most successful car show.
It’s true that JC doesn’t give a dime (though he could afford to…) about political correctness or BBC’s guidelines. In fact, he does have quite a record of “regrettable lapses of editorial judgment”, as the BBC Trust puts it.
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The UK event is a follow up to this past June's Top Gear Live show in Durban, South Africa, where a stunt team successfully completed the world's first ever "double loop-the-loop".
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According to the magazine, the 24 sports cars have a combined output of 9,267hp, ranging from the 120hp Morgan 3 Wheeler to the 691hp (700PS) Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4, and a joint vale of £2,205,864 (equal to US$3,445,935 or €2,805,908 at today's exchange rates).
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