TopGearbox now has its very own Power Lapboard for you to check out

Our board is based on Top Gear’s lapboard from Series 13 onwards, which may have some of the older times removed from it. You can hover your mouse over each time to get the full car name (helpful when Jeremy sometimes calls it something else!) and you can also click them to be automatically taken to the episode in which they sent it around the track! Just another way you can track down that hard to find episode.

If the car you are looking for isn’t listed, you’ll find it (along with pretty much everything else) on our Episode Search page. In the near future we hope to add the three celebrity lap boards – Liana, Lacetti and Cee’d.

In the meantime if you have any feedback please don’t hesitate to let us know!

Contrary to reports in The Mirror, Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson was recently caught red handed being a faithful husband during his world tour with Top Gear Live last month.

Jeremy was accused of being accompanied by a “charmingly stocky brunette” while being driven to a Top Gear Live performance in Norway. The same brunette was seen leaving the Spektrum convention centre with Jeremy after the show and they were seen later drinking wine in the hotel’s rooftop bar, with Richard Hammond.

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As you may have heard, Tesla have signaled that they will attempt to sue Top Gear for defamation for their road test of the Tesla Roadster all the way back in 2008. Over the last few days Tesla have gone on the offensive and used almost every media outlet available to get their side of the story out into the public – something which Andy Wilman, the producer of Top Gear, felt he had to respond to.

What baffles me the most is I thought Top Gear’s review was actually rather fair – they explained the good and bad points of the car and based their own conclusion on that information. There have been other cars which have received far worse treatment (arguably because they deserved it) such as the Vauxhall Vectra – which Jeremy famously described as being “designed in a coffee break by people who couldn’t care less about cars”. But did we ever see a lawsuit from Vauxhall? No.

Below is Andy’s article from topgear.com

You may know that Tesla has issued a writ against Top Gear for defamation and malicious falsehood over the road test that we broadcast of the Tesla Roadster in December 2008. The normal procedure for the BBC in a legal case is to acknowledge receipt of the other party’s claim, and then say no more and get on with preparing its defence for court.

Tesla, however, doesn’t seem content to wait for the legal eagles to settle matters. On the contrary, it’s been very busy promoting its side of the argument through the media. Why even last night the Top Gear office accidentally received an email sent from a Public Relations firm to The One Show, asking if it would like to have the Tesla spokesperson on their programme to talk about the case. It says: “PHA Media represent Tesla and this could make for a fantastic interview.” And the PHA man’s not finished there. “The presenters could have some fun with this.” He adds. “Matt and Alex could even take the Tesla for a spin and test it out, reaffirming its virtues?” Plenty of respect for editorial independence in that last line there and I wish the chaps from PHA Media all the best in their crusade.

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Top Gear Live 2011 was in Brisbane this weekend and I was at the final show before it moves on to Melbourne next weekend. For anyone who loves cars, it is pretty much the best 80 minutes worth of live entertainment that you’ll find anywhere and I thoroughly recommend it.

The show was definitely adult orientated, with Jeremy letting the expletives fly and also giving us a very funny Stig introduction, “Some say that his penis is exactly twice as long as sacked Stig’s…”!

Here are a few photos from behind the scenes…

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As you may have noticed, the Series 16 episodes here on TopGearbox do not strictly follow the numbering system provided by the BBC. Due to reasons which are not exactly clear, they class the episodes which aired on December 21st & 26th as being separate “Specials” and not part of Series 16 at all.

Despite this, the episode which aired on December 21st (USA Roadtrip to NY) had Jeremy showing us a teaser video of what to expect in the coming weeks. This video featured footage from every upcoming episode in Series 16, along with footage from the Middle East Special and USA Roadtrip. Read more

The Top Gear team have released a trailer for their two “Christmas Special” shows which will air on BBC2 on Tuesday 21 December at 8pm, and the second on Boxing Day at 8pm. We’ll then see series 16 early in the new year. Read more

It has been reported in The Sun that Top Gear has found a new Stig.

The Top Gear trio apparently visited a secret “Stig farm” to inspect a herd of carefully reared mystery racing drivers. A source at the farm said: “People don’t know there is a secret farm where we breed lots of different Stigs. We’ve found just the one.”