James May is proof you don't need explosions to make great car TV

ABOUT A YEAR ago I had confirmation of something most car nuts suspect. Given the choice of a quiet evening, your local pub and any of the f...

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The new Top Gear presenters - why you're not one of them

AT LEAST one of my fellow motoring scribes has found out the hard way. That - perhaps rather predictably - they haven't got the job of b...

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The Jeremy Clarkson debacle is what Top Gear needed

THIS IS a wonderful time for Top Gear . Over the past few weeks it’s almost been impossible to visit the loo without someone venturing an op...

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In response to yet another Top Gear controversy...

ALL anyone wants to know at the moment is what I think about Top Gear . It’s been brought up by people tapping my shoulder at the bar and my...

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The Classic Car Show is no Top Gear, but that doesn't stop me liking it

TOP GEAR is back on form. It seems that no matter how much the tabloids knock its presenters for offending everyone from here to Argentina...

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James May's Cars of the People was great motoring TV

IT WAS somewhere in the North Sea where I discovered one of motoring telly’s genuine surprises last night. Chances are that if I hadn’t have...

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Clarkson column splits opinion

PERHAPS not unsurprisingly, last week's article about the Jeremy Clarkson N-word row has prompted some pretty strong reactions. The pie...

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Jeremy Clarkson a racist? No chance

THERE are, I’ve worked out, only three certainties in life. Death, taxes, and controversies involving Jeremy Clarkson. That’s why I’m sure I...

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