Top Gear Race Track is on Google Street View

Top Gear racetrack is on Google Street View. Vaww, very exciting news! Okay, let me be honest, this is very exciting news. It would be great to go around the Top Gear’s legendary racetrack. However, the way it was presented on YouTube was totally dull. 

Google’s Street View car, Opel Astra was chased by the Stig. The Stig? The boring character of Top Gear and each time, it reveals his identity and destroys the game. The Stig was burning the tyre of a Mercedes SLS AMG GT Coupe. And burning more tyre and making donuts at the end of the video.

Level of creativity, absolute zero. Level of excitement, zero. Level of being interesting, really interest because Google Street View car is on the show.

Why I find the Stig and Top Gear dull? Unfortunately, Top Gear ran out of creative ideas. It has been more than ten years and each new episode is a repetition of the previous ones. At the end of the day, this is car show. What you can do with the cars? And they are replaced every seven-year. Even though, I write about cars, sometimes I found them really boring. And this happened with Top Gear. The Stig, races, burning tyres. They were fine for half a decade but not anymore.

Do I watch Top Gear? Yes and No! If you consider watching it by skipping, yes I do. I am sure if Top Gear reads this article, they will be mad at me. But this is what I really think about Top Gear.

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When Top Gear Starts? Unofficial Preview

When Top Gear's new season starts? Here is the answer, 27th January 2013 at BBC2 on 20.00 GMT.

Here is the unofficial preview of the next season of Top Gear. Top Gear tries to use Bentley Continental GT as a WRC car. And also Top Gear tried to jump Mini's in a platform in France but they failed!

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BMW X6 Tows a Snow Blower on a Mountain Video

BMW X6 tows a snow blower! This definitely sounds impossible, because BMW X6 is the most popular vehicle of urban people. There is nothing associated with X6 and off road, however BMW X6 offers the most sophisticated electronic traction control system, xDrive that offers very quick response system to avoid traction loss.

I know that xDrive is really rapid and useful but I never thought that, a BMW X6 was capable of towing a snow blower on a ski resort.

Video seems to be true and speaking voice emphasises this as well. However, some people may not think the same way I think, therefore I highly recommend BMW to upload a back stage video of this one. Believe me, it will work more!

The X6 on the video is the diesel model X6 xDrive40d: 3-lt diesel engine with 306 HP and 600 Nm of torque. And after this video, Jeremy Clarkson's review on X6 sounds a bit wrong.

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Jeremy Clarkson vs. Ben Collins: The Stig

Jeremy Clarkson strikes back for The Stig! Ben Collins, TheStig from 2003 to 2010 was the second Stig in BBC Top Gear show. Collins kept his identity undercover for eight years until he said enough is enough. 

All of a sudden, Ben Collins revealed his identity and a huge dispute started with Jeremy Clarkson. They did not argue on TV face-to-face but in media, they used their all power. Clarkson wrote about his feelings for Ben Collins on his columns and Collins wrote a book about his life as The Stig. Then Clarkson made a short footage of The Stig, where they have many of them and implied that Ben Collins is not the only Stig.

However, this battle vanished from the media and we almost forget. Until now!

Jeremy Clarkson recently revealed his book about The Stig, The Stig: The Untold Story. I haven’t read the book yet, therefore I cannot comment on Clarkson’s words. But I know something, the Clarkson strikes back!

Clarkson:

The Stig: The Untold Story (Amazon UK)

The Stig: The Untold Story (Amazon USA)

Ben Collins:

The Man in the White Suit (Amazon UK)

The Man in the White Suit (Amazon USA)

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Car of the Day #38 Mercedes Actros 1844

Mercedes Actros 1844 from Top Gear Live Birmingham! This Actros has 440 horsepower, 44 represents the horsepower! 18 is the axle weight limit by tonne, but I am not sure about this.

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Car of the Day #37 Ferrari 250 GTO

Ferrari 250 GTO from Top Gear Live Birmingham!

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Top Gear Live 2011 NEC Birmingham

Yesterday I had to wake up early and it was Sunday! On Sundays, nobody likes to wake up early but I had a great motivation for it. I had a press ticket for Top Gear Live in Birmingham and I didn’t wish to miss this opportunity. So, I travelled to Birmingham NEC for the show. It was very crowded, I think half of the Birmingham woke up early yesterday :)

The exhibition area was excellent, I had chance to see the interesting cars featured on Top Gear. Hopefully, the cars have the dirts from the adventures. However the best bit was not the Top Gear cars, it was the Mercedes CLK GTR. This car is one of the most expensive car in the end of 1990s. It was built from LeMans races and had a very distinctive style. And, it is really hard to spot one. Because, it was so expensive and not available anymore. Hopefully, there was on CLK GTR in the exhibition. I forgot to say, there was a Ferrari 250 GTO!

The show! As you would expect, Clarkson made lots of fires, explosions and many other things. I wasn’t shocked with these things. However, the show was more than a car show, it was like a dance show done with many cars. The time sequences of their movements and the accuracy was amazing. I really appreciate the drivers, it may look easy but I am sure that, it is really hard to do all these moves without any mistake.

The main concept of the show was recreation of Olympics based on the car mentality. And it was really funny :) But I don’t want to talk more, but you should see it! It is an excellent transformation of Olympics games conducted by cars. You shouldn't miss see the curling with real cars!

And lastly, if you still hesitating to go. There are thirteen reasons, which will motivate to go! Lamborghini Aventador, Ferrari Enzo, McLaren MP4-12C, Ferrari 458, Ferrari California, Mercedes SLS Cabrio, Aston Martin DBS Volante, Alfa Romeo 8C, Ferrari 599 GTO, Porsche 911 GT2 RS, Audi R8 and two more. Unfortunately, I couldn’t remember the last two.

And special thanks to Performance PR. http://www.performancepr.com

You still have chance to see this amazing show, just click check the link. http://www.topgearlive.co.uk/

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Mercedes-Benz C-Class Road Test from 1993

During 1990s; ABS, ASR, ESP, Airbag were the most favourite features of automotive industry. Many manufacturers charged extra money for these features and some of them are offered them as free! However, there were some features least likely to appear in standard list; the electric windows!

Many manufacturers offered ABS or Airbag as standard feature but, they charged extra money for electric windows. Which of them? Basically, all of them! Mercedes, Ford, BMW, Land Rover and others. And here is the proof by Jeremy Clarkson. He test drove a Mercedes C-Class with ABS and Airbag but no electric windows.

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Jeremy Clarkson tests Mercedes 600 SEL

You didn't read wrong, Mercedes 600 SEL. I recently found a vintage video on YouTube with Clarkson. He was testing the 600 SEL when it was first revealed in 1991! It has state of art technologies like; park meter with a raising stick, remote closing windows.

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International Women Day

Sorry for late International Women Day’s post. Most of the people have bias toward women drivers. Instead of numbers just watch these two videos from Sabine Schmidt and Vicki Butler Henderson, then think again :)

Sabine is a race driver and drives the legendary BMW M5 Ring Taxi! And she lapped thousands of times around the Nürburgring. Couple of years or may be more, Top Gear gave her a Ford Transit to lap around the Nürburgring less than ten minutes. And she achieved by eight seconds extra! Transit never been designed to race and overtake Porsches.

I guess everyone knows Vicki, she was presenting old Top Gear and now on Fifth Gear. She is also race driver. And she drives a Toyota iQ in city and in a circuit. Like Transit, iQ was never meant to be driving like this and my recommendation is not to try by yourself.

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Senna Movie

(Today I was going to write about Aston Martin Rapide but recent news from Twitter changed my plan.)

I don’t really remember many things from 1994. It is just like other years, I was in middle school, and the most interesting thing was attending to school and watching TV. There was no internet involved with our lives. When I think about those times,  it was very plain compared to nowadays, but I clearly remember one moment from those plain times, Ayrton Senna.

I was not fan of Senna at those years, he drove McLaren and after Williams. At those ages, you want to be a fan of brands like Ferrari, Mercedes! But Senna driving made all those competitors looked like shopping trolleys in circuit. He was incredible fast, beyond the laws of psychics. I still cannot understand how he was driving like that.

It was the 1st May, one day after Senna’s accident in Imola. Unfortunately, the news was not spreading like nowadays but, his accident was on everywhere. Even people who don’t have any interest on Formula 1 knew his name and started to talk about him. Morning of 1st May, one of my friend at school told us, Senna is dead! I think I won’t ever forget that moment, in my whole life. Actually I was not expecting to hear this, Formula 1 “suppose” to be safe! They had lots of regulations, so how this thing happened. There were many suggestions, review, opinions, expert views, but nothing revealed the real reason.

Those cars were just made from plastic and engine, nothing else. And those engines had huge turbos, which means thousands of horse powers. Just imagine driving a car which is basically same as a remote control and powered with this engine. Drivers of those years really deserve respect and Senna deserves more.

At those ages, I was thinking maybe I can see him one day when he retires from Formula 1. Because you expect him to retire with great successes not with a tragedy. He was everyone’s hero and nobody ever think, he would die. Heros never dies in movies, unfortunately that’s only in movies and we learnt this by Senna!

17 years has passed, today’s Formula 1 drivers were trying to learn walking at those times. Safety regulation improved and hopefully Senna is the last person to lose his life in a circuit. Hopefully nobody ever forgot him, especially after Top Gear’s excellent episode on Senna, new generation learnt who he was. And there is a movie of Ayrton Senna, Directed by Asif Kapadia. This movie is called “Senna”. Unfortunately mass-media did not revealed much news about this, I don’t know why they did not mention. Of course, they have more important news like X-Factor, Big Brother, New Top Model, Cooking Shows! There is no need to bother viewers with news like this! Media forgot the days when they boosted their ratings with Senna news! Hopefully contemporary social networks talking about him and I found the theatre released date for UK; June 3rd 2011.

Lastly, many people think about why there is a thing called Formula 1? I want to explain basically, if there was no Formula 1, we still have cars more or less safer than a can! All those technologies we have in our cars are the results of Formula 1. From traction control to seat belt technologies.

I have a suggestion for McLaren, they have just revealed their new super car MP4-12C, which is one of the fastest and lightest car on market now. Why they don’t make Ayrton Senna special edition? I am sure that, many people would like to buy that car.

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Top Gear service on eBay

For Monday, I had totally something different to write but I found something rather more interesting!

I found an eBay auction for “Guide to being in Audience if you get Top Gear Tickets”. This auction does not sell or give free tickets, it is just giving your logistical and tactical knowledge if you planning to boost your ego during the TopGear shooting!

Hopefully, this interesting service is only for £2 (€2.3, $4). As mentioned in bidding, it will be only three A4 papers providing the very important knowledge on these topics listed below. And hopefully the %50 of the auction will be given to Ellen MacArthur Trust.

My comment on this service is no comment!

eBay listing

1. Getting tickets

2. What to wear

3. When to arrive

4. What to expect

5. Timing

6. Capacity

7. Catering services & prices on site

8. Toilet facilities

9. Where to stand to get the best chance of being in shot

a) Where to stand in the crowd to get at the front of the queue to go in

b) Where to stand once inside

10. Tips on getting autographs/pictures

11. Layout of Studio

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The Stig in your bath

This is my first post from a mobile device. You might be wondering why I did this. And here is the reason. Recently I installed the Quick Office application to my iPhone and I wanted to submit a post via this mobile device.

This interesting way of submitting post should be completed with something really interesting. Hopefully TopGear provided me the idea. Thanks to their creative team, there are some interesting products in many stores across UK. I think some of you might have noticed these “very creative” pieces.

With these new products TopGear decided to enter your bathroom with Stig named soap and bathroom product. Our first product is The Stig Soap. When you finish your soap, this product gives the opportunity to touch a plastic Stig as a result of your cleanness. The second very creative product is a full size Stig body wash. With this product you can clean your body by taking out Stig's helmet (I guess!). Again very creative!

And I have named all these products as Revenge of TopGear for Ben Collins. There are more products with the Stig, I will share them later :)

Posting a blog with a mobile device? Think again!

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The best BMW 1 Series Review

This news is a bit old but I recently noticed in August issue of TopGear Magazine. They tried to double the price of cars through online configurator and they made a great statement about BMW and 1 Series :)

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I know the next Stig!

After seven years of curiosity, we finally found out who is the Stig. Honestly Ben Collins’s appearance on FifthGear might boost the ratings but it will not create the same attention. We all know who is the Stig and his capabilities. So the case is closed now.

However the new Stig case is just beginning. Someone is going to take place of the Stig and we have no clue about what will happen next. And while looking at Stig’s book (I didn’t start reading), I noticed that Jordan (aka. Katie Price) has a special place! Especially her aggressive driving style was a very remarkable moment of TopGear! And her pinky style. Interesting some websites are talking about pink Stig. We had black and white Stig, now we may have a pink one or a gray one. I guess pink will be more colourful for the show!

When I combine two notions together, I found out something! The next Stig is Katie Price. She loves pink, drives aggressively on TopGear track, there are many rumours about Stig’s colour. So the I am nominating Katie Price as the next Stig :) With pink Stig, TopGear can have the highest ratings on earth !!!

 

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Nominee for Ford KA's hair style event

I have just heard about an event for Ford KA and after this event, KA is going to be the official girl car! This new Ford KA is technically based on Fiat 500 which is a better looking car. Due to maximization cost and minimizing the pleasure strategy of Ford, they are sharing platform with Fiat to reduce manufacturing costs. But will any girl dare this fact? Of course no! Therefore, who cares the platform of Ford KA when it has a very charming design :)

In following weeks Ford KA will have hair style competition powered by Toni & Guy. I used the word powered to emphasize automotiveness soul in events. You will upload your picture to Ford KA’s Facebook page and if you receive many “likes”, you will have chance to have your hair done by Toni &Guy. After that you will be nominated as the stylish person. And you will have chance to drive Ford KA for two months.

But I know the winner :) Actually he does not know that he is the winner but he should be nominated as the spiritual winner of the Ford KA style event. As you can guess he is Richard Hammond from BBC TopGear. His hair is looking much better than Vicky Butler-Henderson and I can clear say, Richard has the best hair in automotive business.

Newcastle, Metro Centre - 15th-16th October

Birmingham, Bullring - 22nd-23rd October

London/Kent, Bluewater - 29th-30th October

Manchester, Arndale Centre - 13th-14th November



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