Top Gear Archive

  • Japan’s bullet train might soon be speeding through the South

    Japan’s bullet train might soon be speeding through the South

    Right now, there is $8 billion dollars sitting in an account ready to be used to be used for a high-speed passenger-train line in the States and the Central Japan Railway Co. is attempting to get its hands on some of it — along with a dozen other companies from around the globe. The [...]

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  • Top Gear to finally be shot and produced in HD

    Top Gear to finally be shot and produced in HD

    Top Gear is a CrunchGear staff favorite. Even Nicholas who always proclaims he knows nothing about cars and Devin, our resident, van-driving hipster, watches the show regularly. High definition was the only thing missing from the broadcast. But that's set to change for season 14

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  • James May’s Lego House has been demolished, try not to cry

    James May’s Lego House has been demolished, try not to cry

    What a shame. The LEGO house has been demolished just weeks after completion for James May’s other show, Toy Stories. (He’s known as Captain Slow on Top Gear, too) Legoland didn’t want it due to the high cost of transporting it and it was never intended to be permanent, so down she came. At least some [...]

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  • This guy is building Top Gear’s James May a Lego house

    This guy is building Top Gear’s James May a Lego house

    We're normally not too keen on Lego stuff, but we'll make an exception in the interest of camaraderie. Plus, it involves James May from Top Gear, a show we can all get behind (even if I don't know a darn thing about cars!). Right, so architect Barnaby Gunning designed a real house out of Lego. No, not a “Lego house,” that is, a Lego house for Lego people, but a real, human-livable house made out of Lego. Indeed.

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