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# Top Gear

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# Controversy
VIDEO: Jeremy Clarkson is 'begging for forgiveness' but denies using n-word on Top Gear
The denials come after a story in today’s Daily Mirror which claimed that Clarkson used a racist children’s rhyme.
# Top Gear
Jeremy Clarkson denies using racist rhyme while filming Top Gear
An unseen clip shows Clarkson using racist word just days after last racism row.
# braking bad
Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul takes on Top Gear lap challenge
He’s going to be the star in the reasonably priced car.
# cycle this
Jeremy Clarkson's response to this cyclist's Top Gear complaint is priceless
Anyone seen the butter? Mammy says it works wonders on burns.
# flop gear
Jeremy Clarkson apologises after posting "gay c*nt" photo
Will he ever learn?
# Supermarket Sweep
VIDEO: Driving a car around the supermarket
Don’t pretend you haven’t dreamt of doing the same thing.
# big mouth
BBC receives more than 20,000 complaints over Jeremy Clarkson 'joke'
The controversial ‘Top Gear’ presenter joked that striking public sector workers should be shot in front of their families.
# clarkson
Jeremy Clarkson satnav deal scrapped by BBC
The sale of satnavs featuring the Top Gear presenter’s voice is being blocked by the BBC – after the company realised the product breached its own editorial guidelines.
# Top Gear
Now you can have Jeremy Clarkson as a front seat passenger
TomTom has launched a limited edition SatNav featuring the voice of Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson. Listen here.
# Your Say
Poll: Would you consider buying an electric car?
Fuel costs are rising – making motoring more expensive than ever before. So would you make your next car an electric one?
# Top Gear
Top Gear 'deliberately flattened electric car battery' before test
Nissan use an electronic tracker to reveal how BBC producers flattened a car battery so that it would run out of charge.
# iPlayer
BBC launches a global version of the iPlayer
An iPad app will allow people to view recent and archived BBC content. The iPlayer will be piloted in western Europe before going global.
# Classy
Did Clarkson brag about his affair with Phillipa in his newspaper column?
Clarkson wrote a column in May 2010 under the headline “Lie back, leggy Philippa, while I have some fun”. Tasteful.
# clarkson
Jeremy Clarkson laughs off claims of affair and compares himself to Tiger Woods
The Top Gear presenter has jokingly compared himself to the troubled golfer and denied claims that he has cheated on his wife of 18-years.
# Top trouble
Top Trouble for the BBC over car rigging claims
Clarkson and co. come in for criticism for allegedly misrepresenting the performance of the Tesla Roadster – but it’s not the first spot of bother the team have gotten into.
# Top Gear
BBC apologises over Top Gear 'lazy Mexcian' quip
The BBC has apologised to the Mexican ambassador to London over comments made during a Top Gear episode.
# Australia
Judge acquits Lamborghini 95mph speeder… because he likes Top Gear
A Perth mechanic gets lucky when the magistrate taking his case identifies his car as Top Gear’s 2006 Car of the Year.
# Top Gear
Stig’s identity revealed!
BBC’s attempts to block revelation fail.
# Top Gear
High Court case over Top Gear’s ‘Stig’ autobiography begins
Some say the BBC want to stop him printing his autobiography… all we know is, he’s called The Stig.
# Top Gear
Some say he wants to write an autobiography with his real name
Some say the BBC don’t want him to. All we know is, he’s called The Stig.
# Top Gear
Tom Cruises into Gear
The Top Gun star will be ‘the star in the reasonably priced car’.