Top gear

And other stories from the stranger side of life

New presenter line-up wins praise as fans finally warm to the post-Clarkson era

From souped-up hearses to track-honed supercars, here’s what to expect from the BBC motoring show’s next season

New series revs off with rides in Ferrari GTC4 Lusso, Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo and Suzuki’s Ignis

Rory Reid and Matt LeBlanc will be fronting the BBC motoring show for final time

Grand Tour presenter insists ‘anyone who has got a scrotum’ can ‘forget it’

Cricketer and comedian will take over from Matt LeBlanc on the BBC show

Former Top Gear presenter and his family feared to be latest victims of gang using anaesthetic gas

Get behind the wheel of the show’s most luxurious - and bizarre - vehicles later this year

Former Friends star will hang up his driving gloves at end of next series

Matt LeBlanc and Chris Harris head to Oman in what critics call 'one of the season's best' road trips

Top Gear Live set for global tour next year

Richard Hammond will be airlifted, Matt Damon and Charlize Theron will drop by, and the show will be more expensively produced than ever

The British world champion is expected to announce his retirement from the sport after a glittering 16-year career

Jokes, songs, celebration and protest greet BBC decision, as 350,000 people sign petition to 'bring back Clarkson'

Pillinger was a real-life rocket scientist, but he also milked cows and performed on Top of the Pops