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Next week's show - back in the USA

The boys are heading back to America for the first time since their eventful, and almost fatal, meeting with the Good Ol' Boys during their race across the USA.
TG exec producer Andy Wilman says it'll be a slightly more grown-up affair than last week's show - so not aimed at seven-year-olds, but maybe 10-year-olds instead.

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Aussies soar in Dakar

Dakar! We love to tune in and check out the lunatics chucking themselves across some of the most full-on terrain on the planet. But this time there's an Aussie team to cheer for and, wait for it, they're doing pretty damn well...

 

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Playing freeway Russian Roulette

And the award for Stupidest Thing Seen on the Roads goes to the plucky young fellow I saw driving towards me in a Kombi, towing a boat, slowly, with about 900 cars backed up behind him.
I can only think of one day sillier day to teach someone to drive - the day they turn four.

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Bugatti

More than $9 million found in garage

How's this for a Happy New Year? Relatives of an eccentric UK doctor were cleaning out his estate when they stumbled across a 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atlante in a disused garage that hadn't been opened in years. What's it worth? Try $9.6 million.

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Porsche Panamera news

My eyes, my poor eyes

It's either the best thing to happen to motoring since the wheel, or a crime committed against nature, commonsense and the eyeballs. Either way, here's when it's coming.

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Bentley

Now that's a convertible

And you thought convertibles were just for hairdressers, huh? Not this one. Meet Bentley's 447kW Continental GTC Speed.

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January edition

January edition on sale now

The one where we crash the AMG Black, get deafened by Stuart Appleby's custom-made BMW M5 ute, convince Eric Bana to reveal the real story behind the making of Love The Beast and issue our Top Gear Awards for 2008.

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