http://www.topgear.com/News from Top Gearen-GB© Copyright 2000-2010 Top GearTop Gearhttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/awesome-skyline-video?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/awesome-skyline-video?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingWatch this retro Nissan GT-R roar around a spectacular racetrack. Caution: awesome alert.Tue, 15 May 2012 01:37:17 +0100We wish our grandparents were as cool as the Nissan GT-R's. While our nannas and pops are sitting around nursing homes drinking pureed sandwiches and generally smelling of urine, the Nissan GT-R's grandpa is roaring around racetracks baked golden in the light of a yawning sun. In this video, you'llhttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/new-mini-john-cooper-works-gp-jcw?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/new-mini-john-cooper-works-gp-jcw?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingTG reports back from the launch of the new John Cooper Works GP Mon, 14 May 2012 00:08:06 +0100So, this is the fastest road-going Mini ever built. As in ever. Ever ever ever.  Want some numbers? You can't handle the numbers. Well, you probably can, but they're still rather impressive. The 2012 John Cooper Works GP has just lapped the Nurburgring Nordschliefe in 8 minutes 23 seconds http://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/epic-ute-fail?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/epic-ute-fail?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingWatch as a silly person crashes their ute while doing a burnout on a public road. We think they call that 'karma'...Fri, 11 May 2012 07:10:03 +0100You mightn't realise it, but they're lurking everywhere. At your work, at your school, on the roads. Maybe even standing behind you as you read this. Seriously, everywhere. We're talking about idiots, of course. Take this video, for example. Our pal does a dirty big burnout in his Holden ute (strewhttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/clarkson-blames-simon-cowell?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/clarkson-blames-simon-cowell?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingThere will be no new TG this year - and, according to Clarkson, we have his mate Simon Cowell to blameFri, 11 May 2012 02:33:10 +0100Jeremy Clarkson has attacked good mate Simon Cowell's X Factor for killing off any chance of a new TopGear series this year, because there'll be ‘too many fat people singing' on TV. In a quite saddening break from tradition, there will be no new TG season later this year because the BBC is wohttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/lost-episodes-of-topgear-australia?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/lost-episodes-of-topgear-australia?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingThree brand new episodes of TopGear Australia were made but never made it to air. Finally, we have those very unseen episodes, right here, ready for your viewing euphoria.Thu, 10 May 2012 02:54:12 +0100The TopGear Australia television show vanished off the airwaves late last year after a Channel Nine work-experience person accidentally tripped over a cord they shouldn't have. And so, three episodes into its fourth season, the screen went blank. For months, three brand new episodes of TGA sat on ahttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/ex-stig-to-star-in-bond-film?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/ex-stig-to-star-in-bond-film?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingEx-Stig Ben Collins is back doing wild things in cars - but this time, on the set of the new Bond filmTue, 08 May 2012 03:00:20 +0100Sacked and disgraced ex-Stig Ben Collins has a new job... drifting cars as a stuntman for the new 007 film Skyfall. Collins, who was banished from TopGear and ridiculed by Clarkson as a "greedy twat" for ousting himself as the Stig in 2010, has been spotted in Turkey doing stunts for the new Bond fhttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/paper-bugatti-veyron?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/paper-bugatti-veyron?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingAll you need is some cardboard, scissors and a printer…Mon, 07 May 2012 10:56:31 +0100Well, this is pretty awesome. A Bugatti Veyron - the fastest production car in the world - is now available to you for the trifling cost of some cardboard and printer ink. OK, so it's not an actual Veyron, but it is a rather handsome 70cm long papercraft replica consisting of 159 parts thhttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/worlds-fastest-toilet?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/worlds-fastest-toilet?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingVIDEO: Watch as stuntwoman Jolene Van Vugt sets a land speed record... on a motorised toiletThu, 03 May 2012 06:09:22 +0100A Canadian stuntwoman has broken the land speed record for a toilet by hitting 75km/h on a motorised dunny in Sydney yesterday. Nitro Circus's Jolene Van Vugt beat the previous record by 7km/h at a purpose-built toilet racetrack at Sydney Olympic Park. In order to claim the title, Guinness Book ofhttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/video-how-not-to-drive-a-dragster?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/video-how-not-to-drive-a-dragster?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingWhat happens when you race inappropriate cars up Rod Millen’s driveway?Thu, 03 May 2012 03:59:21 +0100Dragsters have been racing down straight pieces of tarmac for years in astonishing feats of speed. But what happens when a dragster faces a corner? Well, last weekend Mr. Ron Hope found out. Ron Hope is one of the men responsible for these feats of speed, once holding a Bonneville speed record. Thehttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/we-drift-lambos-on-ice?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/we-drift-lambos-on-ice?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingWatch as we spin all four wheels and bash a Gallardo's V10 against its limiter - all on a frozen lake in ChinaThu, 03 May 2012 01:34:53 +0100For this month's new issue of TopGear Australia magazine, we considered fitting each mag with one of those little speakers you find in birthday cards. There's a bit in the below video where a Lamborghini Gallardo smashes into its rev limiter, popping its V10 at a gazillion RPM. In a car with all-w