http://www.topgear.com/News from Top Gearen-GB© Copyright 2000-2010 Top GearTop Gearhttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/rip-ford?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/rip-ford?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingFord Aus to close all Australian factories by 2016Thu, 23 May 2013 10:21:37 +0100 CONFIRMED: it's goodnight to the Ford Falcon. One of Australia's most iconic motoring brands this morning announced it will be turning its back on its local plants, closing the doors on both its Broadmeadows and Geelong factories from October 2016. The numbers, announced at an 11am press conferhttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/mclaren-honda-returns-in-2015-170513?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/mclaren-honda-returns-in-2015-170513?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingGood news! McLaren and Honda will reunite their powers for the 2015 Formula One seasonFri, 17 May 2013 03:35:41 +0100McLaren and Honda will team-up again from 2015, returning to the days of Ayrton Senna and trophies. Many trophies. As it did in the late '80s and early '90s, Honda will provide McLaren's engines from 2015-on, built to the sport's new regulations which stipulate 1.6-litre turbo engines. It's not behttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/bertone-aston-martin-rapide-jet-2-2-2013-05-14?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/bertone-aston-martin-rapide-jet-2-2-2013-05-14?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingIt’s the ‘Jet 2+2’: an Aston Martin Rapide reimagined as a shooting brake…Thu, 16 May 2013 02:09:10 +0100You don't need to waste your words convincing me. Just shut up and take my money already. So soon? But I haven't even shoehorned in any exuberant motoring clichés like ‘soul' and ‘passion' and ‘heritage' and ‘ruddy hell it's gorgeous'. Indulge me, O' impatient reader.http://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/man-puts-plane-engine-in-bike-2013-05-13?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/man-puts-plane-engine-in-bike-2013-05-13?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingNine cylinders, zero silencers. We don’t do bikes on TG, but if we did…Tue, 14 May 2013 01:32:20 +0100There's no real logical reason for dressing all in black, or straddling machines that have half the correct number of wheels. But this little number proves that neither are a bad thing. It is a motorbike, and it has an aircraft engine... Yep. This is the Red Baron - a chopper powered by a 110kW ninehttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/Peugeot-308-revealed-2013-05-13?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/Peugeot-308-revealed-2013-05-13?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingThis is the car Pug plans to go upmarket with…Tue, 14 May 2013 01:15:29 +0100A little while ago Peugeot started struggling to make ends meet, so it came up with a plan so cunning you could stick a tail on it and call it a weasel. ‘Let's tell everyone we're a posh company and charge more money,' they said. The first cars Peugeot decided were posh were the not bad 208 hhttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/series-19-ep5-preview?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/series-19-ep5-preview?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingWe give you a little video preview of what's coming up in episode five - the last of series 19! Oh noes!Mon, 13 May 2013 00:08:33 +0100There was an end-of-term feeling down at the Top Gear track as we finished our last filming day at the studio for series nineteen before we head to Africa for our two-part special. And is traditional at the end of term, the presenters decided to play games all morning - in this case, a newly-inventhttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/ferrari-future-plans-2013-5-10?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/ferrari-future-plans-2013-5-10?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoing… but make more profit. Jason Barlow reports back from a chat with chairman Luca di Montezemolo Mon, 13 May 2013 02:59:53 +0100You’ve got to hand it to Ferrari’s chairman, Luca di Montezemolo. In the first quarter of 2013, Ferrari sold 1798 cars, a relatively modest four per cent rise on the same period last year. But that equates to a 36.5 per cent jump in net profits, to €56.7m ($73.6m). No brand is mohttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/lewis-hamilton-behind-the-scenes-090513?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/lewis-hamilton-behind-the-scenes-090513?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingWatch an English fellow called Lewis Hamilton flog a reasonably priced car around the TG trackThu, 09 May 2013 07:59:55 +0100At ten years old he was a British karting Champion, at 13 he was signed up to McLaren's young driver program, and in 2008 he was the youngest ever F1 world Champion at just 23 years old (though he was knocked off the top spot by a young German called Sebastian in 2010). But these achievements pale http://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/james-may-peugeot-onyx-090513?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/james-may-peugeot-onyx-090513?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingJames May gives an exclusive video tour of Peugeot's bonkers Onyx conceptThu, 09 May 2013 08:19:35 +0100Remember this stunning Peugeot Onyx concept that the boys were talking about on Thursday's show? Well, between cups of Twinings and carefully selecting his knitwear, James May has given TopGear.com an exclusive video tour of it...   If you had the cash, would you drop $1.5m on this Peugeot, Thttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/paul-walker-vehicle-19-fast-furious-2013-05-08?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoinghttp://www.topgear.com/au/car-news/paul-walker-vehicle-19-fast-furious-2013-05-08?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ongoingTG.com gets an exclusive little look at Paul Walker's latest cinematic project. It's about carsFri, 10 May 2013 02:53:55 +0100When TopGear.com spoke to Dennis McCarthy - the man who conceived, built and then promptly and bombastically destroyed the cars on the upcoming Fast & Furious 6 - he told us that the film's star, Paul Walker, "is a true car enthusiast". So it's fitting that Walker's next film following the Fast