Ferrari California thoughts

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 10:30AM on Tuesday 13 May, 2008 29 Comments

Here's the scene: the brand new pictures of the Ferrari California have just landed in the office.

Everyone is standing around the Art Director's computer looking at them...

Quantum Leap: conspiracy theory

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 12:00PM on Tuesday 22 April, 2008 15 Comments

You'll have seen the Bond story yesterday and been either amazed, shocked or just generally horrified that an Aston Martin DBS ended up at the bottom of Lake Garda.

The fact that the driver is fine is James Bond heroic, yet it is such a big deal that it's almost too much to comprehend. Aston assured me it really was an accident, but for some reason I'm still a little suspicious...

High octane

Posted by Bill Thomas at 12:50PM on Wednesday 16 April, 2008 7 Comments

I didn't really wake up until Ferrari F1 test driver Marc Gene did some laps in last year's F1 car. Alone on the Fiorano track, which is partly surfaced with Shell minerals, that wonderful car really rammed home the value of an F1 tie-in...

Top Gear new series update

Posted by Andy Wilman at 10:00AM on Tuesday 15 April, 2008 25 Comments

I read in the papers that Jeremy had unleashed a Sweary Mary moment at a kid who'd taken a picture of him asleep on holiday, without asking.

Now, as he was on holiday, the BBC said it was a private matter on which it couldn't comment, and as a BBC employee, I come under that directive. So I thought I'd just do a blog here about how the series is going...