Top Gear Ambitious but Rubbish

Ambitious but Rubbish reveals the off-camera secrets behind some of Top Gear’s most memorable creations. From the challenge of turning a Reliant Robin into a rocket and the genesis of the Hammerhead-i Eagle Thrust electric car to the complexities of building a caravan airship and the inspiration for destruction-testing a Toyota Hilux, this book is packed with the previously untold stories behind dozens of classic TV moments. Top Gear has never shied away from trying to answer questions no one has even thought to ask. Questions like ‘Can you make a convertible people carrier?’, ‘Can you cross the Channel in a pick-up?’ and ‘Can you turn a combine harvester into a snow plough?’. Ambitious but Rubbish reveals how those insane ideas came about with remarkable tales of ingenious invention and idiotic engineering. This book is essential reading for any Top Gear fan and a terrific insight into the creation of the world’s biggest car show. It’s also a terrifying window into the minds of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. Don’t say you weren’t warned about that last one.

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Ambitious But Rubbish

Ambitious but Rubbish reveals the off-camera secrets behind some of Top Gear's most memorable creations. From the challenge of turning a Reliant Robin into a rocket and the genesis of the Hammerhead-i Eagle Thrust electric car to the complexities of building a caravan airship and the inspiration for destruction-testing a Toyota Hilux, this book is packed with the previously untold stories behind dozens of classic TV moments. Top Gear has never shied away from trying to answer questions no one has even thought to ask. Questions like 'Can you make a convertible people carrier?', 'Can you cross the Channel in a pick-up?' and 'Can you turn a combine harvester into a snow plough?'. Ambitious but Rubbish reveals how those insane ideas came about with remarkable tales of ingenious invention and idiotic engineering. This book is essential reading for any Top Gear fan and a terrific insight into the creation of the world's biggest car show. It's also a terrifying window into the minds of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. Don't say you weren't warned about that last one.

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TopGear

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Top Gear Drives of a Lifetime

Every year, Top Gear dispatches correspondents to cover many serious stories around the world. Wherever they go, they ask tough questions and leave no stone unturned in search of the cold, hard truth. Questions such as: Is it possible to drive a Ferrari up a Scottish ski slope? Exactly how far can you drive a bulldozer across the Antarctic before it falls down a big crack? And what happens when you drive a small 4X4 up a volcano, during an earthquake, with a high chance of eruption? The answers to all of the above – and more – can be found in Top Gear Top Drives, a new book featuring Top Gear’s best adventures, neatly arranged in precise geographic order: top, middle and bottom. These are not Sunday drives to country pubs. You will not find any mentions of freshly cut grass and picnics under oak trees. In fact, you are more likely to encounter roadside landmines and a pack of Chilean llamas with a relaxed approach to personal hygiene. Of course you will also find supercars on winding mountain passes, but this book goes much further, bringing you the most unusual combinations of car and tarmac – or lack of it – from across our planet. All of which are accompanied by a surprisingly useful collection of travel tips, featuring such useful advice as when to go, what the weather’s like and where to find a reasonably priced beer. Like any classic travel guide, you really shouldn’t leave home without it. Unless you write down the really important bits, in which case you’ll probably be OK.

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Top Gear 1977 2015

Collection Editions books give you this one time edition commemorating the end (as we know it) of the most popular factual television show in the planets history. Top Gear: 1977-2015 gives the most comprehensive illustration to Top Gear yet. • With dozens of episode reviews and illustrations including some never before seen... • Presenter biographies right from the original 1977 series through to today’s modern masterpiece... • History of the series... • Guides to every Top Gear “Special” including the latest Patagonia adventure. • Find out about Top Gear U.S, Top Gear Russia, Top Gear Korea, Top Gear Australia, Top Gear China, Top Gear France... • Track reviews... • Every single Power Lap time... • Every single Star in a Reasonably Priced Car... • Cars of the Year • Car of the Decade • The Stig’s of past and present... • And absolutely tons more... Collection Editions: Top Gear provides the biggest, most authoritative and comprehensive guide to the Top Gear series for only the most dedicated of fans

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All the Wonder that Would Be

It has been argued that science fiction (SF) gives a kind of weather forecast – not the telling of a fortune but rather the rough feeling of what the future might be like. The intention in this book is to consider some of these bygone forecasts made by SF and to use this as a prism through which to view current developments in science and technology. In each of the ten main chapters - dealing in turn with antigravity, space travel, aliens, time travel, the nature of reality, invisibility, robots, means of transportation, augmentation of the human body, and, last but not least, mad scientists - common assumptions once made by the SF community about how the future would turn out are compared with our modern understanding of various scientific phenomena and, in some cases, with the industrial scaling of computational and technological breakthroughs. A further intention is to explain how the predictions and expectations of SF were rooted in the scientific orthodoxy of their day, and use this to explore how our scientific understanding of various topics has developed over time, as well as to demonstrate how the ideas popularized in SF subsequently influenced working scientists. Since gaining a BSc in physics from the University of Bristol and a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Manchester, Stephen Webb has worked in a variety of universities in the UK. He is a regular contributor to the Yearbook of Astronomy series and has published an undergraduate textbook on distance determination in astronomy and cosmology as well as several popular science books.

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Top Gear Christmas

The Top Gear Guide to Christmas will show you how to take the ambitious but rubbish philosophies of the world's most popular TV programme and use them to create a Christmas to remember. With gift recommendations from each presenter, plus their own letters to Santa, how to go carol singing Top Gear-style, some leaked scripts from the TG nativity play (with Hammond as baby Jesus), a sneak preview of the TG panto, photo reportage of the Christmas Specials, how to have a Top Gear New Year's Eve Party, Stig's Christmas dinner, and of course a Christmas feast of fast cars and shiny metal. This is how Christmas is done at the Top Gear hangar - mad, bad and so much more fun than your average Christmas celebrations.

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Top Gear The Alternative Highway Code

As everyone knows, there are three ways of doing things. The right way, the wrong way and the Top Gear way. Although, on reflection, that's usually just the wrong way, but faster and with more shouting. Anyway, the good news is that this third way of doing things can be applied to almost anything, and that includes motoring in general. All you need is the right guidance, which is where the brand new Top Gear Alternative Highway Code comes in. Top Gear's Altnernative Highway Code will show you how to bring the ambitious but rubbish philosophies of the world's most popular TV programme to your driving, containing advice on general motoring, as well as specific tips on how to deal with common eventualities like a rapidly sinking amphibious camper van, a caravan airship that's just crashed into a small bush, or a stupid home-made limousine that's snapped in half while transporting a top celebrity to an awards ceremony. Road users should not leave home without it.

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Rubbish Stunts

This book is for mini Stigs only, adults keep out! Jeremy, Richard and James have done some pretty stupid stunts on Top Gear. They've played with life-sized remote contol cars and even raced motor homes. Follow their fast and furious stunts in this fuel-filled activity book, with amazing press-out and make pieces for hours of fun.

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The Country

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Sanitary and Heating Age

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Harper s Weekly

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New Scientist

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Autocar Motor

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Top Gear

From amphibious automobiles to record-breaking supercars, Top Gear's 100 Maddest Cars is a truly bonkers collection of the craziest cars we've ever encountered. From the amazing and ambitious to the downright rubbish, this book is packed with facts and stats on the strangest things on four (and sometimes more) wheels. Even the Stig looks normal in comparison...

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Regions of the Heart

This work investigates the life of Alison Hargreaves, one of the most talented and accomplished climbers of her generation. Her death in 1995 during a violent storm on the summit of K2 and the ensuing criticism she received for attempting the ascent is also examined.

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The Economist

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The Trouser Press Record Guide

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Bayonets Abroad

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The Alpine Journal

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