However, after Tesla's litigious run-in with Top Gear, the company keeps detailed vehicle data logs to ensure it gets a fair deal in reviews.
In 2009, Top Gear bosses admitted setting up a stunt involving a caravan attached to an airship straying over Norwich airport, provoking police to intervene.
In Britain, you would not get 6.4million people tuning in to TV programmes called Top Domestic Appliances or Top Condensing Boilers in the way they do for Top Gear.
Earlier, England opener Cook never really hit top gear in his sedate 72.
Nor did it uphold a complaint that Jeremy Clarkson had made a "racist slur" against Germany in an edition of Top Gear.
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The Murray serve kicked into top gear in the closing stages and, with the watching Federer and Rafael Nadal getting a taste of the atmosphere inside the arena, the Scot broke again with a backhand winner to secure an impressive win in two hours 10 minutes.
It is also a regular location for television shows such as Top Gear and Fifth Gear and featured in the James Bond film, Casino Royale.
There seems to be some tie-in with the BBC program Top Gear, too.
That neighbours (Brooks and the PM, along with Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear all live in the same small town or surrounding it) sometimes ride each others horses?
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Snake has got his work cut out if he is to top this game in the next Metal Gear game for PlayStation 3.
But Top Gear has been reincarnated in the US without any of its British presenters - Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May - whose laddish antics and irreverent humour are such a big part of its appeal.
Last year it failed in its attempt to sue the BBC's Top Gear having claimed libel and "malicious falsehood" following the TV programme's 2008 review of its Roadster model.
Another ad refers to the hugely popular British TV show Top Gear, whose presenter praised a highway in Romania.
Any car that can pull 100 mph in second gear, 140 mph in third and a top speed of 208 mph is not to be downplayed.
Top Gear has admitted deliberately staging a traffic jam scene in the last episode of the BBC TV series.
Of course, in this day and age more than a few may have turned to the internet to catch quality UK television long before the programmes air here, but until iPlayer HD comes across the pond everyone else can look forward to getting their BBC re-airs in the quality they were intended - here's hoping for Top Gear HD next.
City, without a win in their last five away games, looked composed without ever moving into top gear.
It follows some high-profile Twitter hacks in recent days - including accounts for Burger King, Jeep and BBC Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson.
The British version of Top Gear, shown on BBC America, has a cult following in the US already, and some think the homegrown team is disappointing.
Like the BRZ, the Focus ST isn't particularly, by-the-clock fast (0-60 mph in about six seconds, at about 6, 600 rpm at the top of second gear) but it feels birdlike, sporty, tossable, willing, lively.
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