Winners of the Top Gear Awards 2025

No Top Gear, no life, you say? Relax, Top Gear is still around with digital content for the fans, and the 2025 Top Gear Awards is one of them. 

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The Top Gear Awards present unusual but distinctive titles that may seem nonsensical to some. Unlike traditional automotive awards, Top Gear adopts a more spontaneous approach to determine the best car of the year. And now, here are the winners...

LUXURY CAR OF THE YEAR - Rolls-Royce Spectre Black Badge

SALOON OF THE YEAR - Mercedes-Benz CLA

DESIGN OF THE YEAR - Dacia Hipster Concept

CROSSOVER OF THE YEAR - Renault 4 E-TECH

ESTATE OF THE YEAR - Audi A6 Avant

OFFROADER OF THE YEAR - Defender Octa

SUPERCAR OF THE YEAR - Ferrari 296 Speciale

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD - Andreas Preuninger

FAMILY CAR OF THE YEAR - Kia PV5

SUPERMINI OF THE YEAR - Hyundai Casper Electric

HYPERCAR OF THE YEAR - Ferrari F80

MANUFACTURER OF THE YEAR - Groupe Renault

PERFORMANCE CAR OF THE YEAR - Kimera EVO37

NOISE OF THE YEAR - Ford Mustang GTD

MOMENT OF THE YEAR - Yangwang U9 Extreme's 308mph top speed

SUPER SUV OF THE YEAR - Aston Martin DBX S

CAR WE'RE MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO DRIVING IN 2026 - Bugatti Tourbillon

CAR OF THE YEAR - BMW iX3

URL: https://www.topgear.com/car-news/2026-topgearcom-awards/very-best-cars-year-welcome-2026-topgearcom-awards

Congratulations to the winners of this year's Top Gear Awards!

Doctor Who S2 FINALE Review

Last week's penultimate episode of BBC's Doctor Who Season 2 saw The Rani's armageddon plot unfold. Her armageddon plot is to revive the deadliest Time Lord of all, Omega. With the Unholy Trinity unleashed armageddon by reviving Omega, will The Doctor save the universe and defeat The Unholy Trinity as well as Omega? It all culminates in the Season 2 finale of Doctor Who, titled "The Reality War."

Doctor Who S2 FINALE

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Doctor Who S2E7 Episode Review

May 24, 2025. The day Belinda Chandra left Earth to travel with The Doctor. It's also the day of the "absolute terror" prophesied by The Rani. That's right. The Mrs. Flood who keeps showing up every episode, finally revealed her true identity. She really is The Rani all along, bigenerated. As The Doctor and Belinda got caught in the explosion as they raced through the 24th of May, 2025, what happened to them? All will be revealed in the first part of the two-part Season 2 finale of Doctor Who, titled Wish World.

Doctor Who S2E7

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Doctor Who S2E6 Episode Review

Doctor Who's Got Talent! The sixth episode of Doctor Who Season 2 imagines what Eurovision would be like if it's set in the 30th century. Welcome to the Interstellar Song Contest! With your host, Rylan!

Doctor Who S2E6

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Doctor Who S2E5 Episode Review

Entering the latter half of the second season of Doctor Who, The Doctor is dealing with a nefarious figure who calls himself The Barber, who is allegedly behind the disappearance of residents around a small Nigerian village.

Doctor Who S2E5

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Doctor Who S2E4 Episode Review

It's been a while since the Empire of Death, but Ruby Sunday is back in the fourth episode of Doctor Who Season 2. It may be her lucky day, but not for UNIT because they’re facing something that brings them down.

Doctor Who S2E4

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Doctor Who S2E3 Episode Review

The Doctor and Belinda continue their journey in the third episode of Doctor Who Season 2, where they face hell... in The Well. Yes, there's hell in the well.

Doctor Who S2E3

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Doctor Who S2E2 Episode Review

The Doctor and Belinda's adventure continues in the second episode of Doctor Who Season 2, Lux. This episode has something the Whoniverse should have done a long time ago: a 2D CARTOON CHARACTER!

Doctor Who S2E2

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Doctor Who S2E1 Episode Review

The 15th Doctor is back for his second outing and this time, he joins forces with a new companion named Belinda Chandra. Their opening salvo involves...The Robot Revolution.

Doctor Who S2E1

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Doctor Who 2024 Christmas Special Episode Review

Six months have passed since The Doctor thwarted world chaos by ending Sutekh's Empire of Death and reuniting Ruby Sunday with her real mother, but what is the "absolute terror" Mrs. Flood warned at the end? No one knows what that is but for now, The Doctor's having a vacation in the Christmas 2024 special where his stay at the Time Hotel and an encounter with a young woman turned deadly.

Doctor Who 2024 Christmas Special

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Winners of the Top Gear Awards 2024

No Top Gear, no life, you say? Relax, Top Gear is still around with digital content for the fans, and the 2024 Top Gear Awards is one of them. 

Winners of the Top Gear Awards 2024
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The Top Gear Awards features questionable but unique titles, which is nonsense to some, to be given to the cars as featured by Top Gear. Unlike most automotive awards, the folks from Top Gear went to a more unscripted approach to determine which is the best car of the year. And now, the winners...

SUV OF THE YEAR - Hyundai Santa Fe MX5

MPV OF THE YEAR - Volkswagen ID.Buzz 7-seater

CROSSOVER OF THE YEAR - Kia EV3

CAR WE"RE MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO DRIVING IN 2025: Lamborghini Temerario

PERFORMANCE CAR OF THE YEAR: McLaren 750S

MANUFACTURER OF THE YEAR: Toyota

SUPER GT OF THE YEAR: Aston Martin Vanquish

PERFORMANCE SUV OF THE YEAR: Porsche Macan

TRACK WEAPON OF THE YEAR: McMurty Speirling

LUXURY FAMILY CAR OF THE YEAR: Volvo EX90

SMALL CAR OF THE YEAR: Suzuki Swift

RETRO HERO OF THE YEAR: Electrogenic Mini

DESIGN OF THE YEAR: Rivian R3

ALL THE CAR YOU'LL EVER NEED OF THE YEAR: Dacia Duster

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Gordon Murray

CAR OF THE YEAR: Renault 5

URL: https://www.topgear.com/car-news/2024-topgearcom-awards/best-cars-year-meet-winners-2024-topgearcom-awards

Congratulations to the winners of this year's Top Gear Awards!

The Grand Tour presents One For The Road EPISODE REVIEW

When it comes to cars, adventure, and crude toilet humor, no one comes close to Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May. These three men have been butting heads for over two decades and now, their time has reached its bittersweet end as the final Grand Tour adventure, titled One For The Road, signals the end of the world's most undesirable but desirable threesome.

The Grand Tour presents One For The Road

The Grand Tour trio bought three classic cars for their final road trip across Zimbabwe. They ventured and survived to Botswana, the fateful place where the first-ever Top Gear special occurred nearly two decades ago. James chose the Triumph Stag, Richard chose the first-generation Ford Capri, and Jeremy chose the Lancia Montecarlo.

Tackling through Zimbabwe's worst road conditions, forest fires, coal dust, crocodile-infested waters, and bustling towns, the trio is doing whatever means necessary to get from Zimbabwe to Botswana, where they will relive the fateful moment they conquered their first-ever Top Gear special nearly two decades ago by driving through the flats towards Kubu Island.

After over two decades, the days of seeing Clarkson, Hammond, and May butting each other came to a complete end. From Top Gear to The Grand Tour, driving and rambling across Europe, the Americas, and Asia, they have cemented themselves as the greatest motoring trio that ever existed and now that they've fully served their purpose, it's hard to imagine what's next for them after their final Grand Tour.

An appropriately grand goodbye to TV's most iconic motoring trio that sped around the globe in fast cars and crude toilet humor.

Goodbye forever, Clarkson, Hammond, and May.

My Top 10 Favorite Grand Tour Episodes

Popped up from the time Trump won the presidency, The Grand Tour welcomed back the infamous Clarkson Hammond and May trio for more exciting motoring mayhem since leaving Top Gear in 2015. For eight years, fans have witnessed their globe-trotting motoring mischief from Portimao to Sahara, but sadly, the time has come to say goodbye as The Grand Tour's series finale is coming next month.

The Grand Tour Episode 1

As the world prepares for The Grand Tour's final road trip, it's time for me to jot down my top ten favorite episodes from the hit Prime Video TV series.

10) Season 3 Finale - Season 3 finale not only marked a fitting tribute to Ford saloons but it also marked the final time the show featured the tent full of audience and the Eboladrome.

9) Season 2 Episode 3 - The third episode of The Grand Tour Season 2 featured James May driving a Kia Stinger against skateboarders. Hammond and May turned a business park into a racetrack for salarymen to enjoy. And Clarkson took a trip from Monaco to Italy in the Bugatti Chiron. The Chiron segment is my favorite in terms of mindfulness.

8) Mongolia Special - The penultimate episode of The Grand Tour Season 3 saw the boys explore the Mongolian wilderness using their DIY off-roader. With scarce supplies at their arsenal, the trip became a struggle for survival. The epic struggle of survival comes with massive twists even at the end of their Mongolian adventure.

7) Season 1 Episode 11 - This episode of The Grand Tour features the trio driving second-hand Maseratis in the north of France. The climax is truly a thriller and comedy gold, and I couldn't stop laughing at the "Deshabille" sign on James' Zagato Spider.

6) Season 1 Episode 2 - The second episode of the first season saw the boys in a military training ground in Jordan which involves rescuing a VIP from a hijacked plane and escorting the VIP to safety while being pursued by terrorists. After several attempts later, the boys cleared the exercise...only if they didn't count Jeremy Clarkson as a casualty at the end of the exercise. On the plus note, we get to see the Audi S8 Plus in action.

5) Seamen - After the end of Season 3, The Grand Tour moved on to focus on cross-country adventures, and one such is Seamen; where the boys are on an aquatic adventure from Cambodia to Vietnam. The watery hijinks and some history lessons from Clarkson made this adventure one of my favorite Grand Tour episodes to watch over and over.

4) Season 1 Episode 9 - This episode features one of Clarkson's craziest inventions: a Mercedes SL rigged with monster off-road wheels called "The Excellent." It also showcases post-apocalyptic vehicles that are not immune to attacks from military vehicles such as tanks and battleships.

3) Season 1 Episode 3 - This episode of The Grand Tour features the trio on an epic Italian road trip. They drive an Aston Martin DB11, a Rolls Royce Dawn, and a Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat. While in Venice, Hammond's American habits ruin the rest and relaxation of the other presenters. Even after they reach the end of the trip, no one is safe from Hammond's American antics. In the segment following the road trip, Hammond and May destroy Clarkson's home after losing a bet from the pilot episode.

2) Season 2 Episode 5 - This episode of The Grand Tour features one of my favorite moments. Jeremy Clarkson stages his own Gymkhana-style video using a Subaru Impreza WRX. In true Clarkson fashion, some sheep are killed in the making of that clip.

1) Eurocrash - Of all the Grand Tour episodes I've watched, this ended up being my favorite. In Eurocrash, the boys set off on a road trip no one tried; from Gdansk, Poland, to Lake Bled, Slovenia. A cheeky-named backup car, Formula Easter, the second-largest Jesus statue in the world, an old WW2 POW camp, a stolen Nigel Mansell wax statue, a Praga Bohema hypercar, archers, and a climactic race to the airplane, this is The Grand Tour like no other.

The Grand Tour presents One For The Road premieres this September 13, 2024, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. Before the tearful finale, be sure to binge-watch the entire series!

A quick 45-year history of Eat Bulaga

The Philippines' longest-running variety TV show, Eat Bulaga, is officially 45 years old today. For four-and-a-half decades, the longest-running noontime variety TV show in Philippine history, Eat Bulaga, has become the staple of every Filipino household with its rousing and engrossing segments with engaging hosts, including the so-called Holy Trinity of Eat Bulaga; Vic Sotto, Joey de Leon, and Senator Vicente "Tito" Sotto III.

In honor of the show's 45th anniversary, it's time for a quick history lesson about the Philippines' longest-running variety TV show.

TVJ and the Dabarkads
Moving Forward to TV5
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Eat Bulaga first aired on July 30th, 1979, with Broadcast City as their first home studio with RPN-9 (now RPTV) as their home network. Then, they moved to the Celebrity Sports Plaza in 1987 until they switched to ABS-CBN's Studio 1 (now Dolphy Theater) in 1989. The show re-used the Celebrity Sports Plaza in 1994 to say farewell to ABS-CBN as they moved to GMA-7 and their fourth home studio of the show, Broadway Centrum, in 1995. 

After 23 years of delivering rousing and engrossing segments in the heart of Broadway Centrum, not to mention spawning an Indonesian version of the said show, the country's longest-running noontime show has moved to its fifth home location, the APT Studios, marking a brand new beginning in Eat Bulaga's four-decade history.

The TVJ and the Dabarkads enjoyed the spoils of the success of their show for over four decades until the Dark Age of Eat Bulaga came. No, it's not because of the COVID pandemic, it's because of the Jalosjos family in charge of TAPE that spurred a feud between TVJ and TAPE, Inc. That feud between them because of the show's proposed changes prompted the TVJ trio to leave TAPE for good at the end of May 2023 along with the other Dabarkads. Their farewell speech wasn't televised and instead streamed on the official Eat Bulaga Facebook page.

Come June 5, 2023, nearly a week after TVJ and the Dabarkads left Eat Bulaga, the noontime show welcomed the new batch of hosts consisting of Paolo Contis, Buboy Villar, Betong Sumaya, Cassy and Mavy Legaspi, and Alexa Miro. The new batch of EB hosts was later expanded with former Manila city mayor Isko Moreno and Kimpoy Feliciano. Their welcoming arrival in Eat Bulaga is mired with criticisms with some saying this is not the Eat Bulaga Filipinos loved.

Moments later, the TVJ and their Dabarkads pals got themselves a new home; TV5. The problem is, that they're still figuring out what will the name of their TV5 show will be due to a legal battle over who has the right to use the Eat Bulaga title, between the TVJ trio and TAPE. They did say they would say the title on July 1st, adding days of speculation for the observers who follow the ongoing Eat Bulaga war that caused a seismic shift in Philippine noontime viewing.

Then, on that fateful day of July 1, 2023, the same day IT'S SHOWTIME made its GTV simulcast debut, it's the comeback of TVJ and the Dabarkads in their new home channel, TV5. From an emotional welcome to the climax of their world premiere, they've unveiled the official name of their new noontime show, It's titled EAT... That's it, they called the show EAT..., but the TVJ trio said this title is temporary because they're still in a legal battle over the Eat Bulaga trademark.

The 5th of January, 2024 saw the TVJ trio of Tito Sotto, Vic Sotto, and Joey De Leon, win the copyright infringement and unfair competition cases against TAPE, Inc. and TV network GMA over the rights of the Eat Bulaga! trademark, meaning neither TAPE nor GMA Network has the right to use the Eat Bulaga or EB trademark.

As a result of the ruling, the January 6, 2024 episodes of both noontime shows saw drastic changes. The old Eat Bulaga! that Filipinos know, under the thumb of TAPE Inc., has been rebranded as "Tahanang Pinakamasaya!" while the TV5 EAT... variety show has been renamed as "EAT...BULAGA!", a seismic shift in Philippine television nearly four-and-a-half decades in the making.

Two months later, after nearly two decades on the air since moving to GMA-7, TAPE Inc.'s variety show formerly known as Eat Bulaga, renamed Tahanang Pinakamasaya, has officially ended its broadcast run. The presenters of Tahanang Pinakamasaya bid their final farewell to the viewers and audiences last Saturday, March 2, 2024, before TAPE pulled the plug on its official livestream, raising speculations that this is the end of the era. It really is.

As a result, the episodes aired on the final broadcast week were usually reruns of select episodes. A week after Tahanang Pinakamasaya was axed, GMA temporarily aired movies to fill the void left by the show's closure until IT'S SHOWTIME made its GMA-7 simulcast debut beginning April 6th.

The rest is history. Long story short but you get the point.

45 years, four TV networks, six venues, one Eat Bulaga. Over the years, Eat Bulaga has featured countless celebrity guests, musical performances, and comedy sketches. It has also been a platform for social commentary and advocacy. The show has won numerous awards.

Eat Bulaga is more than just a TV show. It's a cultural phenomenon that has touched the lives of generations of Filipinos. Happy 45th anniversary, Eat Bulaga!

Doctor Who S1 FINALE Episode Review

In the previous episode titled The Legend of Ruby Sunday, The Doctor and Ruby Sunday seek help from UNIT to uncover the mysterious woman popping up on their adventures as well as Ruby's true mother. Although they failed to find Ruby's real mother, the unmasking of Susan Triad led them to the resurrection of Sutekh, the god of death.

With Sutekh reborn, armageddon was unleashed in Empire of Death, the Season 1 finale of Doctor Who: The 15th Doctor saga.

Doctor Who S1 FINALE

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Doctor Who S1E7 Episode Review

"There's always a twist in the end." That's what The Doctor sang after defeating Maestro in The Devil's Chord but strangely, this isn't just his victory song. It's a forewarning. 

A forewarning that saw the mysterious lady, played by Susan Twist, popping up in his adventures and with Maestro's warning about "the one who waits", things are going full circle as the recent Doctor Who episode, the first of the two-part season finale, unmasks the biggest mysteries The Doctor and Ruby encountered.

Doctor Who S1E7

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Doctor Who S1E6 Episode Review

19th-century England, an intergalactic bounty hunter, alien shapeshifters, and a few Bridgerton references. That's Episode 6 of Doctor Who, The 15th Doctor saga.

Doctor Who S1E6

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Doctor Who S1E5 Episode Review

The 15th Doctor's first season has reached its halfway point and this latest episode saw The Doctor and Ruby remotely helping a young woman escape the city overrun by mysterious monsters. Like and subscribe, they said.

Doctor Who S1E5

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Doctor Who S1E4 Episode Review

What would you do when The Doctor is nowhere to be found? Ruby Sunday learned the hard way in the fourth episode of Doctor Who, the 15th Doctor era.

Doctor Who S1E4

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Doctor Who S1E3 Episode Review

The countdown to disaster is in full swing with the third episode of the 15th Doctor's adventures, which marks the return of Steven Moffatt, the showrunner during the Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi years, as the writer in charge of this episode.

Doctor Who Season 1 Episode 3

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