Top Gear: The Alternative Highway Code

Top Gear: The Alternative Highway Code
Author: Ministry of Top Gear
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2012-06-30
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1448140706

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.

Top Gear Drivers' Handbook

Top Gear Drivers' Handbook
Author: Top Gear Motoringists' Association
Publisher: Ebury Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9781849901536

Offering a tongue-in-cheek alternative to the traditional motorists’ manual, the Top Gear Drivers’ Handbook is a wonderfully retro hardback that attempts to act as a one-stop guide to all aspects of driving. Packed with witty illustrations and trademark humour from the team behind the most successful car-based TV show of all time, this superbly presented book will make for an ideal gift for any fans of Clarkson, Hammond and May or those who are tickled by delightfully irreverent humour!

Traffic

Traffic
Author: Tom Vanderbilt
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2009-08-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0307373177

Driving is a fact of life. We are all spending more and more time on the road, and traffic is an issue we face everyday. This book will make you think about it in a whole new light. We have always had a passion for cars and driving. Now Traffic offers us an exceptionally rich understanding of that passion. Vanderbilt explains why traffic jams form, outlines the unintended consequences of our attempts to engineer safety and even identifies the most common mistakes drivers make in parking lots. Based on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood of the quotidian activity of driving to uncover the surprisingly complex web of physical, psychological and technical factors that explain how traffic works.

Top Gear Ultimate Supercars

Top Gear Ultimate Supercars
Author: Jason Barlow
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2019-10-17
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1473532043

Guaranteed to rev the engines of car fans everywhere. Supercars are the purest and most extreme expression of automotive performance there is - and no one knows the territory better than the TopGear team. With ever-increasing power outputs, radical new designs, and eye-popping price tags, this book is a celebration of the supercar in all its fabulous glory. Supercars also brings this incredibly fast-moving, hi-octane world bang up to date. The world's best writers and photographers explore the latest developments in thrilling style - from the new generation of pure-electric cars that have raised the bar for zero emissions performance, to the crazy machines hell-bent on breaking the 300mph barrier ... this is TopGear Supercars. Buckle up. Are you ready?

The Top Gear Guide to Britain

The Top Gear Guide to Britain
Author: Richard Porter
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1448141710

For over ten years, Top Gear has been travelling all over Britain in the course of making the world’s best programme about cars, driving, and three men in smart-casual clothes shouting at each other. So, who better to assemble a guide to Britain itself with all its glories, quirks and multiple words for bread rolls? This book is not only a guide for outsiders; it is an invaluable reference manual for Britons themselves, like a mirror held up to our very souls.* Join us then, as we travel from A-Z cataloguing and making moderately flippant remarks about every aspect of life and living in the best country in the world after New Zealand, Denmark, probably Canada and some bits of France. *Although in this case, a mirror that has been dropped and then run over by a small lorry but don’t worry, some bits of it still just about work.

Dream Cars

Dream Cars
Author: Sam Philip
Publisher: Ebury Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2016-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781849907811

Whether it's through raw power, elegant curves or just an eye-watering price tag, there are a small number of cars that mark the pinnacle of automotive design - and now the experts at Top Gear have chosen the very best of them. 'Dream Cars' is a celebration of the cars that achieve that perfect blend of art and engineering.

Cool 500

Cool 500
Author: Matt Master
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2012
Genre: Automobiles
ISBN: 1849901392

In this unique bible of motoring coolness, Top Gear's Matt Master recounts the stories behind history's greatest cars, from pre-war vintage motors to the supercars of the future, pairing stunning Top Gear photography and rarely seen archive photographs with expert commentary.

Gravel Roads

Gravel Roads
Author: Ken Skorseth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2000
Genre: Gravel roads
ISBN:

The purpose of this manual is to provide clear and helpful information for maintaining gravel roads. Very little technical help is available to small agencies that are responsible for managing these roads. Gravel road maintenance has traditionally been "more of an art than a science" and very few formal standards exist. This manual contains guidelines to help answer the questions that arise concerning gravel road maintenance such as: What is enough surface crown? What is too much? What causes corrugation? The information is as nontechnical as possible without sacrificing clear guidelines and instructions on how to do the job right.

And on That Bombshell

And on That Bombshell
Author: Richard Porter
Publisher: Charnwood
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2017
Genre: Automobiles
ISBN: 9781444831054

For 13 years, 22 series and 175 shows, Richard Porter was script editor of TOP GEAR, from the first faltering pilot episode in 2002 until the very last show presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May in 2015. Along the way, they destroyed cars, sparked diplomatic incidents, set fire to caravans, almost killed one of the presenters, and somehow transformed TOP GEAR from a shabby BBC Two motoring show into an Emmy-winning, record-breaking, planet-straddling behemoth. From driving monkeys to flying cars, Richard Porter provides a unique insight into how the programmes were made, revealing behind-the-scenes disasters more comical than anything seen on screen, and explaining what it was really like to work inside the self-professed 'poky motoring show' that accidentally became a global phenomenon.