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James May co-drives Kris Meeke around the Hafren Sweet Lamb stage of the 2012 WRC Wales Rally GB. The Bentley was followed all around the stage by a helicopter with a camera. A Top Gear feature for the new series in 2013?

Jeremy Clarkson Will Host Top Gear For At Least Three More Years With Hammond And May

Along with co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson has signed a new three-year contract with BBC2 to continue hosting Top Gear. What a relief. Without the snarky Yorkshireman at the helm, the whole thing would go to pieces.

But the real news here is how much money Clarkson is making and how he makes it. After nearly 25 years on the job with Top Gear he is raking in the pounds sterling. Once you add merchandising revenue to the BBC licensing fee, his salary edges close to $5 million.

He could definitely buy an extra AMG Mercedes or two with that kind of cash rolling in.

A big chunk of this revenue comes from the for-profit arm of his operations, Bedder 6, which he operates with producer Andy Wilman. This allows Clarkson and others to take extra dollars from the commercial rights to the show and merchandise. The Beeb's Worldwide Productions arm is taking control of this company 100%, allowing Hammond and May to get a cut of the revenues.

This clears up some of the interesting financial arrangements Clarkson has benefited from while also giving his co-hosts a fairer share. Oh, yeah, and I'm sure they're getting a nice payout from BBC Worldwide.

It's good to be the Jezza.

Well people here we go. Warm clothes and thick boots packed. We leave in two hours to start the Top Gear Christmas Special. Airs in February

I know February isn't Christmas. But it is our Christmas special. And it will be shown in February. Don't ask me why.

Top Gear: The Worst Car in the History of the World will be released on DVD, Blu-Ray and digital download on Monday 19th November 2012

Jeremy Clarkson and James May will present their opinions on The Worst Car in the History of the World in a brand new, all exclusive Top Gear DVD.

Jeremy and James travel to the North of England to name and shame the most rubbish cars in the entire WORLD. It's a labour-intensive affair, filled with heated debates, giant cranes, James being locked in his own car boot and...Jeremy being tied to a tree.

But don't be fooled, it's not all about terrible cars -- to appreciate the stinkers you have to revel in some good ones too -- like the 4.5 litre Ferrari 458 Spider, Toyota's GT86 and the £340,000 Lexus LFA running shoulders with a Mercedes SLS AMG.

As they are up North, the boys invite The Stig's Yorkshire cousin to be a guest driver. Putting his whippet to one side he throws the BMW M5 round a gymkhana course before testing out a couple of Transatlantic challengers with Jeremy and James. Things, you won't be surprised to hear, don't go according to plan.

The debate about The Worst Car in the History of the World continues while the boys play a few rounds of golf. But that doesn't go according to plan either. They even put their own cars -- past and present --into the reckoning. That ends badly too.

The rest of the time up North is spent arguing over the great and the awful from Peugeot, Ford, Mahindra, FSO, Alfa Romeo, Rolls Royce, Porsche, Citroen, Saab and many more.

There's also a special surprise fate in store for the car picked as the biggest loser...

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On December 11 2012 07:21 Body_Shield wrote:
Jeremy and James on the Graham Norton Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tnECarb7AE