Top Gear

Almost six months on, Top Gear is still causing offence amongst Romania’s ostrich population

by Craig Turp April 15, 2010 Bucharest

 Oh dear. It appears that some Romanian with a grudge against the Daily Telegraph, Top Gear and Britain in general successfully hacked into the Daily Telegraph’s website last night, replacing a sub-domain page with his (or her) own rant about how Britain continually misrepresents Romania’s image. The hacker, or hackers – calling himself RNS: Romanian [...]

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Top Gear in Romania: Do you know what good press is?

by Craig Turp November 23, 2009 Romania

 Last weekend, the BBC’s Top Gear featured Romania heavily (especially the Transfagarasan highway) in the first programme of a new series. If you have not seen the programme, tough: it was on You Tube but the BBC has taken at least some of the videos down (and not without good reason, they do own the [...]

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