Top Gear to blow up a caravan when it hits 10 million Facebook Likes

Top Gear to blow up a caravan at 10M Facebook 'Likes' To celebrate hitting 10 million Facebook likes, Top Gear are to blow up a caravan when than magic 10 millionth like arrives. Say what you like about Top Gear, they certainly know how to promote their brand. From Jeremy Clarkson’s supposedly unguarded comments – which generate millions of pounds-worth of column inches – to the very nice emails we get when they’re looking to promote something, the Beeb has certainly acquired the knack of keeping Top Gear in the news.

One Lap of the Web: Lupe Fiasco, the Peel P50 and Dubai's supercar patrol fleet

We spend a lot of time on the Internet -- pretty much whenever we're not driving, writing about or working on cars. Since there's more out there than we'd ever be able to cover, here's our daily digest of car stuff on the Web you may not otherwise have heard about. -- This weekend was a car enthusiast's dream with the Indy 500, NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 and the Monaco Grand Prix.

Relive Volvo's 'Emotion of Design' Google Hangout

If you missed out on Volvo's ‘Emotion of Design' Google Hangout, which was broadcast on Volvo's YouTube channel on 28 November, you can relive it here. The Hangout, which featured Volvo's exterior design chief Maximilian Missoni, neuropsychologist Dr David Lewis and Wallpaper magazine's automotive correspondent Jonathan Bell, discussed the results of the Swedish carmaker's experiment to measure the emotional response to the Volvo Concept Coupé – among other things – using an electroencephalographic (EEG) machine. Participants were asked to rate a series of images while wearing an EEG headset measuring brainwave activity, with results showing that car design and emotions were inexorably linked.