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Welcome to the GearKnobs Wiki!

Note that this main page is likely temporary for the moment, and everything on it will be moved to other pages.

In order to classify for inclusion, the programme must satisfy at least one of the following criteria:

• Present some form of journalistic automotive content in a serious and factual manner
• Feature road testing and reviews of then-new vehicles
• Air on television or on a major streaming service
• Have a direct lineage to the Top Gear concept created by Derek Smith (i.e. Fifth Gear, Panic Mechanics, The Grand Tour) - this automatically overrules any other rule
• Accompany a magazine or other regular publication (i.e. Hot Version, Motorweek)

Programs cannot:

• Be exclusively satirical or farcical in nature
• Be internet-exclusive (otherwise this Wiki would be flooded with poorly-made, mass-produced Vlogs)
• Be exclusively focused on the re-building, restoration, or modification of cars (e.g. Car SOS, Wheeler Dealers, Pimp My Ride etc.)
• Be exclusively focused on the purchase and sale of classic cars (e.g. Chasing Classic Cars, Bangers & Cash etc.)
• Be exclusively focused on motorsport unless the show is a child program of Top Gear or a related programme (i.e. Rally Report, Top Gear Motorsport, Grand Prix reports hosted on Wheelbase etc.)
• Orignate outside Europe, Russia, North America, East Asia (Japan, Korea etc.) or Australia, otherwise there'd be hundreds of low-budget, likely lost automotive programs this Wiki would have to list

Wiki Etiquette/rules:

• All articles are to be written from the perspective of an indefinite point in the future UNLESS something is presently ongoing. This prevents the need to continually update articles should something suddenly change (i.e. a car being taken out of production, a company going bankrupt etc.)
• Similarly, major changes occurring outside any of the shows on this Wiki (e.g. incapacitating injuries, cars being scrapped, name changes etc.) are NOT to be reported unless they occur during the span of a particular show. So if Jeremy Clarkson were to have changed his name to "Jennifer" in 2015/16 as per the original stipulation of his wager, the page would only refer to him as "Jennifer" when describing events following the name change, with all preceding events and the article title itself retaining the name "Jeremy", as that is the name he was most commonly known by for over 55 years.
• As most automotive programs are British (including the earliest known example, Wheelbase), the British dialect of English is to be used in most articles, along with British-market car names (i.e. Vauxhall over Opel) unless the car in question was never sold in the UK, or an import car was used instead. An example of this is the Dodge Viper, which despite being known as a Chrysler in the UK, mostly appeared in its American form throughout TV shows.