Your most watched videos of 2014

In 2013, your most-watched video on TopGear.com was the first trailer for Need for Speed, a sometimes inexplicable film that married wanton destruction with the obligatory screaming into the wilderness.

This year however, things have taken an eerier turn. Here's the countdown of your most-watched vids of the year, taking in NOISE! CRASHES! And many, many JUMPS! And, of course, a ghost...

28.5 litres, spanning four cylinders and over 100 years; this is the ‘Beast of Turin', and it makes noise like nothing on earth.

It's a Fiat S76, one of just two ever built in 1910 with the intention of beating the land speed record. With 300bhp, four-valves per cylinder and multi-spark ignition, it was, for 1910, pretty bloody futuristic.

It also sounded pretty bloody fantastic. Brit Duncan Pittaway discovered the remains of one in Australia, and united it with the surviving S76 engine in the other car. And now, after more than 100 years, it's been kicked into life.

Turn up your speakers, step back, and enjoy...

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It appears you lot do not take Top Gear's sensible consumer advice to heart, because only last year we showed you a compilation of drivers getting it very wrong at the Nürburgring as a warning. Basically, a lot of people crashed, a lot.

So we warned you not to take the legendary circuit lightly. But no, you decided to forge your own crashy paths instead, as this new video shows.

We don't want to have to repeat this next year, so play safe out there, kids.

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Honda's promise is that the new Civic Type R, headed your way in 2015 (and before the anticipated launch of the new NSX sometime in the next century), will be ‘the most extreme model to wear the red ‘H' badge'.

All we know is, the teaser video previewing the Type R is one of the most inventive, excellent adverts the Japanese carmaker has ever knocked out. And it's knocked out a few corkers along the way.

We don't want to give any details away, but just remember to keep a meaty digit hovering over your keyboard's ‘R' key. Then sit back, and enjoy...

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More proof, not that it was required, of the sheer righteousness, excellence and downright majesty of the E36 BMW 3-Series Coupe*. This footage from Pritt Koik and Alari-Uku Heldna's astonishing run in their rally-spec Beemer shows quite possibly the most majestic launch-into-scary-landing-into-even-scarier-drift we've seen.

*A TopGear.com staffer may or may not own an E36

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BJ Baldwin is set a very simple challenge by his good friend, Dan Bilzerian: he must make it from the city limits to the beach in 20 minutes. Simple right?

Well, yeah, if you've got an 800bhp Trophy Truck at your disposal, which like any good helmsmith, BJ employs to wonderful, destructive use in this excellent video.

There are jumps, some spins, some fire, more jumps, and, um, did we already mention the jumps?

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The clue's in the title, really: here, Lotus's Formula One team decides that one of its lorries would make a great candidate for jumping over a Formula One car.

It'd be easy at this point to make some kind of crass analogy between said lorry and Lotus's 2014 F1 season, but, well, it's a lorry jumping over an F1 car. Sometimes, ours is not to question but to simply enjoy.

This stunt actually earned the team a place in the record books, as the longest truck jump, at 83ft and 7in. Woah.

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4. Watch the best overtake... in the world

MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi proved to everyone in the TG office - and indeed, anyone who caught wind of this video - that he's rather bloody excellent at racing.

Piloting a rally-spec Fiesta -something a lot wider than his normal two-wheeled mode of transport - Rossi squeezes down the inside under braking, spins through 180 degrees and then storms off. It's quite something.

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"A small moment on the last jump," according to an entirely stony faced Andreas Mikkelsen, VW's WRC driver, after what turned out to be a frightfully hairy landing.

Launching the Polo R off a jump and onto a very narrow landing, Mikkelsen manages to collect two slides before slowing for a left-hander. Even the ruddy photographers scampered for fear of their lives.

"Clean stage for us," Mikkelsen added. Norwegians, eh?

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This position may already have been filled by this point, but earlier this summer, we suspect there may have been a job going at the Hotel de Paris in Monaco for a valet.

Why? Because this video is proof that pride comes most definitely before a fall. After stuttering a 6.5-litre, V12-engined Aventador into a parking spot, said valet decides to give the 700bhp supercar a quick rev to placate the onlookers. Only it was still in gear, meaning the Lambo ploughed straight into an SUV in front.

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"Probably the KGB have developed new cloaking technology."

"In mother Russia car drive you."

"That was actually Marty coming back from the future."

Just a selection of comments from what is your most watched video of 2014 by a long, long shot. Yep, more than a million of you tuned in to try and solve the mystery of this eerie dashcam footage from - where else? - Russia.

Oh sure, there have been many detailed arguments, and you lot have gone to great lengths to rationally explain the GHOST CAR. But here at TG we remain unconvinced. And still quite scared.

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