Season 9 Episode 7 (Polar Special)
The distance between Resolute in northern Canada and the magnetic North Pole at Ellef Ringnes Island is 320 nautical miles (450 miles). It’s a journey across sea ice and unforgiving mountainous terrain, where temperatures can drop to minus 65ºC – a temperature at which exposed skin can freeze in less than 30 seconds. Only fools [...]
Season 9 Episode 6
The perfect British hen night: A fat girl with a tattoo, her drunken friend with those little devil ears molesting a male stripper, “L” plates, copious vomiting and of course – a stretch limo. But why hire one when you can make your own? Step forward the Top Gear boys who do just that. Once [...]
Season 9 Episode 5
Jeremy has a train at about 75 MPH crash into a Renault Espace parked on the tracks. Richard, Jeremy, and James pick some big farming tractors and compete them in a series of competitions. Jeremy drives the Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 and the Stig gives it a lap time. Richard, Jeremy, and James use their tractors [...]
Season 9 Episode 4
The new Porsche 911 turbo is taken round the Top Gear track, as Jeremy takes the newest creation from German manufacturer Brabus for a spin round the track. James and Richard attempt to turn a Reliant Robin into a fully functioning space shuttle. While ‘Hot Fuzz’ star Simon Pegg is the latest star in a [...]
Season 9 Episode 3 (US Special)
On land-of-the-free Top Gear, we spent the whole show in the good ole USA, as we sent Jeremy, Richard and James across the pond on a massive interstate road-trip.
Our presenters touched down in sunny Miami amid a heady cocktail of bikini-clad beach babes, colourful art deco buildings and drug-related gangland violence. They were each given [...]
Season 9 Episode 2
The lads try to play golf – the game which pervades exclusivity and stupid trousers – whilst testing the Audi TT, the Alfa Romeo Brera and the Mazda RX-8, three coupes in the £20,000 – £25,000 price range. James, in an attempt to bury his Captain Slow persona, attempts to take the Bugatti Veryron up [...]
Season 9 Episode 1
On it’s-been-a-long-time-coming Top Gear, a fully mended Richard Hammond returned to your screens. Jeremy tried to decide if the Jaguar XKR is a match for its Teutonic rivals, and the presenters broke the habit of a lifetime and attempted a spot of manual labour.
After making a stunning recovery, Hammond talked us through his jet car [...]
