Top cast Edit. Sabine Schmitz Self as Self. Josh Cohen Narrator as Narrator. Tom Chilton Self as Self …. Eddie Jordan Self as Self …. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Top Gear is a British television series about motor vehicles, primarily cars, and is a relaunched version of the original show of the same name, airing since , and becoming the most widely watched factual television programme in the world.
Bring on the Bangers and Mash! Did you know Edit. Trivia Throughout series 22 symbols of Chile appear in the show for example on one episode a picture of Alexis Sanchez Chilean footballer is visible on a table. On another the Stig is on a Chilean flag. This is because it was Chilean people who helped them escape Argentina in the controversial 'Patagonia special'. Quotes Richard Hammond : [Talking about the Ford GT's poor fuel economy and the fact that Jeremy is getting one] And actually, 17 and a half gallon tank.
Alternate versions Top Gear reruns on the UKTV Network including the Dave channel have approximately one quarter of the episodes cut out to make room for adverts. Connections Featured in Screenwipe: Episode 3. User reviews Review.
Top review. Worth every penny the BBC invests. While it can be argued that more substantial programmes exist, whether fictional or not, it is certain that Top Gear is an extraordinarily entertaining show with plenty to keep most on their bolsters. This is certainly due to the faithful backing of the BBC, but more importantly, to the three crazed bloody lunatics who host the series.
Clarkson, May and Hammond share between each other many decades worth of experience in broadcasting, as well as motoring, and are impeccable contrasts well matched for their respective opinions 'n roles. In the season finale, host Richard Hammond guides viewers through another batch of the most disastrous outcomes from past seasons of Top Gear. Jeremy, Richard and James will take a Porsche , Lotus Esprit and Ford Mustang through their most gruelling challenge to date: a mile trek through Patagonia to the southernmost city in the world, in order to stage an epic game of car football against Argentina.
There will be swamps, deserts, forests, beaches, and ski slopes for the three V8 sports cars to suffer. There will also be broken bones, mechanical calamities and even some cows.
Jeremy, Richard and James will take a Porsche , Lotus Esprit and Ford Mustang through their most grueling challenge to date: a mile trek through Patagonia to the southernmost city in the world, in order to stage an epic game of car football against Argentina. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May exclusively preview the forthcoming new series of Top Gear in front of a studio audience and online fans from around the world at a special event in London. Jeremy, Richard and James feature in a compilation of their finest moments from series Alphabetical celebration of the best of the Clarkson, Hammond and May years.
From very early on in Top Gear's life the phrase 'We decided to have a race' has appeared often. Some of the races have been brief, and some have been simply epic. Matt LeBlanc, one of the fastest ever celebrities round the Top Gear test track, presents a selection of the greatest and most entertaining races from the past 13 years.
Another batch of the most entertaining races in Top Gear's history including a classic Ferrari Daytona against a million pound powerboat to St Tropez, a jet-powered flying man against Richard Hammond in a rally car, an Audi RS4 vs a speed climber and Jeremy vs the might of the British Army.
Matt LeBlanc looks back at more amazing races from the archive, including James May in a Mistubishi Evo rally car vs Richard Hammond in a bobsleigh, a steam train vs a classic Jaguar and a Vincent motorcycle, and James May races a pair of free-runners across a Liverpool in a car v parkour face-off. In this batch of the best races from the Top Gear archive, can a Ferrari beat public transport in a marathon to the French Alps?
Plus, Jeremy races the sun itself in a supercharged Jaguar, and a driverless military vehicle from the U. Featuring the greatest Top Gear adventures from the last three series. This week the boys head to Kazakhstan to test three very high-mileage motors, and Matt makes a special bond with an Aston Martin before getting dusty in the desert in the Ariel Nomad.
Chris tests two new sports cars from Japan, Matt challenges Chris to a very expensive race, Chris shows Matt the charms of the Citroen 2CV, and Rory has a special plan for the world's ugliest car. This week Chris takes on Sabine in the world's toughest off-road race, Matt puts the Dodge Demon through its paces at NASA, and then speeds up farming with an all-new tractor. Top Gear sets out on a high-altitude voyage from Kathmandu, capital of Nepal, to the Forbidden City of Lo Manthang, a secretive kingdom perched high on the Tibetan plateau, on the far side of the Himalayas.
It is a five-day expedition through the highest mountains, deepest gorges and harshest terrain on the planet. On their journey, the Top Gear presenters battle river crossings, mudslides and dizzying mountain passes on a trip that would test even the hardiest new 4x4s on the planet to the limit. More of the best bits from the last two series. Freddie tries to bungee-jump a car off a dam, Paddy sets out to prove an old hearse is the ultimate family car, and Chris remembers the iconic Lotus 79 race car.
The Dallara Stradale takes to the Top Gear track. Freddie, Chris and Paddy tackle the highlands of Peru in some old American road-trip cars.
Chris tests the jaw-dropping, all-electric ID-R race car. Freddie, Chris and Paddy build their own electric sports cars for the inaugural 24 Minutes of Le Mansfield race. Another chance to see some highlights of the recent series featuring Chris Harris, Freddie Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness messing around in cars.
Freddie attempts to drive mph in a Jaguar XJ, the team try out some of James Bond's greatest cars, and the Lamborghini Sian gets a test drive. Chris, Freddie and Paddy attempt to drive insurance write-offs around a terrifying Wall of Death, Chris reviews the Ferrari SF90, and the boys race around Alton Towers in electric cars. More highlights from recent series of the motoring show.
Chris Harris, Paddy McGuiness and Freddie Flintoff aren't choosing their own cars, but instead choosing for one another. Then it's time for the presenters to visit the Top Gear test track, transformed into a winter wonderland of speed. Join the dynamic motoring duo as they face all sorts of challenges and stunts on their quest for the perfect road trip, which culminates in a strangely literal car race on the island of Capri.
This time it really is perfect. Except for the bits that aren't. Jeremy Clarkson and James May travel to the North of England to name and shame some of the worst cars in history, from manufacturers who "should have known better". The definitive guide to motoring in a post-apocalyptic world. T test. The explosions are huge, the cars are superb, so relax and enjoy. Included as part of the first episode of Series 18, the presenters head to Italy for a roadtrip in three of the latest and greatest supercars as an alternative to the Ferrari Italia: the Lamborghini Aventador, the McLaren MPC, and the Noble M Their trip includes a few surprising breakdowns and a meeting with the Stig's Italian cousin.
They must then drive the cars they buy across fairly unforgiving terrain in Botswana. Jeremy, Richard and James are dropped deep in the Bolivian rainforest armed only with three shabby 4x4s which they bought untested over the internet from local small ads for a maximum of pounds each. They attempt to drive them from the heart of Bolivia to the coast of Chile, encountering local drug lords, the debilitating effects of high altitude and the terrifying sheer drops of the infamous Death Road along the way.
Danny Boyle was the guest star. It was the first special in Top Gear history to be split into two parts and air across two episodes, airing as the sixth and seventh episodes in the nineteenth series.
The team traveled through Central Africa to achieve this goal, starting in Uganda and traveling through Rwanda to reach their final destination in Tanzania. The special was originally slated as a Christmas Special for and was filmed in the same year, however it was pushed back and aired in instead.
The Burma Special was a two-part special episode of the BBC motoring show Top Gear which saw the three presenters using a trio of derelict lorries to travel across Burma, also known by its modern name of Myanmar, to Thailand in order to construct a bridge over the River Kwai, in reference to the movie starring Alec Guinness. The special aired as the penultimate and final episode in Top Gear's twenty-first series, on the 9th of March, and the 16th of March, respectively.
The special aired in two parts like 's Africa Special which preceded it, and 's later Patagonia Special, which succeeded it. The combined runtime of both episodes is minutes, or 2 hours and 5 minutes. The Burma Special faced controversy after its airing when viewers complained that Jeremy and Richard made racist remarks in the second part of the episode by referring simultaneously to the gradient on their bridge and a local Thai man crossing it. The Ford GT and the new Mazda 6 also feature.
Also featured is a Volvo which runs on vegetable oil. Also, how many motor bikes can be jumped by a double decker bus? A Westfield goes up against the Pagani Zonda and a gang what is the collective noun for grannies? The grannies return, this time to see who can master the 'art' of handbreak parking. The cool wall is unveiled. Jeremy drives a diesel supercar and the search for the fastest religion begins. Jasaon Dawe visits a school with a selection of supercars, to find out which is the children's favourite.
Those that couldn't make it into the first race came together for part two of "The Fastest Faith. A Nissan Sunny - the car Richard hates more than any other is also destroyed in the same manner. Jamie Oliver tries his luck in the Liana as the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car, he also tries to prepare a salad in his camper van, whilst being driven around the track by the Stig. On the track, politicians representing the main political parties, as well as some less well-established parties try to become the fastest political party.
He managed an impressive tally of two. Richard meets Richard Lynne, who has a car in his kitchen. Also, can the Ford rally team mechanics change the suspension, gearbox, brakes, differential, driveshaft and clutch of a rally car, more quickly than four women can get ready for a night out? James is given the task of setting a new land speed record for a car towing a caravan. Naturally they choose the wettest place in Britain, Buttermere in Cumbria. Jodie Kidd shows the men how to drive the Liana - properly.
He also drives the new Vauxhall Signum, from the back seat using a hoe and string. Richard drives the TVR Tc James drives the enormous Cadillac Sixteen prototype; Jeremy drives the Range Rover s which has been tuned by Overfinch, and Britain's fastest disabled driver.
The Stig drives off the end of an aircraft carrier!? Richard tries not to drown himself when he is dropped into a huge water tank whilst sitting behind the wheel of a Vauxhall Carlton. This is done as an experiment to show what can happen should you drive your car into water. James drives the Countach - something he's been waiting 20 years to do. Jeremy drives the Gallardo. An year-old diesel Toyota Hilux is tested for its durability by Jeremy. He drives in into a wall, a tree and through a shed.
They even drop a caravan on top of it, but still it works. James tries to succeed where Jeremy failed by trying to kill the Toyota Hilux by placing it on top of a tower block that is due to be demolished. Can it survive the foot drop as the tower block collapses? As usual the boys are squabbling about cars.
This time they can't agree on which is the best British car. Rover Lotus Exige can it missile lock? The show also introduces the Indian-made City Rover. However, Rover wouldn't let anyone on Top Gear drive one, so an ingenious plan was hatched to test the car using covert tactics. An Apache helicopter gunship tries to get missile lock on a Lotus Exige driven by Jeremy - obviously! The American 'bling' machine, the Cadillac Escalade, is driven by Richard who probably wished he couldn't drive after five minutes behind the wheel.
A nun, Sister Wendy Beckett, drives a monster truck. An Audi, a Volvo and a Rover! Jordan is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car. STi battle revised In this episode, there's a race between some homing pigeons and a Ford Ka driven by, James. James used satellite navigation and ended up getting lost. Jeremy attempted to drive a diesel-powered Audi A8 Quattro with a V8 engine miles on one tank of fuel. James and Richard played darts with cars and one more caravan was removed from the roads.
Jeremy drives the Nissan Cube and the Renault Clio. Jeremy drove a new Mercedes with 'more power than God' and the Spyker C8, a car from of all places, Holland.
Lionel Richie is the Star in a reasonably Priced Car. Science in action James finds out if it is possible to parachute into a moving car. James tries the new Volvo V50 and wonders if it's as good as its rivals, while Richard having clearly drawn the short straw, drives the new Corvette. There's also time to destroy an ice-cream van and some bouncy castles and Bill Bailey is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
The new Ford Focus is tested by Richard and compared to its rivals. Ben Collins drives the cars - Stig without his helmet? Jeremy compares super cars from the s with their modern counterparts to see if the more modern up-to-date cars are really better. Jeremy drives the new Land Rover Discovery to the top of Ben Tongue all 1, feet of it , a Scottish mountain and gives us some handy survival tips such as: take some soup in a can and a can of lemonade. Richard travels to Switzerland to find the "maddest car" in the world - an amphibious vehicle with a hydrofoil made by Rinspeed.
A quality product. There's a game of Caravan Conkers between Richard and James; they also spent 24 hours in a Smart car. This was because the makers described the interior of the car as 'lounge concept'. Unable to leave the car, they relied on passers-by to get them things such as: tea, pasties and newspapers. They spent the night parked in the Screaming Woods in Pluckley, the 'most haunted village in England'. The village 'boasts' 12 ghosts including: the Highwayman, the Screaming Man and a monk.
Comedian Jimmy Carr speeds his way to a surprise lead on the Stars in a Reasonably Priced Car leader board with a hair raising lap around the Top Gear test track! James gets all nostalgic about a musical instrument and Mercedes SL 'gullwing'.
They were then set a series of challenges to see who had bought the best car. The Prius, a supposedly eco-friendly vehicle is driven and hated by Jeremy, who said that a diesel Lupo will actually do more miles per gallon - 75 compared to the 45mpg of the Prius. He was the recipient of the Golden Cock. Another epic race pits the car against public transport. Richard and James travel by aeroplane and train in an attempt to beat Jeremy - driving a Ferrari Scaglietti, to their destination at Verbier in Switzerland.
In Lillehammer, Richard and James are having another race; with the help of the Norwegian Olympic Bobsleigh team, Richard tries to race down the bobsleigh track at Lillehammer, faster than James can travel down the road that runs along side the bobsleigh track. James is in a Mitsubishi Evo rally car driven by, Henning Solberg. The Stig gets to take a F1 Renault around the track, old racing cars compete with modern road cars to see how fast they are and Eddie Izzard is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
BMW enter the small hatchback market with the launch of their 1 series - James drives it and wonders why they bothered. There's also a race on Top Gear I hear you cry? Jeremy puts the 4 door Mercedes CLS to the test and likes it. James likes the Honda Element, which is not sold in the UK. Or the Jaguar XJS as it was better-known. There's also a look at the Batmobile. The lads hand over testing duties to their mothers to review a range of new small cars:.
Richard goes to the Nordschleife to see if Sabine Schmitz can do a lap of the infamous track in a Transit van in under 10 minutes. The lads take some convertibles to Iceland.
Specifically the Crossfire, Z, and the TT. James and Richard spend the evening as 'scootermen'. By doing this, they get to drive different cars and test them at the same time. Jeremy, James and Richard look at the latest range of off-road toys: quad bikes, hovercrafts and buggies; James travels to Dubai to test the fastest four-door saloon in the world - the Bentley Flying Spur, and the BMW 5 Series diesel is compared to the petrol version.
F1 driver Mark Webber also sets a lap-time in the Liana. Jeremy drives the Ford F Lightning pick-up truck, which is inexplicably the world's best-selling car and describes it as the worst car he had ever driven. James put his degree in music to fine use by trying to re-create the Top Gear theme tune using car engines. Richard tries a bit of drifting in the Monaro with the D1 drifting team. Austin 'Chumlee' Russell Self as Self. More like this.
Watch options. Storyline Edit. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia Season 1 and 2 of Top Gear USA closely followed the format of it's British counterpart, this included filming segments in front of a live studio audience. And like the BBC's Top Gear, the show also had it's own test track on an abandoned airstrip that was located on the defunct U. User reviews 92 Review. Top review. I Like It. The show is surprisingly up front and truthful, considering that it is on a commercial network.
People keep bashing the show for being dry and dull. The second season is where it started to pick up it's also when they introduced James May. Hopefully, they get rid of Rutledge Wood and replace them with someone more capable of the position.
But come on give it a chance, let it get a second season and hopefully it will get better. Details Edit. Release date United States. United States. History Channel United States. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 45 minutes. Related news.
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