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Season 13  "A Budget Rear-Wheel Drive Coupe"  13x5

Aired 15 years ago - Jul 19, 2009

A budget of £1,500, a rear-wheel drive coupe and some French ice. Jeremy drives the new 500bhp Jaguar XFR. Sienna Miller is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.

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Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 1
You actually hit him in the plums!
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 2
So it's done an indicated 103,000 miles. And do you know what? It feels as tight as a drum.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 3
So, is that thing gonna follow us in the usual... It is, isn't it?
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 4
This opened the floodgates.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 5
"And so, the Stig will now set a lap time in a very French and very front-wheel drive Renault Twingo 133.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 6
Was that the crummiest start you've ever seen from a human being? It wasn't good.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 7
Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 8
Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 9
'the producers were ready with their next challenge.'
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 10
Remember to brake at 60, remember to brake at 60, you stupid boy.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 11
What's Val Thorens?
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 12
That's the conclusion they've come to, and they've come up with this!
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 13
Great idea, but the problem is, you just happen to know, this has been invented by a brilliant man.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 14
Nobody gives a pig's arse about all that Diesel stuff.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 15
"Awfully sorry."
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 16
For 210 miles per hour.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 17
It could be worse if you had your wife in the front, and both daughters, and you sat in the back.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 18
There are no scoops.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 19
That's unbelievable!
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 20
'To keep it planted, it has an electronic diff like you get on a Ferrari.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 21
He can rev to 8,000, I can only rev to six and a half.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 22
Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 23
And he's off! 503 Welsh horsepowers!
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 24
Now...
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 25
Well, Alan Titchmarsh might say so,
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 26
You thought Greenpeace would save the world, but no!
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 27
because carbon dioxide is building up and they need to build something to get rid of it. Remember?
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 28
We're gonna pop the prong in the top because the gas is going down there,
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 29
but he persevered, and I'm sure, if science can make genetically-modified wheat,
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 30
So you were born in... That makes you an Americanista. Well, both.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 31
Lots of guns, leather. It's perfect for Top Gear. Leather? Yes.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 32
Well, he's not called Joe, Joe is an elite force of fighter... world protector people.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 33
That's fantastic! APPLAUSE
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 34
which is a Caribbean island, which is technically part of America.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 35
to do our lap! How was it out there? Did you enjoy it?
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 36
Oh, my God! Mummy!
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 37
we always say is quick. OK. I beat Gambon, that's a first. You beat Michael Gambon, Alan Davies,
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 38
All was perfect in the Porsche too.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 39
I can fix this.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 40
Because if it was ruined, he would have just got in the Marina,
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 41
thought of, or driven to in that drab,
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 42
Belting up an alp.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 43
That's quite cold now.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 44
Oh, dear, no! That's not gone at all well.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 45
MUSIC: Theme from "The A-Team"
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 46
Look at that! Oh!
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 47
'and an old bloke - didn't look like much of a threat either.
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 48
'we lined up for the ten-lap race.'
 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 49
Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 50

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Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 2
So it's done an indicated 103,000 miles. And do you know what? It feels as tight as a drum.
#2 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 3
So, is that thing gonna follow us in the usual... It is, isn't it?
#3 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 4
This opened the floodgates.
#4 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 5
"And so, the Stig will now set a lap time in a very French and very front-wheel drive Renault Twingo 133.
#5 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 6
Was that the crummiest start you've ever seen from a human being? It wasn't good.
#6 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 7 #7 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 8 #8 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 9
'the producers were ready with their next challenge.'
#9 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 10
Remember to brake at 60, remember to brake at 60, you stupid boy.
#10 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 11
What's Val Thorens?
#11 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 12
That's the conclusion they've come to, and they've come up with this!
#12 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 13
Great idea, but the problem is, you just happen to know, this has been invented by a brilliant man.
#13 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 14
Nobody gives a pig's arse about all that Diesel stuff.
#14 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 15
"Awfully sorry."
#15 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 16
For 210 miles per hour.
#16 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 17
It could be worse if you had your wife in the front, and both daughters, and you sat in the back.
#17 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 18
There are no scoops.
#18 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 19
That's unbelievable!
#19 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 20
'To keep it planted, it has an electronic diff like you get on a Ferrari.
#20 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 21
He can rev to 8,000, I can only rev to six and a half.
#21 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 22 #22 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 23
And he's off! 503 Welsh horsepowers!
#23 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 24
Now...
#24 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 25
Well, Alan Titchmarsh might say so,
#25 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 26
You thought Greenpeace would save the world, but no!
#26 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 27
because carbon dioxide is building up and they need to build something to get rid of it. Remember?
#27 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 28
We're gonna pop the prong in the top because the gas is going down there,
#28 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 29
but he persevered, and I'm sure, if science can make genetically-modified wheat,
#29 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 30
So you were born in... That makes you an Americanista. Well, both.
#30 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 31
Lots of guns, leather. It's perfect for Top Gear. Leather? Yes.
#31 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 32
Well, he's not called Joe, Joe is an elite force of fighter... world protector people.
#32 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 33
That's fantastic! APPLAUSE
#33 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 34
which is a Caribbean island, which is technically part of America.
#34 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 35
to do our lap! How was it out there? Did you enjoy it?
#35 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 36
Oh, my God! Mummy!
#36 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 37
we always say is quick. OK. I beat Gambon, that's a first. You beat Michael Gambon, Alan Davies,
#37 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 38
All was perfect in the Porsche too.
#38 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 39
I can fix this.
#39 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 40
Because if it was ruined, he would have just got in the Marina,
#40 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 41
thought of, or driven to in that drab,
#41 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 42
Belting up an alp.
#42 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 43
That's quite cold now.
#43 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 44
Oh, dear, no! That's not gone at all well.
#44 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 45
MUSIC: Theme from "The A-Team"
#45 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 46
Look at that! Oh!
#46 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 47
'and an old bloke - didn't look like much of a threat either.
#47 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 48
'we lined up for the ten-lap race.'
#48 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 49 #49 Recap of Top Gear Season 13 Episode 5 (S13E05) - 50 #50