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Season 24

Aired 7 years ago - Apr 23, 2017

Matt LeBlanc drives an eight-wheeled rescue vehicle from Russia, Rory Reid turns the world's ugliest car into a luxury yacht and Chris Harris reviews the new Porsche Cayman. Jamiroquai frontman Jay Kay is the studio guest.

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six-cylinder engine for a new, turbocharged, four-cylinder engine.
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'build up the speed gently.'
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This new version, turbocharger, no intake noise, four cylinders -
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Down there to the first corner. Let's have a look at this,
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Thank you.
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You're a fan of those.
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that it's at number one worldwide, actually.
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There's a template for the Jamiroquai video...
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and the guy went to stick it on the car transporter.
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♪ She's just a cosmic girl... ♪
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- All right, let's take a look. - Yeah, OK.
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right now, you've got a lot of options.
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And there's a central driving position.
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It encourages you to relax.
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Right, back to business.
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All... OK.
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Lassie now?
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DOG BARKS
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hundreds of miles from the nearest road - deepest, darkest Russia -
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That is the fastest-accelerating car ever made.
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That's unbelievable.
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Now, Liberty.
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But I don't think they will.
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Who was the best one, in your view?
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Trying hard. Trying hard.
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You know he takes it seriously, though. Look at his shoes -
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- Using all the circuit there. - Come on!
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You're looking up there, with the Hoy and the Noble and the Whitlock.
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- above all others. Feast your eyes on this. - This is the SsangYong Rodius,
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Who was head of vehicle design at London's Royal College of Arts,
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- What's the biggest hurdle? - Capsizing. Very worst - death.
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Oh, hot, hot, hot!
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- Oh, my God. - Look at that!
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Right in there somewhere...
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- Whoa! - Flatscreen TV!
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Oh, we've got the jump on him!
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'..our expert set us straight.'
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'and show him the SsangYacht's hidden depths,
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HE PLAYS THE EASTENDERS THEME BADLY
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Oh! Must have been one in the chamber.
Aired 7 years ago - Apr 16, 2017

Chris Harris and Rory Reid take a road trip across Cuba in a pair of second-hand sports cars, Matt LeBlanc test drives the Mercedes-AMG GT R supercar, and Ross Noble takes to the track as this week's Star in a Reasonably Fast Car.

Aired 7 years ago - Apr 02, 2017

Matt LeBlanc is the first to test America's explosive new supercar, the Ford GT. Presenters Chris Harris and Sabine Schmitz go head to head in one of motorsport's toughest events - a buggy race across the wild Californian desert.

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RADIO:
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ALWAYS!
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and, then, the departments get involved.
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In this one, you're on your own.
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It's just got such a balanced feel. So well sorted. It's just...
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you drove the Bugatti Chiron, you drove the Volvo Estate
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- Watch this. This is great. - You would, wouldn't you!
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and his legs make more torque than a Ferrari F12.
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Yeah, well, you need them, don't you? You need them.
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seeing the corner, still flat, and I thought, "Uh-oh."
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Why would you do that?
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What do you say we take a look at your training lap with Chris Harris?
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So you've taught me everything you know? All the local knowledge?
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All we needed was a place to race.
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What?! I'm not going to lose.
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- I'm not afraid. - For you maybe, not for me.
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- Given what you know about our driving background... - Yes.
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but I'm not so sure about this.
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- He's nervous, isn't he? - Guys. Here we go.
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Way to go, right around that hard section.
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Big wrecks. I mean, full-on... HE WHISTLES
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1995 replica World Championship-winning car
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There's something fundamental missing, dude - the driver!
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But there's a new Nissan that I think could change their minds
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LAUGHTER
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Well, electric cars in general,
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We have it on tape. You want to see it?
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OK, off the line.
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You're not lacking in the, um...trouser department there.
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Hopes are high.
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Thank you. Thank you, mate.
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of Top Gear's Fastest Driver Apart From The Stig.
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Don't talk to me. Don't talk to me.
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After a brutal uphill scramble, a perilous ledge,
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Yeah. So just do it.
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So really, this was a race within a race.
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- So much - BLEEP - in my face.
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'..they weren't just battling the other racers.'
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I've got a transmission issue, now.
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Aired 7 years ago - Mar 26, 2017

Chris Harris and the £2m Bugatti Chiron attempt to cross the Arabian peninsula faster than Matt LeBlanc and a roster of money-no-object transport solutions. Back in Britain, Rory Reid constructs a life-size arcade game to test the Renault Twingo GT and its city car rivals, while rap star Tinie Tempah tackles the Top Gear track in the Reasonably Fast Toyota GT86. MORE -LESS

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236 and that's the limit to there.
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Drink in, Mr Chiron! Get it down you!
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You see, it was admired, but never really adored.
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- this is a billionaire's game. - Yeah! - Let me give you some stats.
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of any Top Gear film ever and that's not all, because,
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- Yeah, yeah. This isn't your first time here. - No, it isn't, actually.
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I've been working on it for two years.
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I don't know, we spent a week together and I realised that you was
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"This is probably all because of Chris, somehow."
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- Understeer, understeer, understeer. - There we go. Am I within the line?
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the GT has bigger alloys,
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Your Ford Focus RSes and your Golf Rs and the like,
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Because there's no oily, petrolly, motory stuff jammed in
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the Top Gear arcade-based maze re-creation challenge.
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Or were you part of the stick and hoop generation?
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This is the best city car, bar none.
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I am on a dot spree now, baby.
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And off the line, the Twingo, rear-engine traction,
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Oh, that's rude! That's rude!
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- I told you. - All right, now...
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they invited me down to be factory.
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I think it's time to take a look at Tinie's lap around the track.
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Oi, oi! It's all about the smoothness, T.
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You watch it back and you're like...
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the 1,500 horsepower Bugatti Chiron.
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It's not possible to get anywhere faster than in this car.
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One of us is currently winning...
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Once we get out on the open water, we can pin it.
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'Fast as you like.'
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Well, since he asked, it was time for the second stage of my commute.
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This reads to 500 kilometres per hour.
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I, my friend, am sitting in the back of
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Ah. The border.
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- Hashtag - can I please get on with it? - How are you, sir?
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Oh, that's a steep climb.
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maximises performance and efficiency.
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You know when your brain tells you you just have to keep moving
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Hey, Chris, I don't know where you are or what you're doing,
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Come on, push, push!
Aired 7 years ago - Mar 19, 2017

Matt LeBlanc's review of the Aston Martin DB11 is thwarted by Chris Harris and a very evil Mercedes. Elsewhere, Rory Reid and Sabine Schmitz go supercar-hunting on Germany's fearsome Nurburgring race circuit with the help of the VW Golf Clubsport S, while actress Tamsin Greig takes to the Top Gear track in the new Reasonably Fast Car.

Aired 7 years ago - Mar 12, 2017

Matt LeBlanc and Chris Harris embark on an all-season US road trip in the latest convertible supercars from Lamborghini and Porsche, journeying from broiling desert to snowy mountain. Back at the test track, Rory Reid sets the toughest of driving challenges for Chris and the Alfa Romeo Giulia, while actor David Tennant takes a spin in the new Reasonably Fast Car. MORE -LESS

Aired 7 years ago - Mar 05, 2017

Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris and Rory Reid return for the 24th series of Top Gear. This week features the astonishing, ultra-exclusive Ferrari FXXK, tested to the max by Chris Harris at the Daytona circuit in Florida. Matt, Chris and Rory then race across Kazakhstan in three high-mileage cars: a Mercedes saloon, a Volvo estate and a London taxi, all of which have done at least 480,000 miles, the equivalent distance of going to the moon and back. Actor James McAvoy guest stars in the studio and on the famous Top Gear test track. MORE -LESS

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You must be invited.
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That's 87 more than the LaFerrari road car.
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..I'm 100 yards further than I thought.
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But, unlike a modern Formula One car,
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its hunger for downforce crushes the tyres into the tarmac.
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So, as a car, the FXXK doesn't really make sense.
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But we'll try to coax it back again for a lap later in the series
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This is the weird thing. I played a car thief in Shameless
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And after all those Lianas and Lacettis and Cee'ds...
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Welcome to the Toyota GT86.
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So it's a pressure washer for £150,000 Sterling.
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- You know Mad Max Fury Road? - Yeah.
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Look, I know, it's not going to set any pulses racing,
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So that's had the hardest life imaginable.
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But before he could get in and show us, a man appeared in an old Lada.
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all were launched from this 3,000 square mile
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The sun's out, Rory. Think positive, think warm.
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79 horsepower! 0-60 in 21 seconds.
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Your Volvo looks like the Terminator near the end of the film.
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so the apple was invented here.
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"in a simple game of tag.
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They're surprisingly quick, these Ladas, these local hands.
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Yeah, I think so. We'll get there. We'll get the old girl to Baikonur.
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- JAMES LAUGHS - Erm...
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'Blending left, turning right into Chicago.
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- It really was treacherous. - Yes.
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because you just can't control it
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But since we had the place to ourselves,
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I've got terrible aero and no power cos my airbox has moved
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155.
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3mph more than the manufacturer's quoted top speed.
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..we were told to head to our last overnight stop...
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"The two losing cars will be sentenced to hard labour."
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I don't know, and maybe the taxi finally packed it in.
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Rickard Rydell debuted the Volvo 850 Estate.
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SPEAKS RUSSIAN
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No!
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'And at last...'
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He must be checking the mileage.
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'on the Kazakh Steppe...'