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A more detailed preview of the episode and some pics

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Sunday nights haven't been the same since the footie started, but now all the blood, sweat, diving and headbutts are finished Top Gear is back to entertain you.

This week Jeremy tests some hot boring saloons, the Stig drives an F1 car (indoors), Hollywood actor Brian Cox is let loose in the Lacetti and the boys go, er, on a caravanning holiday to Dorset. Here's some more info:

In the news...
Jeremy and Richard spend a long time arguing about American muscle cars - no prizes for guessing which corner Clarkson's in...

The lads also discuss the recent influx of folding metal drop-tops and how Volvo managed to get an endorsement from Jesus (well, kind of - the pope has just bought himself an XC90).

And finally, a new survey has revealed that people who have speed indicators in their cars receive less penalty points - couldn't have predicted that one, could you?

Rep Race...
Jeremy starts the show this week with three family saloons - but don't switch off, they've got over 700bhp between them. His mission is to find out which beefed-up boring saloon is best - Mondeo ST200, Mazda6 MPS or Vectra VXR.

We're all going on a miserable holiday...
Three men in boat may work but three in a caravan doesn't. TG is not famed for its love of caravans, but the boys decided if you can't beat them, join them - at least for a weekend.

Dorset was their destination, but with Captain Slow at the wheel things go from bad to worse and then really bad. James has an encounter with a bollard, Richard gets kidnapped and the TG dog chucks up in the van. Oh, and then Jeremy decides to cook...

Star in a reasonably priced car...
This week's star in a reasonably priced car is Hollywood actor Brian Cox - think Troy, Bourne Identity and the original Hannibal Lector).

The Stig stays indoors...
The British International Motor Show starts next week at the ExCel exhibition centre (we'll be there - find out who else is in our preview), but before they started to jam it full of shiny cars it was a big empty space crying out for a TG experiment. Cue the Stig in a F1 car (and the Lacetti for practice)

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so it's official now, Jezza is not dead.

^^ I'm pretty sure it was :?

sigh, if he was dead then it would be all ove the timesonline.co.uk website (he writes articles there) .... which it isn't.

Plus i heard somewhere, dun't remember where, that the TG episodes are filmed on wednesdays and then edited until they air on sundays on that respective week.

Yeah the studio footage is recorded just a couple of days before it airs so he cannot be dead unless hes talking from beyond the grave.

Just finished watching the episode.... and it was just the funnyest episode ever.

and what was Jezza thinking bringing that Ak-47 to a caravan trip? lol

I just want them to test the freakin 997 turbo already!!!!@$!$!#!%

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Originally Posted by joe2tiger

I just want them to test the freakin 997 turbo already!!!!@$!$!#!%

Fifth Gear is testing it on tomorrow's episode

Discussion Thread

Never thought I'd say this, but I look forward to the hot boring saloons. I want to know if all those upgrades make em woth the money. I have my doubts. :roll:

So Clarkson drove through Alabama in a car with “Hillary for president” written on the side??? LOL

I said before that Top Gear was headed to be an MTV style reality show and it has in this latest episode!! That whole caravan bit was basically “Road Rules”. It was entirely scripted and they didn’t even try to sell it very hard! And it took up more that half the show!

Just terrible, I miss the old Top Gear. Fifth Gear is by far the better car show now without question!!

What a farce of a show Top Gear has become... I chuckled here and there, but on the whole it was pretty much a boring crap fest. The Formula 1 test was the biggest let down in recent memory... And the fire? Yea, because that wasn't blatantly scripted or anything... The caravan beside them was vacant in every shot, and was obviously nothing more than a simple prop. The fire itself, well all JC had to do was take the pan outside and crisis averted.

/is happier with Fifth Gear

Have you folks tried calling James May? They flashed his number at the back of the caravan.

Did you notice how Clarkson criticized Hollywood and the movie “Die Hard” as being stupid and too “over the top”. Then he went on to participate in a third rate MTV rip off skit?!?! That fake “cast member friendship strained” nonsense was just about as bad as it gets!! And the dramatic music over all of it?

Anyone else see something wrong here?

Can somebody give more details about the F1 test ???

Numbers ?