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Top Gear volume 2
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Jeremy, Richard and James attempt to save the planet by building their own electric car, and then put their latest 'green' creation through the rigors of the new car testing process. Meanwhile on the track, the battle of the continents, as Europe takes on the USA and Jeremy pits the Corvette ZR1's muscle against the finesse of Audi's R8 V10. The Star in a Reasonably Priced Car is Hollywood's hottest new property, Frost/Nixon and Damned United star...
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Top Gear volume 7
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Richard drives a Formula 1 Renault as James and Jeremy visit the National Motor Museum in search of the first car with the control layout we know today. The Vauxhall VXR8 grunts around the test track. There's a review of a BMW that can drive itself, singer James Blunt is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car, and Formula 1 star Lewis Hamilton is a very special guest in the studio.
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Top Gear volume 3
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The credit crunch is confronted head on as the boys attempt to find three sensibly priced small cars that won't make you miserable, a process that involves haranguing bankers, harnessing large dogs, and almost getting arrested. Plus, James meets American stunt driving legend Ken Block, Jeremy tests the mildly insane Mercedes SL Black on the track, and comedian Michael McIntyre is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
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Top Gear volume 4
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Can you buy a decent mid-engined Italian supercar for under £10,000? There's a race between a mountain bike and a car through the streets of Lisbon, the Marcos TSO-GT takes to the track, and record-breaking yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur navigates the Top Gear track in the Liana as the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
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Top Gear volume 1
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Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May set out to discover what Top Gear might have been like 60 years ago in a race from London to Edinburgh. James grabs himself a gorgeous old Jaguar XK120 whilst Richard chooses the brutal but rather fantastically named Vincent Black Shadow motorbike. Meanwhile, in an almost unprecedented move, Jeremy takes the train.
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Top Gear volume 4
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In one of our most spectacular challenges yet, Richard Hammond travels to Cyprus where he pits the new Porshe Cayenne Turbo S against the RAF's freefall parachute display team, The Red Devils. Jeremy Clarkson employs a top interior designer to convert a Mercedes S Class into the ultimate luxury car - with suprising results. The BMW Z4M flexes its muscles when the Stig power tests it on the track and the star in the reasonably priced car is Hollywood...
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Top Gear volume 1
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Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May head for the Isle of Man to decide which is best - the Aston Martin V8 Vantage, BMW M6 or Porsche 911 Carrera S. A Supercar, the Ascari KZ1 takes to the track and Waking the Dead star Trevor Eve pushes the Liana a little too far out on the Top Gear track.
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Top Gear volume 5
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Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May attempt to prove that cars can be art by taking over an entire art gallery in Middlesbrough and filling it with motoring-related works! In their quest to prove that cars can be more popular than traditional art, the boys engage in some unusual promotional activities. Also on the show, Jeremy is on the test track in a new British supercar, the fast and expensive Noble M600.
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Top Gear volume 1
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The gang head to Italy for a supercar shootout. Their trip starts at the Nardo test track, a facility so massive it is visible from space, before heading north for a nerve wracking drive around the center of Rome.
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Top Gear volume 5
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Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May seek petrolhead heaven in three £1500 rear-wheel drive coupes and somehow find themselves entered in a terrifying French ice race. Jeremy reviews the Jaguar XFR, and actress Sienna Miller is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
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Top Gear volume 5
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Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond tackle the twin problems of an ageing population and the increasing complexity of modern cars. Their solution is to design a vehicle exclusively for the elderly. Meanwhile, James May shifts to Nevada for the ultimate challenge against an autonomous military machine. Plus actor James McAvoy is the star in the Reasonably Priced Car.
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Top Gear volume 4
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The presenters compete in an epic race across London with Jeremy in a speed boat, James and a car, Richard on his push bike and the Stig on public transport. Plus the Caparo T1 storms around the test track, Richard races the new Aston Martin V8 Vantage convertible against a jet powered roller skater, and Simon Cowell returns as the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
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Top Gear volume 6
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Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May immerse themselves in the world of classic cars to find out if they really are, as the anoraks claim, more fun than modern machinery. Armed with a budget of £3000 each they attempt to buy a pre-1982 car at auction. Then the trio are sent off to Majorca to take part in one very big challenge - a seemingly unfathomable classic car rally. Bona fide rock God Brian Johnson is the star in the Reasonably Priced...
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Top Gear volume 5
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Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May go all rural as they harness a group of high-tech tractors and attempt to grow their own petrol. The Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 dances with the devil on the test track. Jeremy discovers what happens when a locomotive hits a Renault Espace, and Kristin Scott-Thomas is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
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Top Gear volume 3
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Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May explore the idea that you can't be a proper petrolhead unless you have owned an Alfa Romeo by buying three slightly used Alfas, each for less than £1,000. Jeremy also conducts possibly the least appropriate power test ever as he takes the gargantuan Bentley Brooklands onto the track, and Gavin and Stacey actors James Corden and Rob Brydon are the Stars in the Reasonably Priced Car.
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Top Gear volume 6
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Jeremy, Richard and James celebrate 40 years of British Leyland by reviewing three of their cars that aren't that bad and Jeremy takes Aston Martin's new flagship, the DBS, out on the test track.
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Top Gear volume 7
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Jeremy Clarkson makes a film about the BMW X6 and ends up conducting one of the most expensive road tests in Top Gear history. James May drives the new Vauxhall Insignia VXR, accompanied by Margaret Calvert, the designer of Britain's road signs; and Richard Hammond tests the 340,000 pound Lexus supercar on the Top Gear track. The boys then try out the latest in electric personal transport in the studio, and the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car is blues...
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Top Gear volume 3
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Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May engage in an epic race from Wembley to the San Siro stadium in Milan. Hamstrung by a rule about price, Clarkson maximises his bang-for-buck with a $55,000, 662 horsepower Shelby Mustang GT500 while Hammond and May pin their hopes to the ever-improving pan-European rail network. Car-loving singer Amy MacDonald is the star in the Reasonably Priced Car.
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Top Gear volume 2
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The season continues at high speed as Jeremy falls in love with the Mercedes CLK Black, Richard uses the Audi RS6 to take on some annoyingly cool French skiers and James sets our in-house bravery expert an enormous challenge involving an MG Maestro. Plus, the new Mitsubishi Evo X and Subaru Impreza STi rally around the test track and Spooks actors Rupert Penry-Jones and Peter Firth go head-to-head in the Reasonably Priced Car.
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Top Gear volume 8
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Jeremy, Richard and James enter a 24-hour endurance race in what turns out to be one of their toughest challenges to date. James tries the new Fiat 500 on the mean streets of Budapest, and in a somewhat unfair challenge, the Daihatsu Materia takes on the Ascari A10.
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