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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 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 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 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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Top Gear volume 6
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James, Richard and Jeremy take a break from blowing up caravans to go on holiday in one instead. Our star in the reasonably priced car is actor Brian Cox. And Richard sets a deeply unimpressive new world record with an F1 car.
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Top Gear volume 6
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Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May hit Donington in three stripped out track cars - the KTM X-Bow, the Morgan Three Wheeler and the Caterham R500. Back at the Top Gear airfield, Jeremy recreates the battle of Britain in an insane aero-engined Bentley and a flame spitting retro BMW. Plus Blur bassist and professional cheese maker Alex James is the star in the Reasonably Priced Car.
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Top Gear volume 6
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Undaunted after their epic adventures across Botswana, Vietnam and The Arctic Circle, the Top Gear presenters embark upon their most exciting challenge yet. Clarkson, Hammond and May are dropped deep in the Bolivian rainforest armed only with three shabby 4x4s. Forcing their way through gullies, rivers and dense vegetation, they succeed in crossing the jungle, only to encounter drug lords, the effects of high altitude, and the world´s most perilous...
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Top Gear volume 1
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Jeremy drives the new Swedish super - the Koenigsegg CCX, RIchard drives the new Nissan Micra convertible and James drives the new Honda Civic. They all make the first convertible people carrier and host a celebrity coffee morning on the Top Gear track with the new Top Gear car, the Chevrolet Lacetti.
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Top Gear volume 4
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Jeremy Clarkson travels to Belfast for a thorough test of the Renaultsport Twingo 133 involving a tunnel, a ferry and the actor Ross Kemp. Meanwhile, Richard Hammond investigates ways to speed up your next vacation, as he invents the brand new sport of airport vehicle racing. At the other end of the spectrum, James May tests the new Vauxhall Insignia VXR in the company of Margaret Calvert, the lady who helped mastermind the design of the familiar...
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Top Gear volume 5
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Jeremy Clarkson goes mad in two fast estates, Richard Hammond invents 'motorhome racing', the new Honda Civic Type-R is put to its paces out on the test track, and James May pits an Alfa Romeo against a man who crosses the Humber Estuary without using a bridge!
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Top Gear volume 4
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Jeremy Clarkson gets chased by the British Army in some of their latest and most deadly toys. Meanwhile, Richard Hammond and James May compare the new Porsche Panamera against a small envelope, a 39p stamp and the logistical might of the Royal Mail in a race from one end of the British Isles to the other. Plus, Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter Usain Bolt is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
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Top Gear volume 2
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Jeremy test-drives the new Chevrolet Corvette Z06. Richard goes to Iceland to race against a jet-powered kayak. Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay sets a track record (for speed - and swearing). Jeremy roadtests the new Jaguar XK Coupé. And Jeremy, Richard and James take over a BBC local radio studio for a couple of hours.
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Top Gear volume 3
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Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond are on location with a forthcoming movie as they take charge of shooting the film's climactic car chase. Clarkson uses his expertise to choreograph the stunt driving while Hammond organizes an explosive finale.
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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 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 5
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Its the biggest quest yet - can Jeremy drive an £830,000 Bugatti Veyron fast enough to beat the boys in a light aircraft flown by Captain Slow (James May). Richard also tests the new Marcos on the Top Gear track and former F1 World Champion Nigel Mansell takes to the Liana.
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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 7
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James and Richard test-drive three people carriers. Jeremy test-drives the new Lamborghini Gallardo. James races the new Peugeot 207 against two free runners in Liverpool. Jeremy, Richard and James race against the Stig - he is driving a Caterham from Surrey to Edinburgh and they are building a Caterham in Edinburgh. BAFTA-winning actor-comedian Steve Coogan (Tropic Thunder, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, I'm Alan Partridge) is the star in...
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