Top Gear (1978)

The motoring series with a report on the best small car in Britain today — with Jeremy Clarkson and Michele Newman sifting through the ten…

The new 900 is the first car Saab has produced since General Motors took a controlling interest in the company. Jeremy Clarkson discovers w…

Chris Goffey, a long-time MG enthusiast, tests the new RV8 sports car, and Jeremy Clarkson compares the legendary Cadillacs of the 1950s wi…

If the 80s was the decade of the hot hatch, the 90s looks like being the decade of the four-wheel-drive leisure vehicle. Chris Goffey tests…

Statistics show a drop in road deaths, but are our roads really safer? Top Gear looks at the plight of the pedestrian. There is also a road…

Sales of Mercedes-Benz cars are falling. This week Jeremy Clarkson sees if the new C-class Mercedes has got what it takes to reverse the tr…

On the day the London Motor Show opens Jeremy Clarkson, Michele Newman and Chris Goffey seek out the new models and ideas. Quentin Willson…

An opportunity for car enthusiasts, without minimum £67,000 to spare, to fantasise about owning and driving a Ferrari. In this programme de…

Including a look at some adventurous car designs from the next generation of stylists at the Royal College of Art, a report on Damon Hill’s…

This week featuring a test drive of Britain’s new £47,000 Lotus Esprit S4 — is it really such a big improvement? There’s also a visit to Si…

A look at how the latest diesel cars from Ford, Citroën and BMW match their petrol cousins and reports from Germany and the Czech Republic…

There’s a test of the latest Lada Riva and Škoda Favorit in search of real value for money, and a report from the tough 200-mile Welsh Hill…

Jeremy Clarkson goes to one of the world’s highest motor shows, in the Alps, to test Land Rover’s latest V8 Defender, and asks why it’s not…

Entries in the British Touring Car Championship tend to look like the cars we drive ourselves, though they’re very different beneath the bo…

In the last programme of the series, Chris Goffey tests Mazda’s new sports saloon, the Xedos 9, and assesses how much of a threat it may be…

Overweight, overblown and over-decorated, the 1970s Pontiac TransAm summed up everything that was wrong with American cars at the time. But…