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Top Gear (1978)

8.0 45 seasons 530 episodes Ended
Documentary

Motoring programme featuring reviews of and reports about cars of all types.

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Seasons & episodes

E1
Episode 1Sep 10, 1998

Jeremy Clarkson slips behind the wheel for the new 15-part run of the motoring magazine and road-tests the Ford Focus, while Tiff Needell s…

E2
Episode 2Sep 17, 1998

The Peugeot 205 was a practical, fun hatchback that many drivers found irresistible. Will the 206 be as popular? Vicki Butler-Henderson tak…

E3
Episode 3Sep 24, 1998

As motor racing returned last weekend to Goodwood in Sussex for the first time since 1966, Tiff Needell tells the story of the circuit’s re…

E4
Episode 4Oct 1, 1998

Since its launch in 1989, the original Land Rover Discovery has been Britain’s best-selling four-wheel drive. Tiff Needell tries out the ne…

E5
Episode 5Oct 8, 1998

Alfa Romeo are hoping to put past design problems behind them with their new saloon models. Tiff Needell test-drives the latest offering —…

E6
Episode 6Oct 15, 1998

Owing to concerns over safety the Mercedes A-class was withdrawn shortly after its launch earlier this year. Jeremy Clarkson test-drives th…

E7
Episode 7Oct 22, 1998

Featuring reports from the British International Motor Show in Birmingham. Rover are hoping to steal the limelight with the 75, their first…

E8
Episode 8Oct 29, 1998

The Ford Puma was such a hit with the Top Gear team that they voted it their Car of the Year for 1997. Now Ford has followed it up with a b…

E9
Episode 9Nov 5, 1998

Volkswagen’s Golf GTi first came to Britain in 1976 and soon became the choice of the fashionable set. Over the years model changes blunted…

E10
Episode 10Nov 12, 1998

As the latest manufacturer to enter the sports-car market, Audi hopes to take on rivals Porsche and BMW with the new TT, which goes on sale…

E11
Episode 11Nov 19, 1998

The appearance of the luxuriously equipped V8-engined Seville STS marks the return of the Cadillac name to the British market. But will it…

E12
Episode 12Nov 26, 1998

Steve Berry travels to Seattle to look at Jeep’s new Grand Cherokee, which is huge and available for the first time in right-hand drive. In…

E13
Episode 13Dec 3, 1998

Tony Mason looks back at two of Britain’s failed attempts to infiltrate the US market during the post war years: the 1949 Austin Atlantic,…

E14
Episode 14Dec 10, 1998

Back in the seventies the BMW 3.0, Fiat 130 and Peugeot were the coupes to be seen in-glamorous, rare and expensive. Steve Berry learns wha…

E15
Episode 15Dec 17, 1998

In the concluding episode of the current series, Jeremy Clarkson, Tiff Needell, Quentin Willson and Vicki Butler-Henderson select their fav…

Cast

Jeremy ClarksonSelf - Host
Richard HammondSelf - Host
James MaySelf - Host
Ben CollinsThe Stig

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