Top Gear (UK) Season 10

Season 10 of the most famous car show in the world.
July 25, 2007 - December 23, 2007
contains 11 episodes
comedy | talk show | car show

Polar Challenge Special: 

Jeremy and James in a Toyota Hilux (known as the Tacoma in North America) pickup truck race Richard on a dog sled to the 1996 magnetic North Pole

Episode 1:
Jeremy attempts to drive the 641 horsepower Volkswagen Golf W12
Jeremy, Richard, and James drive from Monaco through the Alps in three lightweight supercars — a Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera, Porsche 911 GT3 RS, and Aston Martin N24 V8 Vantage — to find the best driving road in the world
SIARPC: Dame Helen Mirren

Episode 2:
Jeremy tries out the new Audi R8 on the track against Richard in his own Porsche 911
The boys bring back their amphibious cars with some modifications and use them to attempt to cross the English Channel
SIARPC: Jools Holland

Episode 3:
James cruises in the new £307,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe convertible
The Lamborghini Reventón is in the studio
Jeremy tests the new Ferrari 599 GTB and the Stig gives it a lap time on the track
Jeremy goes to work in the world’s smallest production car, the Peel P50 microcar from 1963
Richard, while wearing our helmet, races a Bugatti Veyron against a Eurofighter Typhoon
SIARPC: Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones

Episode 4:
Botswana Special

The boys head to Botswana in Africa to buy cheap two wheel drive cars to use in a series of challenges

Episode 5:
Richard races a man on roller skates and a jet pack using the new Aston Martin V8 Vantage Roadster
Jeremy tries to not catch fire while driving the Caparo T1 and the Stig sees if he can break the Top Gear test track record with it
The boys find out which is the fastest way to get across London — car, bike, public transport, or boat
SIARPC: Simon Cowell who attempts to get his “Star in a Reasonably Priced Car” record back

Episode 6:
Jeremy in the new Honda Civic Type R to see if it lives up to the previous generation
James reviews the not-so-new Alfa Romeo 159 by racing a man across the Humber estuary
Jeremy puts the BMW M5 Touring and Mercedes E63 AMG Estate head-to-head on the main runway of Manchester Airport
Richard invents a new motorsport, mobile home racing, and brings along a bunch of touring car and such racers to drive them
SIARPC: England rugby player Lawrence Dallaglio

Episode 7:
With next year being the 40th anniversary of the formation of British Leyland, Jeremy, Richard, and James set out with £1,200 of their own cash to prove that some good cars did come out of the car company
Jeremy drives the Aston Martin DBS, James Bond’s car
SIARPC: comedian Jennifer Saunders

Episode 8:
Jeremy powersliding in the Vauxhall VXR8
Jeremy and James head to the Beaulieu Motor Museum to find out what was the first car ever to have a modern control layout
Richard goes driving in Fernando Alonso’s 2005 championship-winning Renault Formula 1 car
Lewis Hamilton in the studio and in the old Suzuki Liana on the track
Jeremy rides in a self-driving BMW as it does a lap of the Top Gear track
SIARPC: musician James Blunt

Episode 9:
The Top Gear team compete in the Britcar 24 hour race at Silverstone in a BMW 3-series diesel powered by bio-diesel that they grew last season
James races some BMX bikers through Budapest to test out the brand new Fiat 500
Since too many supercars have been on Top Gear lately, Jeremy tests a family car called the Daihatsu Materia and brings along a “similar” car to test it against — the Ascari A10
SIARPC: Keith Allen

Episode 10:
James sees if the Jaguar XF, the S-Type replacement, is any good
The gang heads to the Stig’s favorite resort hotel in Spain to compare the BMW M3, the Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG, and the Audi RS4 on the on-grounds racing track
Top Gear Awards
Richard turns a G-Wiz electric car into a really fast remote controlled car
SIARPC: David Tennant, actor from Doctor Who