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Top Gear :: Series 1, Episode 1 (01x01)
 
Episode Information
  
Title: Series 1, Episode 1
Episode #: 01x01
Original Airdate: Sunday October 20th, 2002
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Writer: (Unknown)
 
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In our very first programme we looked at the Citroen's Berlingo Multispace - the van-turned-people carrier. It found favour with the TG team for its cheery character, and even Jeremy raved about its all-round ability.

Richard Hammond was impressed by the Mazda 6, and spent some time pouring over the Ford GT40 concept, which wowed our studio audience long after we finished filming.

Apparently, if you pass a speed camera fast enough it can't take your picture - or so we heard in a pub once. So we borrowed a Gatso and set about trying to find out if it's true. We got our tame racing driver, Stig, to test the theory. To our surprise, the camera didn't just not catch the car, it didn't even go off. The bad news was, 170mph is the speed you have to do to avoid the little piggybanks.

Our first guest in our 'Star in a reasonably priced car' feature was Harry Enfield, who tried out our big-value motor, the Suzuki Liana.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/show/episodes/series1episode1.s
 
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•Harry EnfieldplayedHimself 
 
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Star In A Reasonably Priced Car
The celebrity guest this week was British comedian Harry Enfield, who's time was 2:01
 
Stig's Lap Times

Lamborghini Murcielago: 1:29 (moist)
Pagani Zonda: 1.23
 
 
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Jeremy Clarkson: [referring to the Citroën Berlingo] It's like Gérard Depardieu: slightly swollen middle, broken nose, but there are hidden talents.

 
Jeremy Clarkson: Right, that's the track, now we needed someone who could tame it, so we got ourselves a professional racing driver who could post consistently fast lap times, we um, we couldn't do that. Now, we call this thing 'the Stig'. OK, now we don't know its name, we really don't know its name, no-one knows its name and we don't want to know because it's a racing driver and racing drivers have tiny little brains. And therefore worthless opinions and they're very dull. Doctors call it 'Mansell's Syndrome'. Its job is simply to go out there and drive fast.
 
Jeremy Clarkson: This is a car programme. There will be no cushions. There will be no rag-rolling. No-one will sing and at the end of the series no-one will have a recording contract.
 
 
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