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Top Gear :: Series 1, Episode 2 (01x02)
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| Title: | Series 1, Episode 2 |
| Episode #: | 01x02 |
| Original Airdate: | Sunday October 27th, 2002 |
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| | Episode Crew | | Director: | (Unknown) | | Writer: | (Unknown) |
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Episode Summary |
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On a turbocharged Top Gear, we looked at a supercar from a shed in Leicestershire and a pop star drove our reasonably priced Liana.
But first we looked at Ford's Focus RS. How did it compare with its hot hatch rivals - the Honda Civic Type-R and Subaru Impreza WRX? To find out, we fitted each car with the Stig and set them off around our test track.
Jeremy was blown away by the new Noble M12 GTO, a genuine British supercar. It's arguably not perfect on the road, but show it a track and it'll astound you. Even in wet weather conditions, the Stig posted a Zonda-threatening laptime.
Jason looked at buying a used BMW M3 - a proper super saloon bargain. Meanwhile Richard drove Subaru's Forester, an all-rounder that uses so many parts from the Impreza it 'takes years off the family man'.
Our star in a reasonably priced car was Jamiroquai front-man Jay Kay. Jay was determined to beat Jeremy's track time - and he did!
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/show/episodes/series1episode2.s
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| Guest Stars | | •Jay Kay | played | Himself | Recurring (first appearance) |
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Star In A Reasonably Priced Car
The celebrity guest this week was Jay Kay from the band Jamiroquai. His time was 1:48
| Stig's Lap Times:
Noble M12 GTO: 1.33.1 (wet)
Ford Focus RS: 1.32.2
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Jeremy Clarkson: [referring to the Mazda RX8's wankle rotary engine] It's a wankle thing, isn't it?
Richard Hammond: It is.
Jeremy Clarkson: It's a wan-kle thing. There's nothing funny about wankle.
Richard Hammond: Wankle's cool.
| Jeremy Clarkson: A word of warning though, a word of warning which I've learned over the years: never ever slag off a fast Ford, 'cause these people don't just write polite letters saying 'Dear sir, I strongly disagree with what you said on Top Gear the other night'. A brick with 'git' written on it comes through your window.
| Jeremy Clarkson: But first the 1960s. Now it was possible to go fast back then if you had enough money to buy a Ferrari or a Maserati but then one day, Ford thought 'hang on a minute, we've got all these cars flooding down our production lines, why don't we fit some of them with big engines'? Now if you think about it, this was an incredibly important moment because suddenly everyone could afford to go fast.
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