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Top Gear :: Series 1, Episode 7 (01x07)
 
Episode Information
  
Title: Series 1, Episode 7
Episode #: 01x07
Original Airdate: Sunday December 01st, 2002
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US (BBC America) Jul 29, 2008
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On a caring-and-sharing Top Gear, we tried to become all eco-friendly by showing you how the Government thinks we should behave in our cars. We searched for the fastest faith in the UK, a rocker tried out our reasonably priced car, and we learnt how to drive a Lotus Elise properly.

Diesel cars are a lot better than they used to be, and we looked at a diesel sports car by Peugeot. Other green goodies in the studio included a LPG-powered Bristol and Ford's Th!nk.

Richard road-tested the Saab 9-3, which scored well on eco-friendliness. But, green issues aside, Richard's reception to the 9-3 was fairly lukewarm.

Better news was that you can drive a car the Government approves of and still have a laugh. The Lotus Elise had a few creature comforts (such as carpet and electric windows) and fitted in the same tax bracket as a Ford Fiesta.

Next, we invited various Men of God to lap our circuit. After extensive research using a tuned Subaru Impreza, we officially announced that Britain's fastest faith was the Church of England.

The star guest of the show was Status Quo's Rick Parfitt, who drove our reasonably priced Liana. He took to the track for a surprisingly short while, but that was all he needed to post a seriously competitive time of 1.52.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/show/episodes/series1episode7.s
 
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Episode Notes
  
Stig's Lap Times:

Lotus Elise: 1.35.6 (wet)
 
Star In A Reasonably Priced Car:
The celebrity guest this week is Rick Parfitt, a member of the band Status Quo. His time was 1:52
 
 
Episode Quotes
  
Richard Hammond: It’s funny, at a time when BMW have introduced their iDrive - the system on the big 7 series where you get one big knob to control everything - that’s not the driver, it’s a big knob - literally, on the centre console.

 
Jeremy Clarkson: Oh this steering is still just as good as ever. It’s so delicate and so much feel you could - you could drive over an insect and know just from the messages coming through the wheel how many legs it had.

 
Richard Hammond: Would you drive an electric car then Jeremy?
Jeremy Clarkson: No, I don't want to drive around in an appliance. It's as simple as that.
 
 
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