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Top Gear :: Series 1, Episode 8 (01x08)
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| Title: | Series 1, Episode 8 |
| Episode #: | 01x08 |
| Original Airdate: | Sunday December 08th, 2002 |
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Aug 04, 2008 |
| Episode Crew | | Director: | (Unknown) | | Writer: | (Unknown) |
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On an action-packed Top Gear, a Knight took to our reasonably priced car, Maserati's coupe tried out our track, white van men battled for supremacy, and we turned a Lada into a Lotus.
As the programme was all about performance, we started to wonder - can any car be a driver's car? Is it something a car is born with, or can it be bolted on? To find out we 'borrowed' an ageing Lada and gave it to Lotus, whch spent 1,000 hours tweaking it in an attempt to turn it into a decent track car. Did we manage it? Of course we did, although the car did still look like a Lada, which ruined the effect slightly.
We also tried to find the fastest white van man. We had over 1,500 applications and picked five to race around our track in a tuned Transit. Predictably, one got lost and two crashed. The winner was a chap called dave, who drives a van for NTL.
Richard lined up five superminis to test as an antidote to all this power: the Ford Fiesta, Citroen C3, Honda Jazz, Nissan Micra and MG ZR. His verdict? If you want practicality, it's got to be the Jazz. But if it's fun you're after, choose the MG.
Sir Michael Gambon, one of Britain's finest actors, was determined to set a fast lap in our reasonably priced car. He managed 1.55, which isn't a bad time. Although it was worrying that he nearly killed both the Liana and himself in the process.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/show/episodes/series1episode8.s
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Stig's Lap Times:
Maserati 3200 GT: 1:38:0 (wet lap)
| Star In A Reasonably Priced Car:
The celebrity guest this week is veteran actor Michael Gambon. His time was 1:55
| Following this episode the final corner on the track was renamed "Gambon" in tribute to Michael Gambon for taking the corner on two wheels
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Jeremy Clarkson: While we're on the subject of parking, I, um... you know where we nail this programme together, it's in the middle of London, okay, there's a multi-storey car park next door, two hours, nine pounds in there. So if you're two hours and five minutes, eighteen quid. Well, I went into Oxford last weekend, parked on double-yellow lines, right outside where I wanted to be, okay? Took the children out for lunch, went to see James Bond, got back five hours later... twenty quid parking ticket. That's pretty reasonable!
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