Top Gear’s Season 9 Episode 4 is now available. In this episode: Clarkson looks at the already monstrous SL 65 AMG with a 6.0L twin-turbo V12, and then sees what a modifying company has been able to do with it. The result is the Brabus S Biturbo roadster, with 730 bhp (540 kW), 811 ft·lbf (1,100 N·m) of torque, and an electronically limited top speed of 219 mph (352 km/h). Cooking its brakes, handling with frenzied energy, and overwhelming its suspension and traction control, he finds the mad car to ...
Top Gear’s Season 9 Episode 6 is now available. In this episode: Clarkson, Hammond and May build stretch limos to drive celebrities to the BRIT Awards. Clarkson buys a Fiat Panda to chauffeur BBC Radio 1's Chris Moyles, hindered by its length making it nearly impossible to manoeuvre around the city, and it splitting in half where Clarkson had shortened the car to make it road-legal. Hammond buys a MG F and, after it is stretched into a limo, has to take Jamelia to the BRIT Awards. May buys a ...
Top Gear’s Season 9 Episode 5 is now available. In this episode: The new Lamborghini Murciélago LP640, same as the old model except with more power. The Stig took it round the track in 1:19.8, sixth place overall.
Clarkson, Hammond and May plant their own rapeseed biofuel after acquiring three tractors to test, with a number of challenges to start:
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Top Gear’s Season 9 Episode 3 is now available. In this episode: The trio point out the hassle of renting out a car, ranging from ignorant rental agents to not being able to find their car once it's pointed out to them. Their premise was to see if it could be cheaper to buy a car rather than rent so, as a result, on their trip to the United States, the three were given $1000 to find a used car. Clarkson bought a 1989 Chevrolet Camaro RS; Hammond a Dodge ...
Top Gear’s Season 9 Episode 2 is now available. In this episode: May takes the Bugatti Veyron to its top speed of 407 km/h (253 mph) on Volkswagen's Ehra-Lessien test track. He described how smoothly the car behaved at those speeds and how disorienting the speed can be (he said that he wanted to open the door, but "fortunately I looked at the speedometer and I was still doing 70").
The team were set the challenge of finding the best stylish coupés: Clarkson chose the revised Audi TT, Hammond chose the ...