Well, that’s a bit of a change from Mark ‘The Wahlberg’ Wahlberg and his private chopper. Harry Enfield, this week’s Star in a Reasonably Priced Car, has rocked up at the Top Gear studio in… a nice sensible Ford Mondeo.
The Harry and Paul show star has just jumped into the mighty Chevy Lacetti with His Stigness, but not before offering the inscrutable TG timekeeper a fiver to knock a few seconds off his lap time. The inscrutable TG timekeeper declined, of course – maybe Loadsamoney would have helped, Harry?
It’s a bit of a late start for Enfield, in truth: Stig has been out on the track in the Zonda F Roadster this morning, trying to set a lap so quick that – well, so quick that Hammond won’t be able to reach it on the Hot Laps board.
But the Zonda was being a bit temperamental – either that or the Stig hadn’t been fed his normal breakfast of deer carcass and blueberries – so it’s delayed Harry getting out onto the track.
Fear not, though: Stiggy got all that power down on the track in the end, and the lap… well, you’ll have to watch the show on Sunday to find out, but it definitely falls into the Dear-God-That’s-Quick category.
Away from the track, there’s a bit of a last minute treat sitting front-and-centre on the studio floor: Lamborghini’s mental four-door Estoque concept. Yep, that’s the Estoque concept that Lamborghini is actually going to build.
Question is: what do you think the boys will think of it? Is Clarkson going to find the idea of a Lambo saloon as hateful as a Marmite-slathered Toyota Prius? Or do you think Hammond might be keen on a supercar that’ll transport at least a few of his ever-increasing menagerie of pets?
And don’t forget: BBC Two, Sunday, 8pm. Be there. The Mole expects.
Does anyone think the old top gears were better – when the lads werent so far up there own huja?
I’m realy looking forward to Topgear!!! I realy hope Jezza likes the Lambo because I think the idea of a “practical” super car is great. Any other views on the Lambo?
Top Gear rocks! It gets better and better with each series. Keep up the good work lads
No Griggs, I’m sorry. I think they’re great the way they are. Not because of the sturdy and factual info on cars, but because of the digitus impudicus they raise in defiance of this choking day&age (see V8-blender). We shall never surrender! La revoluçion continua!
woo cant wait i love lambo’s so i cant wait to see it hope its a looker.
I think May will try to say whats the point in a large expensive saloon car that has hard suspension like a Lambo… only to be reminded of his recent trip in the Caddy
Sounds brilliant cant wait to see what time the Zonda F Roadster does on the test track. And Harry Enfield is TSiaRPC sounds fun also I look foward to seeing the Lamborghini EstoQue cant wait.
I thought the whole point of supercars in general, and Lambos in particular, was that they are supposed to be as mad as toast.
The words ‘four-door saloon’ and ‘Lambo’ should spontaneously combust when they’re written next to each other
griggs just leave this website now cus there is no room for complainers!!
every episode of top gear rocks! and there will never be a car show to compete.
this weeks episode is gonna be amazin cant wait.
Can’t wait to see the Zonda F Roadster on the track!
I agree with Shona, #8 above. A four-door Lambo saloon? That really doesn’t sound right. I suppose, as a mid-life crisis car for the man with multiple children, it might be the only car the (non-petrolhead) wife might not roll her eyes at?
Can’t wait hope Harry is quicker this time round!
Im loving the Lambo! Bring on more of them!
Griggs is half right. The old top gear was better but the boys are still funny.
Anyone can make a show reviewing new cars, but it does take something special to make a show as irreverent and as entertaining as Top Gear. Yes, it may be a bit pretentious sometimes, but to me, it adds to the experience and gets makes you have an opinion on what you’re watching, not just feed you facts in a ‘matter of fact’ kinda way.
Keep it up!!
Anyone can make a show reviewing new cars, but it does take something special to make a show as irreverent and as entertaining as Top Gear. Yes, it may be a bit pretentious sometimes, but to me, it adds to the experience and gets makes you have an opinion on what you’re watching, not just feed you facts in a ‘matter of fact’ kinda way.
Keep it up!!
I was there at the filming, should be a great show.
With a shock at the end !!!!!
The Mole asks: “Question is: what do you think the boys will think of it? Is Clarkson going to find the idea of a Lambo saloon as hateful as a Marmite-slathered Toyota Prius? Or do you think Hammond might be keen on a supercar that’ll transport at least a few of his ever-increasing menagerie of pets?” Well, I guess I’ll find out Sunday night, which I’m really looking forward to. I like Harry Enfield, so this should be funny. I’m really looking forward to the travel challenge. Did I mention that I love your travel challenges? Bring on Sunday night.
New Top gear (can it still be new after 12 series?) is way better than the old one but just to check i think they should rerun the old one on BBC iPlayer or on dave whichevers cheaper.
is enfeld a ginger
Harry Enfield on TGTV…Should be a barrel of laughs and a half.
Can’t wait to see the Estoque. Seen it in TG Mag a couple months back and it looked great. Just wish I didn’t have to have a house, or clothing, or food…
Shud b gud.
Griggs, I am one of the 2 or 3 people that watches Dave repeats, and I can tell you they are more entertaining now. Sometimes it gets a bit too much, like Series 10, but this new series is just brilliant.
I reckon JC will complain the Estoque isn’t wild enough. I did at first, but it has such a murderous face, and some great lines, so I think it will age better than the now-rather-tacky Countach and ’90s Diablo.
I think Lamborghini’s Estoque is BEAUTIFUL… If the guys don’t like it can I please have first dibs?
And if it ever goes into production, bags I get to do the road test
PLEEEEEAAAASE.
I have to admit Top Gear is a bit… in-car and out-of-car entertainment. But you don’t hear me complaining! Although some road testing of hot hatches or rep saloons, once in a while, would be nice.
On topic, I’m really hooked on those travel challenges / races too. And I surely can’t wait to see Mr. May doing a Power Test!
Stig and a Zonda… I don’t need more to be happy (unless I was in said Zonda with said Stig or actually even better with James as he did a spin too….)
Can’t wait to see Harry’s lap!!
Oh Snap. really lookin foward to this episode now.
I still find it hard to believe that there are people who, given the choice between watching a series of bizarre and hilarious supercar romps arond the Globe and watching Chris Goffey sagely discussing the practicalities of the glovebox on a Skoda Favorit, would be more interested in travel sweet and spare hanky storage. Top Gear alone justifies my license fee payment, and Dave offers a wonderful and rare second bite of the cherry – I’m probably not alone in happpily watching the same episode twice on consecutive days
Not to slate Mr Goffey of course, lovely bloke. Just can’t imagine him jumping a V8 powered skateboard over a pit of rattlesnakes screaming POWERRRRRRR!
Harry Enfield’s lap will be 1:58:9
I was out in Hertford town wiv my scouts on mon n i woz bored wiv doin wat we were supposed to do soooo i started looking at the cars. I saw a mazda MX 5,a Mustang GT, Porshe Carrera 4S, Jaguar XKR, Porshe GT3, BMW Z4 and an audi tt. All in one night it woz much better than doin questions!!!
Juza did u go to the filming wed???
Any news on the V8 stairlift!
I want the Koenigsegg CCXR EDITION or the convertable Bugatti Veyron They are brilliant cars.
Who is the STIG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!! I need to know
`Dont get me wrong… it still is a great show. no doubts about that.
I Just think it was funnier wen the lads werent trying so hard to be funny they just were.
Eg when jez was racing bullet train. The whole episode seemed to be acted out really badly
Jez: “oh no i have turned the sat nav off”
Hammond & may : “oh no our train has split in two!!”
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Anyway as i said its still an amazing show.
Griggs, I doubt Jezza meant to turn the sat nav off, and you know what May’s sense of direction is like!
i wonder if clarkson will mention clarkson island hehe!?
thanx harry 4 nearly killing my husband while on the test track and half of the work force that works at dunsfold next time do it better and run the sod over at least ta bird
Don’t feed the troll.
Looking forward to the show as usual.
griggs is wrong!! topgear is the best it gets better and better.
love it
i saw top gear this week, and the lambo aint even gonna be on the show, watch out for fast vw on the power lap 2, u reckon it can beat the gumpert?
Is it just me or does Stig look like the Predator a wee bit in that pic?
I’m probably just being odd but it’s when he can sense humans approaching and it turns his head before making that “aahhhahhhahhh..” noise.
Y’know what I mean?…
I think it’s just me…
*backs away slowly*
i liked the spliter on the renalt
smooth. is it me or havent tg done the cool wall i ages (it`s probolley me)
amasing and funny griggs
v8 chair lift probebly put it on a platform
and it`ll fall down be very funny to watch
the guys just crack me up
I’m really looking forward to the next episode.
The thing is though, this article has not mentioned that the Bugatti Veyron will FINALLY be driven by the Stig.
So, what does everyone think? Will the Veyron produce a mind-blowing lap and cement its place at the top? Or will its power-to-weight ratio let it down? (The Veyron has less power per ton than the Koenigsegg CCX, and half the power per ton than that Caparo T1, which did a lap in 1:10.)
i live in South Africa and I love Top Gear!!!!! It’s funny and what the guys say about the cars is all true……..
I can’t wait for the MPH show next year to see them live and please bring James with this time please
I saw the Lambo myself in the flesh and have to say . . . well im undecided, it looks fantasic but it looks too angular like it was made using too many complicated Reventon bits stuck to a saloon. You just find it hard to “accept” it as a Lambo.
Sorry to say it but ‘Griggs’ is half right, the boys are still great though.
love love love Top Gear! i just can’t imagine a lambo with four doors… ?
o hell no griggs. if you want something boring go watch 5th gear. nothing wrong with them but they bore me to death. ViVA le TopGear!
Like they say in French “les gouts et les couleurs ne se discutent pas” (you can’t discuss colour and taste)… So whether you prefer the old shows or the new, it’s a matter of personal opinion.
Same thing with the Estoque. I love the concept and how it looks, pure Lamborghini madness. So even if Clarkson or the boys don’t like it, I couldn’t care less. The way they express their dislike is always entertaining though.
By the way, remember the Lamborghini Espada?
I Heard the Veyron was back this week? will it beat the Zonda?!?
i wonder how bad enfeild will be this time ? Will he get under two minutes ?
that lambo concept will be well cool, and the Zonda roadster SHOULD top the board, but will it ? can’t wait for the show next week
Fully agree with Mikeado in that I am one of the 2 or 3 people that watch Dave repeats. Love the show, although silly at times it always guarantees to entertain. As the covers of the Challenges DVD says “Boys will be Boys”
Im so happy I’m going to be in London on sunday which means i dont have to watch the new episode in bits and pieces on youtube before the BBC files claims on the clips…. YIPEE!!!!
Fifth Gear, interesting but ever so slightly dull. Top Gear, much better and still the best prog on the telly but not as good as previous series (series 3 through 7, magic TV). Seems to me they’re all working too hard elsewhere these days and don’t have the energy to put into it. Still, can’t blame em, gotta get the money while you can…..Looking forward to Sunday, but not sure Harry will be funny. He was the first ever guest and he wasn’t massively amusing, just ok (watched it a few weeks ago after downloading it). Still it it was the first episode ever, give him the benefit of the doubt for now and hope he proves me wrong.
@ Lunchi:
Finally! I was waiting for someone to bring up the Espada
I still love the look of that car (especially in purple) even through it was completely barking..
well all the celeb drivers have been ok soo far
but im just waitin for the crap simon cowell!
how bad can you get!!!
am 12 and i think tht ur show is brilliant .i would like to see more challeenges tho loved the botswana challenge.OLIVER!! all the best
jc
i am 13 and i too think topgear is the BEST. (Y)
i would love 2 c the old top gears with noel edmonds, quinton wilson n jezza. wounder if they will ever show them on tv?
i would luv to see lewis hamilton back on the
show
jezza we will have to captin slow
jezza: captin slow overtaking me was a fluke
hey i love all the cars they are mad i watch it evey week
please don’t get mccloud on next week!!!! get a better guest!! Boooooooring!
i have seen the Zonda in Milton keynes and it is wonderful and to sit in it, it is just brilliant,fanastic. the Engine is so noise the police came along so what is going on. Why do not bring the price down. Come on Pagni
Late reply but nevermind. I meant older New Top Gear (as in older series of new top gear). Didn’t mean to infer ‘Old’ as in Chris Goffey et al. Sorry for any confusion.
I went on the internet last week, and I found this!!!! Best episode ever was possibly the “Italian Supercar For Less Than A Second Hand Mondeo Challenge” when JC ended up in the wrong kind of hedge……. ambitious, but rubbish! and on that bombshell, its back to the studio!
If Hammond wants a supercar to car pets, why not a Maserati Quattroporte?
wooooooooooooooooooohoooo ooooooooo
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa beauty
tak i agree
jonno u were so wong the new top gear is mush more better then a couple of seasons ago all tanks to the top gear stunt man. where were we before the crazy stunts he has tryed to do.
Everyone’s shocked about the words “Lambo” and “4 door saloon”. Well, a few years ago, we would react like that to “Porsche” and “SUV”, and along came the Cayenne. I think the Lamborghini Estoque will be a decent car… but I have been wrong before.
I must say, I enjoyed Jay Kay when he was on, but tonight’s show with Harry Enfield was the best SIRPC you’ve had on in a long time. Thank you for listening.
Ace episode, even more factual than the us special a couple of weeks back. Brilliant celebrity bit too. Next get Leslie Ash, Caroline Quentin, Neil Morrissey and Martin Clunes if they’ve not been in the new car yet.
if u like you can give it a way maybe to me
i think there should be less normal testing and more challenges i think there funny and brings the best out on your friends
it’s 2009 everyone
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