ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!! Loved everything about this episode
The News, the car tests, the star in the reasonably priced car, the awards, the tribute to btcc, the attempt at beating fifth gear and especially the engine powered rocking chair

Can’t wait til the final hour long special to Vietnam to end this awesome and unforgettable series.
Keep up the great work 

How on EARTH have Honda managed to compress hydrogen? That car was beautiful, not in style, but just because of the possibilities of the future that the concept has shown.

Brilliant show, guys. And you don’t need to break a record to be better than Fifth Gear – just look at the viewing figures.

I have NEVER laughed so much in my life. I cried at the news. I liked the ‘green’ theme alot this week actually as it was diffrent and James Mays film about the Honda at the end was very good indeed.
I also knew what the wee device was straight away..
Tom jones was also had a nice interview but i couldnt help noticing how utterly amazing Jay leno’s cars were.
Keep up the good work guys.
And James should have won the award..’Hello’

Loved the green theme. That new Honda looks good.

First comment! Woo!

The show was amazing! I adored everything about it. The V8 rocking chair was hillarious and I adored the xmas gift bit oh my them girls will have been happy to have Richard fall on them!

I adored Tom Jones Lap. And I must say Jay Leno has the most fantastic collection of cars I’ve ever seen.

The awards were fantastic and it was great seeing Jay Kay again!

Only thing that’s a bit sad is that we have to wait SO long till the next episode and it’ll be the last one…. Snifff!

Stuntman did a fab job too!

But again, fantastic job everybody!! Another one to go down into the TG History books!

I must say…. in James’ defence, he would have had me with that ‘Hello’….

apsolutly amazing show all the presentors got their own bit in the show

overall brilliant as always

simply stunning, what a feature on the Honda that is the future there is no doubt. The news was in its self a brillant piece of comedy between what clearly is three good friends. I can’t think what i shall be doing next sunday now we have to wait two weeks for the finale.
EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tonights show was very funny
The awards were great
Very impressed by the hydrogen car shows it can be done!!!

loved the show the nite never been better but don’t really think much of the green cars xxx

good show as usual
hydrogen is deffinatly the future
the news was the funniest ever
can’t wait till the vietnam special

I know this is a bit early but your filming is all finished and by the time the last show airs you’ll all hopefully be off taking a well-earned break on your Christmas holidays…

This latest series of TG has been fantastic (as always). The Vietnam Special looks like its going to be brilliant and I laughed till I cried tonight, at the news especially. But it all feels like its over too soon – the end of another series already. *sobs*

Anyway, before I get all mushy and sentimental (again) and start telling you all how much I love you (I’ve had rather more wine than I should’ve so I’d be brave enough to post this) I’ll get to the point. I’ve written you a little poem inspired by the last few shows. Well, not written exactly, more sort of um, well, think of it as an old classic that’s had it’s engine fettled and a bit of a re-spray…

(with apologies to Mr Moore)

‘Twas the night before Christmas when all through the hangar,
Nothing was stirring, not a single old banger.
The stockings were hung by the lap board with care,
In the hope some new sports cars would find their way there.

The Hamster was nestled all snug in his bed,
While visions of Porsches danced in his head.
James in his jumper, and Stiggie in white
Had just settled their brains for the long winter’s night,
When out on the track there arose such a clatter
Hamster leapt from his bed to see what was the matter.
Away to a window he flew in a flash.
Small, but determined to give someone a bash.
The moon it shone down on the dark, empty track
And Hamster saw nothing so turned to go back,
When what to his wondering eyes should appear
But a bloody great Merc, moving fast in top gear.
With a very tall driver, who else could it be?
He knew in a moment it must be J.C.

More rapid than eagles his wheel spins they came,
And he whooped and he shouted and called out cars’ names.
“Now Koenigsegg, Bugatti, Atom and Aston,
Ferrari, Radical, Zonda and Morgan!
To the end of the track, then to the Cool Wall,
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!”
“What the hell are you doing?” the Hamster did cry.
Now James was awake too and started to sigh,
“Clarkson, you pillock, it’s nearly midnight!
And Santa won’t come if we don’t do things right.”
Then in a twinkling J.C. screeched to a stop.
“I’m Santa this year so don’t get in a strop.”

Out of the car, across the cold ground
And into the hangar he came with a bound.
He was all dressed in denim, from his head to his feet
And he grinned at the boys for he’d brought them a treat.
A bundle of car keys he had in his pocket
And ‘specially for James, a new set of sockets.
A new Porsche for Hamster, a Roller for May
And Stig, he was silent, with nothing to say
For there in the moonlight, all shiny and new
A Bugatti Veyron – Stiggie knew what to do.
He jumped in the seat and zoomed off at high speed.
The others, both grinning, followed his lead.
J.C. laughed as he watched them, and his little round belly
Shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.

Out on the track Stig drove faster and faster
With Richard and James both following after.
Then at the last corner there came a surprise
And J.C., he couldn’t believe his own eyes.
James overtook Stig on that very last bend
Then slid to a halt and waved at his friend.
“Jezza, you oaf! You’ve put nitrous in here!
I’ve beaten the Stig but I’ve broken fifth gear!”
J.C. grinned a huge grin and got back in his car
He set off down the track but he hadn’t gone far
When they heard him exclaim, with a spin of his wheels
“This Santa Claus lark, just how hard can it be?”

hope you all have a great Christmas!
xxx
Shona

Looking foreword to the repeat so i can watch it!! Feel a sleep, very tired was i!

When is TG going to review the new Scirocco/Scirocco GT? Come on! I’m teetering on buying one but I want my trusted source to say whether I should go ahead or if there’s a better rival out there (like an Alfa Brera for that same ’special’ feel, but breaks down all the time and isn’t as fast, or hold out for the Focus RS and have all that power, but be degraded to the level of a chav).

At LEAST tell me if there’s actually a review in this series. Tell me that much.

Shona needs to get out more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh how funny was the news you could make a comedy sketch show with that! i was laughin so much it was soooooooo great! and i wish it was me who richard fell on mmmmmmm! fantastic show as always brilliant mix of cars and fun thats what its about,good entertainment love you all come back soon xx

Funniest top gear i have ever seen. big respect to jeremy clarkson i hope one day i will bump in to you. Respect Top Gear

Great show dudes as always. Enjoyed the Hydro car the concept is brilliant but how it would work in the real would is what count’s. As far as the awards go James won first hand. I have used some chat up lines in the past but “HELLO” never even came to mind. lol

Nice show gent’s. Merry Xmass and New Year

Great show, just the Blackpool show & the one after (which I’ve already forgotten & don’t wish to be reminded of) letting the series down as I’m sure the Vietnam trip will be good.

Can I just say, everyone PLEASE read comment number 11, I didn’t write it but it is absolutely brilliant!!
It’s a poem about the top gear presenters and christmas, it’s very funny and absolutely brilliant,

So to the writer of comment number 11 ‘Shona’, well done cuz that is brilliant

Sorry to say that I have not seen it yet but I will on my 6 hours train ride back from London to Amsterdam tomorrow. I heard it was a great episode. I spend the evening in the pub.

Sorry

Great episode – again.

Was laughing so hard when you dressed Richard up – as you just made him look EXACTLY like he does on the Morrison’s adverts when he’s messing about with Denise Van Outen and some huskies..so to speak! I’m assuming that was intentional…if not then it was still genius!

Looking forward to the special.

xx

Y’know, something surprises me. TG are known for their inventiveness with “improving” cars in their care, so…

You had a 120mph sports car which does incredible lap times, but needs heavy, slow-charging, ever-so-slightly-explodey batteries.

You had a boring-but-decent saloon which runs a similarly sized electric engine off lighter, easy-to-replenish, and not-actually-quite-as-exp lodey hydrogen.

Concept one… meet concept two. Mix. Look and behold.

I expect to have my hydrogen-fuelled roadster Honda/Tesla… Hosla… Tenda… hell with it – ThunderStar One delivered by the end of the week. With a large statue for being so damn smart.

That was by far the best episode of the series.

My fellow Welsh Man in the Lecetti – was a little disapointed he didn’t do better but hey ho.

Can’t wait for the Vitenam Special. Shame we have to wait two weeks for it. Still there’s always Dave!

hi you show is brilliant i love it. bbc 2 will never be the same when it goes off air. the awards were so funny jay kay made me laugh and hammond with the clarkson/will young gags.keep up the good works boys and have a great christmas love linda

Why did Stig have an umbrella? WHY?!

Brilliant!!!!!! just genius! loved the show! they were more silly than normal (too much mulled wine maybe! lol) anyway looking forward to vietnam! i will be glued to the telly! and can i wish everybody at top gear and on here a very merry chritmas

and also wish richard happy birthday for friday! have a good un!

Is the Stig afraid of rain?

Brillant show, lads! Was funny when Richard was given a ”makeover” by Jeremy and James but it was even more funnier when Richard got his own back by giving Jeremy a clip around the ear.

Bring on Vietnam!!!

It was one of the best shows i’ve ever watched!!
I was laughing my ass out!!!!
Loved the news, it was absolutely hilarious! Loved the little Morris Marina ‘accident’ too!
Also loved to see the corvette V8 engine back in the show! Loved the Tesla road test, loved the awards, loved to see the Fox Clarity finally on TG.
Overall, it was absolutely ace!!!
Loved every bit of it!!
Gonna miss TG next sunday. And can’t wait till the Vietnam show.
Till then i’m gonna enjoy watching these shows over and over again!!

Oh, yeah, happy Christmas, lads and happy birthday to richard who turns 39 on friday!

Looking forward to 2009!

Loved tonight’s show! Perhaps the best in this series thus far.

And a Merry Christmas to everyone including the boys. Happy Birthday to Richard next friday ;p

Merry Christmas to all that love top gear and to all UK fans also the boys

Happy Birthday to Richard

Very good – the Clarity was a great feature, the Tesla was brilliantly filmed, only the totally ghey rocking chair let the side down, but it was kept brief, so no biggie )

JK was fun – a great episode – and any hour that includes *that* lap in the Caterham has to be worthy of watching )

Nice show… very electric. I liked the last movie with the Clarity and I think James has pointed it out, why that car is pointing forwards. The Tesla is more like an experiment that did not really work at first try. I reckon the Tesla2, or whatever, will be much better.

Which leads me to a very sad point: with hydrogen-electric cars, we have to do the evolution all over again. And just think how long it took us until we were able to build a Veyron. With a petrol engine. Yes.

I will study hard, work even harder, earn a nice amount of cash to “save” one of the petrol stars… R8, Gallardo, just one, to have fun. And buy a Clarity (as soon as there are hydrogen stations) to drive to work.

Very good to watch, liked post 11 too.
Anyone else wonder what JK had in that bag he brought on stage?

Cool show again lads, the hydogen car feature was great.

Happy xmas to all the T.G. team. Looking forward to the Vietnam special and happy birthday to Richard 4 Fri. xx

Another great show – haven’t laughed this much in ages! Can’t wait for the Vietnam special in two weeks time.

Liked Jezza’s reminder of where electricity comes from – nice one!

WOW, Shona, just…WOW…you are gifted AND you watch Top Gear….WOW…anyway, my mobile number is 0773…….

Ha ha ha ha ha!!!! They couldnt beat our caravan record. We still rule!!!

Fifth Gear = Number 1.

damn! i’m an idiot LOL! posted some comments in Australian version.

alright..
Richard Hammond!!! what kinda jacket is that? What brand? moschino ? no!? Pleasee, i want one!!!

does anybody know what kinda jacket is that? please!?

Oh my, I had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard.

Richard’s laugh after the video were Jeremy “broke” his neck driving trough the wall.

Jeremy pushing Richard into the three and the crowd of girls.

May’s “Hello”.

The elderly lady.

The whole Hamster/Clarkson thing with Will Young.

The christmas gift with Santa’s pubes on it.

The list goes on and on…

jeremy voice still sounds a bit odd

give me Hammond’s number!? i wanna ask him where did he get that jacket!?

Great show(as always!)
I’ve got a great laught. Want so more.

I’ll be short – I like the way you do it(I really do!), but I would love it much more, if you bring a little bit of cars back…
Really, just a bit. Please.

Top Gear Rule! Love it.
dmns

This episode has made me laugh quite a lot, especially the news and the part about btcc. How about that “accident” too?! Well, I’m kind of sad it’s almost over, but there’s always next season. Merry Christmas to all!

I cant believe Top Gear is going off air next week. All I will have to entertain me is Dave.

The show last night was SO funny. When Hammond fell off the stage I nearly wee’d.

James May,s piece on the hydrogen powered Honda was interesting BUT he needs to check his arithmetic. It takes more fossil fuel to make a volume of compressed hydrogen than the energy value of that fuel. So if the whole world changed to hydrogen powered cars tomorrow we would be using more fossil fuel than we do now to go the same distance. More efficient in CO2 emissions and energy terms to stick the petrol straight into your tank than to make compressed hydrogen using, in the main fossil fuel energy, to make that compressed hydrogen. Always do an energy balance sum (Ein must be less than Eout) whenever you see a new technology claiming to save the world. Only a very few “green” fuels in certain circumstances produce more energy than they consume.

I thought the BBC didn’t do advertising? The Boyo’s ‘star..’ segment was a blatant plug, although no matter how bombastic he sometimes gets, you can count on Jezza’s honesty in admitting ‘that’s why you’re here’. Mind you, even if STJ had been legendary for his witty banter, Boris is a hard act to follow.
But I really enjoyed the ep; ‘deck the Hamster with boughs of branded tat!’ and nice of Jay Kay to appear at the Awards; and providing warmth for J & J was the only useful thing any Marina has ever done.
I felt sorry for Tesla: great looks but didn’t work. Mind you, much as I admired the Honda Clarity, there’s no point as it won’t get to Britain for decades because Whitehall currently out-Luds Luddites.
British boffins lead the world in innovation but other countries (e.g., bullet train, Japan) implement our genius laughing at our backwardness. Exaggeration? If only – last week the fact that we now have a 140mph train for our sole ‘high-speed’ line made the papers. Why? The Gov has kiboshed the 2nd high speed line and most real high speed trains today already go 180-200mph easy – Isambard is spinning in his grave and the papers should have been reporting how shamefully we lag behind the rest of the world in mechanical and technical innovation (mainly because it might upset some breeding newts somewhere); building new power stations – I now have a petrol-fuelled generator for when the rolling blackouts start, like Kevin Smith in Die Hard 4, I’ll be the only one with electricity.
Would anyone like to wager on how long it will be before the Honda Clarity or its ‘children’ are commercially available in the UK – particularly because of any potential Hindenberg effect? Although presumably Honda have solved this problem since James didn’t seem too worried about being shunted and blown up?
I’m looking forward to the Vietnam Special, but not the fortnight wait, though some lucky people will also get Top Gear Live as well – I wish I could have got to one, though it would have been one of the nice, sunny ones, South Africa or Oz (the country, not James’s wine ponce mate), although apparently James won’t be able to attend Sydney (presumably why ‘Booze Cruise Series 3’ did not investigate the upstart wines of the Antipodes) – because he’s on the Ozzie coppers to-do list for some leadfoot action (?!), which I find mind-boggling.
I mean, even if you ignore the stupendous improbability of the phrases “James May” and “speeding offence” appearing in the same sentence anywhere in the English speaking world, think about it: James May on the lam? James May a wanted felon on the run from the law, ever ready to pull a Thelma-without-Louise ‘you’ll never take me aliiiiiive!’ cloud-of-dust car chase? It’s like Jeremy being exposed as secretly loving Quorn-n-lentils over steak & chips! Forget TG Live, I’d have paid a good whack of the old hard-earned to be in the production office when James shuffled in and informed, “Um, actually, I can’t do TG Live Australia.”
“Why not?”
“I’m wanted by the police…for speeding.”
Andy Wilman must have a constitution of granite; I’d have exploded internal organs laughing too hard. Unless…that could be why James’s rediscovered his lead-foot this series? Maybe off-camera Jezza and Hamster have clubbed together and hired a bloke to don a blue uniform and drive a car with blue-flashing lights: “Look, just lurk around and drive so you pop up in his rear-view mirror every so often, and we’ll get some decent speed out of him yet.” Does James really believe that if he lands in Oz he’ll be clapped in irons and hauled off to Botany Bay – or maybe that’s what Hamster’s now angling for to get for his latest “38-again” birthday?

Ohhh, James a PORK SWORD!!!

Yes please

Absolute genius piece of filmmaking with the Honda Hydrogen car…

loved honda cant wait till the special

superb bloody superb

btcc aniversary of course its not just the crashes nice report for what goes as a very underated sport

The tesla i had a funny feeling that reliability could be an issue but impressive all the same was the only reason it made a power lap because it was plugged into the stig

anyway 10 points to may not for chat up lines but on a cracking report on the new honda and I totally agree with him that this could be the beggining of the next phase of motoring.

I never took jay leno for a petrol head i always thought of him as just another annoying yank who likes the sound of his own voice.

Thought the wards were great jeremy apears to be winning more than just heat magazine poles nowerdays

I cant wait for vietnam i hope its gonna make christmas coz the rest of it is gonna be crap ive just lost my job this morning along with 30 others must keep the british stiff upper lip it hides the wobbly bottom one!!!!!

Happy christmas to one and all i may have to give this lap top back

You shall all die.

oh yes and

PORK SWORD into WIZARDS SLEEVE and not to mention MAX MOSELEYS BOTTOM very good had me in stiches all night

i have decided to keep the lap top but they can keep the crappy car (Vauxhall astra deisel)

Being shown at 9pm did the show a world of good. It seemed freer and bit more adult, as I think it should be.

fantastic show.

its a shame you didnt beat fifth gear in the stunt. tom jones was great to see. what made me laugh the most is may saying hello to those girls looking like a idiot.
cant wait for the special episode

Excellent show once again, found the SIARPC a bit rubbish, but we can’t have everything, there has to be one downside to something.

How long do we have to wait now for Series 13 I wonder?

Enjoyed the powered rocking chair even though I do have Arthritis, I found it funny, thankfully I’m not a granny

Happy Birthday Richard, hope the year is a good one for you xx

James’s Honda Clarity section was excellent, someone out there in BBC land should give James his own show, he’s too knowledgable not to be taken seriously.

Take the time out guys to have a rest, recharge your batteries and please come back soon with another Top Gear. I shall miss it.

Merry Christmas to you all.

Three Cheers for the backroom boys too who make the show possible.

Hip Hip!!
Hip Hip!!
Hip Hip!!

May I take this opportunity to wish you all a very Healthy, Happy and Prosperous 2009.

Yawn…., it has lost its way,
Dear Jeremy is turning into an old fart, James already is one and Hammond is in grave danger of going that way too. We used to have the yobbo (Clarkson), the spiv (quentin) and the boy racer (Needel), now we have two geriatrics and one in training.

Bring back William Woollard!

Al

I thought Sunday’s show was the worst ever. It was like the end of term at school – messing about and nothing serious. The Mini, Hydrogen Honda and Tesla bits were good but the rest was a right turn off. Hope next year improves if this is the new low it’s slumped to.

@59. James did have his own show, and he talked about stuff like this.

Top gear really is in a different class, they presented one of the most important cars ever made without making it boring, and the Tesla will be good once it gets the reliability sorted. I mean, how often do you take your sports car cross country, and how often do you just go for a quick blast of <50 miles?

@61. So the features were good, and the rest was cocking about… Just like every other episode of Top Gear ever made?!

i propper like the programme i can u send me a signed pic of hammond

Absoulutly Fantastic the best episode for a long time 10/10 cant wait for the Vietnam special. Also ther were alot of guests Tom Jones, Jay Kay, Jay Leno but the best bit by far was The News with all them XMas gift ideas and the TG Awards

Hydrogen fuel cells will only be the future if a far more efficient way of extracting hydrogen is discovered. At the moment, we’re generating electricity to split water to extract hydrogen to fuel a cell to provide electricity – it’s not very efficient at all, or particularly “green” with current means of generating electricity. Far more energy is used getting the hydrogen to the fuel cell than is created by the fuel cell. Unless we devise a clean way to generate vast amounts of electricity and/or a far more efficient way to extract hydrogen, it’s not a good option.

Batteries are in some ways much better – there is already an efficient, robust and nationwide electricity distribution system (and none for compressed hydrogen) and it’s more efficient to distribute electricity and charge batteries than using hydrogen as above.

The big issue is charge time, and nano lithium titanate batteries make it theoretically possible to charge an electric car as quickly as refueling an ICE car or a hydrogen fuel cell car. I say “theoretically” because while the batteries will charge fast enough, you need in the region of a megawatt supplied to them.

I wouldn’t dismiss battery-powered cars as quickly as James May did. I think it could go either way, largely dependent on technological development.

Oh i just couldn’t stop laughing!!! I was just in bits especially with the bit where richard is slagging jeremy about will young!! i was actually crying from laughter!!! Merry Christmas guys and Happy Birthday to Hamster!!!
Oh by the way, Jeremy lost his voice last week due to singing way too much in the pub as he found a set of drums and the guys found guitars while they were doing top gear live in dublin!!!! LOL

I was outraged at the death of another Morris Marina on your show last night. I think you could have killed another one off with a bit more style, perhaps even towing a caravan!!!

Have a wonderful Christmas and I hope to see more Morris Marina’s getting killed off as a regular slot on the next series.

Just wondering did anyone else notice James in sunglasses after presenting Jay Kay with his award.

Thank You Mr Catbert, I did actually watch Big Ideas and it was an excellent show. Something along the lines of this programme for the Open University would do well for James.

TG awaits the retalliation from the morris marina owners club lol!

that was the worst top gear episode ever hamster pointless as ever
clarkson thinks hes funny but he is not
may is just a waste of space

I WAS THE OWNER WHO SOLD THEM THAT CAR IT WAS JAMES MAYS PIANO THAT HIT IT

so it was your car befor it got smashed gutting

Does anyone know what happened to top gear dog?

Did Stig eat him?

So, did anyone figure out the morse code the Stig had playing in the car during the Tesla lap? Unless I’ve missed it somewhere in the comments. Wondering if they left any amusing messages

When Jeremy read about the pathetic Morris Marina whingers group, I immediately thought of his latest column about complainers. Internet groups that no one else cares about, that are way too sensitive, that have no life, and that have big mouths. That was really pathetic of them. If these whiney brats don’t like it, they can go to **** for all I care. TG is the greatest. Jeremy’s got the best sense of humour and delivery.

Now on with the show. I really enjoyed last night’s offering. The news, Christmas gifts, and awards were hilarious. I had a great laugh from that. I enjoyed the Tour Car segment alot. Richard gave some great history on it as well. The Tesla review by Jeremy was very thorough and very well done. From the outside, it sounds much nicer and quieter than Jeremy said it sounded like on the inside. The only problem I have with it is how expensive they are and how long they take to re-energize. James’ review of the Honda Clarity was wonderful. I want one very badly. That is a beautiful car and my husband is a huge fan of hydrogen power. After the show, he was on his soapbox about it. I’m just hoping they’ll make more of them and put up more hydrogen pumps around the world so it will be feasable. I don’t really want to live in California just to have one.

I’m glad James seems healthier now. I hate to see him suffering and feeling rubbish. Jeremy seems to be getting well too. A touch of hoarseness, but he seemed in better spirits, so I hope he feels much better soon. Happy Birthday to Richard this Friday. Hope you have a great birthday and many more to follow. And most of all, Merry Christmas to all three of you. Hope you have a very wonderful and festive Christmas. Love,

look simple fact of the matter is once oil runs out our cars will be history, or not. i live here in brazil and they run most of their cars on ethanol. it is fantasit stuff because is more powerfull, cleaner, cheaper( by about 65% than deasil) and it is just the way forward. makes the engine sound better too.

Clarkson’s Tesla test was crap. Apart from that it was a good episode. Lot’s of “lols” during the 6000cc V8 Old ages person’s chair, bit.

One of the most interesting road tests was the Clarity by May.

I think I’m starting to become a May fan after watching that Clarity review.

Fantastic episode last night, especially the news – had me in stitches!

Happy birthday to Hamster for Friday. 38 again, Richard?

Great entertainment – but showed a woeful lack of knowledge about the industry (I know the dynamic three will know b*gger all but surely someone in charge knows a little about what;s going on?).
Anyway – for the record while the Clarity is very clever it is far from unique – despite what James said. GM have a fleet of 100 fuel cell vehicles that collectively have done 500k miles in hands of ordinary punters who get them on long term loan, and am sure other manufacturers also have them. The Honda is no smarter than any of the others, so let’s have a bit less fawning – it’s not very TG.
And second – how can you have so little acknowledgent that the manufacturer who has stuck by BTCC most consistently is not Ford (who got out years ago) but Vauxhall. Maybe if they moved from Luton to Munich they’d get the recognition they deserve. Can’t get away from the notion that Ford and Man U, and Vauxhall are Man City. One with all the money for the prawn sandwich brigade, and one with all the heart for the rest of us…

Loved it! Just for the fact Richard squeezed in the words ‘Wizards Sleeve’!

I nearly cried!

This weeks show was pitifully lacking in certain places, don’t get me wrong I enjoyed the segment on British Touring Car racing, the Tesla car, the Honda Hydrogen powered car and even the Tom Jones interview but for the most part it wasn’t up to par with your usual standard and it felt like the humour was just patronising. I just hope the hour long special in Vietnam will make up for it.
Overall this series it’s been hit and miss.

xox
Gemma,

What was James going to say about the sausage sword???

I wanted to see the Sierra RS500 do a power lap

The story about the hydrogen car was very optimistic focusing on the positives. However, as stated in commentors above it is not energy-efficient.

On the show they said “hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe.” That appears to be true. The problem is that most this hydrogen is out there in the universe and *not* here on earth.

We have to manufacture it and that costs a lot of energy. Further, hydrogen molecules are the smallest molecules “in the universe” and they like to escape. It is extremely hard safely contain hydrogen. It tends to leak out of where it is meant to be kept. That causes safety risks.

Sadly, hydrogen is just a means to “transport” converted energy. It is not an energy source.

i LOVED them driving the little radiocars up the window of the One Show!!! other half and I were actually rolling about laughing
they need to sabotage more other BBC shows, like when Jezza drove the Peel through the BBC news.

I liked the show first of all but did find the green stuff a bit disturbing:
Topgear did not do their math properly and produced biased reporting as a result (at least I hope it is just the math).
Hydrogen is as expensive per gallon (but not per GJ which is a factor 3) as normal fuel in california, electricity is much cheaper than Hydrogen (so that would amount to about a factor 20) also the fuelcell in the clarity is guaranteed for only 10,000 miles, after which it needs to be replaced, the Tesla engine can run for about 1,000,000 miles. If you use the clarity on the track (there is no sense in it) I guarantee you the fuelcell would cut out. Also didn’t a ferrari cut out just the same as the Tesla because of overheating in last year series. Track duty is extreme for any car as is for the newly developed but brilliant Tesla
If you trash a Ford GT around the track like the Tesla it also has a range of 50 miles, so nothing new there is it?
You need about 5 times as much electrical energy to produce hydrogen, compared to direct use of electricity in an electric vehicle. (so the shot in the Tesla clip, should have been 5 powerplants for the “clarity” )
Fuelcells have been around since early spaceflight, but have not gone through the development curve like batteries with the introduction like mobile phones and laptops. If I look at the amount of research done on batteries by leading institutes I would say that is very likely that Hydrogen will not cut it in the end, and that with the development of quickcharge batteries we will be driving tesla offsprings in the future.
Off course there are companies like BP and Shell that are literally dying for us to keep coming to their gasstations to buy some sort of fuel, rather than fueling up at home (Hey Jezza use a 60 amps socket in stead of a 13 amp socket next time, it saves you 10 hours charging time).
James you seem like the sensible kid, but you did not have your numbers right (and next time I like to see you running laps all out on Laguna Seca with the Clarity).

First time I’d seen the Stig in the Caterham. As an ardent Caterham fan, I have to say I was rather disappointed. It looked like a scruffy lap and I can’t believe that the car can’t go quicker with a tidier lap. Can’t believe that the Stig would have been entirely happy with it.

Thanks for a brilliant show this week – a good mix of old and future with a big dollop crazy. The BTCC piece was interesting (I remember spending a lot of time up at Brands in the ’90’s!), whilst seeing an alterntive fuel car that actually works!

I see we have a week off next week in prep for ‘Nam – make sure the iplayer bods keep the show up for an extra week.

Cheers.

Really really enjoyed the show, it was really funny and interesting with the green theme! The pork sword and the MG branded wizard’s sleeve had me and the missus in fits and was quite possibly the funniest thing I’d seen all week!!

As for the Honda Clarity… Wow!! I am astounded by the innovation that’s gone into that car, and it’s inspired me to write an article about it. Even if its arse is a bit fat!!

Have a great Xmas, Top Gear crew!

back on form for top gear which is the best a show can be. factual, anti-obvious green cars yet pro the future cars which are green! and with some sensibility rudeness and tyre squeal cant wait vietnams incarnation of the stig.
BRITAIN AUSTRALIA USA TOPGEAR TO RULE THE WORLD.

the best top gear yet there is nothing else need to be said richard and james are jelouse because they aint got a boyfriend

too green burn more marinas in inventive ways

Another one hits the mark. Just goes to show TG can do proper car reviews when they want to. It also proves you don’t have to test the latest hypercar every week to make the show entertaining.

I can’t believe the series has gone so quickly, if only Monday to Friday was that fast…

Well, the show was hilarious, as always. But when it comes to car reviews, I must say, this season has been pretty thin in that department. You guys went way too Hollywood in some episodes. Just pleeeease don’t go Bollywood!
2008 saw some pretty big new car introductions. It’s a shame you haven’t reviewed more of them.

Shona – loved the poem (and the sentiment)

The Tesla was good. Why didn’t you have the Lightning with its Nanosafe batteries that charge in 10 minutes?

Dear Flop Gear

I fruitlessly spent an hour on Sunday watching your broadcast drivel. Your so called ‘Reviews’ are embarrasing and irrelivant, the interview with Tom Jones had about as much depth as a paddling pool and the stunt scene was dangerous and idiotic.

In my opinion all you have done is:

1, Promote unsafe driving
2, Mock alternative fuel Technologies
3, Give meaningless awards, while there have been some real motoring achievements.

I will not be watching again

John ‘Health and Safety first’ Cogbottom

………..Only jokin i thought it was f*****g brilliant

loved the show especially when you anhialated another morris marina.but it would have beenbetter toblow the gastly thing up and crush it into a cube so the stupid marina club could see it.

Lot’s of comment about the Clarity vs Tesla or battery vs. Fuel Cell.
I propose a Top Gear challenge that Jeremy hinted at, Lands End to John O’Groates. It will be a 21st century tortoise and hair race. The Clarity will be the first to get 270 miles from the starting line, but then what? Where are you going to get any more hydrogen? The Clarity will have and stop and wait for all the hydrogen filling stations to be built, meanwhile the Tesla (and the G-wiz will have found a 13 amp plug somewhere and recharged…
… The results, Tesla crosses finish line 3 days later, G-wiz crosses finish line 3 weeks later, Clarity crosses finish line 3-30 years later? Point is you can buy a Tesla or G-wiz today and drive it and they could do the Lands End to John O’Groates run, the Clarity can’t.

Oh, and you missed a trick with your Caravan record attempt and the Morris Marina. Should have had a bed of Marinas for the Jag and caravan to land on.

@98 The Tesla can be charged much faster as well, the problem is the 13 amp plug, The lightning would take just as long to charge with a 13 amp plug.

What a bunch of dozy Clowns !!I am not happy about my licence fee paying for that badly informed rubbish I just watched. Hydrogen the future- what a laugh.

It is so carbon intensive to produce, and only 25% efficient as a fuel, It would be more eco friendly to ride round and do all your shopping in a 7.5 tonne truck.

On average supermarket filling stations have between 1 & 2 fuel deliveries per day to keep stock levels up. To deliver the same energy in Hydrogen WILL require 12-13 specialist tankers a day. So there bright then!!

Only one filling point so far in Europe, in Berlin. So thats convenient then. It took 10 years for people in UK to get their heads around basic LPG and we still only have only 1200 LPG filling points.

Hydrogen is the big red herring that has been around for over 100 years,- yea 100 years ! In 1889 Mond and Langer developed the first working hydrogen fuel cell, however as with most good ideas development was stiffled by Gues who The Oil Companies.

last nights top gear was awesome, a rekon with a few modifications the v8 rocking chair could become a hit!!

oh and james mate well done for the hydrogen powered car, buutt i prefer the roar of petrol, even if it kills the planet

really don’t get why, when top gear has always been accused of not being green, when they do a green show people start complaining that they got their facts wrong bla blah blah. hell, even if they did, at least they tried!!!!
loved the bit with the cars up the one show. if that was real, what episode was it?

@ Safe Driver: this was gonna be a massive rant at you, thank god i read your last sentence…

My wife sat through Top Gear last night and only laughed at the Jeremy/Will Young bit. She then said “This is like that comedy film with those two lads, but for grown up men….Bill and Ted’s car adventure.” She may be right on reflection…..but I still like Bill and Ted so that’s ok.

Have to admit i was a little disapointed with last nights show. I love topgear, and Hammond, Clarkson and May are fantastic but last night seemed to be missing something.

The heavily scripted news, and the pointless topgear awards were the reason. We like to see the boys cocking about but not when it is so heavily scripted like it was for the news section, and the awards – it didnt have any point at all and lacked the Topgear sparkle. Please dont keep making this mistake as people are going to get def up with it. We like them cocking about, but when it looks scripted and forced comedy its really not good!

As Jezza and us folk from up north(south yorkshire) would say, best thing since sliced bread and TP really is. The series feels like it comes and goes so quickly. NOT FAIR!!!!! The whole series has been one big laugh-a-minute. Can’t wait for the next. Looking forward to the vietnam one on the 28th. But Jezza, Hamster and Captain Slow and the two wheel form of transport, just do not go together.

Hope the boys have a really great christmas, with their families and hope that I get Stig in my stocking for Crimbo.

Oh and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all the petrol heads out there !

That Marina thing was great!!!!!!!
The episode was briliant!!
I cannot wait for the vietnam thing!!

LOVED IT LOVED IT LOVED IT!!!!! It was yet again one of those shows that just has you crying with laughter. Pork sword!!!!! I really wanted to see what badge was supposed to go on that!

Did anyone else notice, during the awards segment when Jay Kay was leaving, James wearing a pair of black lensed John Lennon glasses, just for a fleeting second or two (maybe going back to his chat with the ‘fan’ in the casino in Reno). It did seems like he had a case of black eyes there. Why wasn’t that kept in?

All the same GREAT SHOW and now we have to wait 2 weeks for the last one. I’m so looking forward to that though.

Does anyone know where to get to remote control cars from that Jeremy was driving up the window ???

I loved the most embarrasing flirting award, James’s “Hello”! I laughed for hours… well… not actual hours.

I nearly died laughing at the remote control cars on the one show.hilarious stuff.One of the funniest shows in a while.

The caravan jump lived up to ‘ambitious but rubbish’ and therefore was a complete success!

Looking forward to the Vietnam special

what amazing shows ive been watching wow and that caterham R500 thats something else!! stigs driving how does he keep so calm! is he GOD,i wish he could abuse my car for me round your track!!!!

The remote control car on the one show, God, I wish I’d watched the 1 show!

hydrogen powered cars aren’t THAT new….
i watched a video in school about four years ago about a hydrogen powered car made by bmw…the creator even drunk some of the exhaust water….
i only remember it because i got told off during the lesson and that is a rare rare thing for me.
but yeah not exactly new news….bmw did it first….*nods*
hmfp. damn stright i’m a smart ass.

What is your fave car?

To ghetto,

What car do you drive…

i like the concept for hydrogen fuel cell electric cars, but the process of isolating hydrogen is still inefficient and can cause as much, if more, environmental damage than fossil fuels currently do. so it’s not realy a viable “green” alternative yet, simmilar to other “Smug Mobilles” whose cost to the environment is still great, for example, production of batteries and the transport of materials arounfd the world.

Phew. Great show lads. “most embarrasing flirting award”!!! Go captain slow!!!

Is heavy right welly here?
Sorry to hear about your job, what job was it?

Hammond got the caravan bit wrong , they could of beaten 5th gear if they DIDENT USE THE FRONT ENGINE JAGUAR.
What you should of done was use a light mid engine or rare engine , rear wheel drive sports coupe or sports car , and gone from a further distence .the lighter the car and with the engine mid it balances the car out which then makes it go further.
As you saw because the Jaguar was front engine it plunge down from the front , also the legth is to long and the car its self is to heavy.

trust me it will work anbd youll beat fith gear its all engineering and physics.

Whether you believe in hydrdogen or not (personally I tend towards being skeptic), here is an excellent article with a thorough review of everything involved:
http://www.newscientist.c om/article/mg20026841.900 -whatever-happened-to-the -hydrogen-economy.html?pa ge=1

PS it WAS a great show, just think of the Hamster in his MG hat

One thing that made me sad is the award for the hurt body parts did you forget when Clarkson was driving the truck when he hurt his side?

Great Show! Keep’em comming!

P.S> TopGear beats Fifthgear on everygrounds possible!

Probably the best season ever. entertained as always by you guys pissing about.

But May you spanner! did you bang your head on a sump. Hydrogen is balls! Some insurmountable problems of basic physics in this universe.

1. 40% of the energy contained in a tank of H2 is lost in the compression process. Making it vastly less efficient than battery or petrol. which is why it cost 3 times as much per unit energy despite subsidies. (Same per gallon as petrol! How much is a gallon of H2? At what pressure? meaningless propaganda)

2. H2 has negligible surface tension, in other words you can’t store it well or pipe it anywhere without major losses. Ask your bum chums at honda how long the tank stays full just parked in the garage? let alone the losses sat at lights without the extra cutoffs.

3. H2 is generated from H20 (or industrially CH4), via electricity with power from oil. an unnecessary energy conversion in the process. 10% energy loss each conversion, right there.

As far as recharging the battery goes on the tesla or other car consider… Why can you change wheels on any car? Because they are standardised.
You can pull into a refueling station pull out a long cylinder battery (or part there of) from your car and replace it with a standardised charged battery in the station. Less refueling time than a petrol car. The station recharges at leisure.
The tesla really is using a stack of laptop batteries. obviously standardised already…
Just lift them out and put them in.

Dreadful episode. Last week’s was perfect – this was perfectly boring. I deleted this episode immediately – never done that before. Oh, and thank you to my younger brother for explaining the ‘wizard’s sleeve’ joke.

have u seen the miracle the video on you tube http://uk.youtube.com/wat ch?v=q-JDsdPAJ4g its crazy

and also i will pay james may to have his hair cut with a V8 engine supercharged set of shears. a new idea for you jeremy. don’t steal my thunder.

Great episode. Shame JC hasn’t completely got his voice back…

I’m so glad he didn’t like the Tesla. That thing is just a jumped up Lotus Elise that runs on a shedload of laptop batteries, goes worse round corners and charges you £60,000 more for it!! You could get an Exige AND a GT-R for the cost of a bloody Tesla! Plus they said you should wait for them to fix the bugs and generally sort it out, much like you had to do for the iPhone. Has it come to this? Are cars going to become nothing more than gadgets? I hope I never see the day…

And if Honda get their way, it never will. I’m all for the Hydrogen Revolution. The FCX Clarity is just awesome. It would be good if what Jay Leno said about a hydrogen commuter and a petrol weekend treat actually happened. I hope I do see the day.

The V8 rocket chair was a bit fail. Not as good as the blender. But you should make a vacuum cleaner. That would be so powerful it would probably make a black hole!! Unlucky on not out-jumping 5th Gear. It’s a rubbish record anyway. And which show is it that has driven at 253mph and starred a Bugatti Veyron 4 times? But come on TopGear, how was the Nissan GT-R not your COTY? It can beat a McMerc, an LP640 and a 997 Turbo round TG and the Nürburgring, for £50k. You gotta admit that’s impressive.

Best episode of the series. And does anyone know if you can really get a Wizard’s sleeve with a Ferrari logo on it?

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I enjoyed the show. Not enough explosions, but the destruction of the Morris fed that need. Tomfoolery with the One show was also fun. More hooliganism is always fun.

And to add to Science Stig’s comments, there’s a few more immediately approachable problems with hydrogen cars.

Hindenburg anyone? I would like to find out how good Honda has become at making practical and safe hydrogen storage units and fuel cells. In order to make them reasonably collision resistant, they need to be very heavy. Moreover, what would happen when a hydrogen pump at a fueling station is run into? And I wonder how prohibitive insurance on those installations will be for station owners. That could be a huge hurdle in creating the necessary infrastructure to support hydrogen cars in any practical numbers. Margins are already astonishingly prohibitive for those owners, I don’t see them being willing to take on that burden without massive subsidiaries from suppliers.

Torques? Hydrogen as it currently stands will only be effective for passenger cars. There’s just not enough umph in it to supplant diesel in heavier applications like large trucks. And the range just isn’t there either.

The presenters were understandably dazzled by the proposition, but there are still substantial hurdles to overcome with the technology and it’s adoption. The future of hydrogen powered cars is still a ways off, even as a niche part of the alternative fuel solution.

Agree with the people above, hydrogen won’t be a viable alternative until someone invents a way of stabilising it. The first person to do so will be the richest person EVER! So if ya want to save cars and the planet and be filthy rich then it is time to hit the books.

xox to the TG boys…better luck next time!

Great show. especially James’ film. He really has been THE star of this series. Loved the car on the One shows window to. Proof indeed that our TopGear boys really are 6 years old!!
Thanks to Shona at #11. Great poem.
But come on Hamster… you wearing that hair for a bet??!!!

It was good but not as goodas usual. Felt like you were just tryin to fill up an episode before Nam. The rest of the series though, brialliant keep it up guys. Im guna be in new york for the next episode but im findin a tv so i can watch the Nam special.

Loved the FCX Clarity, proves green is going to be good.

Good episode. I have to ask, though… where was the Golden Cock award?

LOVED THE AWARDS! especially James’s flirting fiasco : ‘ Hello. ‘ was hysterical for 5 minutes. and i think will and jezza make a brilliant couple. We all better get invited to the wedding x

jt 118, good application but you’ve missed something – the hydrogen can be generated efficiently at a dedicated station (with the same advantages/pitfalls as ‘leccy), then oxidised efficiently in the car. Less heat lost in combustion, no energy wasted on tickover, and non-fossil fuel reliant hydrogen mean in can be more efficient – tho I expect your right atm (someone did a calc and reckoned the clarity produced 58g/km co2 at the current carbon cost of h2, but I don’t believe them).
Anyways, apology if someone else is pedantic enough to point out the above, I too want a hesla/tonda, post 11 BRILLIANT, and do ppl reckon that episode was better than the last one? I didn’t reckon that was possible, but wow (though a V8 stairlift would have bettered the rocking chair – it was just ‘oh, it fell apart. Needed more drama). Happy xmas, and bday to hamster, and congrats on a brilliant series.

safesafe, cant wait till nam one

lets not get hung up on crashing lol great show guys the poor grandma with the stairlift and curse u fith gear should of done it with the bugatti cant wait for the special

jeremy clarkson loves james may

GREAT!!!

But the show last week with Boris & the Royal Marines beach assult with the Ford was a classic! One of the best Top Gears I’ve seen.

Probably the best ever episode ever on Top Gear

I may only be 11 years old but i love this show and i watch it every week.

I am a big fan of Jeremy and the crew and am hopefully going to top gear live next year.

Yours sincerly
Your biggest fan Christopher Williams

THe show was great, I can’t wait for the Vietnam Special.

Happy Holidays to all.

absolutely ace episode… the awards are always funny but this was the best yet.
This series has been a return to form for TopGear after the slightly disappointing series 11 and im glad TopGear stuntman made a comeback

Contender to the Bugatti Veyron – ey?

http://msnmand.dk/article  /28717

My stomach has to be stitched back together because I laughed so much. As Mr May’s biggest fan, I loved his Honda section. That car shows all the amazing possibilites for the future. Also, the bit where it shows his flirting. The funniest bit. One day, I hope I have the honour of meeting you!!

xxoo
Diya

Best show ever!! But, like the current trend, I will say the same line again after the next episode of Top Gear.

All in all, I would love to thank Top Gear team for reading viewers’ comments and inputs. It makes this current series very special.

can we please stop trashing marinas please. rest of the show was great. the honda should be the car of the future!!!

great episode.
you dealt with peak oil in such a stylish way as to make it not real. ace ! and in the bargain made a good case for hydrogen over battery, must try and find out the cost of the honda, to find some balance.

keep up the great work, with the programme being so good the need to talk about fossil fuel longevity doesn’t seen important, you’re all ace.

In my opinion, that was the best ep of Top Gear yet! It was hilarious, entertaining, and honest. If that Honda is the way forwards then I gladly welcome the future!
And a Happy Birthday to Richard and Merry Christmas to the Top Gear team!

Does anyone read ALL these comments???????????????

and another thing, does hydrogen production require alot of energy to extract the hydrogen and of course we want the honda as it’ll keep our current lifestyle going, which is great as we all want this stuff(the way we live in the developed west) to continue.

best show ever !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

minted show jono

the green theme was great but i cant help feeling that this show is slowy drifting away from a facutal car show into a daft laugh , dont get me wrong i think tg is great but i think you should revert to old ways with 2-3 cars being tested in a show , and please that chair was just stupid . by the way im 14 and every body at my school agrees with me !

arent we all sad, commenting on how much we like the show, do we not have anything bette to do?

i think no!

i loved the show, hopefully the ‘nam special should be just as good, hopefully better

The model they used to go vertically up the One Show window was wicked. Does anybody know what that model was I just got to get one.

i’m with science stig with wind turbine battery stations along the road system. we’ve got enough time to sort it out before there’s to little fossil left.
energy security, DONE.

Stig’s Tesla Morse:

1) I like Gary Newman*

2) That pork tasted funny

* spelt Newman not Numan…!

BOORING, AND HOW CAN YOU SAY IT WAS THE BEST EPISODE OF THE SEASON – WITH 2 ELECTRIC CARS??? PHOARR REALLY SPECIAL… PLEASE BRING BACK THE PETROL

i thoght it was so funny, especially when u did the award with the “flirting” James’s was so funny and Jeremy with will young!! LMAO
best Top Gear this series

damn good job on the last ’show’ of the season… great seeing this series as with others, but each one gets better… have to say though that sunday was the best of the lot… from the touring cars, the tesla, the hilarious news.. and even the awards.. am I the only one who thinks they should show more of the behind the scenes stuff like James’s awkward “Hello” .. lolz..

This show seemed more like the old school Top Gear with a tribute and the track test of the Tesla… and James finally got back to testing interesting cars, something I think suits him best… great test of the FCX…

Great show, great series… keep em coming.. Merry Christmas!

Wish my Granny had one of those rocking chairs.
Did Hammond have a good dress up.

The show was gd but not the best of the series but I think the honda was gr8

C’mon people!
Top Gear Stuntman is rubbish! The reaction to him on the Facebook blogs was rubbish after his first appearance on the last series was so poor, i thought he wasn’t going to return!

Instead of stuff you could’ve seen on any CLarkson DVD, we could’ve seen another session on the Cool Wall or moore of the awards!

Speaking of which, what happened to all the funnier and (to an extent) sensible ones? The ugliest car of the year? (That new Spyker 4X4 or Ferrari California?) What about the WORST car of the year? (Jeremy might say the Porsche 911 GT2:0) Sigh… roll on next year!

Still, this Vietnam adventure should be fun, can’t wait for it!

JAMES LMAO!!!!!! hello

I’m so gay, I wish I could hack gay porn sites. Sadly, I just get off on here… all that powwwweeerrrrr!

Tosh. Absolute Tosh. The Clarity is currently only an overblown concept car (of which they have delivered 3). The Head of R&D at GM reckons the Hydrogen economy will be up earliest by 2014…Great! So soon! Let me at it !

In the mean time, I will take a Tesla thank you very much. Quite easily the 2008 Car of the Year IMHO and quite possibly the car of the century. It is on sale now, you can buy it right now and it absolutely rocks. I drove one in Monaco and was astounded by the silence and the speed. How JC managed to appear so unimpressed is beyond me. I can’t believe such CAR-heads as the TG team can so easily dismiss such a pioneering electric car, it’s faster round the track than a 911 GT3 for goodness sake!!

Yes there were initial reliability problems with the transmission, but they have now been solved and Tesla have just successfully delivered their 100th customer vehicle – and all without the need for any mystical new difficult to stabilize/transport/store fuel infrastructure. Plug it in at home, plug it in a work…it’s not rocket science, and I certainly don’t commute 250 miles a day, do you ??!!… But I suppose JC isn’t in the habit of plugging in a mobile phone even…he is probably still on a landline and sure those mobile things will never catch on….

Also, it is largely MADE IN ENGLAND at Hethel by men in brown coats in sheds who didn’t even get a mention. Scandelous.

Get with it boys, we want cutting edge reports about real new motoring options and what is available/nearly available and not pie in the sky promises about hydrogen being our saviour when clearly it will be at least 20 years (most say 30) before it is available everywhere and to all.

5th gear aren’t just winning the caravan jumping comp at the moment IMO…

I don’t get the wizard sleeve, someone tell me.
And also what day was Richard’s Birthday?

Great One ! And Great Season as well ! I’m sure the Nam special will be great too!

I can’t wait already for next season !

Loved the magic trick with James’ sunglass during the awards…anyone else noticed:-)(watch closely when JK leaves)
They are there one second and then they aren’t the next…it’s a kind of magic…

otherwise a great show, but feeling a bit sad that the next one is the last this season:-(

PMSL for most of the show yesterday. Loved the remote controlled car riding up the window whilst they were filming the One Show. Million times better the the ” Other ” rip off show. Never ever axe the series or there will be many upset TG fans, including myself!
Have a joyfull Christmas and happy new year, that inclused the Stig!

Kadette, I’m not sure this is the place to answer that question, but if you go to http://www.urbandictionar y.com, you’ll find a definition…

OMG suchhh a good episode!!!
i was pissing myself at the 3 flirting moments
james was like a polite little schoolboy when he said hello LOL
And jeremy with Will young!! it was slightly creepy but helerious all the same
i still think the lutus elise was better than that electric car. it was much better value fr money
and OMG i was well jelous if those girls when richard fell on them! he is absolutly gorgeous!!(L)

The Tesla: very exciting for disappointingly short bursts.

There’s a joke I could make about an ex- of mine at this point, but this is a family board…

how much is that honda electric/hydrogen car going to cost if i want to buy one?

haha absolutly hilarious, espesh the awards and the gift ideas.pathetic saying that us girls have to pee like that haha id rather go to a bush then that.
James, so funny saying hello in a flirty way.
Richard Rocks!

great show,my dad had a marina,it was rubbish.
Did not think there would be any left.{2 less now,though!}
supprised health&safety hav’ent stuck their oar in and warned people (i.e caravaners,electric car makers,etc)about sudden showers of piano’s falling from the sky around the Top Gear test track.
loved the V8 rocking chair.what about aV8 coffee grinder or kenwood chef!
anyway lads,have a great Christmas and a very happy New Year.looking forward to Top Gear in 2009.

Brilliant show and brilliant series – well done lads!

Can’t wait for Nam which looks like its going to be awesome!

Have a great Christmas and I will be looking forward to the next series …hope we don’t have to wait too long!!!

Did anyone notice they only awarded one car a TG award?

Whats wrong- it is a car show for cars!

Enough of the comedy- back to Fifth Gear I say!

George666enzo…off you go. We won’t miss a humourless individual like you.

Great episode, great series roll on the next series!!!

Quality viewing, as ever. Looking at the respective limitations of the Tesla and the Clarity, it would be interesting to see what real advances could be made if the resources of something like Formula 1 were thrown at electric propulsion. F1 has always claimed that it benefits the car industry as a whole through technological advance; if electric cars really are the future, perhaps it’s time F1 put its money where its mouth is.

Plus, with hydrogen fuel cell powered F1 cars, the prospect of some really f-off spectacular explosions would make for compulsive viewing.

was the report on the eleectric Honda a spoof?
If this technology is now available, why aren’t we promoting it more leaving the arabs with their sand? Dave.

Dear Top Gear,

I enjoyed last night’s episode but I have to agree with the commenters above who have pointed out how way-off-target you were about hydrogen. The episode stated in no uncertain terms that batteries are a dead-end technology and that hydrogen will save the world. This simply isn’t true. Here are some reasons why:

1)Hydrogen is a remarkably inefficient energy carrier. First you have to produce the hydrogen, then compress it, then transport it, then store it, then oxidise it in a fuel cell. You’d be very lucky to get 20% of the energy out that you started with. These problems are not likely to be fixed by future technology because these inefficiencies are fairly fundamental. It is far, FAR more efficient to distribute energy over the mains grid and charge batteries than it is to distribute energy using hydrogen. Efficiency will matter more and more in the future as cheap fossil fuels fade into a distant memory.
2)Creating the hydrogen fuelling infrastructure is a MASSIVE job. More to the point, no company will invest the hundreds of billions of pounds required while hydrogen-powered cars are unavailable for purchase; whilst hydrogen costs so much to produce and whilst the world is in a recession.
3)Fuel cells are EXPENSIVE. The Honda FCX Clarity is currently not available for sale and rumours have it that the cars cost anywhere between $120,000 and several million dollars. It is far, far more likely that we’ll have good, cheap batteries in the near future than we’ll have good, cheap fuel cells.
4)Where do you get the hydrogen from? At the moment, most hydrogen is produced from natural gas (hardly the most renewable source of energy). For a truly “renewable” source of hydrogen, you have to produce electricity from a renewable source and then create hydrogen using electrolysis (which is inefficient and costly).

The automotive fuel of the future is very, very unlikely to be hydrogen and much more likely to be batteries. We already have the distribution infrastructure for electricity (the grid) and quick-charge Lithium-titanate batteries are already a commercial reality. Distributing power over the grid to charge batteries is WAY more efficient than using hydrogen as an energy carrier. The drive train in an all-electric car can be utilised to recharge the batteries during regenerative breaking whilst hydrogen-powered cars require a whole “regenerative breaking” subsystem (adding weight and cost). The exhaust from hydrogen cars (water vapour) is a greenhouse gas (albeit a short-lived one). Hydrogen readily escapes from many containers because of its low viscosity and low molecular weight. Hydrogen gas is an asphyxant and is highly explosive. The list goes on and on…

At the very least, PLEASE ask your most science-literate researcher to spend a few days researching the debate surrounding the “hydrogen versus batteries” issue. The evidence is really quite clear: hydrogen sucks as a transport fuel. I’d recommend that they start by reading the “Enhancing cars” section in David MacKey’s excellent book “Sustainable Energy without the hot air” (available for free online: http://www.withouthotair. com/download.html ).

I don’t need to tell you that you have a huge responsibility to get this stuff right. After last night’s episode, millions of viewers around the world have been misinformed about the pros and cons of batteries and hydrogen.

Why does this matter?

Firstly, it’s going to be very, very difficult to achieve the 20% reduction in CO2 emissions required by 2020 but it may just about be possible IF consumers are given the correct information.

Secondly, we need to support the UK automakers who are developing battery-powered cars (which will, in all likelihood, perform very well).

Top Gear is watched by hundreds of millions of viewers around the globe. This is an admirable achievement but brings with it huge responsibility to deliver accurate information. Providing accurate information does not have to be at odds with being entertaining. If you don’t have at least one researcher with a solid understanding of science then please either hire one or assemble a collection of advisers from across industry and academia.

Some said: TG is the best TV show ever!
And what a great season…
Nice job guys!

Greeting by:

Stig’s hungarian cousin

I really wanted that Tesla to be better! Darn! Great show though!!

I can believe the series is so nearly over.. it been a classic series and its going to be a long wait till the new one…

Hope the Vietnam special is going to be as good as those that came before..

I don’t know what looked worse, the MG fur hat, of the one Hamster wears in the Morrisons ad!&

I think it’s time they laid off Clarkson poor Will Young. It’s obvious Hammond is more Wills’ type!

Great show, once again. This has been a really top notch series.

ummm… i thought the show was pathetic. the jokes were bad, there were no interesting road tests or funny challenges, the cars shown were boring and the show itself wasnt as slick as usual. i hope it is a one off….

Thanks for covering the Tesla and Clarity! Despite the flaws of an electric car over long distances, I would still use an electric for all my shorter trips, and keep a cheap second hand car for long trips.

Just wanted to say that Norsk Hydro have made a device that can produce hydrogen, it’s about the size of a large frige, and it is planed a hydrogen Highway in norway from Stavanger to Oslo. there are fuelling stations along this highway and the cars are a rebuild Toyota Prius, with the combustion engine rebuild to run on hydrogen.

just wanted to say,

anyways great show=)

Well Mr W,you’ve done it again, great series, loking forward to the ‘Nam special’.

The series has been a good mix,some things didn’t work but we cannot expect everything to.
The awards seemed rushed though,not as ‘funny’ as usual,and what happened to the award Richard got from the Ann Summers thing???It was after the watershed.There was a lot of things not explained though last night,editing or will there be an enlightening???

Happy Birthday Richard,have a gud un.

A Merry Christmas to all at TG and everyone here.

the difference between the Tesla and the Honda is, that the Tesla ( when solar power is all around and prices are almost to nothing ) with the Honda where still dependable to the hydrostations…

let’s hope, we still be having both cars in our future, they are better than all the rest at the moment

a docu about the race for the car of the future :
http://www.vpro.nl/progra mma/tegenlicht/aflevering en/40004478/media/4010229 4/
unfortunatly in dutch

loved the show, it’s nice to see some green cars

Captain Slow should explain to Jeremy what a ’supercapacitor’ is. Otherwise, TopGear is performing a great disservice to the younger generations.

Good show. Good show. Tesla and Honda reviews were really well done. News and BTCC were entertaining.

you guy’s did an excellent job! its too bad you don’t air these as is in the US, cuz everyone over here loves Top Gear. The Clarity and Tesla videos were especially fabulous. The camera work you guys do never ceases to amaze me, and hats off to whoever is picking the music. Interpol was a fantastic pick for the end of the Tesla clip.

Top Gear needs to have me on the show. I want to meet the fat one….Jeremy. The tiny one. Richard I believe is his name. and the one that looks as if he just came out of a washing machine-James I think it is.

Please invite me to come. I think people will know who I am I assume.
Anyway, great job Top Gear!

It was a good one… loved Tom Jones!

someone should write a bit about the fcx clarity, some in depth info on how does it work and what repercussions will it have on the already damaged motor industry

The R500 lap was impressive, and the Stig looked like he was having fun.
A circa £36K car which can beat £million pound plus supercars WITHOUT resorting to electric aids, and its a design that has been around for over 50 years and its British, None of that foreign muck!

It was so funnnnyyyyy

Bring on the next season of top gear!

MERRY CHRISTMAS JAMES, CLARKY AND HAMSTER

it’s so good with the presents shewee and the calculater

merry xmas to all
from bin laden
for it shall be your last

could you send tickets to 47hawthorne avenue NP19AG wales pls i’ll give all a present of life

Just for the record a Caterham was built with aerodynamic improvements which achieved 131 miles per gallon! so not only can Caterhams be very fast and agile, they can also be very economical owing to their very low weight, especially as it is no bigger or more complex than it needs to be to do its job.

no 1 here

want a chat talk to me at 15:15-16:15:):):):):):):)  :):(:(:):):(:(:):)

Bin laden once you have learned how to spell, I will gladly have a chat with you!

Just like to say to the ‘doom and gloom, hydrogen is too expensive to produce’ whingers:
My husband used to work in a factory that made bleach. the cell stacks there vented HYDROGEN AS A BY-PRODUCT!!! By my reckoning that was FREE hydrogen, anyone want to pull me up on that one??? So there must be more of these chemical factories, and there must be ways and means to collect this vented hydrogen. Oil companies spend billions just looking for oil…
Hydrogen powered cars are the only way our society will be able to use cars in the way we do today, and that is really what matters!!!
Also battries arn’t exactly that enviromentally friendly.

“bin laden said…
Tuesday December 16, 2008 at 8:32 am
want a chat talk to me at 15:15-16:15″

Is that when you have computer class at school then???

Hi,
Does any one know what the piano music was near the end of the bit on the Honda?
Please and Thank-you.

Fantastic show as always and James – I think the “Hello” bit is actually quite sexy…….!!!???

One of the best episodes you’ve done in the last year or more. You kind of glossed over the major problems with hydrogen powered cars, but regardless of the storage type the future of cars is electric for sure.

thankyou anonymous

Hydrogen is a by product of quite alot of chemical engineering today the only issue comes of harvesting it but these things can be overcome

Tesla’s take on things (lots of comparison tables ICE vs FC vs BEV): http://www.veva.bc.ca/wtw  /Tesla_20060719.pdf

Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Cars

Hydrogen does not exist in nature except as part of more complex compounds such as natural gas (CH4) or water (H2O). The most efficient way to produce large quantities of hydrogen today is by reforming natural gas. For new
plants, the well-to-tank efficiency of hydrogen produced from natural gas, including generation, transportation, compression, is estimated to be between 52% and 61% efficient.

The upper limit of efficiency for a PEM fuel cell is 50%. The output of the fuel cell is electricity for turning a drive motor, and we can assume the same 2.78 km/MJ vehicle efficiency as with the electric car. With these
numbers, we can calculate the well-to-wheel energy efficiency for our hydrogen fuel-cell car: 2.78 km/MJ x 50% x 61% = 0.85 km/MJ.
This is impressive when compared to a gasoline car, though it is 32% worse than our electric car. But real fuel-cell cars do not perform nearly this well. Several car companies have produced a small number of demonstration fuel-
cell cars, and the EPA has rated the efficiency of some of these. The best fuel-cell demonstration car measured by the EPA is the Honda FCX, which gets about 49 miles per kilogram of hydrogen, equal to 80.5 kilometers per kilogram.
We know that the energy content of hydrogen is 141.9 MJ/kg, so we can calculate the vehicle efficiency to be 80.5 km/kg / 141.9 MJ/kg = 0.57 km/MJ. (Clearly, the Honda fuel cell is nowhere near the theoretical 50% efficiency assumed above.) When we calculate the well-to-wheel energy efficiency of this Honda experimental car, we get 0.57 km/MJ x 61% = 0.35 km/MJ, not even as good as the ordinary diesel Volkswagen Jetta, let alone the gasoline-powered Honda Civic VX or the Honda Insight hybrid car.
However, some proponents of hydrogen fuel cells argue that it would be better to produce hydrogen through electrolysis of water. The well-to-tank efficiency of hydrogen made through electrolysis is only about 22%, and
the well-to-wheel energy efficiency of our theoretical fuel-cell car would be 2.78 km/MJ x 50% x 22% = 0.30 km/MJ, and the well-to-wheel energy efficiency of the Honda FCX would be 0.57 km/MJ x 22% = 0.12 km/MJ, even less efficient than a Porsche Turbo.

i believe JC was genuinely surprised by the tesla’s acceleration, and that’s huge by itself.

I THINK TOPGEAR IS ALL REALLY FUNNY WITH JEREMEY AND HAMMOND BUT I THINK YOU SHULD TELL US MORE ABOUT THE FACTS SOMETIMES.

top gear should help put pressure on the goverment to get the infrastructure for hydrogen cells in the uk. Britain should be leading the world as it did once before, otherwise we will be buying the hydrogen from the saudis or someone else and be getting raped at the pumps again while they make there 3 billion every 3 months

“Hydrogen is a by product of quite alot of chemical engineering today the only issue comes of harvesting it but these things can be overcome”

True, hydrogen is a by-product of some industrial processes. But I’m fairly certain that – if we adopted H2 cars – we’d need FAR, far, FAR more hydrogen gas than is currently produced as a by-product. Many orders of magnitude more.

And, even if you could produce loads of hydrogen for free, you’re still left with the problems of storing it and transporting it. Hydrogen LEAKS out of all practical containers. Here’s what David MacKey (a Professor in the Physics Department at Cambridge) says about the leaking problem:

“hydrogen gradually leaks out of any practical container. If you park your hydrogen car at the railway station with a full tank and come back a week later, you should expect to find most of the hydrogen has gone.”

…

In response to the claim that building an H2 infrastructure is perfectly possible because we’ve successfully built an oil infrastructure; and therefore it must be within our ability to build an H2 infrastructure (the point that James May made at the end of the episode):

1) Oil is both an energy source and an energy carrier and is therefor a much “safer bet” for investers. Hydrogen is just an energy carrier.

2) You need to consider the “energy return on energy investment” (EROEI). The well-to-wheels EROEI for modern oil production is probably somewhere between 10:1 and 100:1 (i.e. for every barrel of oil you “invest” in pumping, refining and transporting the oil, you get 10-100 times more energy back when you burn the oil in your car). For hydrogen, the ratio is more like 0.2:1 (i.e. for every unit of energy you put in, you get 0.2 units back out). (although I’m not really being fair by comparing the EROEI of an energy source with the EROEI of an energy carrier… but, then again, James May wasn’t being at all fair in Sunday night’s programme when he said (I’m paraphrasing) that building an H2 infrastructure is about as easy as building an oil infrastructure and therefore is perfectly practical).

3) Oil is really rather easy to send through pipes and to store compared with H2. H2 leaks out of all practical containers and to achieve useful density of H2 you need very high pressures.

4) When oil production started over 100 years ago, it was relatively cheap and easy. Back then, you stuck a pipe in the ground and energy-dense, easy-to-store, easy-to-transport liquid came shooting up under its own pressure. Over the following 100 years, the refining and distributing infrastructure was constructed as demand grew year-on-year. Yes, modern oil rigs are incredibly expensive; but businesses tend to focus more on return on investment and risk than on capital expenditure. Those expensive oil rigs were very safe bets for the oil companies (although the recent price slump to ~$40/barrel may have changed that!) If we opt for hydrogen cars and we’re to roll out hydrogen cars in time to allow CO2 emissions to peak in the middle of the next decade (which is what scientists are calling for) then we need to build a hydrogen infrastructure of similar size and capacity to the existing oil infrastructure. Except we’ve only got 6 years to do it. And we’re all skint. And, even if we did invest in a trillion-dollar H2 infrastructure, commodity prices would be sent to astronomical levels (how much ion ore and coking coal do you think would be required to kit out the entire world with an H2 infrastructure?)

Hydrogen sucks as a transport fuel, it really, truly does.

True, it’s conveivable that H2 may be more practical some time in the future – perhaps if microbes could produce H2 and that H2 could then be stored in a solid material. But we really don’t have the time to wait around (possibly for ever). Batteries work, today, right now; we already have the distribution infrastructure in place (the grid) and even on today’s UK energy-generation mix (i.e. mostly gas and coal), electric cars produce significantly lower emissions (about 50g CO2 per km) than even the best petrol cars. And that will only improve as our energy generation mix becomes lower- and lower-carbon.

Nice one Tim H. Thanks for that explaination. More proof the FCX is still purely a glorified concept car…

Husko, JC should be surprised, it does 0-60mph in 3.8 seconds, the same as a Lambo Murcialago…oh did JC not mention that???! Follow the jump to go to the performance specs for the Tesla

http://www.teslamotors.co m/performance/perf_specs. php

…including the stat that if you up your amperage using the High power Charger you can charge up in 3.5 hours…oh did JC not mention that ???!

I was reminded of the EV1’s purposely woeful marketing as if trying to make it fail (see “who killed the electric car” film) by JC’s poor reporting of this new and ground breaking technical masterpiece….

Well put JK. Two other features of the Tesla not mentioned :

# Vehicle theft-deterrent and motor immobilizer system
# PIN code prevents unauthorized vehicle operation
# Valet Mode restricts vehicle speed, acceleration, and distance

Nice, finally no more Valet drag races ) and not being funny, but wouldn’t a simple pin-code system stop 99% of car thefts ? Just a thought…

Sorry to go on…buuut…a clip of a report from customer No.23 found on Tesla’s blog…

“One thing easy to avoid is the gas station. The flashing charger port on the car (insert phallic symbol here) makes the Star Wars light sabre look dull. And early results suggest a range of 175 to 200 miles, although I’ve never gotten close to running out of power. Specs are 4 hours (in the USA) for a “complete charge” but I’ve been getting what I need in about 45 minutes. Night time grid charging is cheapest (”$1 a gallon”) and the whole process will be even greener come the end of January when our roof (finally) gets solar panels.”

Now thats what I want to hear!

One more for the road…

” Midlife crisis be damned, I’d rather have this Tesla than any Ferrari, Lamborghini, Lotus or Porsche. Those cars are just as expensive and far far more polluting. Complaints? None. I just wish everyone could have this experience for themselves and more plug-in cars start filling the roads everywhere.”

nuff said.

And if you want to know what powers the Tesla and the Mini E (That BMW just released 500 examples of) follow the jump below to the AC Propulsion’s description of the 220bhp battery/motor unit they supplied them. Dated Nov.19.2008

http://www.acpropulsion.c om/company/press-releases .php

This self contained power unit, that you can plug in anywhere, and could dump into any outer body shell configuration, is surely an easier and already solved solution to our non-fossil fuel engine needs ?

Rumour has it that Jay Kay had a white suit and helmet in that bag….(nod,nod,wink,wink!!  )

i really like the V8 rocking chair, reminds me of this clip of a V8 chainsaw. Click my ling on youtube to watch it!

http://uk.youtube.com/wat ch?v=60Tamp2fHhg

Can i just add that we are all being told to switch our TV’s off and not leave them on Standby so as to cut emissions, So whats gonna happen if we all start plugging cars in for overnight charging??? There’s no way electric cars are the answer.
What does RED mean?
STOP.
Stop leaving me on Standby.
(and STOP slagging off Hydrogen)

BRILLIANT…
Loved the news, the xmas gifts everything. Liked the chair powered by the engine so im going to try it. Great Cars…
First time i watched it in ages. Def watching it again every sunday

wellllllll…………………. TOP GEAR is the BEST and we will not survive without it.
Were petrol heads in the making wait until we can drive (Jan 09/ whenever 2010)
TOP GEAR is AMAZING
TOP GEAR is COOL
anyone who ain’t watching it is a FOOL

i think james may is so dreamy, i want to fondle his fetlocks in the wind on a summers day. big kisses and cudjles. love matt cullis

condor be to chat it has to be at 3:15 til 4:15
@@@@@@@@:) this is marge simpson

;( ;( ;0 :0

any 1 chat til 2

bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye

James May should have won the award for the best flirting all over the world. I would fall to his feet if he said ‘hello’ that way to me. Absolutely brilliant!

The remote control cars featured in sundays episode, that drive up walls can be found on either QVC or Ideal World, don’t know which, but give them a ring to found out.

Bin Laden, what a COCK!!!!!!!

that was so funny with the remote control cars

cool show plz say hi to my bro craig lol

Oh man. Watched it last night (after waiting for the lovely torrent to download) and it makes me sad that BBC Canada a) doesn’t run the full hour long program, b) takes too bloody long to get the episodes over here and c) doesn’t show it live!!

Oh well.

Proper job boys, on yet another series and I can only hope the 13th season of Top Gear proves to be the luckiest and best one…after of course, I watch the Vietnam Special in 2 weeks time.

Merry Christmas to all and to all more ‘Powerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! ’

i resent that

Jack Kelly,
Where do you think all these batteries, and extra power for electric cars is gonna come from???
AND…
Please note the chemical symbol for Hydrogen is H not H2! If your gonna slag it off, get it right!!!

Job well done! Enjoyed the discussion on the radio today about towing caravans and what to do if it snakes. You boys were spot on, DRVE FASTER!!!Keep up the good work!! TOP GEAR RULES!!!

You should all get gongs in the New Years Honours for services to the motor industry!!

Vitara Vixen shut the fuk up u hore and who

Awsome!!! Keep it up.

Bin Laden it’s actually bin laden not Bin Laden u donkey
theres no capital letters Bin Laden and vitra vixen ur dumb as s***

ok ppl whos the best me or bin laden

hello

obivolse ma but i cant spell imnever went to school:(

jokier who keep it up me

any1 wanna a chat

You’ve never been 2 scool?

Will Top Gear ever get their hands on a few of the now infamous Paykan (Hillman Hunter) made in Iran? Just to review the history of this still popular ride. It’ll be worth a laugh. They did this for ex-soviet cars why not the Paykan.

hmmmmm?!!
i missed sunday the 14th top gear episode.
i see there is no repeat this week because of the worst game ever created…snooker.
is the episode repeatd at all, take care,
steve

:):):):):):):):):):):):)

Dear Helen, please tell me that…

“Please note the chemical symbol for Hydrogen is H not H2!”

…was an example of that subtle British sarcasm. It saddens me to think anybody could be that clueless, yet still feel knowledgeable enough to correct another.

As anybody with even a very basic knowledge of chemistry knows, hydrogen gas molecules are made from two hydrogen atoms, which is why the chemical notation for hydrogen gas is H2.

Just a wonderful show, not sure how I’ll cope without my fix of Top Gear on a Sunday evening. James can come and say “hello” to me any time. He’s got such a wonderful charisma that he doesn’t need to say anything more. Christmas kisses to all 3 presenters, oh and an extra one for James. XXXX

Tesla is made in Norfolk. all they do in America is fit the Battery. Tom Jones was shocking in the reasonably priced car but the BTTC 50 years anniversary was hilarious. There is more to BTTC than crashing.

brilliant top gear as usual

luvd the bit wen hammond fell off the stage lol

wonder wat was said in morse code ????

does any1 no any morse code websites u can go on and find out wat they bin sayin ??

let uz no xkerryx2kx@hotmail.co.uk

cnt wait till 28th – the hour long veitnam special – its gunna b a cracker
this series is funn go dwn in top gear history as the best

Abusolutely excellent looking forward to the vietnam special but am sad that top gear is coming to an end for this year. I wish it was on all year i will miss it and be looking forward to when topgear comes back on. I will keep watching all the repeats even though my dad keeps telling me that they are boring if u keep watching them but they are not. Well done for an absolutely excellent series and looking forward to the next.

I just don’t know any more………

Maybe you guys should make 2 separate series:

Series A:
A good car-based programme (see the first few series of post-Dawe TG as a starting point). More cars & less fannying about. Guests: Any famous person who likes cars and wants to be on the show for that reason. Suggested name: Top Gear.

Series B:
Anything you want which involves blowing stuff up & fannying about, just as long as it allows series A to be more car-focused.
Guests: Any famous person who has a new film/album/book out and needs to have it shamelessly plugged.
Suggested name: Blowing shit up & fannying about.

Please guys, before you make any more, PLEASE try to make them more like series A (above), because if not you guys may as well give up and have Ant & Dec host Top Gear.

It would be such a shame if this once great programme continued its slow descent into Lowest Common Denominator TV. This can be avoided.
You’re 4 intelligent men (Andy included). Please think about it.

the piano landing on the morris marina was hilairious,i laughed for ages,and celebrating the birthday of the btcc was good,they should use dtm style cars to save the sport.

It was generally an enjoyable programme but I record TG now so that I can skip through the Star bit. Why not have someone who knows about cars and/or can chat and be witty? Boris was very good, Jay Leno would be excellent. Tom Jones was … Tom Jones.

The rocking chair segment was just silly. Was there nothing else you could have left in instead of that?

The Clarity part was excellent. The News and Awards were funny. What did Jay Kay have in his bag?

clarkson 4 will young!!!

caterham deserved winner. Great Lap.

And I loved the V8 idea of a rocking chair. I want one to break my neck with. I want to see another invention like; A SHOPPING TROLLEY

Amazing show !
Jeremy, you need two battery packs for the Tesla instead of two cars.
We did it for an electric scooter here, at the engineering college of Turin:
http://www2.polito.it/ric erca/picofarad/

a bit late i know but the episode when jezza oad tested the fiesta was the funniest thing i have seen this series, as well as being interesting and USEFUL!! supercars are cool but that review was relevant and informative and hilarious, the perfect combination! spare a thought for those of us who cant afford mega bucks for a car, more proper road tests of proper cars please, with jezzas own finesse, naturally! love y’all xx

I HOPE UR READING THIS! I havent been blown away by the series so far but this was ATROCIOUS! The tests- Tesla, FCX, touring cars, were GREAT, but the V8 rocking chair wasnt even slightly funny AND THE AWARDS WERE RUBISH! ITS LIKE YOU DONT EVEN CARE ABOT CARS ANYMORE! ‘Best celebrity flirting’ THAT IS THE DESPERATE CRY FOR VIEWERS, TRYING TO MAKE THEM LAUGH. not even funny! PLS TAKE TE SHOWS BACK TO THE CARS LIKE THE 2ND EPISODE. The awards used to something to look frwrd to, but like S 10, They were complete RUBBISH. ifu didnt tell us beforehand that there were awards, then at least give us some good ones. The ‘best noises’ of the year seemed to be car related until the winner ‘was none of those things’ HA HA! very funny. Best body bart injury, what on EARTH!

pHEW! feel free to disagree. Ive had the rant I wanted to do about the series!

pHEW! feel free to disagree. Ive had the rant I wanted to do about the series!

This is for Thommo
You are absolutly RIGHT!
Top gear is now just a cheap comedy which isnt funny, a bit digusting, far too rude and nothing to do with cars (S12 Ep 3)

Just to clarify, boys did good jobs on the car reviews

to bin laden when u get this message go and take a run and jump n grow up. your really doing my head in

ps merry xmas

i loved the christmas tree!

if you want to care about cars take a look at the web site you are in the are quite a few reveiws on new cars here plus relavent stories on current motoring issues

no before you ask i do not work for TG or the beeb i think that you have to watch the show and use the web site for more than just ranting on blogs

thought the show was brilliant
wish i was there to catch richard tho!
and happy birthday for friday x

Great show, first one in this series that reminded me of how Top Gear used to be, i like how you actually could see the boys enjoying this one. But there is one problem, and i think everyone knows this, The series was too short, have 10 or 12 eppisodes please. I know the Vietnam special is coming soon but I would love if we had more Top Gear to watch.

To all the people here saying that hydrogen is not the future, may i point out 1 problem, efficiency of fill up, Electric cars takes a long time to fill up and thus are very much pointless, while hydrogen is not as efficient, it actually is much more practical, and that is what determines the future of automobiles, thats why we dont use steam powered cars, they are much kinder the the environment but you have to heat it for an extencive amount of time before you can go.

best top gaer for a wile and i hope this isn’t the last of the hampster jeremy and james

Luved da show the rocking chair brilliant it will go a long long way
Worst chat up line award was gd i liked james “hello” brilliant dat will always pull a girl

I’d like to add to 266 piff-
Jay Leno would be an excellent guest. Please consider it you lot. He has a real interest in cars, and is funny to boot!
No doubt he won’t flirt with Jeremy like his boyf or sing for him, but he does a good governator.

I have a challenge for you, build an electric car that goes faster round the track than a reasonably priced car… See how easy and reliable something with no moving parts can be.

I’d like to add, while I was pointing out problems with H2, there is 1 problem with both batteries and H2, none of them work when cold. No cars in winter..
The fuel cell is full of water which tends to freeze, you can’t just add antifreeze.
Batteries are reliable but some of their draw needs to be used to keep them warm which when really cold – norway etc means you need to give a battery 5 mins to warm up in the morning. Soluble and ok once in use but no good in an emergency. -why norwegians plump for H2 over batteries, but they burn it in an inefficient combustion arrangement to get the heat..

once again another great episode.

the honda seems great but there is 1 quite significant problem, no noise coming from the engine. i dont know if im the only 1 but for me the sound of a cars engine is 1 major factor on wether i will like the car.

I want to try this and have Clarkson’s boyfriend on the radio at the same time – please!

Zenvo 1.104 hp
http://msnmand.dk/article  /28717

Peace!

Enertainment is fine, and TG is a good entertainment program. What it gave up years ago was any kind of factual service, or ’serious’ review of product.
Until this episode. Suddenly, a ’serious’ piece, overtly informative, and concerning what is aguably one of the greatest challenges of our times – the development of alternative fuels.
What we got however, was hopelessly flawed, poorly researched rubbish. Bias is fine for the sake of entertainment – but this wasn’t an entertainment item.
Hydrogen may well figure in the mix of future fuels, but electric vehicles, and plug-in hybrids are the best option on so many grounds, all laid out well above in ealier posts.

The main criticisms of battery power were a)the electricity comes from fossil fuel power stations. OK, but where does the energy come from that will be needed to produce hydrogen? Both suffer from this problem. BUT it is much easier to capture carbon at a single source than it is from a multitude of exhaust pipes. AND much LESS energy is needed to generate electricity than is needed to produce hydrogen (on a wheel to well basis).

b) Charge time. This is the greatest technical problem that EVs face. BUT it just doesn’t matter for 80% of driving needs. The average daily commute is WAY below the range of modern EVs like the Tesla. You drive to work in the morning, leave your car plugged in at work (if necessary), drive home at night, and charge over-night ready for the next day. Simple.
Longer distances are the problem, but short-term this can be addressed by hybrid arrangements that charge the battery using a small petrol engine, and long term can be fixed by universal battery swap systems (roll into the garage and swap your battery for a new, fully charged one); faster battery charge systems (20 minutes – plug in whilst you grab a cup of tea, go for a pee etc); and batteries with longer range. All are in the pipeline, and much easier to achieve than the complete re-structuring of the fuel / refining infrastucture as required for hydrogen.

And as for TG’s assertion that the tesla is ‘irrelevant’ – I really think you must be reading car-makers briefings from 15 years ago. Every major car manufacturer has an EV program, primarily hybrids that can be plugged in to charge over-night. Hydrogen cars have been in development for years and years, and have got nowhere.

So well done TG for at least featuring a green car, but it seemed to be a poorly-disguised attempt to rubbish EVs, rather than a balanced piece of journalism. And this item clearly set itself up as an informative journalistic piece, rather than simple entertainment.

If you are purporting to inform the viewers, at least try to inform yourselves first.

One of the presenters of top gear is all so member of brainiac.

I watch both programs at discoverychannel.

Great show as usual!! I think the FCX looks great.
But whats with the ads before videos on the website? As a license fee payer I expect not to have to see them on a BBC website. I can put up with the banner ads on the pages as i just don’t pay them any attention but being forced to watch ads before each video isn’t on!
Finally @ Crankyshaft. New Topgear is an entertainment program and doesn’t pretend to be anything but. The fact that their information on alternatively fuelled cars was factually incorrect is irrelevant. If that is what you want from an automotive themed entertainment show look elsewhere.

I really wanted these cars to win an award
Ferrari California
Lambo Reventon
Pagani Zonda F Roadster
Nissan GT-R
Corvette ZR1

Compressed hydrogen… Where does the energy for this come from? Oil? Yet another hoax like global greenhouse effect.

Nick Dempsey – I quite agree with you, TG is an entertainment program. But this item was very different from all the caravan jumping, crazy car conversions and all the rest. Those things are very entertaining, and the reason why I watch the show every week. BUT this item about the Honda Hydrogen car was a factual item, presented to inform, not to entertain. Just as you don’t expect to have to watch adverts on a BBC website, I don’t want an advert for Honda / Hydrogen Fuel on a BBC program. Because that’s what it amounted to – an advert for a particular product, a particular viewpoint. And they got it wrong.

You say “The fact that their information on alternatively fueled cars was factually incorrect is irrelevant.” How on earth can make a statement like that??!!

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I can’t believe it’s over already

This season was great!!

But in my opinion, I really hated the episodes of the comunist cars. It was horrible!! Other than that all the other episodes were great.

In the “Trip to America” they showed post on the web-site the race between Jeremy and James.

Good Job on this series. Hope next one will be even better. (The wait is the only part i dont like)

This season was great!!

But in my opinion, I really hated the episodes of the comunist cars. It was horrible!! Other than that all the other episodes were great.

In the “Trip to America” they should post on the web-site the race between Jeremy and James.

Good Job on this series. Hope next one will be even better. (The wait is the only part i dont like)

TY for all the comments guys. I know! This series has gone really quickly, but do not despair as we still still have our hour long Vietnam special for you! x

James doesn’t need to use pretentious naff chat up lines, he’s just so sexy as he is. I love the way he’s just ‘normal’ and not afraid to show it. Do drop by and say ‘hello’ to me anytime. XXXX

Superb absolutely brilliant, me and my brother couldn’t stop laughing. I can’t believe the series is almost over, its going to be boring once again without you guys. So please comeback soon.

OK, here’s a question:

To all those who have Dave, do you prefer the Earlier series to the current ones? You could probably tell from my comment further up the page (comment 264) where my views are.

Would you rather see more V8 rocking chairs or more tests?

Speak up, because if nobody says anything it’ll get even worse.

Electric cars:
Where do all these extra BATTRIES come from, and what is going to be the enviromental impact of their creation and disposal???

Hydrogen cars:
Is there a non fossel fuel way of creating H2???

(Can water electrolysis use solar power?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w iki/Electrolysis_of_water  )

who is the stig and plz give me one of those v8 powered rocking chairs i give it to my gran lol

didnt really get a chance to watch the show but my friends said it was god. i have watched clarkson thriller and it is amazing. Merry Christmas.

Thommo

I perosnaly think that going back to the old days of top gear where all you had was day to day boring mundane cars being tested in the same fashion on roads where rules apply would slowly push the program into obscurity and it would cease to be.

Shona`s Christmas ’song’ was absolutely genius .. i laughed for an hour on that !! .. thanks Shona for that, thank you Top Gear .. you are the best. Respect. Keep is up lads !!

This series was the best ever, the rocking chair with a v8 engine what a great idea, I’ve got an idea for the Moris Maina’a owners club buy brand new one and take a s**t in it and give it to them and see what think of that lol

to #301

even worse than obscurity…..Noel Edmonds back presenting again!!

J8 asked: “Electric cars:
Where do all these extra BATTRIES come from, and what is going to be the enviromental impact of their creation and disposal???”

Good questions. In terms of “where will the batteries come from”, the bottleneck in producing Lithium Ion batteries is sourcing the Lithium. Opinions vary on precisely how much Lithium is available but the bottom line seems to be that there is enough Lithium available to build more than a billion cars using fresh Lithium and Lithium can be completely recycled from old batteries.

In terms of environmental footprint of the manufacture and disposal of the batteries… yes, producing the batteries does have an environmental footprint. If you consider the so called “dust-to-dust” lifecycle for a typical car then something like 95% of the energy required during that lifecycle is used when the car is out on the road, being driven around. Even if an EV requires 3 times more energy to produce than a petrol car, that “energy investment” is paid back many, many times over the lifetime of the car because EVs are so much more efficient than petrol/diesel/H2 cars when being driven.

“Hydrogen cars:
Is there a non fossel fuel way of creating H2???
(Can water electrolysis use solar power?”

Yes, electrolysis can be used to produce H2. But producing H2 from electricity is not very efficient at all. It’s much more efficient to send the electricity over the grid to charge batteries.

Say you start with 10kwh of energy from your solar cells.

If you convert this to H2, compress the H2, transport the H2, fill your H2 tank and then oxidise the H2 in a fuel cell then maybe 2kwh from the original 10kwh will be available at the wheels of your car.

If, instead of producing H2, you instead send your 1kwh of solar-generated electricity over the grid to charge batteries in your car then more like 8kwh will be available at the wheels or your car.

And Science Stigg said: “there is 1 problem with both batteries and H2, none of them work when cold.”

The Lithium-titanate batteries used in the Lightning GT can operate from between -50 to +75 degrees C. And can be charged in 10 minutes.

OK now that was below the belt william woolard gives me the shi*s

KEEP THE CURRENT FORMAT MORE V8 POWERED STUFF AND BLOWING STUFF UP

Please also a game of conkers with either morris marinas or toyota prius!!! or both see who wins

Ooops… small typo! The third-from-last paragraph was supposed to start:

“If, instead of producing H2, you instead send your 10kwh of solar-generated electricity over the grid”

Forgot the 0! Pah. What’s an order of magnitude between friends?

Oh God! The inevitable has happened. TG has fallen!
Half of the show has disappeared into some mumbo-jumbo about green cars…
Tesla? Honda Hydroblahblah?
Apparently I am the only one who cares 2 notice. Has there been some horrible secret nuclear accident which brain damaged every Petrolhead in the UK?

Maybe I am the only one left, last of a species, but I don’t care abouth the ecological footprint of a sportscar. I want hurling V8’s and smoking tyres. Powerslides and smelly brakes.
My religion is built around “Nürburgring” and “Stefan Bellof” rather than “Kyoto” and “All Gore”.

So I am sorry, I didn’t like the last show.
BTCC and awards were great. The rest was too much talking not enough action.

i like cars. the three best cars i like are the porshe carrera gt the aston martin db9 and the ferreri california

please put nike007/v8 cars on the t.v.

Perhaps if you want to see what driving a Tesla is like in the “real world”, you should check out http://teslafounders.word press.com/2008/08/03/road ster-impressions/

150 miles of motorway driving is more realistic.

And as others have said, is TG being paid off by Honda now? California is *not* full of hydrogen stations. It is an experiment. Perhaps you should have shown some of the downsides, like where the H2 comes from, how many cars per day these stations can serve and how much power it takes to make.

Why was Tesla’s high power charger not even mentioned? If people think electric cars can’t be charged just as quickly as a hydrogen fill-up, check out the Lightning GT. It will be far easier to connect 10 minute chargers to the high voltage grid (you know, that one you eulogised about in James May’s 20th Century) than build proper hydrogen stations. You could install 100 quick chargers for the cost of a single hydrogen pump.

Personally, I will put my name down for Tesla’s forthcoming 300 mile car as soon as it is on the market.

I’m not english , and well … I think i should say it before i coment but I see your show and now I wish I’m English Your show is super Cool ! I mean WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW !
Well I want to say thanks to the guys for bringing alsome cars !
SEE YA ! ON TV

TheRealWorld said “And as others have said, is TG being paid off by Honda now?”

Yeah, I was thinking something similar.

Take James May’s line “…when the Clarity runs out of juice, you just pull into a hydrogen filling station… unlike petrol [Hydrogen will] never run out because it’s the most abundant element in the universe”.

That’s the subtle mix of truth and complete falsehood that could only have been written by a marketing twit.

Yes, Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe (ignoring dark matter) but no, it’s not in a form that’s ready to be pumped into your car! I know it’s been a while since your school chemistry lessons Mr May but this isn’t a casual chat down the pub; this is a broadcast which will be seen by hundreds of millions of people. Sorry, I’ve forgotten… What’s that thing responsible production companies are supposed to do during pre-production? Oh yeah… RESEARCH.

cough INFOMERCIAL cough cough

Jack Kelly.
Just out of curiosity, I was wondering where all your ’stuff’ comes from. You seem to have quite a vested interest in electric cars..
God forbid you are not a green lobbist trying to subvert the petrol head!

No, I’m not a green lobbyist (although I agree I have spent rather too much time ranting on this comments thread, so I can see why you might think that!). I’m a freelance filmmaker, of all things. I’ve just got a very keen interest in green tech.

Why didn’t TG mention that the Honda Clarity currently costs at least $750,000 to make, the sheer inefficiencies of using Hydrogen fuel cells?

Maybe because they were too busy editing the footage for their biased review of the roadster, which apparently wasn’t all it would seem:

http://blog.wired.com/car s/2008/12/tesla-cries-fou .html

*pacifist

I absolutley loved it! It was one of the most hilarious episodes ever! I’m just trying to figure whether it was funnier than last week’s.

When will it be back? Apart from the Nam special, I mean. I have withdrawal symptoms!

I would love to work on Top Gear someday!!!!! It just goes to show, I think they definately have the best jobs in the world!!!

I must say, though, I am loving Richard’s new look. The waistcoat just does it for me. Looking good!

Also the V8 powered rocking chair was simply legendary! Not to mention the awards! I must say, Jeremy’s love for Will is simply poetic.

The hydrogen powered car thing was really good I thought and the Tesla is just cool. Harness that look and the power in a normalish car, and it would be great!

I just love the show boys, and please please please give us some more!!!

And can I just say to all these ‘green people who are all ranting about how much it costs to make or whatever, can you just appreciate the car for what it is, rather than ranting about the cost and fuel consumption etc. Car’s aren’t just about value for money, speed and power. They are about soul, and passion and also their looks and feel as well. Anyhow, I’m ranting a bit now as well but oh well.

Thanks so much for a great series!

alana (14)

hello, dsylexic fine art undergraduate and motorcyle rider, part time audi driver, and used to have a volvo. stacking up sterotypical background for every one to start with.

there seems to have been quite a lot of critical writing connected with the research of the tesla/honda article. what is the reaction of the research department at top gear to these criticisms ?

does the programme think that peak oil is an important enough subject to be discussed publically?
by this i mean from a standpoint of ‘we’ve had it really easy, loads of abundant high energy fluid, that in time and there’s no acurate prediction of years when, the supply will be smaller than the demand which will have an impact on the way of life we’ve become used to.’
or to put it another way, currently 55% of crude oil goes on transport, if there is a way of reducing transport dependancy on crude oil, it(crude oil) might last a bit longer for everything else it gets used for.
or to put it another way, is it time to come clean about fossil fuel, as at the moment the economical system has shown it’s hand, so why not show the fossil fuel hand and maybe altogether we can realise that life as we know it will not be the same in some years to come.

think of it as being in a relationship with a person, that at first it all goes well, good times, good fun and good physical stuff. after a while doubts start to come into mind, the initial fun dwindles and it becomes mundane and one becomes unhappy and rather than say anyhting one continues with it and the enevitable ending is postponed as it doesn’t want to be faced. why not just admit early on there’s a problem and deal with it and move on. why put off something that evitiably will happen ?

Loved the latest ep’, boys and looking forward to the ’special’. Also loved your poem Rhona – wish i could write ‘em like that. Can’t wait to buy your new DVD, Jezza.

loved the show has james eye infection cleared up because jeremy voice still sound funny

James has been a real surprise this season, what with overtaking Jeremy, standing up to
him,and saying ‘Hello’ to those girls. Hamster and Jezza are wild,power-mad petrol-heads and we need someone like James to contrast with that. It’s that formula that makes the presenters relationship so interesting. What a refreshing change to see a man who doesn’t have to pretend or put on airs and graces to win women over – he does it without even realizing. There’s something very mysterious and rather sexy about him and you know what they say about the quiet ones. I do hope I meet someone like you Mr May.

Excellent series. Keep em coming just like that. As for the comment saying Top gear should go back to being a factual car show…….. It used to be, and hardly antone watched it. The current format with the current presenters rules! James should have won the flirting award. He is priceless and very sexy without trying. Nice to see more of James this series too. look forward to the Nam special.

Is that it

i was loving the series

make it longer next time

I wish australia hadn’t come up with their own version of top gear. Don’t they know they cant make it anywhere near as good as top gear UK? now im missing all of the great top gear UK series.

in oppose to jeremy, james & richard I would so hardly like to have the caterham r500 in my driveway. just 2nd to the absurdly mad 500bhp-version called the RS, from which just 8 (!) were and ever will be made. but that would be err… quiet hard to get, so the r500 is a good alternative. and that “good” is quiet a BIG understatement.
what I want to say is, topgear-people please get your hands on an RS (Jay Kay, Rowan Atkinson or Jay Leno – one of them has one, I’m sure – and let the stig drive it round the track. would do it faster than the caparo t1 (1:10,6). i even bet, it would do it in under 1:10 easyly.

Burning Touring Car Championship sort of, but just like in the one of those playstation games, a tank chasing after the pack and shooting at them would do for me.
For those Morris marina owners get the STIG to drive their polished boxes round the track to scare them out of harrassing our Top Gear gods.
Of course the One Show will forgive you they’ve still got some fun in’em.
Plus it would’ce been better if it said stig underneath the car.
Anyway Merry Christmas

I watched with interest James playing in the US with his hydrogen electric car. He is correct it is the future, but obviously the he needed the sun or was it the weather, or just to see Jay Leno’s car’s. Obviously it was too cold go to the Malvern’s to see those Brit’s in the Morgan Secret Shed who with Cranfield University and Qinetiq just put together the Life car, which is HYDROGEN electric powered. Old story UK designs it US builds it.

Have a great christmas boys and hope the new year brings you more brilliant motoring adventures. It’s been a shorter series but a brilliant one. It’s brought with it mixed views but I’m sure there must have been something for everyone in this series whether serious car reviews or general cocking about. It’s easy for us to underestimate the hard work that goes on behind the scenes as we don’t see it but your hard work has been worth it. You can’t please everyone watching but I’m sure most of us will be returning to our viewing spots when it comes back to our screens next year. You’ve also done other shows, great new DVD’s, etc and let’s not forget that even 2 years on, Hamster is still mending after his ordeal in 2006. So please take it easy boys and don’t overwork as quality is much better than quantity. Can’t wait for the Vietnam episode – and will Stig have a Vietnamese cousin?

hi there, i have watched many good top gear episodes, and honestly, i like this one the most. really, i m not makeing this up like some peoeple giving good words with other less brilliant episodes, this seriously is a best episode in the world of episode world, in the world:) good luck guys, live long and do great stuff like that;)

Btw, batteries aren’t dead.
Check out Altair Nano. 10 mins charges.

Fantastic show, loved the awards bit! But i have too say i would rather have a lotus then the tesla purely because i am a huige fan of lotus’. Well can’t mait til the vietnam special.
Happy Christmas Top Gear!!!

Going with the green theme, i would love to see this around the top gear track

http://en.autos.sympatico .msn.ca/GreenCentre/artic le.aspx?cp-documentid=123 61127

Yep, it’s a beemer
http://en.wikipedia.org/w iki/BMW_Hydrogen_7

hello i love your show but latly its bin a bit bouring

if your going to somrthing bad about it, which is completely wierd, at least spell boring right lol.

Poor effort on the research front. Sounds like it was written from an oil company/car company’s information brochure. Though it was a pretty entertaining infomercial.

Top Gear is Lege, no doubt.

I wish there were no series’s, it was just on every sunday, 52 weeks a year.

Hint hint

Top Gear is Lege, no doubt.

I wish there were no series’s, it was just on every sunday, 52 weeks a year.

Hint hint

james may needed to be faster if he wanted to turn blackpool lights on he needs to go faster and one day he might beat you’s

i’m with james i don’t care if the car is “electric power” or “gas powered” i want to have fun with the car, i want to go fast with the car and i don’t want to stop hours to recharge it. if and electric car can drive like 599 or GT-R cool with me. little problem form the video i’ll still get the Lotus not of the recharge problem no. but because of the handling if that Lotus was tuned i’m sure it can go faster. anyway I think top gear like from the first season Jeremy Clarkson said ” it’s about the X factor” that’s why top gear don’t like the mustang and like the lotus. that’s what i’m hoping at lest that it still about the X factor

Ok, I’m only 15, so what do I know, I listen to Thin Lizzy which can only mean I’m not right in the head, hehe only jokin, but I have been a fan of Top Gear since I started liking cars so I think i should have the right to voice my opinion on things. Yes, i will admit the Vietnam special (to me) wasn’t as good as the Polar special, and yes I think the teams attempt to make a Renault Avantime faster than an EVO wasn’t as exciting as the time when they tried to make a convertible people carrier,and yes i think the Cheap Lorries Challenge wasn’t as good as the cheap police car challenge, but even so,some of the stuff in the last series was beyond belief, the epic battle between the Zonda and the Veyron on the track,the epic economy race to Blackpool, The road trip to Bonneville in the Muscle cars, the question of ‘Has communism ever produced a good car?’,and lets not forget the big end to the series, I might not think it was as good as the Polar special, but it was still absolutely unbelievable! I know they might be running out of ideas but still, BRILLIANT. So on behalf of everyone from CO.Antrim in Northern Ireland, thank you to everyone of Top Gear team!

use the blue zone

TG have done well to appeal to everyone, petrolheads, tree – huggers, people who want laughs… well done

I LOVE you richard!

I sort of like J.M. & J.C, they’re OK.

i loved the awards.
laughed so much

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