Series 11 countdown: Cheap Alfa Challenge
We've long said on Top Gear that you can't call yourself a true petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo.
Only when you've experienced the passion, the soul and the racing pedigree of a car from the pride of Milan will you know what it is to truly love cars. It's one of the few things Jeremy, Richard and James absolutely agree on.
Right then, said the Top Gear office, if that's what you three think then you can go off and buy a sub-£1,000 Alfa each and we'll set you a series of tests to prove that what you're actually getting into here isn't passion and soul but inconvenience, heartache and a sudden mysterious puddle of greenish liquid appearing under the passenger seat.
Except in the case of Hammond's chronically ill-judged purchase, which didn't have anything under the passenger seat except a hole through which you could see the road.
The new series of Top Gear kicks off at 8pm on Sunday June 22 on BBC Two.
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Roman
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Mari Oh Oh!
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Knot
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Straks gaan we weer...
We're just back from filming for this Sunday's Top Gear, and we're happy to report that Episode Two is shaping up to be a proper cracker.
First up, Jeremy renews the age-old Subaru/Mitsubishi battle - fought for many centuries across the supermarket car parks and high streets of the Home Counties - by pitting the Evo X against the new and suspiciously hatch-like Impreza STi. Who's your money on?
After last week's spectacular failure, Top Gear Stuntman is back and attempting to replicate a classic James Bond stunt. And no, it's not the one where that Russian bird crushes the bald man to death with her thighs.
Having deposited several hundred kilos of rubber on Manchester Airport's runway last season with the BMW M5 and Merc E63 AMG, we're heading to pastures hillier to test the latest German monster, the Audi RS6 Avant. The slopes of the Alps, to be specific, where Richard tries to outpace some men on skis with the use of bad French.
Oh, and speaking of German monsters, Jeremy has finally convinced Merc to let him put the awesome CLK Black around the test track. We think he likes it.
Also taking to our test track are this week's Stars In Our Reasonably Priced Car: the Spooks-tastic duo of Rupert Penry-Jones and Peter Firth. Yes, it's two for the price of one again... with added spy powers.
And, as if all that wasn't enough, a charred, blackened friend makes a welcome return from the burns ward. Yes, the Cool Wall is back!
We're just back from filming for this Sunday's Top Gear, and we're happy to report that Episode Two is shaping up to be a proper cracker.
First up, Jeremy renews the age-old Subaru/Mitsubishi battle - fought for many centuries across the supermarket car parks and high streets of the Home Counties - by pitting the Evo X against the new and suspiciously hatch-like Impreza STi. Who's your money on?
After last week's spectacular failure, Top Gear Stuntman is back and attempting to replicate a classic James Bond stunt. And no, it's not the one where that Russian bird crushes the bald man to death with her thighs.
Having deposited several hundred kilos of rubber on Manchester Airport's runway last season with the BMW M5 and Merc E63 AMG, we're heading to pastures hillier to test the latest German monster, the Audi RS6 Avant. The slopes of the Alps, to be specific, where Richard tries to outpace some men on skis with the use of bad French.
Oh, and speaking of German monsters, Jeremy has finally convinced Merc to let him put the awesome CLK Black around the test track. We think he likes it.
Also taking to our test track are this week's Stars In Our Reasonably Priced Car: the Spooks-tastic duo of Rupert Penry-Jones and Peter Firth. Yes, it's two for the price of one again... with added spy powers.
And, as if all that wasn't enough, a charred, blackened friend makes a welcome return from the burns ward. Yes, the Cool Wall is back!
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Joy
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GTRene
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Ja ongelooflijk die wegen en natuur, je waant je daar in het walhallaallen schreef:Geweldig eindresultaat tussen de sti en de evo.
De clk was heftig, maar de omgeving waar gereden werd vond ik veel interessanterl. Wat zou ik toch graag weer een vakantie daar naartoe willen plannen :!:
geen drempels geen drukte en veel rust, maar ook schapen e.d. die oversteken immers bijna geen afrastering 
maar toch als je een stuk vrij zicht hebt ist genieten, bah wat mooi daar -
Metchu
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frankv
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ha! de BMW M3 is weer cool "because all the dicks went to Audi"
halen ze inderdaad weer een pipo uit het publiek met een "helicopter red me knop" op zijn breitling die zijn audi net blijkt te hebben ingeruild voor een land rover [zal wel een discovery van 3000kg zijn geweest, echt een auto voor kenners]
frank
halen ze inderdaad weer een pipo uit het publiek met een "helicopter red me knop" op zijn breitling die zijn audi net blijkt te hebben ingeruild voor een land rover [zal wel een discovery van 3000kg zijn geweest, echt een auto voor kenners]
frank
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MartijnGizmo
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