On an OAP-friendly Top Gear, grannies did doughnuts in a Honda S2000,
an ultimate force drove a reasonably priced car, and a bathtub with a
bike engine took on the Zonda around our track.
The hot debate centred on the best-looking car of all time. We
invited two top car designers to help us draw up a shortlist. They
picked the Porsche 928, Citroen DS, Lamborghini Miura SV and Aston
Martin DB7 (that was, in fact, Jeremy's suggestion).
It's not just the pros who know what a good car looks like - Jason
Dawe took a few of the world's finest supercars to a primary school to
see what the kids' verdict was. To everyone's surpise, they picked the
classic Lamborghini Countach.
Our next contender for the lap record set by the Zonda was a
motorcycle-engined track-day car from specialist manufacturer Westfield,
called the XTR2. It managed to be a full third of a second faster than
the Zonda!
A while back we'd asked grannies to volunteer for our doughnut
challenge, and finally chose five hopefuls to test the track. All five
managed to perfect the 360-degree spin.
The star in our reasonably priced Liana was ex-EastEnder and star of
Ultimate Force, Ross Kemp. He was frustrated by the wet weather, but
still posted a respectable time of 1.54.
First shown on: 03/11/2002