On extravagant Top Gear, Hammond went to South Africa and tested
Mercedes' gloriously cool SLR. Get out your Union Jack, the boys gave
their verdict on the best British car. And, a roomful of celebrities
came round and tested our reasonably priced car.
Richard went abroad to top-up his tan and to look at Mercedes' new
collaboration with McLaren. It has an amazing 626bhp, does more than
200mph, and goes from 0-60 in 3.8 seconds. It also happens to look like
an F1 car, which is cool. In fact, you could say it's the Rachel Stevens
of the car world.
Jeremy was surprised by the new MG SV. He was certainly surprised by
the price, which is rather a lot more than most people would be prepared
to pay for an MG. He was also quite surprised by its performance, and
declared it to be 'quite a laugh', which is a good thing.
Impressionist and comic Rory Bremner drove round our track at high
speed. He certainly didn't let the side down, and produced a very
reasonable lap time of 1.47.9.
Then everyone made their way to the test track where they proceeded
to argue about which was the best British car. Of course Jeremy reckons
the Nobel is the winner, despite being made out of a Mondeo. Richard
took the corner of the Morgan, which is, rather confusingly, made out of
wood. James of course gets scared driving quickly, so he was happy to
champion the Rover 75, which is stately, reserved and thoroughly
pleasant.
hi all the guys at top gear, I was recently on a trip in cambodia to look at the Anchor Wat temples with family and we happend to spot a the Stig moonlighting as a tuk tuk driver. Sorry missed getting a photo as he was was moving to fast but are you aware of this ?
