Season 40 (1998)

Episode 1
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September 10, 1998

Jeremy Clarkson slips behind the wheel for the new 15-part run of the motoring magazine and road-tests the Ford Focus, while Tiff ...Read more

Episode 2
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September 17, 1998

The Peugeot 205 was a practical, fun hatchback that many drivers found irresistible. Will the 206 be as popular? Vicki Butler-Hend...Read more

Episode 3
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September 24, 1998

As motor racing returned last weekend to Goodwood in Sussex for the first time since 1966, Tiff Needell tells the story of the cir...Read more

Episode 4
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October 1, 1998

Since its launch in 1989, the original Land Rover Discovery has been Britain’s best-selling four-wheel drive. Tiff Needell tries o...Read more

Episode 5
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October 8, 1998

Alfa Romeo are hoping to put past design problems behind them with their new saloon models. Tiff Needell test-drives the latest of...Read more

Episode 6
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October 15, 1998

Owing to concerns over safety the Mercedes A-class was withdrawn shortly after its launch earlier this year. Jeremy Clarkson test-...Read more

Episode 7
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October 22, 1998

Featuring reports from the British International Motor Show in Birmingham. Rover are hoping to steal the limelight with the 75, th...Read more

Episode 8
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October 29, 1998

The Ford Puma was such a hit with the Top Gear team that they voted it their Car of the Year for 1997. Now Ford has followed it up...Read more

Episode 9
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November 5, 1998

Volkswagen’s Golf GTi first came to Britain in 1976 and soon became the choice of the fashionable set. Over the years model change...Read more

Episode 10
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November 12, 1998

As the latest manufacturer to enter the sports-car market, Audi hopes to take on rivals Porsche and BMW with the new TT, which goe...Read more

Episode 11
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November 19, 1998

The appearance of the luxuriously equipped V8-engined Seville STS marks the return of the Cadillac name to the British market. But...Read more

Episode 12
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November 26, 1998

Steve Berry travels to Seattle to look at Jeep’s new Grand Cherokee, which is huge and available for the first time in right-hand ...Read more

Episode 13
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December 3, 1998

Tony Mason looks back at two of Britain’s failed attempts to infiltrate the US market during the post war years: the 1949 Austin A...Read more

Episode 14
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December 10, 1998

Back in the seventies the BMW 3.0, Fiat 130 and Peugeot were the coupes to be seen in-glamorous, rare and expensive. Steve Berry l...Read more

Episode 15
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December 17, 1998

In the concluding episode of the current series, Jeremy Clarkson, Tiff Needell, Quentin Willson and Vicki Butler-Henderson select ...Read more