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On the-longest-day Top Gear, we put our environmentally friendly biofuel where our mouth is and went racing. Jeremy brought the new Diahatsu Materia face-to-face with its natural rival: the Ascari A10. And James travelled to Hungary for a date with the new Fiat 500 and some urchins on undersized bicycles.
Last series, as a thinly guised excuse for driving about in some massive tractors, our presenters planted their own biofuel crop. Well, having harvested our petrol plants and added the appropriate cocktail of chemicals, we discovered we’d accidentally made a vast quantity of diesel. Plainly, we needed to use it up and fast. A plan was hatched and the entry forms for the Britcar 24-hour endurance race hastily put in the post.
Some weeks later, we found ourselves in the pit lane at Silverstone where the bravado of our presenters was rapidly wearing off. Each of them would be taking it in turns to do stints of several hours at the wheel and, even with the Stig as the fourth driver, this was going to be a tall order.
In the event, they all acquitted themselves admirably. Team Top Gear’s biodiesel-powered BMW 330d not only finished the race but notched up an impressive third in class and 39th overall.
In the face of unfounded accusations that he only bothers to review massively expensive supercars with over 600bhp, Jeremy turned up to the track in the new Diahatsu Materia hatchback. And for an added dose of journalistic balance he brought along a rival for the little Diahatsu - the £350,000, 620bhp Ascari A10.
It was a close one, but, after almost no hesitation whatsoever, Clarkson gave the nod to the Ascari. The Materia was streets ahead on pedestrian impact safety, though.
The Fiat 500 used to be utilitarian motorised transportation for the masses. It’s now been reborn as a chic urban runabout for fashionably sexy young people. So if anyone was going to see past its cutesy charms to the car beneath it had to be someone who’s none of these things - enter James May.
He went to Budapest to race a pair of scruffy extreme sports-types on titchy bikes. The BMX bandits won, but we suspect it may not have been the fault of the car.
First shown on: 09/12/2007
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