***OFFICIAL*** TOP GEAR: SEASON 9!

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Well, on Sunday, January 28, everyone's favorite car show is finally back!

TOP GEAR does America in Season 9: Season 9 Preview in Pictures!

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S09E06 SYNOPSIS (MAR 04, 2007):

Tearful acceptance speeches, backstage fights and the occasional 'wardrobe malfunction'... yes, the awards season is definitely upon us.

And what better way to celebrate than by building three stretch limos from everyday cars? In the last episode of this series, Richard, Jeremy and James set out to provide a classier alternative to the drug dealer-ferrying, chav-infested stretchers currently on the market.

After resolving a few minor handling issues - and shooting James in the testicles - the boys head to the Brit Awards to hold up traffic and irritate celebrities.

Check out our gallery of behind-the-scenes images

Mustang Savvy...

The Ford Mustang has been a modifiers' favourite since its introduction 42 years ago. And no one does that modifying better than Shelby.

America's most famous tuner has just released a 500bhp of the new Mustang. Given our documented love of all things Stateside, it seemed like a good excuse to crank up the Springsteen and take to the track for some serious tyre-burning action and a gratuitous history lesson on American muscle.

Because she wants to...

She's used to snuggling down with David Tennant in the Tardis, so squeezing next to the Stig in Our Reasonably Priced Car was no problem for Billie Piper.

The star of Doctor Who and former Mrs Chris Evans puts in a few laps in our Chevrolet Lacetti and discusses beer bellies and teen fame with Jeremy.

And now for the news...

In the news this week: Richard meets Tony Blair and completely fails to punch him, Jeremy gets very excited about the replacement for the Vauxhall Monaro, and James does his best to defend the soporific Audi R8.

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SE09E05 SYNOPSIS (FEB 25, 2007)

Never let it be said that Top Gear is trapped in the past. Times move on, things change, and we must all adapt and embrace new technologies.

Like biofuel, for example. OK, the stuff may smell like a particularly fetid kebab shop and require vast swathes of perfectly good countryside to produce, but apparently it's the future.

Intrepid entrepreneurs that our presenters are, they decided to see how easy it would be to produce their own fuel. Especially when they found out that it meant playing round in some big tractors on our test track.

Can the boys make enough fuel to power a car? And can Stig powerslide a tractor? Find out in our greenest episode yet...

Raging bull
You know how it is when you're out shopping for supercars. Sometimes you want a nice understated one, just to pop down to the shops in or ferry Granny to her bridge night.

Sometimes, however, you want a hulking lump of barely contained fury - an outrageously loud and unmissable display of brain-melting aggression.

You want, in other words, a Lamborghini. And with the new LP640 Murcielago out - six-and-a-half-litres of V12 fury - there's never been a better way to give a firm middle-finger salute to, well, everyone... if you've got the best part of two hundred grand lying around.

After a gentle day of rural pottering, what better way to restart the adrenaline than a foot-flat-to-the-floor road test in the meanest Lambo ever?

Kristin Scott Thomas
Yes, Jeremy has finally convinced the woman of his dreams to come on the show. If you don't know already, JC has a bit of a thing for the sophisticated actress from The English Patient.

Actually, that's not true. He has a very big thing for her. We're a bit worried he won't actually make it through the interview.

How will Kristin fare in our Reasonably Priced Car? Will Jeremy remember how to speak English? Will the entire front row of the audience be drenched in Clarkson saliva?

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S09E04 SYNOPSIS (FEB 18, 2007):

Do not adjust your set. The monstrosity you see before you is a Reliant Robin rocket. Yes, this week Top Gear is aiming for space... and beyond.

Space travel
The challenge is a simple one: to build a cheap space rocket based on a car.

Enter a reluctant-looking Reliant Robin and the nice men from the British Rocketry Association (the same chaps who helped fire the Mini off the ski-jump in the TG Winter Olympics Episode) armed with enough rocket fuel to generate eight tonnes of thrust.

Will TG's biggest challenge yet go down in flames or prove as explosive as, ahem, pro-homosexuality slogans in Alabama? It's an episode not to be missed.

Turbo fan
James and Richard love the Porsche 911. Jeremy hates it.

So with a new 911 Turbo out, it seemed only fair to let Captain Slow and the Hamster take it for a blast. However, it seemed far funnier to hand the 480bhp supercar over to JC to see whether it was good enough to convert a life-long Ferrari fan.

Top Pegg
There aren't many celebrities that rave about the performance of our Chevrolet Lacetti. But after being relegated to rural police duties in a Vauxhall Astra diesel for his new cop comedy Hot Fuzz, Simon Pegg leapt delightedly into our Reasonably Priced Car for few hot laps of the TG track.

Fine tuning
Apparently a 612bhp Mercedes SL65 AMG is a bit sedate for some people. So when the boys found out that unhinged German tuners Brabus offer a 720bhp version of the SL, they thought it only polite to introduce the SV12 S BiTurbo to our test track...and the Stig. Will the most powerful roadster in the world prove too much even for our tame racing driver?

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S09E03 SYNOPSIS (FEB 11, 2007):

If any of you caught the episode in the last series where the lads went caravanning, I think you'll agree that, bar a few hiccups, it all went rather well. In fact, even as we watched the firemen put the last of the flames out, there was a general agreement that Jeremy, Richard and James should try this holiday lark again, and so, this week, you'll be able to see their American Fly-Drive special.

The trip began in Miami, Florida, but instead of renting some dull saloon with white paint and velour trim from Avis, the three of them were each given $1,000 and a morning to see if they could buy an interesting car - a car with a few character lines around its grille, and a few stories to tell - for the same money you'd spend on a fortnight's rental.

As it turned out, the buying alone was worth a film, because $1,000 doesn't actually get you much any more, which meant our expat trio spiralled further and further down the food-chain of Miami's car culture, until they ended up in a part of the city where the car dealers were outnumbered by the crack dealers.

Clarkson's salesman, for example, broke out his handgun and telescopic-sighted rifle much more often than he did his Glass's Guide. Eventually though, cars were bought.

Jeremy, typically, overstretched himself and bought a five-litre Chevy Camaro, the murderer's muscle car of choice. In fact, it even had the shirt of the last hitchhiker victim stuffed in the boot.

James, true to form, returned with a 15-year-old shagged Cadillac that had its suspension tuned by a trampoline maker, and Hammond, always a big fan of Brokeback Mountain, arrived in a battered old Dodge pick-up truck.

With the buying done, the adventure really began. The TG holiday cars had to be tested, so they headed north on an 800-mile road trip that aimed to take them up through Florida, across Alabama and Mississippi to the finish point of New Orleans. That's a tough trip for bargain basement cars that even the lowest low life in Miami wouldn't be seen in.

But to make life even harder, there were naturally some Top Gear challenges along the way. So tune in to see what happens when the boys run into the Stig's hillbilly cousin and find out what they cook up when they have to live off roadkill. If that little lot doesn't kill them, will the Alabama Inflammatory Statement Down The Side Of the Car Challenge finish the job?

Find out at 8pm Sunday on BBC Two. Miss that and you've got two more chances: Wednesday 14, 7pm on BBC Two and Saturday 17, 7pm on BBC Three. No excuses, then.

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S09E02 SYNOPSIS (FEB 04, 2007):

After last week's record-breaking return, Top Gear TV is firmly back in the groove. The dancing girls have been sent home - sorry, Jeremy - and normal service has been resumed... if you can call maxing a Bugatti Veyron, crashing a train and discussing testicles with Hugh Grant 'normal'. To find out what happened backstage at filming, check out our behind-the-scenes gallery.

On this Sunday's show:

Captain Slow and the Bugatti Veyron
As you might have gathered, TG rather likes the Bugatti Veyron. Not least because the 1,001bhp monster has a claimed top speed of 253mph. But will it ever actually go that fast?

Armed with the Veyron's special 'go really fast' security key, James heads to the five-and-a-half-mile straight at VW's maximum security test track in Germany to find out.

In the news this week...
Find out why Porsche is keeping everyone in the dark about its new Cayenne, what the TVR house band sounds like, and why Prince Charles has lined his garage with petrol.

Also, the boys check out a 'supercar by George' (can you guess which one it is?), discuss their best and worst drives of the past six months, and reveal why undertakers will soon be out of business.

Hugh Grant in a Reasonably Priced Car
You've probably heard of him. Yes, he's a real, proper Hollywood star and, according to Jeremy, the very man for whom Star in a Reasonably Priced Car was conceived.

Hugh Grant - foppish Englishman extraordinaire and star of Notting Hill and Love Actually - ditches his Bentley GTC for our Chevrolet Lacetti and takes to the TG test track to show off his full repertoire of curiously endearing blasphemy.

The Three Coupe Challenge
Want a coupe for around £25,000? You're spoilt for choice, with the brand-new Audi TT, Alfa Romeo's gorgeous Brera and the manic-revving Mazda RX-8 all vying for your pocket money. After a heady row, the boys couldn't find a clear winner, so they decided to settle the debate in that time-honoured fashion: a good old game of golf.

Train Crash TV
It might surprise you, but no one's ever asked Top Gear to make a public information film. Until now. Jeremy dons a high-visibility jacket and a pair of hard hats to extol the dangers of pensioners, level crossings and, erm, high-visibility jackets. OK, so he got a bit confused. Basically it's all an excuse to pile an express train into a Renault Espace at high speed, with seriously spectacular results.

The new episode of Top Gear hits your screen at 8pm on Sunday February 4. Don't miss it.

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S09E01 SYNOPSIS (JAN 28, 2007):

Hammond's back. Really, he is. The Hamster returns to your screen at 8pm this Sunday in the most explosive episode of Top Gear ever - and the action will continue on TopGear.com as soon as the credits roll.

Richard will be blogging right here at 9pm - read about this, and our exclusive computer-generated reconstruction of the accident in our news story.

Having spent the day with Richard as he made his emotional return to the TG studio, TopGear.com can happily report that he's healthy, happy and just a little bit embarrassed to have caused so much trouble.

For a full preview of Series Nine, check out our gallery. Here's what to look out for this week:

Men at work
Why do roadworks take so long? It's a question that's vexed every one of us as we sit stationary, gazing glazen-eyed at a builder armed with a stop-go sign and massive arse cleavage. Surely there must be a better way?

With the aid of just 32 of Warwickshire's finest road workers, a quarryful of tarmac and an incredibly irritating megaphone, the boys try to complete a week's worth of road repairs in just 24 hours. How hard can it be?

Fast food
This week's studio guest Jamie Oliver was on a mission to prove he could set a tasty lap time rather than make a dog's dinner of our Reasonably Priced Car.

After nearly flattening us at Gambon - twice - and demonstrating a couple of the most spectacular fishtail slides we've ever seen on our icy test track, Jamie eventually got to grips with the non-stick circuit (see what we did there?) and even managed to fry the Lacetti's radiator. Smoking stuff.

Jaguar XKR v Aston Martin V8 Vanquish
What better way to celebrate the return of the best show in Britain (hell, the world) than thrash a couple of the finest sports cars in Britain (hell, the world) around our test track? We've never seen Jeremy more torn - will he plump for the gorgeous Vanquish or the Jag's supercharged XKR, with an engine note like "Tom Jones gargling a NASCAR"? Oh, how we've missed those metaphors...

Hammond's shunt
It's the big one. Like a scary film, you know what's coming. You want to shut your eyes, but somehow you can't look away. Whatever you've read about Hammond's jet car accident, you won't be quite prepared for it. It even shut JC up. Don't miss it.

Watch more
So that's what's on the show, but the TG coverage doesn't end at 9pm on Sunday. Oh no. The techies at TopGear.com have been beavering away to create an awesome 3D reconstruction of Hammond's crash, using detailed telemetry from the Vampire's black box.

The animation gives you an amazing insight into the G-forces and impact of the high-speed crash. It goes live as the show ends.

And that's not all. As soon as you've seen the video and watched the reconstruction, we want to know what you think. Richard will be posting a blog on the site at 9pm, and we'll be giving you the chance to respond.

See you right here after the show on Sunday.


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Originally posted by: OulOat
Is Maye getting played down?

Well, usually the show is 90% Clarkson. He's kind of a hog in that way.

But now that Richard nearly died he'll get some attention too.

And James is just where he always is. Captain Slow.
 

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Originally posted by: OulOat
Is Maye getting played down?

I hope not. He is one of the more entertaining aspects of the show, at least to me.

Clarkoff has just become annoying over the years.
 

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I love this show... I have seasons 1-8 already. Anyone know if this is going to get picked up on the U.S. side of the pond? I was looking around on the website but saw no mention of it. Did a search on my TV's guide and didn't find anything either :(
 

Aharami

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can someone PM me and tell me where I can DL/torrent these? I wish US got them
 

PricklyPete

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Sooo interested in seeing this next season...LOVE the show!

I like the XKR vs. Vantage bit...definitely interested although I'm fairly certain the VANTAGE will smack some serious ass.
 

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Originally posted by: Trinitron
Originally posted by: OulOat
Is Maye getting played down?

I hope not. He is one of the more entertaining aspects of the show, at least to me.

Clarkoff has just become annoying over the years.

Agreed. The best bits of the show are when Hamster and Maye go on one of their "expeditions" like 24 hours in the Smart "lounge" car.
 

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It amazing how the big bad Fabled Aston Martin DB5 of the Bond Era with 282 hp, driven by a race car driver, on the race car driver's home track can barely beat out a Chevrolet/Daewoo Lacetti/The Suzuki Forenza/Suzuki Reno with all of 94-122hp driven on a celebrity on an unfamiliar track.
 

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Is this avail. on Dish Network or do I have to dl the torrent file?

No big deal, I've got them all on file anyway, but have wanted to watch on tv. Just never researched it.
 

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Originally posted by: Suture
I love this show... I have seasons 1-8 already. Anyone know if this is going to get picked up on the U.S. side of the pond? I was looking around on the website but saw no mention of it. Did a search on my TV's guide and didn't find anything either :(

I think they are planning to do a similar show on Discovery. But it will be without the three hosts we're use to, will be watered-down, and far more pro-American.

In short, it will suck.
 

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"Jeremy, typically, overstretched himself and bought a five-litre Chevy Camaro, the murderer's muscle car of choice. In fact, it even had the shirt of the last hitchhiker victim stuffed in the boot.

James, true to form, returned with a 15-year-old shagged Cadillac that had its suspension tuned by a trampoline maker, and Hammond, always a big fan of Brokeback Mountain, arrived in a battered old Dodge pick-up truck."
Hahahah poor hamster...
 

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Originally posted by: junkiefp
"Jeremy, typically, overstretched himself and bought a five-litre Chevy Camaro, the murderer's muscle car of choice. In fact, it even had the shirt of the last hitchhiker victim stuffed in the boot.

James, true to form, returned with a 15-year-old shagged Cadillac that had its suspension tuned by a trampoline maker, and Hammond, always a big fan of Brokeback Mountain, arrived in a battered old Dodge pick-up truck."
Hahahah poor hamster...

I would really like to see them do their own Canon Ball Run or something or maybe another supercar (Jermey) vs. plane (James and Richard) race through America or something, stopping along truck driver joints and making fun of Americans, etc.
 

Martin

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Damn, I have no BBC2.

I guess I'll have to wait for the torrents... probably won't be up until sometime tomorrow :\
 

freegeeks

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they show the crash, it's frigging spectacular!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :Q :shocked: :shocked: