Top Gear - Season 17

Run Time: mins
Air Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1987
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.9 (107 votes)
BBC Two8 Episodes

Episode 1
Season 17 - Episode 1
Is the increasing cost of motor racing discouraging young British talent? Chris Goffey reports from Brands Hatch on Formula First - a new, c...

Episode 2
Season 17 - Episode 2
As the Eurotunnel consortium prepares for the second phase of its fund-raising effort, William Woollard examines the full-scale models of th...

Episode 3
Season 17 - Episode 3
As Jaguar prepares to launch its new Sovereign in the United States, William Woollard compares it to its deadly rivals from Mercedes and BMW...

Episode 4
Season 17 - Episode 4
‘Discretion is probably exercised more in traffic law enforcement than in any other single area of the law.’ William Woollard asks whether t...

Episode 5
Season 17 - Episode 5
Nostalgia is the order of the day as Top Gear looks at yesterday’s road sweepers, fire engines, steam lorries and buses. William Woollard ta...

Episode 6
Season 17 - Episode 6
William Woollard tests one of a new generation of stepless transmissions, soon to be available in the Fiat Uno. With the approach of summer,...

Episode 7
Season 17 - Episode 7
The Skoda Trophy, the Lada Challenge, the Astra-Nova Challenge — some of the championships where car manufacturers support would-be works ra...

Episode 8
Season 17 - Episode 8
In the last of the series, as a celebration of summer William Woollard, Sue Baker, Chris Goffey and Frank Page take to the hills of North Wa...