Top Gear - Season 18

Run Time: mins
Air Date: Thu, 10 Sept 1987
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.9 (107 votes)
BBC Two11 Episodes

Episode 1
Season 18 - Episode 1
From Press Day at the Frankfurt Motor Show — William Woollard and Sue Baker report the latest cars. Frank Page drives the new medium-sized P...

Episode 2
Season 18 - Episode 2
Surrounded by the glories of Britain’s motoring past at the Heritage Motor Museum, Syon Park, William Woollard introduces a new feature — th...

Episode 3
Season 18 - Episode 3
Are Top Gear viewers dissatisfied with their cars? Several hundred of you wrote in to complain last series, in response to an invitation to ...

Episode 4
Season 18 - Episode 4
Car design in Eastern Europe has lagged behind the west, but with the new Lada Samara, has caught up. Sue Baker visits the Togliatti factory...

Episode 5
Season 18 - Episode 5
This year’s motorcycle show at the NEC Birmingham is set against a continuing background of falling bike sales. William Woollard views the l...

Episode 6
Season 18 - Episode 6
This week’s car of the decade is from the 30s. William Woollard tests the Citroen Traction Avant that introduced a new level of engineering ...

Episode 7
Season 18 - Episode 7
William Woollard presents the programme from London’s Motorfair 87. Sue Baker drives the latest Lotus, and there’s a report on the apparent ...

Episode 8
Season 18 - Episode 8
Britain’s motorway network seems constantly clogged by road repairs. William Woollard asks why the surfaces need rebuilding so frequently, a...

Episode 9
Season 18 - Episode 9
Traditional car design in Eastern Europe has lagged decades behind the west, but with the new Lada Samara, the Russians seem to have caught ...

Episode 10
Season 18 - Episode 10
William Woollard tests the new right-hand-drive version of the Honda Civic hatchback. Sue Baker returns to Birmingham’s ‘Wheels’ project to ...

Episode 11
Season 18 - Episode 11
In this final programme of the autumn series, William Woollard puts the spotlight on more complaints made by Top Gear viewers about car desi...