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Top Gear - Season 30

Top Gear

Run Time: mins

Air Date: Thu, 9 Sept 1993

Average Rating: ⭐ 7.9 (107 votes)

BBC Two

16 Episodes

Episode 1

Episode 1

Season 30 - Episode 1

The motoring series with a report on the best small car in Britain today — with Jeremy Clarkson and Michele Newman sifting through the ten l...

Episode 2

Episode 2

Season 30 - Episode 2

The new 900 is the first car Saab has produced since General Motors took a controlling interest in the company. Jeremy Clarkson discovers wh...

Episode 3

Episode 3

Season 30 - Episode 3

Chris Goffey, a long-time MG enthusiast, tests the new RV8 sports car, and Jeremy Clarkson compares the legendary Cadillacs of the 1950s wit...

Episode 4

Episode 4

Season 30 - Episode 4

If the 80s was the decade of the hot hatch, the 90s looks like being the decade of the four-wheel-drive leisure vehicle. Chris Goffey tests ...

Episode 5

Episode 5

Season 30 - Episode 5

Statistics show a drop in road deaths, but are our roads really safer? Top Gear looks at the plight of the pedestrian. There is also a road-...

Episode 6

Episode 6

Season 30 - Episode 6

Sales of Mercedes-Benz cars are falling. This week Jeremy Clarkson sees if the new C-class Mercedes has got what it takes to reverse the tre...

Episode 7

Episode 7

Season 30 - Episode 7

On the day the London Motor Show opens Jeremy Clarkson, Michele Newman and Chris Goffey seek out the new models and ideas. Quentin Willson a...

Episode 8

Episode 8

Season 30 - Episode 8

An opportunity for car enthusiasts, without minimum £67,000 to spare, to fantasise about owning and driving a Ferrari. In this programme dev...

Episode 9

Episode 9

Season 30 - Episode 9

Including a look at some adventurous car designs from the next generation of stylists at the Royal College of Art, a report on Damon Hill’s ...

Episode 10

Episode 10

Season 30 - Episode 10

This week featuring a test drive of Britain’s new £47,000 Lotus Esprit S4 — is it really such a big improvement? There’s also a visit to Sil...

Episode 11

Episode 11

Season 30 - Episode 11

A look at how the latest diesel cars from Ford, Citroën and BMW match their petrol cousins and reports from Germany and the Czech Republic o...

Episode 12

Episode 12

Season 30 - Episode 12

There’s a test of the latest Lada Riva and Škoda Favorit in search of real value for money, and a report from the tough 200-mile Welsh Hill ...

Episode 13

Episode 13

Season 30 - Episode 13

Jeremy Clarkson goes to one of the world’s highest motor shows, in the Alps, to test Land Rover’s latest V8 Defender, and asks why it’s not ...

Episode 14

Episode 14

Season 30 - Episode 14

Entries in the British Touring Car Championship tend to look like the cars we drive ourselves, though they’re very different beneath the bon...

Episode 15

Episode 15

Season 30 - Episode 15

In the last programme of the series, Chris Goffey tests Mazda’s new sports saloon, the Xedos 9, and assesses how much of a threat it may be ...

Episode 16

Episode 16

Season 30 - Episode 16

Overweight, overblown and over-decorated, the 1970s Pontiac TransAm summed up everything that was wrong with American cars at the time. But ...

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