Top Gear - Season 40
Run Time: mins
Air Date: Thu, 10 Sept 1998
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.9 (107 votes)
BBC Two15 Episodes
Episode 1
Season 40 - Episode 1
Jeremy Clarkson slips behind the wheel for the new 15-part run of the motoring magazine and road-tests the Ford Focus, while Tiff Needell se...
Episode 2
Season 40 - Episode 2
The Peugeot 205 was a practical, fun hatchback that many drivers found irresistible. Will the 206 be as popular? Vicki Butler-Henderson take...
Episode 3
Season 40 - Episode 3
As motor racing returned last weekend to Goodwood in Sussex for the first time since 1966, Tiff Needell tells the story of the circuit’s rev...
Episode 4
Season 40 - Episode 4
Since its launch in 1989, the original Land Rover Discovery has been Britain’s best-selling four-wheel drive. Tiff Needell tries out the new...
Episode 5
Season 40 - Episode 5
Alfa Romeo are hoping to put past design problems behind them with their new saloon models. Tiff Needell test-drives the latest offering — t...
Episode 6
Season 40 - Episode 6
Owing to concerns over safety the Mercedes A-class was withdrawn shortly after its launch earlier this year. Jeremy Clarkson test-drives the...
Episode 7
Season 40 - Episode 7
Featuring reports from the British International Motor Show in Birmingham. Rover are hoping to steal the limelight with the 75, their first ...
Episode 8
Season 40 - Episode 8
The Ford Puma was such a hit with the Top Gear team that they voted it their Car of the Year for 1997. Now Ford has followed it up with a bi...
Episode 9
Season 40 - Episode 9
Volkswagen’s Golf GTi first came to Britain in 1976 and soon became the choice of the fashionable set. Over the years model changes blunted ...
Episode 10
Season 40 - Episode 10
As the latest manufacturer to enter the sports-car market, Audi hopes to take on rivals Porsche and BMW with the new TT, which goes on sale ...
Episode 11
Season 40 - Episode 11
The appearance of the luxuriously equipped V8-engined Seville STS marks the return of the Cadillac name to the British market. But will it t...
Episode 12
Season 40 - Episode 12
Steve Berry travels to Seattle to look at Jeep’s new Grand Cherokee, which is huge and available for the first time in right-hand drive. In ...
Episode 13
Season 40 - Episode 13
Tony Mason looks back at two of Britain’s failed attempts to infiltrate the US market during the post war years: the 1949 Austin Atlantic, w...
Episode 14
Season 40 - Episode 14
Back in the seventies the BMW 3.0, Fiat 130 and Peugeot were the coupes to be seen in-glamorous, rare and expensive. Steve Berry learns what...
Episode 15
Season 40 - Episode 15
In the concluding episode of the current series, Jeremy Clarkson, Tiff Needell, Quentin Willson and Vicki Butler-Henderson select their favo...