Top Gear UK: Season 4

SIARPC: Star in a reasonably priced car
Season 4, Episode 1 — Originally aired on May 10th, 2004

Jeremy shows what’s coming up this season including a test drive of the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren on a track, Porsche GT3 RS, BMW 1 Series, Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, Porsche Carrera GT and a ton of other cars
Jeremy, Richard and James race from the studio to Monte Carlo – Jeremy by Aston Martin DB9 and Richard and James by normal train and bullet train – to see which is faster, trains or cars
Rover wouldn’t let Top Gear test drive their “City Rover”, so James went undercover to a dealership and did a review while on the test drive, all without getting the salesman to suspect a thing
Jeremy drives the new Lotus Exige around the Top Gear test track all while trying to avoid having a Apache gunship helicopter getting a missle lock on him
SIARPC: Fay Ripley from Frankenstein (1994) staring Robert De Niro

Season 4, Episode 2 — Originally aired on May 17th, 2004

Jeremy talks about the Alfa 166 and it’s depreciation value
The Stig takes a 328 horsepower Alfa 147 GTA around the Top Gear test track
A nun, yes, a nun, drives a monster truck over some cars
Richard drives a Cadilac Escalade and talks about it’s “bling” factor
Richard drives the 27 foot long “Fab 1″, Lady Penelope’s new car from the new Thunderbirds film
Paul McKenna, the guest driver, is a hypnotist and hypnotises Richard into not remembering how to drive
Paul McKenna hypnotises Richard again and convinces him that a little pedal toy 911 is his real car
Saving the best for last, Jeremy drives the Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR around the Top Gear test track and compares it to the Mercedes-Benz SL55 followed by the Stig taking the SLR around the test track for a lap time
SIARPC: Paul McKenna

Season 4, Episode 3 — Originally aired on May 24th, 2004

Jeremy, James and Richard buy cars for under £100 and run them through a series of tests
Richard drives a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T and talks about how badly he wants one
Jeremy compares the Porsche 911 GT3 RS to the Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale
SIARPC: Jordan aka Katie Price

Season 4, Episode 4 — Originally aired on May 31st, 2004

Jeremy sees if he can drive 800 miles on a single tank of gas with a twin-turbo, V8 diesel Audi A8
You know that British commercial where a Ford Street Ka whacks a pigeon with it’s hood? Well James uses the Ka’s satellite navigation to see if he can beat a racing homing pigeon
The age old question of which is faster, a Subaru Impreza or a Mitsubishi Evo, is answered again with the Subaru Impreza WRX STi WR1 and the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII MR
James and Richard play darts with some cars and a cannon
Jeremy drives the Porsche Carrera GT followed by the Stig taking it around the Top Gear test track
SIARPC: Ronnie O’Sullivan – a world snooker champion (whatever the hell that is…)

Season 4, Episode 5 — Originally aired on June 7th, 2004

Richard got the short straw and had to review the Vauxhall Astra, the new Volkswagen Golf and the Mazda 3
Jeremy drives the MG ZT 260 which has a Mustang engine and looks exactly like a Rover 75
Richard goes to Germany, gets in a Volkswagen Golf and gets hit with artificial lightning
Richard, James and Jeremy compare the new BMW 6 series, a low end Porsche 911, and a Jaguar XKR
SIARPC: Johnny Vaughan and Denise Van Outen

Season 4, Episode 6 — Originally aired on June 14th, 2004

Jeremy drives around the number one selling car in Japan, the Nissan Cube
James tries out a Jaguar XJS that has been completely rebuilt into a decent car
Richard drives the Cadillac CTS which he claims is the first American car able to go around corners
Richard and Jeremy decide which cars should become available in Britain or stay not available
Richard races in a cow crap powered Rover versus a human crap powered Rover and a gas powered Rover
Jeremy spins around on three wheels in the new Renault Clio 182 followed by the Stig taking it around the track for a lap time
SIARPC: Terry Wogan

Season 4, Episode 7 — Originally aired on July 12th, 2004

Jeremy drives the £145,000 Mercedes-Benz CL65 which has 738 foot-pounds of torque
In the news: the new BMW M5, the new Audi A6, trains being less efficient than a car and Euro NCAP crash ratings
Richard and James take two “super-sub-tall-family-micro cars”, the Ford Focus C-Max and the Renault Scenic mini-cabbing to see which is better
Jeremy reviews a car that I’ve always thought looked really cool, the Spyker C8 from Holland
Jeremy, Richard and James drag race the Mercedes-Benz CL65 against a Bentley Continental GT and a Aston Martin DB9
SIARPC: Lionel Richie

Season 4, Episode 8 — Originally aired on July 19th, 2004

James drives around the mountain roads of Sicily, Italy in a £70,000 Maserati Quattroporte
In the news: new Porsche 911, Toyota Hilux Invincible, Honda FR-V, Autobahn speed limit, jet fighter and a lamp post, Top Gear Motoring Survey 2004, caravans on the M5 Motorway, Mercedes-Benz CLS
Richard talks about the end of the production of the Rover V8 and goes racing in a Rover SD1 as a tribute to it
Jeremy sees if a diesel Skoda Fabia vRS is faster around the test track than a Mini Cooper driven by Richard
Richard talks about a new fine for people blocking “yellow box junctions” and goes out and embarrasses people who block them
Jeremy drives the new Ford GT – a production version, not the mule he drove previously – followed by the Stig racing it around the Top Gear test track
Richard sees which is better against a 747 jet engine – a Ford Mondeo or a Citroen 2CV
SIARPC: Martin Clunes

Season 4, Episode 9 — Originally aired on July 26th, 2004

Richard finds out which is best – the Mazda MX-5 (aka Mazda Miata), the Toyota MR2, or the Fiat Barchetta
A guy named Tim tries to parachute out of a plane and land in a convertible Mercedes-Benz going 50 mph driven by a guy named Ben
Richard and James go to Scotland to compare the Mini Cabriolet, Vauxhall Tigra, Mercedes-Benz SLK and Audi S4
Jeremy shows a review he recorded back in January of the Jaguar X-Type Estate (Stationwagon) in snow
The Stig takes the Mercedes-Benz CL65 reviewed on July 11th’s Top Gear around the Top Gear test track
SIARPC: Sir Ranulph Fiennes, a guy who did 7 marathons in 7 days on 7 continents

Season 4, Episode 10 — Originally aired on August 2nd, 2004

Richard reviews the Peugeot 407 which includes him using it as a pace car for a bunch of Radical racers
In the news: Citroen C4, horse trailers (they call them horse boxes), car restorations next season, Russians buying TVR, Peugeot’s new car, the 1007, with sliding mini-van doors on a hatchback
James went to find some new stuff for the studio using the new Volvo V50 Estate (aka Stationwagon)
5 cars from around the world compete in a long-jump in the “Car Olympics”
Jeremy drives the new BMW X3 on the road and then attempts to take it offroad
Richard takes out the Chevrolet Corvette C6 followed by the Stig taking it around the test track for a surprising lap time
SIARPC: Patrick Kielty

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