The BEST episodes of Top Gear season 12
Every episode of Top Gear season 12, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Top Gear season 12!
Tests whether cars, both mundane and extraordinary, live up to their manufacturers' claims. Travels to locations around the world, performing extreme stunts and challenges to see what the featured cars are capable of doing. Celebrity guests appear on some episodes to help test the vehicles. Things don't always go as planned, though, with broken bones and mechanical mishaps sometimes part of the experiments.
#1 - Episode 8
Season 12 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/28/2008
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May go to Vietnam and are told to travel the length of the country in eight days - a task the US military failed to do in ten years.
#2 - Episode 1
Season 12 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/2/2008
The team each buy a second-hand lorry, Jeremy tests a scary Porsche 911 on the track, and Michael Parkinson is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
#3 - Episode 2
Season 12 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/9/2008
The team travels to the US to take new generation muscle cars on an epic road trip from San Francisco to Utah. Will Young is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
#4 - Episode 7
Season 12 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/14/2008
James May travels to California to take a look at what is being hailed as the future of motoring, the hydrogen-powered Honda Clarity.
#5 - Episode 3
Season 12 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/16/2008
James travels to the frozen north to find out why the Finns are such good racing drivers, and Mark Wahlberg is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
#6 - Episode 4
Season 12 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/23/2008
The boys try to drive from Switzerland to north-west England on just one tank of fuel. James tackles his first-ever power test in a Pagani Zonda F Roadster.
#7 - Episode 6
Season 12 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/7/2008
Jeremy Clarkson and James May invade Greenham Common airbase to ask if Communists have ever made a good car. London mayor Boris Johnson is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
#8 - Episode 5
Season 12 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/30/2008
Richard Hammond celebrates the 40th birthday of the Ferrari Daytona on the Italian Riviera. Jeremy Clarkson tests the new BMW M3 saloon and the Lexus IS-F.