Top Gear’s second episode of the 22nd series aired this week on BBC America and after you were finished kneeling down in thankfulness that another season is finally underway, you received a road trip to Australia where Richard drove a Bentley Continental, James drove a Nissan GT-R and Jeremy drove a BMW M6 Gran Coupe. The introduction to the cars brought out the best lines of the episode – and possibly the series – when Jeremy immediately identified problems with the license plates of each of the cars, essentially mocking the contrived license plate trouble manufactured by irate grudge-holding residents of Argentina in the Patagonia Special last month.
As is always the case in a challenge, a drag race was arranged and it was determined that the Nissan GT-R was quickest off the line but the BMW M6 was the fastest to the finish line. Initially, The Stig’s Australian cousin makes an appearance to set the lap time for a hillclimb competition but it turns out The Stig is actually a stowaway in James’ GT-R trunk and James pulls out the Stig-up-his-sleeve to win the hillclimb competition much to Richard and Jeremy’s consternation.
Kiefer Sutherland is the celebrity placed in the Reasonably Priced Car and puts in a respectable 1:49.2 lap time on a wet track.
