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SiegeTank wrote:I would've sworn Cowell did the "reasonably priced car" bit sometime last season...

In the news this week, they actually manage to find time to talk about cars; including the Mazda 6, Maserati Quattroporte Sport GTS, Subaru Impreza WRX Sti and Mitsubishi's I.

TG site wrote:There's a truly global flavour to this week's show, as the presenters test the finest cars to come out of German, Italy and Japan... and smash up a bunch of motorhomes for good measure.

Jeremy pits two of the great Teutonic tourers against head-to-head as he twin-tests the BMW M5 Touring and Mercedes E63 AMG Estate.

And as if burning rubber on the world's fastest luggage-loaders wasn't enough, he's also appropriated the new Honda Civic Type R for a blast on the TG test track. Off us, actually - suffice to say that TopGear.com's Type R lifer came back looking somewhat the worse for wear.

James gets a belated drive in one of Italy's finest exports, the beautiful Alfa Romeo 159, and discovers whether the Giugaro-penned saloon is faster than, erm, a very tall man. We can't tell you any more than that, but all shall become clear on Sunday.

And, speaking of very tall men, this week's Star in a Reasonably Priced Car is England rugby legend Lawrence Dallaglio. He's a big lad. The Lacetti hasn't been quite the same since.

And it falls to Richard to invent an entirely new form of motorsport: mobile home racing. Can big wobbly houses-on-wheels make it round the track? Will they disintegrate in the process?

TG site wrote:See, next year sees the 40th anniversary of the formation of British Leyland, a milestone that Jeremy, James and Richard thought should be celebrated appropriately. Reasonably, the producers disagreed, saying that everything BL ever produced was a bunch of rusty, patchy rubbish.

To prove them wrong, our intrepid presenters headed out with £1,200 of their own cash to buy a car to prove that some good did come out of British Leyland.

Unfortunately, they returned with a Rover SD1, a Triumph Dolomite Sprint and an Austin Princess. And a lingering smell of rust and oil.

This week's Big Feature sees them thrash the Seventies not-quite-icons to well beyond an inch of their lives... and get very, very wet in the process.

But it's not just old bangers on the show this week. Jeremy arm-wrestled James Bond himself to get the keys to the new Aston Martin DBS, a car that might just be better than the Vanquish and the DB9. Together. Find out how the gorgeous, carbon fibre-clad supercar takes to our test track in the hands of Double-O-Stig.

And this week's star in a Reasonably Priced Car is comedy legend Jennifer Saunders, who proved absolutely fabulous behind the wheel of our Chevy Lacetti.