Top Gear team takes on some off-road toys and tests the all new McLaren 720S

McLaren 720S Top Gear

Join Top Gear team Matt LeBlanc and Chris Harris as they head into the Californian woods to test some amazing off-road toys such as dune buggies, dirt bikes and even personal tanks – and hunt for Big Foot.

Rory Reid invents the sport of reverse camera racing, while Chris puts the new McLaren 720S to the test to see if it’ll match up to its brother, the McLaren P1. Real race transponders were used in order to gain accurate lap times during this segment while the track temperature later in the day rose to a sweltering 37 degrees! All in a day’s work for the Top Gear team, this week they are joined in-studio by guest, comedian Lee Mack.

A few years back, Chris Harris was the first journalist to bring together, on a single racetrack, the three fastest hypercars of the modern era: of McLaren P1, LaFerrari and Porsche 918. That track, specifically, was Portimão, on Portugal’s Algarve coast. The fastest of the trio, in Harris’s annoyingly able mitts, was the McLaren.

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Top Gear Season 25 is back

Top Gear season 25

The world’s biggest motoring show is back! Top Gear Series 25 sees Matt LeBlanc (best known for his role as Joey Tribbiani on the iconic NBC series Friends), Chris Harris (former professional race car driver), Rory Reid (award winning motoring journalist) and The Stig return to your screens, with guest appearances from Sabine Schmitz and Eddie Jordan.

During six hour-long episodes, watch the team tackling the big issues: building the world’s fastest tractor, tackling America’s Wild West in shiny new V8 sports cars, attempting to land a NASA research plane in America’s ultimate muscle car, and much more. Season 25 was filmed in locations including Japan, USA, Portugal, Italy and just outside of Guildford

As BBC Worldwide’s most popular show in South Africa – fans can expect the latest season to deliver Top Gear’s trademark array of stunning photography, state-of-the-art supercars and celebrity guests.

In the first episode of the all-new series, Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris and Rory Reid head to America’s Wild West to test out three new V8 sports cars: the McLaren 570GT, Jaguar F-Type SVR and a very powerful Ford Mustang. Journeying across beautiful Utah, the boys attempt to outrun the law on a moonshine run, try their hand at NASCAR, and visit the fastest racetrack in the world. Rob Brydon is this week’s studio guest, the British comedian attempting to set a blistering time in the Reasonably Fast Car.

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