British sports cars CHALLENGE | Top Gear

I was the first to arrive in a car of my era, the magnificent Jensen Healey. This is a Jensen built beauty, designed by the father and son team that brought us the Healey 3 liter designed by the same man who made the Aston Martin. Lagonda and powered by a twin-cam Lotus engine, you can really think about this, so it's been like one of those old super groups from the 70s, Crosby Stills Nash and young William, but well, yeah, we're going to talk about the devil here James, that is magnificent, a TVR. s of your era is the action of him TVR s2 is: yes, colony ford v6 170 horsepower from Granada, absolutely not, this was excellent and the other thing also about these, can you open the trunk?

Yes, mmm, no, on the Antiques Roadshow, yes, they always saw each other. behind the watch face and they can tell who made it leave their mark, yeah well usually on a TVR if you look under the carpets or the headliner or something like that you often find a clue as to who built the car Yes, there you go. It was made by a man named Nobi Nobi. I think so, Nobby, you don't get that in a lot of golf while admiring our wonderful

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. Richard arrived in a little gem of his youth and, noticing them, he returned, he returned home, he has his poetic moment, in fact, the last event here at Lotus, I remember when this came out, that square stance, no one built a cabin square car, no, no one had done that, yes, those were the reasons for that, apparently, the used plastic shrank and they didn't know that the suppliers had come with a new plastic that didn't shrink, so it was more than ingenuity to get the best of him.

I mean, it was the same. The televisions are plastic. Well, plastic. There is a plastic body. just sound and the engine in this was not Lotus, it was Isuzu, but is that reliable in Japan? When they tested one of these, they ran it on a race track for 24 hours straight, yes, 22 of those hours it didn't seriously break down while we were chatting. A

challenge

has arrived, now you will race around the Lotus test track to see which of your ridiculous

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is the best ridiculous and then you must put the Stig in a car that wiped your British

sports

cars off the map, a Peugeot 205 GTI and configure it.

In a serious moment, a shoddy little French hatchback can beat these purpose-built cars and we have to get the Peugeot to say we have to put it in it, yes, first, although we did do a few laps in our classic British

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cars, This is moving. save three great British sports cars that roam the British landscape. I love the sound of a double overhead cam engine. The noise you are hearing is not fixed, no. Oh my gosh here we go, yes I knew there would be one there if I looked hard enough at this car. It is, of course, very light, it weighs only nine hundred and eighty-seven kilograms because it is made from canoe construction materials, sorry, junk, because you have made them guilty, physically your laboratory has front-wheel drive because it is better at the same time when this car arrived. out Mazda they were bringing out the old-fashioned rear-wheel drive MX-5 just solving massive numbers for decades they didn't have the same exclusivity that their land is never sold in the same vulgar way sometimes with this engine if you notice that the old one the question it could drop alarmingly in a fast corner, it's okay the engine would never explode, normally the water pump would work first and your feet are very useful, when you press the accelerator in the TVR there is a slight delay before anything happens, a lot People thought this was a bug, but it's actually a very innovative security feature.

I'll show you by driving for you. Preston changes the horn. The car says: are you sure? TVR Chimaera takes such a flat curve for you after the Second World War we won. Britain was full of disused airfields and in fact many of them like this one were converted into racing tracks and it was on these winding and curving race tracks that the light and agile British sports car, developed and perfected like this one, we could I'd been doing it all day, but the producer said we should stop and post. in the lap times the time has come Hammond, could you reveal your fastest lap?

My fastest lap in my Lotus Elan was 2 minutes and 19 minutes 970 story, there's no other word, there's no other word, dizzying jail, right? TVR for my fastest lap time was fifteen point nine to fifteen point nine and here the Jensen Healey 217 nine from the 1970s, so what we can see here is the progress that you would expect from the British sports car, obviously, that's very good, it's even better, even the cars have gone up on deck exactly. and now it's time to find out how fast the Stig can go in this Peugeot 205 GTI doesn't look like a GTI, no no I couldn't get a GTI so I have a diesel and they are basically the same. okay the stakes start the Stig finished the PIRs oh and it started okay affects the reason I couldn't get a GTO.

I suspect it's because they all rusted out, they all crashed or broke into pieces, the handling was terrible in this accident. Any ideas with your car and he talks to yours? Oh, did you know that in the entire history of television there is no recorded incident of one breaking down? I've heard that and here comes two or nine to 15 to 17 for us. at 22.0 points I think we have to go