The £1500 Porsche Challenge | Top Gear | BBC

In the summer, the producers of Top Gear gave each of us £1,500, which was a nice gesture, very nice, but then they said we each had to go out and spend our money on a Porsche, which It meant going through eBay and auctions etc. Buying a real Porsche for less than a hundred pounds, yes, and when we had done that, we would all have to meet in the city of London with our Porsches and we would be given a series of

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s to find out which of us has the best deal - this is what what happened this is Exchange Square in the heart of Europe's largest financial district it is the spiritual home of hedging stock futures and of course Porsche probably won't be ones like this is what I bought through a 23 year old Porsche 924 that was designed for every man i didn't spend £

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on my 924 i didn't even spend £750 on the

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£750 and the lights come on i was pleased until i saw what james had bought i have a 944 in white.

This league looks good from a really long distance. What do you mean from a distance? It looks good up close. I believe it has a 2.5 liter four cylinder engine and it is a Porsche developed engine. While I believe your car has an engine from a VW van, what will it be called? I hope he has one of those, to be honest, in fact his ideas had been quite a bit more ambitious. He has a 928, absolutely a 928, not all of them. Porsche for me, this one has a 4.7 liter V8 engine, so I give you a timeless classic, a proper Porsche Jeremy.

You've got a 928 in our budget underneath this rather faded, ruined and ruined exterior. A heart beats of pure arthritis. I'm going to have Check this out, come check this out, it's fun, no, no, these are the water bottles that are kind of necessary. I have you thinking that you may have gone a little overboard. I already saw it. one for more than what is advertised as a spare part. Can we give each other an envelope? Thank you so much. Veteran cars can get from London to Brighton, but can't they? No, you lose absolutely five points for every time you have to open the hood on the road.

Well, there are thousands of them, throw down the hood, meet at the boardwalk for your next

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, assuming you make it. dot dot dot jeremy there's a wide range of warning lights on we're already on our way to Brighton in our

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s oh my god I've got Jeremy he's breaking steam guys I've got a lot of steam coming out of the bonnet. Oh, dear Jeremy, Jeremy's car seems to be really broken. I can not see anything. I've had steam from the front. Water from below and now I've got smoke in the back an hour later we were on the outskirts of Brighton and I guess what's missing from this picture at the meeting point was the seafront where there was still no sign of Clarkson.

I think he will still show up. Because we do not have? a look at the next challenge, find out if I'm likely to participate or not, you've got a challenge man, thank you very much, okay challenge two, it's peak Porsche time, you need to use the change from your £1,500 budget to modify your car and improve it overall, meet again at the top

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base where an independent judge from the Porsche owners club will judge your work the change, do you have any changes? I have some change, but I'm pretty sure Jeremy doesn't have it. Any checks, I really doubt it and speaking of the devil, it's been out all day, but it's still used, it's the fastest, it has more fuel than mine, even sitting there, what do you have to say about your car?

The bullet was not good, there are three ways. There, presumably Jeremy's car made it, but let's start by seeing what changes James has made. It looks exactly the same. Is this putty? No, it's bathroom sealant. Look at the car. I'm coming. I'm out of money. Well so the interior was a home bodge job but my secret weapon was the brilliant condition of my engine bay, how did you clean it with a man? You just spent your money on a man. You think the Porsche judge who comes will only be interested in the concourse. It is not like this?

I had forgotten it was a Porsche and thought I would fall for the old Pringle. I've been thinking about the future. You have not done it. In fact, Hammond had given his 924 sporting credentials that he did not deserve. Look, I did it too with a little help from a friend from art college. You see, they are the colors of golf racing. Let's see what Jeremy has achieved without money. Chalkboard paints. Jeremy. Plots. You're supposed to put the bottom seal on. the bottom of the car, you know, those old Capris, the black bombers, that's what I was going through.

I thought I'd copy it right, just skimmed a little, but laughing at each other wasn't a scientific measure by which our efforts had to be judged. the chairman of the judges for Britain's famously fastidious Porsche Owners Club, as the judges retreated to qualify, we dove into the next challenge. All your cars have a sporting pedigree. Each Porsche must set a lap time in the hands of the Stig. I will gain a point for every second in less than a minute I will lose a point for every second in more than that I would say more than that what was the time what was the time 145 a little smoke there james yeah well it was like it was just you me there were two cylinders left so it was going to be a little lighter so he made it 143 143 that's faster that just looks good all that effort yes all those low profile tires yes slower than yours, but if you left it standard it would It would have been much slower than a knife.

The next challenge is called eleven. Each driver must use their Porsche to see who can create the 11th longest skid mark on the track, which measures 31 feet. Not bad. Is incredible. Okay, give me the ending. 35 feet is beating you the region of China near northeastern Tibet you would look and say oh someone here Evans this is all garbage that's not an 11 it's 39 40 41 42 yards the judges would have to decide on Jeremy's Asian number 11, but Meanwhile we had to think about our final challenge, we hope you enjoyed owning your Porsches. You must each sell your cars and points will be awarded for any money you make over the £

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you originally spent on this course here.

Wow, after all that, after eleven and his Tibetan doodle was disqualified, no points, this is where we are with the scores. James and I are separated by just two points on the 27th and 29th, so there's a little bit of a gap, he's fighting, uh less. 122. All to play for here and it really depends on how much we got when we sold the car, so James, how much did you sell your 944 for £1400? Well done, so you lost a hundred pounds, so that's a hundred. points there, so that puts you at minus 73 minus 73 so what about you?

Not really, no, I haven't sold it, I haven't sold it or I couldn't, a little bit of both. I suspect no one would buy it from you that well. The point is, I think I'm about to lose 1,500. I sold mine for £1,800. Nobody bought that pile of garbage. I sold it as a spare part. I got £1,200 for the wings and doors, and that was a bit short. So what I did well what I did, you won't believe it, okay, are you ready for this? Ready, yes, I already sold them. They are already pre-sold. 600 pounds. Look at this car.

I turned your car into a living room. Yeah.