- Network: BBC-2 , BBC America , BBC Two , AMC+
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 20, 2002
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Staffers, instead of a studio audience, provided the cheers, aided by punters applauding from their apartments. Also off the menu were celebrity guests and the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car time challenge. And yet, notwithstanding the lack of optional extras, this new Top Gear had an agreeably nonchalant quality. It was pipe-and-slippers entertainment that never got out of first gear and was all the richer for it.
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The presenters have gelled a bit, and the show is more original and above all, more intelligent. ... Most of the show is given over to the “boys” driving the cars their respective fathers once owned, which is surprisingly touching and satisfyingly nostalgic, but does go on for too long and had me nodding off like a dog on the parcel shelf.