Clarkson - The Specials
Season 11996
16 Episodes
This is the first of Jeremy Clarkson's specials. It features stunts, reviews and clips of shocking racing crashes. We also get to see a hated car of Jeremy's, get mutilated and inevitably destroyed. In this episode the recipient of Jeremy's distain, is the Nissan Sunny.
October 21, 1996Clarkson's second outing pulls no punches, with a corvette being obliterated with helicopter tracer fire.
October 20, 1997Under scrutiny in Jeremy's third outing are the Ferrari F40, the McLaren F1 and the outrageous 880bhp TVR Speed-Twelve.
October 26, 1998Jeremy finds out which cars are fastest round a race track. He also takes the giant 2.5 tonne Lamborghini 002 through London, wreaking havoc in the process.
November 1, 1999Vicky Butler-Henderson joins Jeremy, who are given Β£5000 each to buy and modify a car, to see who produces the fastest. Jeremy mocks people who modify cars themselves, insisting that they couldn't possibly make a car faster. He eats his words however when a $20000 Ford Capri trounces a Β£250000 Brabus Mercedes-Benz.
November 20, 2000Clarky literally counts down his all time favourite cars, from one hundred to one.
November 19, 2001Jeremy takes some new cars to their limits, including a Lamborghini Murcielago, a TVR Tuscan R, a Mitsubishi Evo II, and a Bentley Arnage are but a few of the cars on show.
November 11, 2002The antics in this episode consist of a drag race with a Bentley Continental and a Rolls Royce Phantom, and a Mitsubishi Evo vs a Subaru Imprezza Sti. Jeremy picks the best road car, plus much more.
November 10, 2003Jeremy pits cars from the eighties against their contemporary counterparts.
November 8, 2004Jeremy picks out seven great cars and seven terrible ones. The great cars are driven to within an inch of their lives, and the terrible cars are destroyed in the usual fashion
November 7, 2005Jeremy pits American cars against European cars.
November 6, 2006Jeremy visits a race track in Spain and test drives a Ferrari F430, a Bugatti Veyron and a Lamborghini Gallardo.
November 5, 2007Among the cars on show this year are the Lamborghini Murcielago SuperVeloce, the VXR8 Bathurst S, the Lotus Evora, the Audi R8 V10 and many more.
November 2, 2009Jeremy goes to the gym, followed by a trip to Italy, to the Fiorano test track.
November 15, 2010Jeremy is in the South of France to find his favourite car of the year. Candidates include: Mclaren MP4-12C, Ferrari 458, Porsche GT2 RS, BMW 1M and many more...
November 7, 2011