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* "Extreme" test driving: Six foot, five inch tall Jeremy Clarkson once test drove a 1961 [[wikipedia:Peel P50|Peel P50]] -- a tiny, one person car -- by driving it ''into'' and around the BBC television studios, including into an ersatz "''Top Gear'' production meeting." If you were watching BBC News 24 when Clarkson's test drive was being filmed, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lM0Idukti4 you might have seen something go across in the background...] (Series 10, Episode 3)
* Car football (soccer): Using a giant inflatable ball, two teams of professional drivers (captained by Hammond and May) played [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flKzjuDhFDs a football match using Toyota Aygos]. Several seasons later, the winning team of Aygos defended their title against a team composed of Volkswagen Foxes. {{spoiler|The VW Foxes won, not least because it was the same team of Aygos and most of them were damaged.}} (Series 6, Episode 1)<br /><br />And in a variation on that theme, one of the events in the ''Top Gear Winter Olympics'' special was a game of car ice hockey, between two teams of Suzuki Swifts. As before, one team was captained by James May, the other by Richard Hammond, and the match was "refereed" by Jeremy Clarkson.
* Destruct testing a Toyota Hilux pickup by, in order, driving it down stone steps, scraping it along walls, driving it into a tree, tying it to a jetty and leaving it to be submerged by the rising tide (the tide actually broke it loose, it drifted away from the jetty and got flooded with silt and sand), dropping it from a crane, driving it through a shed, dropping a caravan on it, repeatedly hitting it with a wrecking ball typically used to fell skyscrapers, setting it on fire, and finally placing it on top of a 240 foot block of flats and demolishing the flats. No mechanical spare parts (they had to replace the windscreen for safety reasons) and no tools other than what would be in a normal car toolkit were used. (Series 3, Episodes 5 & 6)<br /><br />[[Made of Iron|It still started.]] It was 13 years old with 195,000 miles on it and cost them 1000 pounds to buy. It now occupies a place of honour in the main studio -- to get it there, they drove it into the studio. Shortly after [https://web.archive.org/web/20090427061719/http://video.yahoo.com/watch/100875/505090 the show] aired, Toyota released a new version of the Hilux called the 'Invincible', and Clarkson had one modified by Arctic Trucks for the Polar Special. Two. One for them, and one for the camera crew. In series 15, James took a modified Hilux (specifically, the one used by the camera crew in the Arctic special) to the top of Eyjafjallajökull, which is an active volcano. That erupted a few months before the episode aired.
* Playing "car [[wikipedia:Conkers|conkers]]" using two cars (or caravans) held aloft by electromagnetic cranes. This is sometimes the fate of a car that the presenters really don't like, as was the case in the episode where Clarkson tries driving an early-model FSO Polonez. (Series 5, Episode 4)
* Playing '[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i-op1aceUg car darts]' using old cars, an air cannon and a large dartboard painted on the floor of a quarry. Extra points were awarded to the person who also destroyed the caravan conveniently placed on the bulls-eye. (Series 4, Episode 4)
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