Series 13

The year is 1949 and the trio wants to show what a Top Gear race would look like if it took place 60 years in the past. Jeremy takes a vintage train, James drives the Jaguar XJ120 and Richard rides the Vincent Black Shadow motorcycle.

The producers challenge the presenters to pretend they are 17 years old again and they need to purchase and insure cars without spending much money. They then take on a few challenges that any normal young driver would find themselves in bringing back some memories.

With the financial recession in full swing, the presenters go out to find some fun cheap and cheerful cars on sale today to replace the expensive Astons and Porsches that people can no longer afford anymore. After that James heads to the United States for a ride along with rally driver Ken Block in California.

James and Richard go head to head in a race between a letter and the Royal Mail transport system and them in a Porsche Panamera. The goal is to see who can get from the most southernly point of England to the most northerly point fastest.

The producers say that RWD cars are useless and FWD is better. The presenters disagree completely and head to France in three cheap RWD cars they purchased second hand and partake in a series of challenges to prove that RWD is best and FWD is useless.

The boys head to a classic car auction where they must purchase a classic car that was built prior to 1980s and then prepare it for a classic car rally in Mallorca Spain.

James and Jeremy challenge themselves to make a better Volkswagen advert than the professionals who do it now for the new diesel Scirocco. Then Jeremy closes the series with a tribute to big engines in an Aston Martin V12 Vantage with the very strong gut feeling that cars with these engines soon will no longer exist and the era is sadly coming to an end.