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Return of the Sunday drivers
Generation gap
Like Wife Swap, but without the wives - or the swapping - Top Gear brings together polar opposites for a big fight.
In the tweed corner, James May and the Healey Sport Club. They like warm, cloudy beer and cold, cloudy days. That way they can wear their favourite anoraks. In the heavily modified corner, Richard Hammond's new best mate Absy and his crew. They like blue alcopops and Bluewater shopping centre. It's a great place to buy expensive Argos jewellery.
The question is simple: can the outright power of youth beat the old fashioned skills of agility and handling?
To find out we go to Prescott Hill Climb course in Gloucestershire to pit Absy's V6 engined, unrecognisably modified Peugeot 306 against the Healey Club's carefully fettled Frogeye Sprite.
The Stig does the driving while James talks carbs and suspension camber with his beards, and Hammond gives mad props to his 'homies', even though he has almost no idea what that means.
This is the ultimate test of power vs handling, youth vs experience and texting vs being able to spell properly for God's sake.
'Our boys needed somewhere that provided both speed limit-free roads and a decent cup of tea'
Three go mad on the Isle of Man
Welcome to one of the most exciting tests of 2005. From Britain, the stunning new Aston Martin V8 Vantage. From Germany, the timeless Porsche 911.
And from another part of Germany, the upsettingly puce BMW M6.
To test this threesome, our boys needed somewhere that provided both speed limit-free roads and a decent cup of tea. That'll be the Isle of Man, then. In sodden Manx weather, the scene was set for a shootout that's got the lot: Arguments! Intrigue! The Stig! And some handy tips about fishing.
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