The Top Gear Space Shuttle
Series nine of the 'new' Top Gear beckons. That means 80 programmes and over 300 films are now behind us. It also means we've racked up a pretty impressive list of challenges along the way - but now it's time for one of our biggest challenges yet.

The premise was simple. Space travel costs a lot of money, so can Top Gear crack the budget nut by building a cheaper space rocket based on a car? Richard and James went for the most rocket-shaped car they could find - a Reliant Robin, but from that point on, the Simplicity Fairies flew away and left us in a world of pain.