Driving home for Christmas: new Top Gear tonight!

In this special festive episode, Chris, Paddy and Freddie aren't choosing their own cars, but instead choosing for one another. Yes, it’s time for Top Gear Secret Santa!

After unwrapping their presents in Bethlehem (that’s Bethlehem, Wales, obviously), our three wise(ish) men and their gifts set off on a Yuletide voyage across Britain, stopping off to play the traditional Christmas parlour game of ‘High Speed Visual Charades’, and deliver a truly enormous tree to the UNESCO World Heritage city of Bath. Because nothing says ‘Merry Christmas’ like dumping a thousand kilos of Scots Pine onto the Royal Crescent.

Then, in the words of the great Chris Rea, it’s time for the presenters to do some drivin’ home for Christmas. Home, of course, being the Top Gear test track, magically transformed into a veritable winter wonderland of speed…

Watch all new Top Gear tonight on BBC One at 8.30pm, or catch up on iPlayer