Top Gear: Season 26
Season 26 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Top Gear Season 25.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 26 Progress Shield
Episode 1
Sep 19, 1991
The motoring series returns with a visit to the Frankfurt motor show; an assessment of the VW Golf’s market dominance; and, in One Careful Owner, dealer Quentin Willson guides view
Episode 2
Sep 26, 1991
Mazda believes its new MX-3 will dramatically change the sports hatchback market, claiming it’s not in the normal GTi tradition of a family car with additions, but a purpose-design
Episode 3
Oct 3, 1991
Tiff Needell visits a drag racing museum in Florida. Chris Goffey tests Toyota’s new executive Camry. Plus Jeremy Clarkson on the future of ‘pollution free’ transport.
Episode 4
Oct 10, 1991
Tractor millionaire Ferrucio Lamborghini decided in the 60s to beat Ferrari at his own game by building some of the world’s most desirable cars. Do latest models live up to the leg
Episode 5
Oct 17, 1991
Motorfair ‘91 opens this week at London’s expanded Earls Court and there’s a review of the new models. Plus a road test on the latest version of the Vauxhall Astra and a report on
Episode 6
Oct 24, 1991
Small cars have been getting longer, fatter and heavier: Peugeot believes its new 106 sets a different trend. Chris Goffey tests it and evaluates the company’s marketing strategy.
Episode 7
Oct 31, 1991
News from the Motorcycle Show at the NEC; a road test on the new Ginetta G33 V8 two-seater sports car; and the risks lone women drivers may run when they break down.
Episode 8
Nov 7, 1991
In this week’s edition: a report on car auctions; a profile of Francine Bogg, the winner of this year’s Radio Times Rally Quest Competition, and a test drive in the new Honda Civic
Episode 9
Nov 14, 1991
How Citroën’s new XM Estate measures up to Audi’s 100 Avant; the Ford Bronco is put through its paces in the mud at Millbrook; and a look at plans to charge drivers using the stree
Episode 10
Nov 21, 1991
A test drive for Rover’s new 800 series, which went on sale yesterday, reveals how it rates in the competitive executive car market. Plus an examination of the Metro’s popularity a
Episode 11
Nov 28, 1991
For the past four days, Top Gear has been following entrants in this year’s Lombard RAC Rally, the final round in the 1991 World Rally Championship. There are reports from Harrogat
Episode 12
Dec 5, 1991
The Jaguar Mk II, Inspector Morse’s runabout, was one of the classic investments of the 80s, but as values tumble is it still so? And another classic: Tony Mason welcomes the reviv
Episode 13
Dec 12, 1991
Reports on Vauxhall’s new off-road car, the Frontera; the truth behind the car industry’s recycling claims; and vehicles that could go twice round the world on a tankful of petrol.
Episode 14
Dec 19, 1991
Jeremy Clarkson takes an exclusive drive in the first new Bentley for 40 years. And at the other end of the scale, Quentin Willson offers some advice on buying a car for just £1,00