Top Gear

Season 18, Episode 7

Episode Title: Episode 7

Air Date: 1987-10-22

Overview:

William Woollard presents the programme from London’s Motorfair 87. Sue Baker drives the latest Lotus, and there’s a report on the apparent revival in British car manufacturing — is it a genuine success story? Chris Goffey reports on the British Truck Grand Prix and Tiff Needell monitors the progress of the ‘Formula First’ entrants whose careers were featured in the last series. The VW Beetle was the car of the decade for the 1940s — Frank Page rediscovers the car in which he learnt to drive.