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welcome to Top Gear's Speed Week 2018
and once again we've completely
surpassed ourselves by getting the best
the fastest the most varied group of
cars we've ever had but then again I
would say that wouldn't I so don't take
my word for it we've got them all lined
up on the grid here at the circ we do
Sharad so we can go and take a look at
the runners and riders see why they're
here talk about how they earn their
place at T G's coveted Speed Week first
up the bugatti chiron not sure i really
need to introduce this car do I but I
will it has 1,500 horsepower it has 261
mile an hour top speed limited we still
don't know how fast this thing can
actually go it costs 2.5 million pounds
enough said
and over here well it completes an old
French front row fittingly it is the
Alpine a110 something altogether
different and weighing in about a ton
give or take a sandwich it is a
lightweight it's such a sweet handling
car I drove this thing on the road never
on track so my worry is it might be a
bit swamped on the big stage only around
250 horsepower but cannot wait to see
what this thing can do moving on the
Lamborghini is controversial yes
get over it and bikini has made an SUV
they're made one in the past of course
the L M double O - so not that much of a
surprise but it is a 600 horsepower 4
litre twin-turbo v8 SUV that can do
physics-defying things on track that's
why it's here for how it drives it is a
superb piece of engineering love it or
hate it over here the BMW m2 competition
already one of our favourite M cars the
m2 but they've just refined the formula
under here they've put the B tuned
version of the m3 and the m4 twin-turbo
straight-6 now with just over 400
horsepower not loads of power but then
it didn't need it this is about simple
back to basics thrills rear-wheel drive
small package small wheelbase you can
have a manual gearbox with oh this one
has a DCT right getting quite serious
now the 911 gt2 RS these things don't
come around
that often so it was only right that we
celebrated it the maddest the most
ferocious the scariest the bloodiest 911
that you can get very very rare will
drive very very turbocharged very much
over 700 horsepower this thing if it
does start to rain and it doesn't look
like a bit the moment you'll see me
taking a pretty wide berth on this one
over here the high end by a 30 M what is
a high end I doing a Top Gear Speed Week
I hear you cry
well what hand I have done is produced a
performance car their first performance
car and smashed it straight out of the
block it is focused it's a serious
drivers car but it's also great fun
doesn't take yourself too seriously make
silly noises from the back end basically
they stole a guy from BMW M called
Albert Biermann who developed this car
and you can tell it's quite a serious
driver's car then you wouldn't expect it
looking at it moving on this is mystery
package behind me it's called the de
Lara stradale man you've probably never
heard of it but Valera is a company that
makes race car chassis for pretty much
any formula any racing car formula you
care to name anywhere around the world
this car is the first go at producing a
road car unsurprisingly it's pretty
track focused and so track focused in
fact that you don't have a roof you
don't have doors you have a carbon
chassis you have carbon bodywork and not
a lot else really
it's a tuned version of the Focus RS is
2.3 litre EcoBoost engine just under 400
horsepower but here's the thing
it weighs eight hundred and fifty five
kilograms basically half the weight of
an rs3 but the same amount of power I'm
going to need to bring my a-game for
this one
over here or the lovely the pretty Aston
Martin Vantage even in battleship gray
with blacked out wheels have to say I'm
a fan of this spec not everyone else is
big story here is this is a hugely
important car for Aston Martin they've
borrowed pinched been given the four
litre twin-turbo v8 from AMG and slotted
it under their over 500 horsepower a
serious serious car this thing but then
it does cost serious money it starts at
120 grand which starts we rode some of
the Vantage's appeal but let's not worry
about money here we're here to drive
we're here to have fun and well that's
gonna be top of my list I have it going
or maybe this is actually on second
thoughts yes
the Ferrari 488 pista and excuse me if I
just have a little moment because for me
mid-engined supercars Ferraris just have
something special above all the others
and this of course being before a Pisa
is the special version of for me the
most special supercar so you could give
me if I get a bit gushy what do we have
well we have the same twin-turbo v8
engine over 700 M or 710 brake
horsepower here and more electronics
than Tottenham Court Road there's some
trick error as well at the S sucked in
the front a big hole in the bonnet
basically that uses the whole front of
the car as a wing to jam it into the
tarmac it's so clever this thing but
does it have the emotion does it have
sound the noise the fury of the 458
speciale II will find out
also from Italy another super SUV
they're everywhere these days aren't
they but this one is quite special it's
the still vo Quadra quadraphonic it's
the stove vo QV alright that's all we're
going to cool it it's essentially the
same car as a Giulia QV just jacked up a
bit
and I'm not just making that up alpha
said when they were developing the stove
vo the whole point of this car was to
make it drive as much like the Juliet as
possible obviously we love the Giulia QV
a former Top Gear Car of the Year no
less so we're expecting big things from
this despite it being an SUV yeah hard
to miss this one isn't it now
technically it's a performance car
anything with 577 horsepower v8 is
technically a performance car but I know
you're thinking it looks like a block of
flats because if pretty much is it's the
new G Wagon the new g63 AMG what I love
about this is Mercedes haven't tried to
reinvent an icon they've just made it
look as much like the old one as
possible and just changed all the bits
of matter so new interior new chassis
new suspension it drives a million times
better than the old car but probably
won't be setting any lap records today
over here the Fiesta ST of course a
dyed-in-the-wool
Top Gear hero this car now it has 197
brake horsepower
not matters but it's how that power is
produced from a dilly weenie 1.5 liter
3-cylinder turbocharged engine under
there I love the fact that this car
brings such a small cubic capacity but
it's all about fun lifting it's about
light weight it's about handling it's
about liftoff oversteer it's about
having a laugh again will it feel
overwhelmed on a big track like this all
the undulations I don't think it won't
to be honest it's such a laugher and we
arrive at the back row and all British
back row but don't read too much into
that we're going to start over here in
fact but this the Lotus who knows what's
going on with Lotus the company all we
know is they're still producing
world-class cars proper proper drivers
cars and this thing well it's easy
four-thirty cup the fastest road car
that Lotus has ever produced you can see
it's doled up in this red and gold
livery this is because it's a special
edition the type 49 designed to
celebrate the 50th anniversary of Graham
Hills f1 world championship what happen
to quite likely but then my taste is
quite questionable an awesome thing
around track some of the other guys had
to drive it across Europe to bring it
here not so awesome on the motorway
apparently we're not going to worry
about this also this could well be the
best sounding car here just wait until
you hear this v6 above 4000 rpm
absolutely tremendous and finally we
come to the McLaren 680 I don't think
I'm wrong in saying we are the first
journalists in the world to get our
hands on this car you would have heard
of the L team badge it stands for long
tail it graced the 675lt and absolutely
unbelievably phenomenal car so it's got
a lot to live up to and what is it it's
lighter it's got a bit more power it's
got more downforce it's a bit stiffer
than the 570s
a baby version at the center hypercar
and probably for mere mortals like you
or I more fun around the tight twisty
circuit like this so there we have it
those are the contenders for Top Gear's
Speed Week if you're anything like me
you've probably chosen your favorites
already but we're gonna have to put that
buyers to one side for a minute and go
ahead and pick a winner by driving the
tires off these cars all in the name of
research of course