Top Gear in rear: The lads meet Family Guy (Picture: PA)

They’re the lads in their cars who get up to all sorts of comedy capers on their prime-time TV show.

But Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will be given a new-look for their latest madcap adventure.

The trio have been given a cartoon makeover to star alongside Peter Griffin, of US cult show Family Guy.

It looks set to eclipse their antics of the past, which have seen them drive a Jaguar off an aircraft carrier and put their lives on the line by daubing ‘Man-love rules’ on cars during a road trip in America’s deep south.




Artists from the animated comedy show have worked their magic on the trio for a BBC3 interview with Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane.

A comic strip of their capers also features in the new issue of Top Gear magazine.

In the show, Peter Griffin tells the stars the fastest he has ever driven is 88mph.

‘I’d have gone faster, but I ended up in 1955,’ he adds, parodying the Back To The Future films.

It also lampoons a 2007 Top Gear stunt, in which Clarkson performed a reverse J-turn to throw the corpse of a cow off the roof of his Camaro.

The illustration was created to celebrate the release of Family Guy Season 12 out on DVD now.