Ask any Top Gear fan what their top 10 best Top Gear episodes would be and you’ll probably get a different answer every time. With over 140 episodes produced and thousands of individual films contained within these episodes, there is an absolute gold mine of Top Gear out there.

But how does one go about finding the very best Top Gear episodes ever made? Well, luckily we can help. Below is a Top 10 list compiled by us, with the help of site visitors who placed votes on their favourite episodes.

So we present to you, the TopGearbox Top 10 Best Top Gear Episodes!

1. Series 12, Episode 8 The boys ride 1000 miles across Vietnam – from Saigon to Hạ Long City – on £500 motorcycles. Put simply, this is everything you could ever want in a Top Gear episode!

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2. Series 14, Episode 6 The boys travel 1,000 miles through South America from the rainforests of Bolivia to the Pacific coast of Chile, in £3,500 off-road vehicles.

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3. Series 9, Episode 3 The boys each buy a car for $1000 and go on an American Road Trip from Miami to New Orleans. This is Top Gear’s first American road trip – and the best!

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4. Series 10, Episode 4 The boys go to Botswana and buy a car for less than £1500 for a 1,000 mile challenge – driving from the Zimbabwean border to the Namibian border. Epic.

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5. Series 5, Episode 8 Jeremy races a Ferrari 612 Scaglietti against Richard & James in a plane / train to Verbier.

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7. Series 4, Episode 1 Jeremy races an Aston Martin DB9 against the Richard & James on the TGV from London to Monte Carlo.

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8. Top Gear Polar Special Jeremy, Richard and James race to the 1996 magnetic North Pole.

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9. Series 7, Episode 4 Jeremy, Richard & James each buy an Italian mid-engine super car for less than £10,000, then face a series of challenges. [Episode Guide]

10. Series 8, Episode 3 Jeremy, Richard and James each attempt to make an Amphibious car, then face a challenge. Arguably better than Top Gear’s second attempt, when they crossed the English Channel.

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Just outside the Top Ten

Series 9, Episode 4

Richard and James attempt to build a Space Shuttle, based on a Reliant Robin.

[Episode Guide] Richard and James attempt to build a Space Shuttle, based on a Reliant Robin.

Series 10, Episode 9

Team Top Gear enters the Britcar 24 Hour Endurance Race.

[Episode Guide] Team Top Gear enters the Britcar 24 Hour Endurance Race.

Series 10, Episode 2

Top Gear’s second attempt at making Amphibious Cars. Except this time they attempt to cross the English Channel.

[Episode Guide] Top Gear’s second attempt at making Amphibious Cars. Except this time they attempt to cross the English Channel.

Series 15, Episode 4

The boys each build a motor home and go camping to see how they perform!

[Episode Guide] The boys each build a motor home and go camping to see how they perform!

Series 9, Episode 6

Jeremy, Richard and James each make a stretch limo and face a series of challenges.

[Episode Guide] Jeremy, Richard and James each make a stretch limo and face a series of challenges.

Series 7, Episode 3

Jeremy, Richard and James go on a Super Car road trip to the Millau Viaduct in France

[Episode Guide] Jeremy, Richard and James go on a Super Car road trip to the Millau Viaduct in France

Series 10, Episode 1

The boys each choose a lightweight supercar and try to find the greatest driving road in the World.

[Episode Guide] The boys each choose a lightweight supercar and try to find the greatest driving road in the World.

Series 6, Episode 6

Jeremy races a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren against Richard and James on a Ferry to Oslo, Norway

[Episode Guide] Jeremy races a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren against Richard and James on a Ferry to Oslo, Norway

Series 3, Episode 5

Jeremy finds out if the Toyota Hilux really is indestructible. It ends up being true.

[Episode Guide] Jeremy finds out if the Toyota Hilux really is indestructible. It ends up being true.