Top Gear team in latest madcap stunt as they fire a family hatchback at a ferry



Jeremy Clarkson and the Top Gear team are not known for their love of slow, safe family cars.

But the Renault Twingo appears to have done something to really annoy the team.

The car was fired off the docks in Belfast at a departing Stena high-speed ferry. It came after the presenter lost a drag race through the city streets to a white Fiat 500.

There she goes: The Twingo is launched off the dockside at Belfast at the departing Stena HSS



Jeremy Clarkson, pictured filming in London yesterday, lost a race in the French car



The jaunty car was hoisted to the top of one of the Harland Wolff cranes in Clarendon dock and flung, containing a dummy, at the back of the ferry.

But producers are refusing to give any details of what happens next and viewers will have to tune in to find out.

No doubt, Clarkson was so riled by losing to the low-powered Fiat that he decided it was only worth flinging into the sea.

But owners of the French car have already hit out at the stunt earlier this week.

One angry fan of the car wrote on the Twingo Owners Club forum: ' I hate it when they waste cars for the purpose of entertainment.



'If they had decided to use a Fiat 500, I would think differently .'

Another wrote simply: 'What a waste', while a third decided to complain about 'Twingo abuse' to the programme makers.



The car has been reviewed on the Top Gear website, scoring 11 out of a possible 20 marks.



Ready to launch: A dummy made the flying leap at the back of the boat



The series has already hit headlines after presenter James May escaped unhurt when an airship/caravan combination he was travelling in crash-landed in a field near a busy road.

In past shows, the trio, which also includes Richard Hammond, have raced to the North Pole, driven across the African continent and sailed cars across the English Channel.

Jeremy Clarkson lost a drag race in the Renault Twingo, to a white Fiat 500 car

