Top Gear East Coast USA Road Trip tonight

December 21, 2010 By Cars UK

Jeremy de-stresses in the SLS in NYC

Tonight sees Top Gear back on BBC2 with a road trip up East Coast USA to New York in a Mercedes SLS AMG, a Ferrari 458 Italia and a Porsche 911 GT3 RS

It’s a bit of a Top Gear day today with not just this morning’s news that Top Gear drafted in Tiff Needell to play at being the Stig, but the first in the new series of Top Gear kicks off tonight on BBC2 at 8.00 pm (9.00pm in Europe).

And actually, this morning’s Tiff Needell story ties in with tonight’s Top Gear as it’s got Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle as the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car. But that’s not the main piece tonight; that honour goes to the boy’s trip up the East Coast USA.

The East Coast USA road trip is a Top Gear Race to New York, as we reported back in September. The boys get to blat up the East Coast in a trio of supercars – a Mercedes SLS AMG, a Ferrari 458 Italia and a Porsche 911 GT3 RS. The usual mayhem ensues en-route.

Next up is the Christmas Top Gear special Road Trip from Iraq to Bethlehem on Boxing Day and the series continues in January.

Oh, and James May has had his hair cut.