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With an Aussie version up and running, an American series at the pilot stage and a brand-new Russian model revving its engine, the Top Gear franchise is becoming as universal as global warming (although not, as some have suggested, responsible for it).

But success creates expectation and Richard Hammond admits it's getting harder to come up with new ideas for Top Gear stunts. "I guess it's our own fault, because we've set the bar really high," he says. "What we've discovered is that a lot of Top Gear ideas are found at the bottom of beer bottles. Trouble is, you don't know which bottles have got the ideas in, so you have to drink a lot of them to find out!"

Now we don't want to encourage our users to start boozing - a nice cup of tea will surely prove just as effective at lubricating the brain - but we would like you to post comments below with ideas for new and exciting Top Gear stunts…

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Dear BBC Radio Times, I have not read the page in full, so don't know if this has been suggested, but I think Top Gear should do a fire engine challenge, involving the top gear trio and The Stig. Please pass this message on to the top gear team.

Those boat car challange did not have the top gear spirit.

What about making.

Catamaran car

Hydrofoil car

Hovercraft car

That had been insane.

Wohahaha

Those boat car challange did not have the top gear spirit.

What about making.

Catamaran car

Hydrofoil car

Hovercraft car

That had been insane.

Wohahaha

Hi, i'm 11 years old and i am a big fan of Top Gear. I have a great idea of a race which involves all 3 of you. basically you have to borrow an economical car which has a top speed of at least 150 MPH and an average of 30 MPG fuel economy. lets say you start on your test track, you fill your cars up (with diesel) and you drive all the way to holland averaging at least 70 MPH and back averaging 75 MPH. The person who has the most amount of fuel, best fuel economy (if you're under 30 you lose 10 points per MPG) and averages the closest to the average speed wins. And the car you choose has to be a saloon, and you have to pack all the holiday clothes you would pack if you went on a holiday. And also you won't be allowed to stop, fill up with fuel or stop for a wee, so you have to really think hard about it.

Look for "Saab Suite" on YouTube.

Shouldn't be too hard to choreograph!

Christmas Special! looking santas fastest car to deliver presants across europe!!!! Each presenter including the stigs artic brother...Stig SANTA!!!in a diffrent car!!!!!!!!!!!

we are in exmouth, devon. there are a load of boy racers who seemingly plague the seafront. at present devon & cornwall police are having a purge on those who have a big bore exhaust. fair enough on the one hand, but to be fair they are not in town they are on the seafront! my daughter has a 2.0l vauxhall vectra 1999. she bought it 2 years ago with blown exhaust. she had it fixed with deliberate attempt NOT to increase the sound level as didnt want to get pulled every 5 minutes. her car has sailed through its mot twice since and it will do again in november! the law on exhausts says it has to meet requirements to pass mot test! thats it! now with the blitz she has been given 21 days to change her exhaust or risk being fined, taken to court, having her car impounded and crushed if SHE doesnt pay fees to get it back, and would still have a 2 year section 69 hanging over her regardless of whether she complied with the requirements or not or went to court and contested the matter.. whether win or lose!! its wrong! we are on a mission and want the law clarified. the sensible youngsters have a hard enough time due to those who are flaunting the law. you touched briefly on the levels of insurance for young people before. we did a test too on comparison sites. car insurance is automatically incresed by £1000 for same car, age etc for a boy compared to a girl. her car would be written off in an accident as 3rd party is no cheaper than fully comp insurance and her insurance is more than twice value of car but a legal requirement!!! please investigate !

I'd like to see the 3 challenging any of the london borough councils, to do bin day quicker than they can, i.e. collecting it and dumping it. TG can choose which ever vehicle they like.

Being a large fan of the Shelby 427 Cobra, why not do an item where they thrash around in different versions of the kitcar manufacturers Cobra such as Dax, Pilgrim or Southern Roadcraft. You would have everything from stunning looking cars, through to very large V8's growling louder than Jezza's grumbling! Great viewing.

the must attempt to race an artic lorry round the top-gear track ... They will be racing a horse-rider :)

Challenge to see how many people you can squeeze into a hatchback and then a race around the Top Gear track to see who can go fastest.

An ebay car challenge where they have a budget of ten grand and have to get the best cars they can off ebay and see if they're worth their money.

1) Another £100 cheap car challenge

2) Top Gear vs Aussie Top Gear vs Russian Top Gear vs Fifth Gear vs White and Black Stig together vs the Germans

Get the 3 boys to re take their driving test including the theory and see if they can pass first time

they each buy a cab and then rebuild it and take them around london for a day

amphibious cars part three

the drive from oxford to loch ness and drive across it then drive back to oxford thengo on the tems to london how hard could it be?

jeremy races a spitfire driven by james from oxford to berlin amd jeramy will be in a car of his choice and ricard will be taking public transport

see which country makes the best car they each have one country to chose between themselves(britain,italy and germany)and chose a supercar and do tests like take them round the track the fastest and then see who'll drive the furthest for fuel econemy

They're each put in a carivan and see's who survives the longest

each of them teach one person on a driving test and then when they pass they race them on the top gear test track

they challenge fith gear to a series of challanges

enter them privatly into the british rally circuit in a classic rally car that they've made

i live near john o groats and would dearly love to see clarkson on a bike in lycra you know the real tight stuff come flying past my door on his way to lands end i know its been done by many but maybe he could add a twist using different modes of transport c5 electric car solar power so come on top gear stop mucking about with the london marathon route lets see jeremy gorgeous man that he is do the ride pleeaaaase i want to see him in dayglo tight lycra go on i dare you

y dont u have a race between tuned up cars and super cars againt other countrys boy racers on a racing trak or get da boys 2 take there very best cars 4 a race against each other across the cuntry without sat nav and starting from differant citys or towns

I would like to see Nick Mason as the star in the reasonably priced car...

build a flying car, build a submarine car!

Here's an idea - Have the boys travel out to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean by container ship.Throw each of them overboard into the Shark infested water.

South Africa LDVs are notorious for overloading. one was recently stopped by the traffic cops carrying 13 people, a lounge suite & a bed on the back. The challenge would be to for each team member to buy a one ton Nissan/Mazda or Toyota truck ( bakkie) as they are called in S Africa, and drive from Pretoria to Messina without breaking down or getting ticketed by the traffic cops. I will send you a news clipping with a pic of one that was stopped to use as a benchmark for overloading.

Five laps of the TG track, with the usual Touring Car champs plus the three stooges, all in clapped out ex-supercars, but race is driven only in reverse gear.

you could have a world top gear race where you have a race with all the countries that do top gear in all the countries that do top gear but each country has to have a diferent type of race to see who is the best

you could be the first to send and posibly drive a proper super car on the moon!!

Hi Aussie,

This is probably the best place to try: http://www.topgear.com/uk/contact-us

LauraPledger-RT

i've come up with a Top Gear special. The hosts from Top Gear Australia and Top Gear Britain are given a task to drive right across the heart of Australia. They must buy a vehicle that is more than 20 years old with a budget of $3000 dollars any money left over they can spend on fixing the vehicle up. The race could start at Cape Palleranda north of Townsville in Queensland, the halfway point Alice Springs Northern Territory and the finish line Exmouth in Western Australia. I would like to join the journey. Please What is top gears e-mail address or mail address

Take over Dave for the day...

A 70's versus 80;s versus modern day race with each decade having to use the same rules as it was back in that decade.

I challenge all three to drive round Stratford, East London for a day and whoever survives is the wuinner.

I once saw a 4x4 modded with low trim (badly done aka GCSE CDT vacum forming), so give the guys £1,500 and see who can best mod a 4x4 into a race car.......

Jeremy, Richard & James given £1500 each to buy the best chavved out car and are set a series of challenges. e.g. bling rating sound speaker decibel level, number of alterations from original model top speed difference from original speed etc.

£1000 2.0 rep mobiles for the credit crunched hit financiers who cannot afford the new Mondeo or Vectra. 10 2.0 rep mobiles Cars from the mid 90s are raced by touring car drivers and Jeremy, Richard & James to find out which is best in a re-enactment of a classic time of british touring cars. Volvo 740, Renault Laguna, Vauxhall Vectra, Ford Mondeo, Peugeot 405, Toyota Carina, BMW 320i Alfa Romeo etc.

My local bus route is mad to say the least. It twists, it turns, it goes up and down steep hills, through gaps about as wide as the bus (there's a couple of inches on either side), 90 degree turns, and you never know what you're going to meet or when. It might be someone who can't drive their 4x4 coming the other way, or a tractor and no proper passing place for 1/4 of a mile, or cows and sheep being moved. I would love to see all three presenters drive the route and be scored for things like time keeping, amount of damage, and ability to give the correct change. For added fun this route would be most tricky in the summer when our local roads are full of tourists who can't reverse and drive down the middle of the road. Afterall, it would be easy to set up awkward extra things for the boys to navigate, like tractors on a tricky spot on the road. The route btw, is the 173 run by dartline/devon county council. I've run the idea by some of my friends from around the country who also watch the show and they agree that it's a good route for it. Plus they almost never come down this way. I think they're scared of the random granite walls on either side of the road and the dartmoor ponies.

My idea is to have the boys test the true offraoding capabilities of various sports cars. They have to pick the sportscar they think would be best for some offroad situations modify it and bring on the challenges!

An olympics again, but competing against other Top Gear nations. And beat them. Only seen TG Australia (since it's the only one made and I live there), but it is no way as good as the original - stop trying so hard!

want to see the veyron with jezza driving it against the f1 car driven by mansell

Challenges involving purchasing the following for under £1000: - Repmobiles - German compact execs - Large thirsty French saloons which hardly sold in the UK Repmobile challenge may well involve a test of driving dexterity whilst on the phone, eating cornish pasty etc...

James May on automatic transmissions. Some claim that in 10 years' time autoboxes will be in the majority. So which is best? Slushbox, CVT, DSG, electro-hydraulic? James could give us a lengthy, detailed description of each system, intercut with Stigmatic and Stigmanual driving auto and manual versions of each car around the track to see which is best. Which current autobox is as good or better than its manual equivalent? (Not the easytronic, that's for sure. In a remarkable feat of engineering, who ever designed the box on my wife's Corsa managed to make an auto that was harder to drive than a manual).

Jeremy, Richard and James each take part in a Formula Vee race within the UK. Cheap thrills and more than likely spills.

I think they, or at least Jeremy, should spend a day in the motorway control room at Quinton. How long until a swear word appears on the message board?!

THE STIG vs LEWIS HAMILTON!!!!!

Why don't you try something similar to this.

Go to you tube and enter, Fire and Ice -Porsche Wintertraining Walter Roehrl 3.

Five suggestions:

1 a race from London to [say] St Peterburgh by vehicles that do not use oil [petrol/diesel/autogas]

2 Race that visits all UK motor-racing circuits using vehicles from each 20th century decade [ie drive to circuit & race raound curcuit, change to next decade vehicle, drive to next circuit, race round, change etc - OR do it in revearse decade order [ie last one is vehicle from 1900–1909]

3 race round scotland [or Ireland] in open cars such as Arial atom/Caterham 7 etc

4 choose a military vehicle & drive through rush hour / compare with a 'high bling' car / very expensive car - to compare other drivers' attitudes

5 race length of Uk using at least 4 different forms of transport - but without walking/touching the ground

Do a normal 2nd hand car test wont be great tv but relevant say spend 6 grand each.

India now produces the cheapest car in the world I understand - about £1000 brand new (well it was before the pound crashed). Get them to buy three and see how far back to the UK they can get. Or how high into the Himalayas they can take them.

I think they should build there own go karts on a budget then have a couple of practise laps teh nrace professionals around sliverstone or even better Monacco!!!

Id like to see them drive motorhomes across Europe and Russia ending in Alaska. Or maybe a challenge involving buying a car for less than £100.

Firstly , Clarcston on the back of a Ducati 1098 with maybe Tony Rutter or Steve Plater on front ( madder the better ) round a Northern Irish road circuit till he pee's himselve , short concise little item !!

"Classic" car tests, where the most ordinary family saloon humps it on track and everywhere else.

No more prats in a crappy suzuki please.

We often see, on a movie, a car with disabled brakes. How about a set of stunts to determine the BEST way to slow down and stop such a car, maybe driving down a steep twisting road ... perhaps even towing the dreaded caravan. The caravan's survival is strictly optional, of course...

How about trying to improve the smell of diesel engines. Chip Fat and Aromatherapy oils might work.

I like the idea of sending them off with a sat-nav but not knowing their destination. I was driving through Chesterfield and saw Clarkson Avenue and thought it would make a good way-point so I checked multi-map and found May and Hammond and Top Roads but alas no Gear Road. Finishing point should be Stig's hairdresser in Poynton I think

A few years ago, cicumstanses forced me to stop servicing my old Jaguar XJ40 3.6. This went on for over six years and in the end I just sold it, running perfectly, for £250. Why don't you try the same thing with an everyday old hack and see how long it goes on for?

How about racing the most powerful car against the most powerful animal in its own habitat? This would be difficult since some people think the most powerful animal is a killer whale. But what about another very powerful animal - like racing a polar bear on ice?

You could also race the fastest car against the fastest animal - the top speed of a peregrine falcon has been clocked but it's never lost a fair race against anything before.

Also, looking around it seems a lot of teenagers have pimped their cars. Some of them have just added extra exhausts and paintwork, but some have actually done quite a bit to make the car go faster. It would be pretty good if youcould get a few on the show and race them.

This is intresting how about a italian vs american car race from berlin to lizbon

Wow there's a lot of stuff here I'd love to see! Particularly the driving test one.....! I know they've already done a 24 hour, but how about one where they might actually stand a chance - 24 hour 2CV race at Snetterton!

How about taking a group of pensioners on a coach holiday? They could share the driving

Start in York. Buy a classic sports car for £10k. Give them 5k to spruce it up. Test it's pull-a-bility with a bunch of women. Time test it on a track for retained HP. Then take it to a monster truck rally and whichever starts with the least amount of work after being driven over by a monster truck wins.

Get them to come to Cornwall and see the uk's worst drivers - seriously, my hubby and I have lived here just over a year, and almost get wiped out weekly, it is the worst driving we have ever witnessed (and between us we have driven in a lot of places) they are slow, don't know the width of there car/tractor, will not reverse, pull in, dip main beam, they speed up if you come head to head, they over take on brow of hills, and they never grit the roads.

We would love Jeremy to come and drive around our way for a while....maybe turn it in to a "which area in Britain has the worst drivers" feature.

take a fast car to dubai and race the locals, either on the road or if too dodgy at a drag track/race track.

Also you have to put a suzuki hayabusa (or other fast bike) around the track as a comparison against the supercars to see which is fastest via a bike stig.

how about the boys having a race between,stig clarkson,may hammond, clarkson on a push bike,hamster in a reliant may in a lotus,stiggy on a boat,first to get to john o groats

I'd like to see more of the US sty;le 'trips', all 3 in a car purchased and off you go. Its funny and also very interesting. There are some fascinating places to try to get throygh. The outback in Australia, across Russia, Canada, and finally the USA again - but this time the classic East Coast to West Coast (NY to California).

Also if it hasn't been thought about Paris - Dakar Rally would be great as well as mimicing 'Long Way Down' except in cars not bikes.

That would probably take a few episodes but would be fascinating and funny to watch.

This is interesting! I wonder whether all these ideas will get read & considered by the Top Gear team...?!

Having read all the above comments, I would like to add my suggestions:

1. The presenters all doing their driving tests again.

2. A John O'Groats to Land's End driving challenge.

3. A Paris to Dakar Rally driving challenge. Cars of their choice. Perhaps NOT at the same time as the real rally, just the route.

4. Australia coast to coast in Aussie cars. Perhaps even using some Mad Max cars...!? Would love to see the supercharger car used.

5. A tour of the presenter's garages (or stables, more like), & a challenge of an A to B race of their choice car. Perhaps the choice would be down to the other presenters?

6. Top Gear vs. 5th Gear - definitely!

7. Loved the Top Gear vs. German Top Gear challenge - Sooo funny! I note it's not been repeated ever, even on Dave! Wish I'd recorded it! More challenges like that would be really welcome. And please, more of the lovely Sabine (& Nurburgring)!!

8. I would love to see a challenge (or challenges) involving the motor manufacturer's concept cars.

9. And lastly, I would love to see a Japanese vs. German cars challenge. Toyota, Nissan, Mazda (ie: Supra, Skyline, RX7) against BMW, Audi & Mercedes (for instance). I'm thinking mid-90's cars. As a mk.4 Toyota Supra owner (6 speed manual, Twin Turbo), I would love to see this.

10. Ooh, another idea: Definitely Max Power/modified car challenge. There are huge numbers of modified motors on the roads, & these all tend to get ignored on the programme.

And I'd love to put my car round the circuit...!

I look forward to further suggestions.

:-) Rupert

Each of the boys should get a car/van and have to turn it into a vehicle from the emergency services (ambulance, fire engine etc). they then have to do a load of tests to see who's car is the best "make your own emergency car".

Another idea is to get them to drive from John O'Groats to Lands End in the quickest time with only £600 each to spend - and that includes buying the car - WITHOUT using motorways!!

i say it's time for another epic. how about a race across canada? ending in newfoundland for the Targa, perhaps?

or turn a car into a submersible. one that won't kill them dead.

A race around London with vehicles they have to buy for under 100 pounds

How about a ploughing competition between a vintage tractor (or even a horse), a modern 4x4 and a sports car?

Alternatively, find out which would be quickest to the scene of an accident, ambulance, fire service, police - or a hearse? (Totally unPC, but right up Jeremy's street)

Someone's already said my idea- don't tell the three of them where they're going, just have them racing to that unknown destination following the sat nav directions.

Hows about putting a decent bike around the track, cbr 1000 would destroy any cars time

How bout TG does Pimp My Ride? I'm sure that could turn out........ hmmm.....'interesting'.....

send each of them on a trip across europe each with with a character from rainbow (bungle, zippy, george) to keep them company.

Car rugby-Just think it would be awesome to see 8 cars scrumming down

The recent discovery of Jeremy's penchant for interior design makes me believe the time is right for Top Changing Gear Rooms, although that would be more of a special than a regular episode…

around the world in 80 hours. with some handicaps on each side to make it last about that long for both (quality of plane, tirednee, oceans etc.

As a twist on the usual challenge format get the chaps to choose cars for each other. How about a race across South America, or Chile North to South, or across Canada without using freeways?

Each of the 3 takes a driving test again, but in rush hour in central london - winner is the one with best marks/only one not arrested/only one left alive

Jeremy,James & Richard have a race between specific destinations - as hitchhikers.Beforehand they qualify specifically which type of cars they will get lifts from - and depending on how their "actual lifts" to "predicted lifts" go they are awarded points that count in addition to who comes first between destinations.

Cheap 4x4 challenge wud be awesome. do off road courses and drag race and the usual stuff and then give them about £500 to turn them into drag racers.

Have a classic race BUT without Clarkson knowing at certain points he will change from his super car to other cars that he hates such as Ssangygon OR Proton and then back to his supercar

Hear's another one, set a course, no one knows what it is.Y all get in y car and race off to the course directions set in the sat nav!

To finish (that stuff that disapeared) the scope is unending and to top it off you could have me, the old duffer with a beard in a cloth cap offering to buy the drinks if any of you can beat me around the track, how long will y all go thirsty? This could be in somthing slightly challenging, a90 Atlantic or madder would be fun.

An obstacle course involving sheep, deer and other wildlife (obviously models not live ones. This will be useful for those of us unfortunate enough to live in an area populated by both.

Classic road race circuits... Mille Miglia, Targa Florio. Any car will do!

Can they do something with eco-friendly cars or have them design their own eco car.

It is often said that an F1 car has so much downforce at high speed that it could theoretically drive 'on the ceiling'. So construct a track which starts off the right way up then does some sort of half roll so the track is now upside down, put the Stig in an F1 car and let's see if it is true!

Quote-Brick-'They should take an ordinary production car and put a rocket engine in it'

Ah yes, hyper powered car went so well last time didn't it?!?!?!?!

I'd like to see them all (including The Stig) retake their driving tests - practical and theory.

the fastest car race but going in reverse,maaad

Top Gear does "Strictly" - well someone's gotta upstage the lovely Mr. Sargent. Minis doing Viennese waltzes. Bags me being taught by The Stig to twirl on the spot. Can it be done? (Probably has been already).

How about the boys try to find a car/transport method as good for you as a bicycle? Maybe a car with bad suspension or a rotating seat would make one lose weight similar to a bike, but move you faster....

This will be mean but could they maybe get decent haircuts and stop raiding eachothers wardrobes? Seriously, James May, what is going on with that mop?

Go back to the Deep South in America this time wearing leather shorts with pink fur trim screaming "I love Barack Obama". Then try and outrun 'The Boys' from the petrol station using only pushbikes with no saddles.

A race between jeremy james and richard all in different cars from london to istambul

I agree with Mary, teach a non driver that's never been in a car before how to drive on the track and show that non drivers (can) know just as much as drivers! (I'm sick of my brother saying he knows more than me as he can drive and I cant yet).

Maybe the boys should do a campaign about safety on the road aimed at teenagers. They could look at the affect of drugs, using your phone and drinking on a person's reactions whilst driving and maybe get some teenagers who've got bad driving habits to cahgne their ways and pass their driving/motorbike test. Can you imagine Jeremy as a teacher.

A round the world challange over a few shows, with a twist like putting something from every continent on their car, which they bought for x amount of money.

Hows about a race across the sahara, against a kite buggy or something, i've heard there is a race that involves kite buggies. Similar idea to the polar special but on a hot area!

Hows about a race across the sahara, against a kite buggy or something, i've heard there is a race that involves kite buggies. Similar idea to the polar special but on a hot area!

Jenga car

A car each, each round pull a piece off each car and drive round a track - last car standing wins.

Revive the cars with the most genuine amount of miles on them!

gotta be the ultimate test of driving ability - the fastest lap in a reliant 3-wheeler (any model)

Assess the endorsement points system for bad driving.

On the track/ private land, drive in several conditions 1. Drunk 2. Speeding 3. Chatting on a mobile 4. On drugs (not sure about this one)

Carry out a series of challenges under these conditions such as hazard awareness and control and that.

A cheap hatchback challenge. They each buy an old hatchback for 600 pounds or so and do challenges e.g. taking them round a go kart track, seeing how much they can fit in it and then modifying them into boy racer cars!

Another military involvement perhaps; see which car - available to the public to buy - best withstands bullets and explosions.

Each of the presenters have a day to teach a non-driver to drive on the track.....!!!???

The boys should do one of their superb public information films on motorway driving - specifically how not to hog the middle lane when ther's nothing on the inside lane!!

Also, how to drive around roundabouts without knocking the front off the car inside you!!

Something with Robin Reliants. How many inflatable dolls full of helium would it take to lift one off the ground?

Either bring it into the real world of finite energy resourses or scrap it.

i think Jeremy,James and richard should take part in a motorcycle trackday as Jeremy is always slate -ing off two wheels this will give him an insight i9nto the fun that can be had on two wheels and the entertainment value would be fantastic, especially with a timed lap at the end of the day.

A few ideas:

1. Ex-millitary vehicles cheap car challenge 2. Land Rover Cheap car challenge with off road tests / ridiculous modifications 3. Cars being sold on the side of a road, are they any good?

4. James May dropped off in a small village in China, can he find his way home with £1500, by buying and selling methods of transport.

5. Top Gear classic big race. Jeremy in the SL65 Black, somehow involving the German Autobahns.

I will post more as and when, I have so many more. The new series is fantastic, doesn't seem like they need ideas!

Just how hot does water need to be to smash a frozen windscreen, I was told endlessly that pouring hot water on my iced over windscreen would cause it to smash into smithereens, (by a girl no less!), please please please this winter could someone pour really hot water over anyone but mines frozen window to see if it smashes, I use warm water and laugh at nextdoor neighbour for using his ice scraper but he tut tuts me and takes all bloody morning doing it where-as of course I am at work already!

When I was working at a research establishment in the late 1960s, we had an hour of short lectures by members of staff once a month. Most lectures were very technical, and fairly boring, but one lecture sticks in my mind;

"How to defeat a speed trap"

I can recall some of the conclusions. Note that speed traps in those days used microwaves, not lasers.

1) Keep to the speed limit(strange but true).

2) Cover the car in microwave absorbent material so the speed gun receives no reflected signal to make it's measurement. For the more modern laser systems I suppose this requires a non-reflecting coating.

3) Build a conical car so the beam is reflected up in the air. Again, the speed trap will not receive any signal.

4) Detect the signal transmitted by the speed trap and transmit back a modified signal to give a stupid reading, say 250 mph.

5) Detect the signal transmitted by the speed-trap and transmit back a signal so powerful that the front-end of the speed trap receiver is destroyed. There was a cheer from the audience for this one but it would be difficult to overload the laser equivalent.

My suggestion, therefore, is that the TG team attempt to build a car that is invisible to a speed trap, or to confuse it into a stupid reading. A very shiny conical car might just work!

They should get them to each have a new learner driver to teach and they decide what car n all that. Then the learners represent them in "a series of challenges" on the track or normal roads depending on how good they get/how long they have.

How about seeing if the Stig could get a test drive from a car dealership!!

Skid pan strictly come dancing in cars blinged up with sequins and feathers).

How about a relay race, but with a twist. They each choose a track car, a road cruiser, an off-roader, a load carrier, etc. But then they find out that the order they HAVE to use them will NOT be suited to their designed use. Eg off-roader in getting across a congested town, track car carrying monthly shopping safely home, people carrier posing & bird-pulling, etc.

I liked the V8 Blender ao how about a V8 washing machine... and put the stigs leathers in it, they must need a wash by now

Sarah's right: the show needs *Sean Bean* in a reasonably priced car.

I would love to see a difinitive test on the TG. One which involves the three of them getting wasted on JD thn getting behind the wheel of a trio of Porsches.... and some well placed cones, lets really see the effects of alcohol on the average driver....

Here's a challenge for you - can you come up with a piece, race or stunt you can do here on Sark, an island without cars??! (We do have a few tractors though)

I think it would be good for them to do a "Robot Wars" style challenge. Take some old cars and turn them into fighting machines, except rather than being remote controlled robots, they're controlled from the inside by Hammond, May and Clarkson.

let them try and cross calcutta at rush hour (which is any time of the day) in old bangers and see who can crash less...believe me

How about Gardeners world with JCB's planting Caravans in a large quarry? Perhaps using a Quarry truck as a wheel barrow and copiuous quantities of explosives to dig the planting trench etc! Jeremy has often moaned about Gardners world viewing figures being greater than Top Gears!

They all load into an old Banger for under £50 which has just failed it's test, perhaps on brakes and, watched by a vast crowd of their baseball hatted admirers, and, to the sound of Queen at full woofer volume, drive it over Beachy Head.

They should take an ordinary production car and put a rocket engine in it.

They should each have to cut two cars of their choice in half and attach an end and a front from the two cars two make a Frankenstein vehicle.

The Stig sets a lap time in the reasonably priced car, and each of the boys has to try beating it in any super car of their choice. But everyone has to do it in reverse.

I like the concept of Cressy, but with a difference. I am over sixty, 5ft 1in, Fenale and well over 16 stone, I can drive but never in this country, nor for the past 15 years and my licence expired (foriegn thing). Besides They were was mainly automatic. But I did drive often and far in 4 continents. Teach me to drive well enough to be seriously competitive. Should be great fun lots of laughs and you never know, you might succeed.

I would like them to explore the bottom of the MId Atlantic Trench in a Ford Fiesta diesel, preferably permanently.

- Send them hitch-hiking in New Zealand and make them review the cars they get picked up in and see who can get the furthest.

- Have a challenge where the guys have to spend a day driving a supermarket delivery van or a parcel van or something and see how they get on. And use that to review different vans again (the roadie challenge from a few seasons ago was brill).

- Turn cars into hang-gliders.

- Do a Russian road trip

- Do an Australian campervan roadtrip.

Thats almost a whole series.

How about doing a car construction project much as the late great Johnny Cash did -" I built it 1 bit at a time". Many modern cars are built with engine from 1 manufacturer, gearbox from another etc.

I Think You Shoulsd See How Many Caravans You Can Destroy Using A Drag Racer With A Jet Engine. Love The Show Lads!

An episode reviewing, and contesting, soviet eastern bloc cars would be interesting and hilarious simultaneously.

Can the team find a current production car that fits inside another one? Not a 1960s microcar inside a Transit, but maybe a Matiz inside an Espace or something like that… I'd let them take some of the seats out!

Some sort of modded car thing, taking the piss out of all the chavved up cars you see everywhere...?

They all have £1000 or whatever to buy citroen saxos or puntos or whatever, then do stuff with making them look "cool" with active exhausts and things, before carrying out chav car challenges before finishing with which car can perform the best ram raid on a fake off licence

The French have just announced the Air Pod. It will cost 6000 euros and runs on compressed air. How about an AirPod race from Cannes to Paris. It should take up a complete series!!!!

Refrain from talking about genitals and remove Hammond From the show

Watching them all driving a vehicle of their choice off the edge of the Grand Canyon or White Cliffs of Dover would give me more pleasure than anything else this Christmas.

I would like to see The Boys race caravans up the Thames, having sealed them and fixed outboards to them... which would win - a staid old fuddy duddy english built caravan or a german van? Richard could sail a Bedbug, as they are only titchy!

They have done the have a few thousand pounds and buy a car then do challenges thing until its getting old but how about a twist on it to make it more original? Instead they have a minimum of say £2,000 to spend on a car for one of the other presenters knowing theyl hate it, so for example may would buy clarkson a horribly slow car or clarkson could buy a car for hammond that meant he couldnt reach the peddles? after a series of challenges the winner gets to destroy their car in a way they see fit (or the bbc budget allows)!

Remember when the boys changed cars into boats and had to drive them to a lake then sail/motor across it? Why not do it t'other way round? Each presenter gas a budget to buy a boat (of any type/size, then turn it into a car. Stig then drives each one round the track to find out which is best.( Now THAT is what I'd call a boat race!).

By the way,

I recently watched a past episode on Dave where Jimmy-boy was waxing lyrical about the latest Rolls-Royce. It even ended up on the 'cool wall'. WHAT?? that thing cool? It's just the sort of car that Jade Goody or Jordan would buy -- in bright pink with gold-plated chromework! It's about as cool as Satans' anus.

Have the boys build cars that can glide or even fly and make them test the cars themself of a building or cliff.

Do all Xmas shopping by public transport. Can you get a bus or train with a Christmas tree and several large boxes or seasonal supermarket shopping?

The 'race' shows are without question the most entertaining. How about the team combine to drive a Japanese luxury car from Japan back to England - racing the transporter ship that is taking same model by sea? This could be done over several episodes, perhaps pausing at key motor oriented points along the way.

Each of the presenters teaches an under 10 year-old to drive around the Top Gear test track.

I agree with Cressy. Teach people to drive. One could get a rebellious teenager, one an overly wary pensioner, and one a hopeless learner who has failed at least 5 times!

Also, *please* get Sean Bean in the reasonably priced car. :D

How about Anthony Hamilton in a reasonably priced car? Or better still a race for F1/racing/sporting dads/parents in a fleet of reasonably priced cars.

You could attempt to build your own car from scratch, using second hand materials.

You would then do a race (prehaps Europe, US?) and try and beat the Stig or the Hamster who would be taking public transport and see who would get to the destination first.

I love the show and I'm sure that you don't need our help to create challenges- don't you normally get the producers to do it ;)

How about a road trip from manchester to central london and in which they have £1000 to buy a motocycle, they will complete a series of challenges along the way and the trip will either justify jeremys hatred of bikes just like why he hates caravans, or hamster and may can convince him they not that bad, either way it is bound to be good telly and funny to watch them fall apart, blow up and break down, the bikes aswell. some of the challenges could be a race at donnington or silverstone, a challenge to see how much luggage can be carried then doing a lap of the tg track, other stuff.

shut up about hammonds hair cut it is beautiful much like him.

I challenge Hammond to get a haircur.

In the line of their usual budget challenge but combining current issues of credit crunch and also typical middle aged man itches. How about they get given a budget of £xxx and have to build their own crazy car from scratch, using only spare parts and scrap metal with a limit of only 3 or 4 components from each scrap car they find. This would show how much they know about the workings of cars and also bring out their usual big kid imagination. A series of challenges would also follow as per usual features. This would work so well with the programme but it is something different and relevant to todays climate. And after all, who wouldnt want to see Jezza, Hamster and Cpt Slow getting stressed and argumentative with expected hilarious consequences!

I think the humble handbrake turn gets woefully overlooked by this great show...

Y is there 3 male presenters on this show?

Should be just Jeremy & a tasty bird

Since Tata has taken over Jaguar and Land Rover why not test the most popular Tata or Mahindra vehicles on Indian roads and how they compare with their European counterparts?

Firstly they could buy old Formula 1 cars and race them or any other type of racing car in a race. Secondly they could also drive public transport and see who does the best in a competition

Pay attention, the septics seem to be stealing our thunder in this here DARPA Broad Agency Announcement for a flying submarine:

https://www.fbo.gov/download/5bc/5bc436ac4a4724b165cf6b49f58
cae12/baa_09_06_submersible_aircraft_baa_pct_final.pdf

Need to show Uncle Sam that Britannia still rules the skies/waves

They could review some cars. That would be make a change!

A Race from Scotland to Lands end (cornwall) with richard in a Mercedes CLK Black and James and Jeremy on public Transport

Hi, I'would love to see on the Show some futuristic Car Prototypes ( Studys )from the 50's 60's and early 70's like the Cars from the TV-Series UFO :-) Or some classic Design's from the former Eostblock ( russian and chech Cars ) from the 50's up to the 70's :-) I'am sure there is plenty to discover for the little Boy inside !!!

It's been done before, but what about a race between a rally car and a motorcycle around the Isle of Man TT circuit. That'll sort out the man from the boys and off course - we all know the motorcycle will win!!

I'd like to see them compete in a novice rally event, like they did with the 24 hour race, which is possibly my favorite Top Gear ever.

I always thought it would be fun to have them compete in a series of challenges against their wives/girlfriend - they did have their mothers on a few years ago. Otherwise, I like the idea of teaching people to drive, or retaking their own tests (James only passed second time, apparently, so that would be interesting).

How about a trip to India for a look at Tata and their cars (which used to be our cars)?

How about Hamilton driving the Mclaren F1 road car that he now wants to win?

Why not do a trip from London through europe and down the Amalfi coast in Italy in 3 cars of the presenters own choice. Then, when they get about half way down they can take them up into and around some of the small villages that are around that area to see how they cope with narrow streets which are sometimes better suited to James May's Fiat Panda.

More experiment than challenge... Put the Stig in an L plated car and see how often he gets tailgated or overtaken when driving up the A5.

spend a whole episode trying to break loads of world records eg. worlds smallest car, tallest car, smallest driver, biggest car wreck...

Some sort of race in some sort of class of car e.g. cheap/under so much/sports/saloon/third hand whatever, but with a catch - they're not allowed to use maps or SatNav to get from A to B, they have to rely entirely on the British Road sign system.

I'd like to see them have a bash at making a 4 wheel drive smart car. How hard can it be?

Jeremy, Richard and James get given a budget to buy an Aston Martin and convert them into a James Bond car. This means they have to give the cars as many extreme gadgets as their money can buy them. They wil have a time limit to do this to their cars. After they have finished the process they will be given a series of challenges. These challenges will include car chases and tests for performance and luxury.

I'd like to see them attempt to drive Donuts backwards, by using reverse gear in a front wheel drive car...

1. They take part in the Monte Carlo Rally with teams of Jezza and Hammond Vs Captain Slow and the Stig.

2. They are each given money to buy and do up a boy racer car with challenges (sound system worth twice as much as the car etc).

3. The Car version of Tour de France with all the other top gear teams as the other competitors. Competitors are restricted to cars from their own countries for example Top Gear Uk could use Aston Martins and Lotus.

All three take part in the emergency driving course through Central London in rush hour one in a Police Car, one in a Fire Engine and the other in a Ambulance whilst the stig is on a Police standard issue Mountain Bike

I think they should all get a lamborghini gallardo and get givin £10000 to do it up. Once they have done it up then they have to have a test of acceleration, top speed, handling and looks judged by the stig and then add up all of the total marks for the winner.

I LOVE Top Gear...it's not just for the boys and I don't watch it just cos Richard is cute (though he IS!!!)

I'd love to see them race tractors! Or, based on a dream I had, boats (although we'll leave out the bit about feeding them Neapolitan Ice Cream with a 15ft spoon out of a barn window cos that's just my mad brain!)

They should teach a load of 17 year olds to learn to drive and see if they can pass their test after learning from May, Hammond and Clarkson.

Another idea is that they should try driving blindfolded, or with beer goggles. Try doing some of the oter suggestions with beer goggles or blind!

this idea is linked to the episodes with the cars that could be used as boats. The differnce is the cars they have to create will have to complete an even bigger range of challenges eg. transporting goods/people, travelling under water, driving through rainforests/deserts/snow..., flying, fishing, racing and any other crazy stunts that could be pulled off. They would have to complete the challenges with as little damage as possible to the cars.

Also they could try building the worlds strongest car instead, it would pass challenges like bullet fire, bombs, attacks from giant animals e.t.c. and still come out at the end in working order

Custom build the ugliest car possible, and then try and flog it.

Work out if women or men are better drivers? a series of challenges to work out which sex is actually worse at the general skills of driving...points lost for things like bumps and anger outbursts or loss of concentration. i'm not genuinly not sure who would win but i reckon it would be funny

I think the idea of taking a learner each and teaching them in their own way to drive would be entertaining.

Perhaps John O'Groats to Lands-End by Tom-Tom? They don't seem to have touched upon the insanity and genius of the sat-nav system.

How about a weekly slot trying out all the different entry level classes of motorsport - formula 750, mini seven, club rallying, autotests etc? Try to dispell the myth that motor sport has to be expensive, and get people involved, instead of sitting watching TV on a Sunday.

Better still, bring back Tony Mason. He was always interesting.

It occured to me, that in the event of another war with Germany (which based on the 20th century is something we may need to face). If you wanted to burst some damms would an old bomber or a car (which car?) be the right choice for the allies?

I liked the episode recently where they 'water tested' british layland cars (filled them up then sent them round the track to see how far they got untill the water level was lower than the steering wheel).

In the interest of "science" surely they need to test a more modern car as a bench mark?

Also I think some sensible tests on everyday cars might be useful. Give each a chance to get a family car and test it against the same challenges normal people may have.

For example:

-in the event of a terrorist attack, which car would allow you to outrun a suicide bomber for the longest whilst you try to explain the situation on the phone to the police.

-if the new president of america gets Uk and NK (north korea) mixed up and nukes as, which would allow you to survive a nuclear winter?

-in the event of suddern global warming which car would survive desert conditions in manchester (whilst simultaneoulsy surviving the floods).

-oh and depreciates the least

Knowing which (reasonably priced) car on the market is best at surviving the end of the world (in whatever form) is the sort of useful know-how that we the audience would appreciate.

Oh and I've always wondered what is the best commuter route from N.London to Reading starting at Rush hour... oh and going via a spot of shopping at New York, and Hong Kong say. A few tips like that to help me with my Christmas Shopping could be very useful.

There should be a race.....across RUSSIA. The guys should race in the vehicle of their choice, thats costs under £5,000. They should then race from the West most part of russia to the East most part. The boys should then be set chalenges as they get to checkpoints.Idea's for chalenges could be for the first person to buy a moodel of lenin or to find certain landmarks and take pictures of them near it. This could be put into a two parter and could also be sold in shops like the polar episode. This idea would make for a very entertaining and classic couple of episodes!!

Like others said, I think the three teaching people like me (Non-drivers) to drive would be very funny. But as a different alternative (That isn't just people trying to score free (If probably terribly unhelpfull) driving lessons), how about the three each re-take their test?* I'm sure that would solve the question of which of them is the best driver.

*Obviously in super cars...

They could teach me, a 17 year old girl who knows nothing about cars, to drive.

or around the world in 80 days... in a car

an idea of me and my best friends: the guys have to teach one teenager each to drive and the winner is the one whos student passes first (i'll gladly volunteer) or can they spend one weekend in a vw camper without killing each other (smaller than the caravan)

a race around the world in three different forms of transport what is best to use in this kind of race car, boat or maybe even hot air ballon

I like you richard can you do top gear naked for me and my friend ahmed, we live in Wootton Fields, Northampton

Okay gents, it's time to show fifth gear that the Top Gear team are the best in the world!

Picture the scene:

The challenge is simple and fair.

Run What Ya Brung with a budget of £10,000 each team member.

The stig is to let the team members draw lots with six different types of race car:

V8 Hot rod (Chevy / Ford?)

Japanese Banzai (Supra / skyline?)

Lotus 7 (Westfield / Caterham?)

Italian Supercar (308 / Pantera?)

German Super-saloon (merc / BMW?)

Street racer hatch (206 / saxo?)

Other prizes are individual lowest time, joint team lowest time and best presented car (well James May's got to win something!) and if fifth gear look like they mght win overall... bring in the Stig in a MP4-23!

How about the guys switch places for an episode? Richard as Jeremy, James as Richard and Jeremy as James lol. It's be totally hilarious to see them impersonate one another XD

They always bash modified cars, so here's the challenge. Take a modified car originally built in the 1980's, and a standard car of the original spec - and see how much the modified car has been ruined, in a drag, handling and stopping race etc. I would have nominated my own modified car, but i sold it a couple of months back! - the How to ruin a car by sticking silly spoilers on it - challenge!

Not sure the TV Execs would allow it but take on the 5th Gear team in a setof challanges.

Let me be the "No-mark in a reasonably priced car"

Give them each £1000 to buy an 'Australian' car (so probably a Holden) and get them to drive North to South down Austarlia

A Tuk-Tuk race

Do something positive about cyclists - to counteract Jeremy's continual knocking of them in the media - might save some lives from the boy-racers, he encourages or the cyclists they run-down almost daily!

each design a supercar...to be made with the help of their choosen celebrity...when finished to be tested by the stig...and the the winning car to be used in parralel to the star in a reasonably priced car...star in a topgear supercar. to be shown in episodes throughout the series.

Lands End to John o' Groats in the cheapest and slowest new cars available, with of course a few challenges along the way such as the Hard Knott and Bealach Na Ba mountain passes, and of course the odd race and demolition derby. Celebrities would be encouraged to get encouraged to get involved and get everything badly wrong, with hilarious results.

How about the 3 presenters driving F1 Brisca stock cars in a meeting (Idon't mean Bangers, I mean stock cars.

Buy 3 double decker buses. Modify them so that they can be driven from the top deck. Take them round a car test track. Race them. Drive them round the M25 (completely) in both directions (over the QEii bridge and through the tunnels), starting and finishing at the toll booths.

They can, of course, tart them up (or is that pimp them?)!!

we all know how much jeremy loves animals...or not, so why not have him racea horse across london, see if he can actualy use the hundreds of horse power he claims to need, (maybe have hammond on the horse, he claims 2 b a country lad after all:) )

I've had this idea going around in my head for a while now, I was originally going to send it to the people at Formula 1 but this seems like a better place for it to be, it didn't seem like the sort of thing the Formula 1 people would take seriously. The only problem with it is that you might have to build a new track...

So what you do is you get a track that is in the shape of a figure of eight, with the cross over in the middle, at the same level, no bridge... and all you have to do is get round the track five or six times without crashing... basically it's like scalextrics but with real cars and drivers, the drivers being Jeremy, James, and Richard. I think it sounds like fun...

On celebration of a new Australian version of Top Gear - kick off the heels with a Top Gear Aussie Challenge. Buy a car for less than £5000 and drive from Adelaide to Melbourne, and then Melbourne to Brisbane.

Two thoughts: three Top Gear presenters - three Scrapheap Challenge members (plus expert) per team. Coincidence? Different TV channels, I agree, but that's a challenge in itself.

Also, has anyone undertakenan in-depth analysis of the damage the average eco-warrior does to the environment. From the amount of CO2 and methane it produces, to the energy required to to produce a lifetime's supply of bicycles (plus the oil to produce saddles, pedals, tyres, inner tubes and handlebar grips). "Save the planet! Don't breed a green!"

Buy 4 matched cheap cars, unmodified. Race them in Reverse down the M11 (near me) or other motorway during day or night. This includes the Stig.

Or, each of them pick an ordinary person (like me), teach them to race round the track in a reasonably priced car.

drive down a motorway (M11, its near me) in three matched, unmodified cars, in reverse (day or night)!!

Teach me to drive - I'm 50 and never learned (I have had a few lessons though!)

Boy racer challenge - £1000 each to buy a teenagers car, use the rest to do it up, quickest to the top of a multi story car park, first to get pulled over by police, enter it into a show, that sort of thing

what about getting a resonably priced car, picking a star and have them compete in challenges, maybe even bring back the double-decker racing (where one uses pedals and the other steers) or more two-person challenges (maybe even include the stig somehow)

The boys should race (or compete in a set of challenges)against the presenters of Top Gear from other countries using a car made in the country their version of the show is aired in

The boys should be given £1000 each to find a car, then tune it themselves and race them, for every second they beat a set time (which should be reasonable for the cars being used), they get a fiver, the person with the most money at the end wins.

How about a race around the M25? Or a race from Britain to Africa or halfway around the world?

I think obvious challenges for the US and Aussie series' would be public transport vs. car across their respective continents.

Top gear doesnt neccesarily mean cars does it! would love to see some bikes too, know richard has a licence sure james has a bike too. would be hilarious to see clarkson on a lap of brands even on a scooter, off every 10 mins.

Please have another go at getting the radio controlled robin reliant rocket to work. It was so close last time and one of the best.

Also anything involving caravans and catapaults, which tends to make me snort red wine down my nose

Surely they have to try and out run the bugati veyron in a straight line with something they build. Remember the James Bond car for £300? Just like that but a lot faster and maybe a slightly larger budget

The current format of the show is spot-on; three extremely likeable and polar opposite blokes pratting around in cars. Compulsive viewing, over and over again, with the slight proviso that Jeremy seems to get all the best jobs.

A few ideas for new stunts:

For example, it might prove amusing to watch Jeremy try to move a fridge one mile in an old Alfa while Richard copes well in a Transit, but then the Transit wouldn't get round the track very quickly and neither would get across Aldershot ranges as well as James' Land Rover.

2 Jeremy is always complaining that the engine in a Porsche is in the wrong place; why not each buy an old 911, move the engine to the front then carry out three tests to see who did the best job.

3 Get back three of the fastest stars (e.g. JK, Jody Kidd, Simon Cowell, Trevor Eve etc) then get them to do the test track the other way round (i.e. Gambon is the first corner) with no practice laps and no tips from the Stig, who will have set a benchmark.

4 There is a lot of competition between the presenters as to who is the best driver, so get the Stig to derive some tests to see who is best (e.g. do the track, in reverse direction, in three radically different vehicles). This may not work if the preferred option is to leave the tension surrounding the issue;

5 The item in which Jackie Stewart tried to get more speed out of James was hilarious - do the same thing, but with all three presenters in modern Touring Cars with someone like Jason Plato, Tom Chilton or Matt Neal doing the instructing;

6 Get one of the above TOCA drivers to do a lap of the track to see of he can get it round faster than the Stig.

7 Get the three presenters to do a Brands Hatch driving school day on either the track or the rally stages and see who can achieve the biggest improvement over the day.

8 The sketch in which the presenters' mothers tested three hatchbacks was a gem - perhaps get three petrol heads (e.g. Steve Coogan, Jools Holland, etc) to test a supercar and have an argument at the end.

Now it might not be very exciting - but you could always come and try to take 3 female students and all their crap home at the end of a term. The winner is the one who manages to break the least amount of stuff and gets home the quickest.

I already have 3 people in mind who all stay in Glasgow and all have a lot of crap to get home to the same place at the end of the year!!!!

Get Clarkson to stop blowing up Routemasters. What a knob.

do a submersible car challenge. they pretty much did this before but unintentionally.

I compete with Jeremy in seeing who can do the fastest lap in my car. If I win, he buys me a new car. If he wins, he can do whatever he wants to the car.

"A round-the-world race with James and Richard in a jet plane and Jeremy in a Caparo T1. They start off in London and go round the world ending back at London "

Take a bit long, and, JEREMY'S BACK DEFINITELY WOULDN'T COPE :-)

Scrap it!

It's self indulgent, boring and predictable.

Jeremy James and richard all have to take charge of a car show room and sell cars to people because that would be halerious with the winner not getting themselves told off

Each of them has a energy saving car (G-wiz smart prius) and they have to livwe with it for a week

Do Africa properly, enter the Plymouth-Dakar challenge. £100 price limit for the vehicles. 4000miles from the UK to Timbuktu. NO support mechanics or vehicles (you'll have to carry your own tents/food/spares/etc), NO official support from the governments involved. All in around 3 weeks. We leave on the 10th of Jan by the way, you're welcome to join us.

find the longest,straightest,road in the world close it down and race the top10 supercars in the world, to determine which is the all time greatest car ever built,the stig rules

Someone told me recently that James is a harpsichord player. One major problem for keyboard players is finding the right vehicle for carrying them around. Harpsichords and electronic keyboards (like Yamaha P250), which will JUST fit on the back seat of a Volvo (960 or 850 - I haven't progressed beyond those yet, sadly). This would be useful info for musicians who are motorists. More programmes of this sort would be informative, useful and fun. Good luck

It would be good to see the team assess the capability, functionality and performance of 'recreational' wheelchairs. By that I mean wheelchairs for those who would like to have all the advantages of wheelchairs, but do not actually NEED them! This might spur on the manufacturers to think of new ideas, such as a place to put the whiskey bottle, and important things like that. But acceleration, cornering ability, and wheel grip would be most important - after comfort, that is. Good luck

each top gear presenter build thier own car without any help from each other, race across all the way to mexico and smash your car into pieces there.

Whatever enthuses you (it's what you do best, and your enjoyment clearly comes over) - but raise awareness and money for charities during the shows - perhaps those related to high speed car crashes, helicopter rescue (Richard, I'm sure you already do off the show) etc. One a week might be too much (viewer fatigue perhaps), but perhaps 2 or 3 during a season?

How about the International Top Gear Monte Carlo Rally. The teams from Top Gear UK, Top Gear Australia, & Top Gear USA all start off at John O Groats. Each team member must drive an identical car to the rest of his team mates and it must be a car relevant to that country, eg the UK team all in Aston Martin's, etc. En-route they must complete a number of "special stage" challenges but not necesarily in their cars, eg one member from each team has to cycle round Silverstone whilst the other team members shoot them with paint balls, or each team has to cook something dubious from their country & the other teams have to guess what it is eg kangaroo pie, etc. All three teams, however, are not only competing against each other, they are also competing against the ultimate driving team ever assembled on the planet, a team of three Stig's!

These ideas are all excellent, I'd love to see some of them get made!

Top Gear needs to return to Canada (perhaps not so far north this time) and show people how real winter driving is done. Calgarians drive like maniacs in the winter because the snow fills the potholes!

The Top Gear School of Driving would be excellent - find an OAP who can't drive and have all three (and maybe the Stig?) teach them to drive, then have their skills evaluated when the students do their actual driving test. In the same thought, have Jeremy, James and Richard take a driving test and see what bad habits they've picked up over their careers!

A look in the presenter's garages - would love to see what cars the boys loved so much they bought them themselves. We hear about them and occasionally see them (like Jeremy's GT) but would like to see more of them!

More epic races, because you can't have enough of those!

The Stig should drive around the track with targets set up around it and then each presenter has to try to hit the targets from the passenger seat as the Stig thrashes through the corners. This could test handling... sort of. I have a feeling the targets would probably not be traditional bullseyes. :) I'd love to see them go around the track in the Reasonably Priced Car. Jeremy's up on the board at 1:50 (I think?) but as far as I know we never actually got to see him do the lap.

Each presenter has a very big budget, each presenter must buy the fastest car they can afford, the most comfortable car they can afford and the car with the best handling, braking etc that they can and they have to merge the car together. EG take out all the gadgets and fit it into the fastest car then take the seats and room out of the comfortable and make one car. Then do challenges to see which is best

Turns cars into A Submarine, Plane, Hot air balloon, thunderbirds mole and tank (firing paint or flower during a race), parachuting car etc. Who can drive the best when seriously drunk (not on roads).

Each design a super cool car and have a full size "concept car" mock up made. Each could choose an ultimate theme, eg.Ultimate James Bond Car,Silly Bling car, Armoured car, Stealth car (good for radar traps) etc.Animal powered car (on a treadmill in the back generating the power), eg Dogteam, horse, human, Lion etc Race a Blue Whale, Fell runner,cross country horse and a Cheatah in suitable locations. Organise a round the world hitch hiking race to find out the best technique (inflatable girls legs etc) and which countries drivers are the most mean (or simply hate Brits the most). Compare squeals from attractive girls when having a fast lap with stig whilst on helium cw other adrenaline trips like an extreme fair ride, bungy jumping, parachuting, fast jet loop etc The winner is the highest note screamed (reveal your cheat at the end)

I agree with Richard it must be difficult to come up with news ideas, but I for one am a bit feed up with some of the stunts, it's an information show not strictly come dancing. Why not find some of those guys who spend all the hard earned cash and time and create interesting projects. Or why not have a 10- 15 minute segment on different types of motor sport, there are so many.

I am certain most of us would sooner see this type of thing than blowing up caravans etc

snow mobiles seem like they need a go round again, and the trucks that drive across frozen lakes in winter to bring supplies to remote communities in the north of Canada would be good and scary,what with global warming and all. Plus, some way of getting "Canada's Worst Driver" show and Top Gear together would be good, no excellently funny.

You guys should do a team challenge of top gear versus top gear Australia...have to say their show is crap compared to the original...you guys should win easily!(Posted by an Australian resident)

Jeremy, James And Richard each week take a "driving holiday" eg. Round highway 1 in Iceland, across the trans Canada Highway, the trans Amazonia highway.

new cup of tea

mabye just an hour of the veyron

or mabye jeremy racing around a lake and james and richard in a dinggy rowing across something that will make james shout at richard or put them under some kind of excersise

how about jeremy, james and richard doing something with members of parliments cars (with concent from spousse) and take them around the test track or enter them in a race but of course not camerons bike

or going to India and doing the richshaws or they could get a car from each country and make it represent the country on mabye a map just to hear jeremy talking about how awful france is oh no i have reached the bottom of my tea oh well

The Top Ten Top Gear Future Stunts:

1. Go to America (again) and enter the 24 Hours of LeMons (http://24hoursoflemons.com/)

2. Build and launch an actual flying car a la The Man With the Golden Gun

3. 1500 Pound BMW Driving Machine Challenge

4. New Honda Jazz (the car) vs. American Honda Jazz (the scooter)

5. Top Gear Australia Vauxhall vs. Holden Challenge

6. Race from London to Berlin: Jeremy in Mercedes CLK Black vs. James & Richard in Lancashire bomber

7. Convert "Oliver" Opel Kadett into a hybrid

8. Volkswagen Up! vs. Mitsubishi i : Car Football, round 3

9. James May + Nissan GT-R + Nurburgring -- max speed

10. Cheap car project: submersible cars

A race along the B869 in their chosen campervans would be a joy . . . for all parties involved.

how about you have the lad design their own car from start to finish with a british motoring company and then put it in a race

Jeremy or James in an off-roader of some kind racing down a hill against Richard in one of those huge inflatable spheres!! Partly to show of the car's abilities but mostly for the 'hamster ball' jokes (sorry Richard!!)

I think Jeremy, James and Richard should each get a really crappy five hundred pound car and a disastrous learner driver and have to teach them to drive in a limited amount of time. That'd sort the . . . uhm boys from the boys!

A round-the-world race with James and Richard in a jet plane and Jeremy in a Caparo T1. They start off in London and go round the world ending back at London