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The cheapest new car you can buy in the UK is the Dacia Sandero. It costs a very reasonable six thousand pounds. Or at least it did when we made the film, though Dacia has very selfishly decided to put the price up by a grand since then largely, we suspect, to spite us.Anyhow, for six or indeed seven grand, the Dacia Sandero is indubitably a very reasonable car. But, reckoned our presenters, for that sort of money, you can have something with so much more character. Heritage. Pedigree.So, each armed with a Sandero-sized amount of money, Matt, Chris and Rory each set out to buy a car of genuinely aristocratic bearing. Something from the likes of Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Mercedes-BenzPurchases secured purchases that, in some instances, even moved under their own steam for a distance of several metres our presenters were told to report to the Top Gear test track for a series of challenges. Against the Sandero. Driven by The Stig. Who, it"s fair to say, isn"t a great fan of budget Romanian hatchbacks. And, as if that wasn"t enough to kill their classics" once and for all, there was then the small matter of a six-hour endurance race at Silverstone.Cue one of Top Gear"s most car-punishing films of recent times.Episode 4"s Star in a Reasonably Fast Car is Matt Baker. Tune in Sunday, 8pm on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.
Date written: 9 Mar 2019
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ID: 15102
The cheapest new car you can buy in the UK is the Dacia Sandero. It costs a very reasonable six thousand pounds. Or at least it did when we made the film, though Dacia has very selfishly decided to put the price up by a grand since then largely, we suspect, to spite us.Anyhow, for six or indeed seven grand, the Dacia Sandero is indubitably a very reasonable car. But, reckoned our presenters, for that sort of money, you can have something with so much more character. Heritage. Pedigree.So, each armed with a Sandero-sized amount of money, Matt, Chris and Rory each set out to buy a car of genuinely aristocratic bearing. Something from the likes of Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Mercedes-BenzPurchases secured purchases that, in some instances, even moved under their own steam for a distance of several metres our presenters were told to report to the Top Gear test track for a series of challenges. Against the Sandero. Driven by The Stig. Who, it"s fair to say, isn"t a great fan of budget Romanian hatchbacks. And, as if that wasn"t enough to kill their classics" once and for all, there was then the small matter of a six-hour endurance race at Silverstone.Cue one of Top Gear"s most car-punishing films of recent times.Episode 4"s Star in a Reasonably Fast Car is Matt Baker. Tune in Sunday, 8pm on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.
Date written: 9 Mar 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 15102
