Surrounded by the glories of Britain's motoring past at the Heritage Motor Museum,
Syon Park, William Woollard introduces a new feature - the Top Gear Car of the Decade - and road tests nine cars with a claim to be the most significant designs of their decade.
In the first test, the programme looks at the original 1906 Rolls Royce
Silver Ghost, a car that set a standard of excellence in engineering that has been a benchmark for designers ever since.
Ten pre-1915 Rolls Royces were among the 26 veteran cars that set out on a 2,500 mile tour of Britain earlier this summer. Sue Baker viewed E2 million worth of machinery at Stratford-Upon-Avon, and learnt a little about the American owners prepared to risk their venerable vehicles on Britain's congested roads.
Frank Page has been sifting through viewers' suggestions on how to improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists on rural roads, and visits Water End in Hertfordshire to illustrate how some of them might work in practice.
Chris Goffey tests Toyota's new family saloon out this autumn. Top Gear asks Alan and Lynne Broom and their four daughters to put the Corolla through its paces in their native Wales. Producer KEN POLLOCK
Executive producer TOM ROSS BBC Pebble Mill