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Top Gear: Supercars Across Italy

In this two-hour special, “Knight Rider” star David Hasselhoff sets out to prove how the iconic 80s KITT car inspired and revolutionized the car industry for years to come. Hasselhoff will pull back the curtain, meet the mavericks, and get behind the wheel of some of the wildest cars out there.

During the rise of the Third Reich two German car manufacturers were ordered to build the most high performance vehicles the world had ever seen. What followed was a rivalry that would reap Grand Prix victories, international domination that was a propaganda coup, and provide world fame to its drivers who risked their lives smashing speed records that would stand for 79 years. All under the direct orders of the Fuhrer himself. This special one-off documentary charts the rise of Nazi Germany’s dominate ‘Silver Arrow’ Grand Prix and Speed Record cars of the 1930’s. Leading motor racing and World War 2 experts James Holland, Richard Williams, Eberhard Reuss and Chris Routledge tell the story of the Nazi funded Auto Union and Mercedes Benz ‘National Racing Cars’. Hitler’s Supercars interweaves the rise of the Third Reich with the racing exploits it funded and what propaganda messages these racing cars where sending.

Martin Brundle tests out his top ten super cars on the track and on the road to find out the best car.

Top Gear: Supercars

This extraordinary video includes four separate films, each taking one of the following cars as its main theme. The Audi Quattro film features the most incredible in-car sequence with Walter Rohrl. We then join the Lancia Martini team, with a strong focus on the Delta S4 and Lancia 037. By contrast, the Peugeot T16 Evolution 2 was all about Gallic style and stealth and the RS 200 was the last ‘supercar’ on the scene - and who knows what this car might have achieved if Group B hadn’t come to a sudden end in 1986. An action-packed compilation of awesome power and magnificent driving

It’s metal-crunching madness from the Holden and Fords of the V8 Supercar Shell Series. Greg Rust presents all the panel-bashing, wall walloping thrills, and lots of spills, from race tracks around the nation.

Over the years, what has driven manufacturers like Mercedes to build "supercars," automobiles whose performance far exceeds any reasonable road-going requirements? Automotive expert Simon Kidston takes you behind the wheel of six of the most distinctive supercars in the world and examines what makes these automotive wonders so exceptional...and so expensive. These cars are definite eye-catchers: the Mercedes Benz 300SL, Lamborghini Miura, Lamborghini Countach, Ferrari F40, and the McLaren F1. Take an exclusive look around the high-tech Bugatti factory and their gorgeous $1.5 million Bugatti Veyron

Brock is a teenage skateboarder suffering from a recent family tragedy connected to the Holden Elizabeth Plant (Australia’s last auto factory). He comes up with a unique money-making scheme that tangles him up in Adelaide’s criminal underworld, and only his Peter Brock-obsessed mum & emo ex-girlfriend can save him from a terrifying fate.