Top Gear (series 14)
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| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 7 |
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| Original network | BBC Two |
| Original release | 15 November 2009 – 3 January 2010 |
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The fourteenth series of Top Gear aired during 2009-10 on BBC Two and BBC HD and consisted of 7 episodes, beginning on November 15, 2009, and concluding on January 3, 2010. The sixth episode was a special-edition entitled special from Bolivia, while the series was subsequently followed by four "Best Of Top Gear" specials, which aired within the initial months of 2010 during January and the beginning of February, and charted the best moments from Series 13 and 14.
Clarkson is testing out the Audi Q7 V12 TDI, the BMW X5 M and a new Range Rover (2010MY) to find which he loves best, before dealing with another letter demanding another "thorough" road test by heading to Belfast and seeing how good the Renaultsport Twingo 133 is. Meanwhile, Hammond is at "Heathrow" to solve the problems caused by slow airport staff, to see if motorsport and a group of touring drivers can find out whether a catering truck, the mobile stairs, an articulated shuttle bus, a baggage train, an aircraft tug or an airport fire truck will become the basis for all airport vehicles in future, while Guy Ritchie is on the test track as the latest star to get around it in the Lacetti.
In the opening episode of Series 14, the presenters were filmed taking a road trip in three grand tourers they had chosen across the country of Romania. While driving through the countryside, Clarkson commented on Romania as being "Borat country, with gypsies and Russian playboys", in reference to the 2006 mockumentary that starred Sacha Baron Cohen as his fictional journalist character from Kazakhstan, in which Cohen filmed a few scenes for the film in the country. Because the film had already stirred controversy in the country, with a number of local Roma who had been involved in the film attempting to sue 20th Century Fox and Cohen, Romanian newspapers claimed that the comments had been "offensive" and had produced "bad publicity for their country", with the Romanian Times also reporting that Clarkson had called Romania a "gypsy land".
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