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|episode = Episode 13<br />
|image = [[File:TG_1977_S26E13_Lead_Image.jpg|300px]]Clarkson deliberates between two Fronteras.<br />
|prodcode = NBMP053D<br />
|number = 239<br />
|length = 29:32<br />
|previous = [[{{BASEPAGENAME}}/Episode 2|Series 26, Episode 12]]<br />
|next = [[{{BASEPAGENAME}}/Episode 2|Series 26, Episode 14]]<br />
|airdate = 12th December, 1991<br />
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{{TG 1977 Episode|episodename=Series 26, Episode 13|airdate=12th December|year=1991|xth=thirteenth|series=[[Series 26]]|number=239th|number78=230th|prognum=23rd|totprog=25|resolution=576i|aspratio=4:3 Standard|tvorstream=British television|channel=BBC Two}} {{TG 1977 Episode Starring 2|hosta=Jeremy Clarkson|hostb=Janet Trewin}}<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
{{TG Intro|narrator=Jeremy Clarkson}}<br />
*'''''Vauxhall makes inroads off road:''''' [[Vauxhall]] goes off-road to challenge the sports utility market.<br />
*'''''Joyriding without joy; the fatal consequences:''''' How to stop joyriding; the horrors involved in teenage car theft.<br />
*'''''Young Driver of the Year Award:''''' And a new name to remember in the search for successors to [[Stirling Moss|Moss]] and [[Nigel Mansell|Mansell]].<br />
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Riding up to the front of a large country house on a quadbike and wearing a stetson, Jeremy Clarkson begins the episode talking about the rise in leisurely lifestyles during the early 1990s, and that companies are now trying to sell cars which complement that lifestyle.<br />
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===Auto Update===<br />
For this week's Auto Update, it is announced that the proposed ''Aggravated Vehicle Taking Bill'' will become law by the end of the year to tackle joyriding. Despite some opposition, the bill<ref>[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1991/dec/09/aggravated-vehicle-taking-bill Hansard - Second Reading: Aggravated Vehicle-Taking Bill.]</ref> was rushed through the House of Commons by Speaker Kenneth Baker after just one day.<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
There are some strange parallels between this episode and [[Top Gear (2002 TV series)/The Big Send-Off Special|the final episode]] of ''Top Gear''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s subsequent 2002 reboot which aired 24 years later:<br />
*Both episodes feature Jeremy Clarkson driving a Vauxhall Frontera.<br />
*Both episodes involve Clarkson going off-road across fields in said Frontera, and eventually getting stuck in the mud on his way to a large country house.<br />
*Both episodes involve the Frontera being pitted against the [[Jeep Cherokee (XJ)]], which at that point had not even entered the UK market and was an imported left-hand drive example.<br />
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