New Top Gear series airs on Stan

Top Gear is back with a bang for its 32nd season, with the winning combo of Freddie Flintoff, Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris returning to front the hit motoring show.

To mark the start of the new series, the BBC has released first-look images and details from the trailer – featuring some tantalising glimpses of a Florida road-trip, Freddie bobsleighing in a Sinclair C5, and the lads putting their dream TV Cop cars through their paces.

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Image credit: BBC Studios

The advert-style teaser also includes an uncomfortable airport encounter with Customs officials when searches of the presenters’ luggage reveal a speed gun, a pair of handcuffs and some ‘oily’ boxer shorts. Things go from bad to worse, however, when the humourless Customs officer decides to interrogate the fourth member of the travelling Top Gear team – The Stig.

Other highlights on their way throughout the coming weeks include; swamp-buggy racing in Florida where all three presenters enter the unique event that involves a field of homebuilt aquatic buggies splashing around a circuit cut through an alligator-infested swamp, and the team travelling the US state in Top Gear’s RV – a 35-foot-long Holiday Rambler Aluma Lite, complete with 7.4-litre Chevrolet V8 engine.

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Later the presenters go head-to-head on Miami's quarter-mile drag strip in America’s newest official motorsport, where classic US muscle cars are modified to produce up to 1491kW!

Throughout the season, the trio also test out some classic TV cop cars (Paddy in Starsky and Hutch’s Ford Gran Torino, Freddie in Magnum PI’s Ferrari 308 GTS and Harris in Inspector Morse’s Jaguar Mk 2), before creating their own telly cop car icons for the 21st century.

Paddy ‘Dirty Cobra’ McGuinness sets out to fight crime in a Dodge Charger Hellcat muscle car, Chris ‘Dave Tall’ Harris battles the baddies in an Audi RS3 hot hatch, and Freddie ‘Preston Ranger’ Flintoff cleans up the streets with a monstrous Ford F-150 Raptor pick-up truck.

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To wind up proceedings and celebrate the life of the late Sir Clive Sinclair, Freddie turns a Sinclair C5 into a bobsleigh – christened the Ski5, obviously – and attempts to hit 97km/h down Norway’s Lillehammer’s Olympic luge track.

The final event of Team Top Gear’s Florida motorsport adventure involves the gang lining up in a grid of heavily modified Ford Crown Victoria police cars – all equipped with power-boosting nitrous oxide.

While the first episode aired on British television on Saturday, in Australia it is only currently available on streaming service Stan, with no premiere date for free-to-air TV yet confirmed.

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