Clarkson's Car Years (2000)

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Jeremy Clarkson looks back at six different topics in motoring history. He highlights the key moments and cars that defined each subject.

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What happens

Clarkson's Car Years is a British television series presented by Jeremy Clarkson and first shown during June and July 2000 on BBC Two, before being shown to an international audience on BBC World. Since 2008, it has regularly been repeated on various UKTV channels, and was repeated in 2011 for Polish viewers on BBC Knowledge, alongside Motorworld and Extreme Machines. Over the series, Clarkson discusses six different topics relating to motoring, looking at the defining moments of each. The show was produced by BBC Birmingham and executively produced by Richard Pearson. Car Years was the first of two series involving Clarkson which were filmed during his hiatus from Top Gear (the other being Speed), and his third documentary series for the BBC, following Motorworld and Extreme Machines. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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