Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld (1995)

The Monaco Gran Prix was conceived as a global magnet for the world’s plutocrats. You need to be a lot more than just rich or famous to garner any attention here. You need to be a monarch. Or a grand prix racer!

Jan. 4, 1996, midnight

Jeremy travels to Cuba home of some of the best, and worst car stories in the world. Revolutions, communism and proximity to the US make Cuba and interesting enigma. And the cars in Cuba are no exception. American cars, or what look like them anyway with Russian Lada engines. Car enthusiasts in Cuba overcome the lack of spare parts, body pieces expensive automotive fluids, with determined ingenuity. And they do so in the face of oppressive government restrictions against private enterprise that takes even more ingenuity to get the job done. They are not Italian or German super-cars, but they are engineering marvels none the less!

Jan. 11, 1996, midnight

Many cultures have a love/hate relationship with the automobile. Not the Swiss. Take your fancy gas-guzzling environment ruining car park it. Preferably somewhere else.

Jan. 18, 1996, midnight

In the Australian outback, you need a vehicle that will get you from your home, to your local shop, which is likely to be hundreds of miles away. And if you’re lucky, there will be a dirt road to follow. And watch out for the road-trains! And you though Mad Max was fiction?

Jan. 25, 1996, midnight

In Texas, the #1 selling car, isn't a car. It’s a truck. Even with technology, you just can't take the cowboy out of Texas.

Feb. 1, 1996, midnight

Give a Bedouin tribesmen a wad of money, and what do you get, a stable of fast cars!

Feb. 8, 1996, midnight