TOP GEAR RETURNS FOR CHRISTMAS SPECIAL ON BBC ONE

In this festive episode, Chris Harris, Paddy McGuiness and Freddie Flintoff aren't choosing their own cars, but instead choosing for one another.

After unwrapping their presents in Bethlehem (that’s Bethlehem, Wales, obviously), our three wise(ish) men and their gifts set off on a Yuletide voyage across Britain, stopping off to play the traditional Christmas parlour game of ‘High Speed Visual Charades’, and deliver a truly enormous tree to the UNESCO World Heritage city of Bath.

Because nothing says ‘Merry Christmas’ like a thousand kilos of Norway Spruce on the Royal Crescent. Then, in the words of the great Chris Rea, it’s time for the presenters to do some drivin’ home for Christmas.

Home, of course, being the Top Gear test track, magically transformed into a veritable winter wonderland of speed...