Liam Neeson in the V12 TWR Supercat: watch the new Top Gear Taxi episode here!
Top Gear takes The Naked Gun star for a little taxi ride in a mad, bad, V12 Jag
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"It looks like something out of Star Trek ." The first thoughts, ladies and gentlemen, of Mr Liam Neeson upon seeing the mad, bad, V12-engined TWR Supercat.
Welcome back to another episode of Top Gear Taxi! To much surprise, it is a little series where Top Gear quite literally drives people around from one place to another, much like a Taxi. You can see where we went with this. In this instalment, we pick up and break... brownies with The Naked Gun star Liam Neeson.
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On a V12-powered tour of central London in the wild, modified Jag, Liam talks about the reboot of the hugely-loved Leslie Nielsen cop-spoof, co-star Pamela Anderson, car chases, Citroën 2CVs, and of course, those chocolate brownies. You might like
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