Top Gear S25E03

In the recent episode of Top Gear Season 25, the boys arrived in what is known to be the land of anime, robots, gadgets, painful game shows, J-pop, kawaii, sushi, and annoyingly, hybrid cars. That's right, folks. Top Gear is back in The Land of the Rising Sun, Japan!

Top Gear S25E03

On that episode, Matt LeBlanc and Chris Harris are on a road trip to Enbu with second-hand Japanese sports cars. LeBlanc goes for the ER34 Nissan Skyline coupe while Harris goes for the FD3S Mazda RX-7. Throughout their road trip, the boys are taking some kinds of challenges including sumo wrestler racing as well as a sampling motorway food, a trip to the deserted Fukushima prefecture, and then tandem drifting, not to mention a finale where only one will have its flight back to Britain to sell it.

While the two had their fun, Rory Reid, meanwhile, is in Tokyo to observe the wild and wacky car culture Japan possesses, from kei cars, Bosozoku, heavily modified Lamborghinis, to a road-legal replica of a Porsche Le Mans prototype.

Then, Chris Harris samples Japan's latest sportscars, the all-new Honda Civic Type R FK8 and the Lexus LC500. There's even a one-on-one shootout at the Ebisu Circuit as well with Harris in the new Type R up against The Stig's Japanese cousin in a Lexus. That's Ninja Stig to you. After the duel, both the LC and the Civic Type R recorded a 1:25.6 lap time at the Top Gear track.