I don't think this thread would be complete without Hamster's record breaking, near-fatal car crash. I heard about this a while ago, but in Oz, Top Gear's a season or two behind the UK so this is the first that i'd seen exactly what happened and could appreciate how serious the crash actually was. They successfully manage to blend their Top Gear humour into an otherwise down-to-earth look at Hamster's own mortality.
It starts
here with the crash occuring (after a little over-lapped mixing) in the second clip,
here.