In Season 17 / Episode 3 of Top Gear Clarkson and Hammond see if there is a good second-hand bargain for the same price as for a Nissan Pixo – Clarkson believes it might be a nine-year-old Mercedes CL600 he bought, while Hammond seeks to prove the seventeen-year-old BMW 850Ci he purchased is the one.

The angular shape of the 1990s BMW 8 Series still looks attractive to our eyes. Richard Hammond from former Top Gear and now host of The Grand Tour liked the shark-like appearance, too, and he owned this very V12-powered 850 Ci model. While not quite as potent as the range-topping 850 CSi, these models still offered up to 322 hp (240 kW), which was impressive by the standards of the time.
This very Car is the one from Season 17/ Episode 3 presented by Richard Hammond. It is a 1994 BMW 850ci with RHD. Since the end of the show it added up some miles to a total of 61,720 miles. Nothing was changed or tuned on the Car and it is still 100% factory standard. It’s a very late 5.0L ci actually the 5th last chassis number 850 before they switched the v12 to 5.4L csi only.