My thoughts on this episode: "Feels like old Top Gear". The show has definitely improved since last season, although I'm still missing the right balance between seriousness and goofyness. Top Gear needs both. It needs the ridiculous, crazy parts as well as intriguing road testing under unusual conditions.
The Porsche/Maserati/Aston Martin bit was very entertaining but frankly I'm getting tired of hearing all the time, how ugly the Panamera is. Yes, it's not good looking, it is somewhat lacking the right proportions.
Has been said a thousand times, though, so let's start being a bit more rational and fair. Because the truth is also, that in real life it doesn't look half as bad, as on pics and on TV.
Also Top Gear keeps ignoring the reason why it looks that way: Because it is the only true 4-seater of its kind, where 6'3" tall persons can actually fit conveniently in the back. It's strange but nobody ever mentions that. Not even in this review, where practicality was an issue. You only have to look at how lost the two girls looked in the back of the Porsche and how cramped they sat in the back of the Aston.
But at least it shone through now, that the Panamera is clearly the best car of the three -- even though it was only admitted indirectly and with gritting teeth. They'd buy the Maserati, they say? Seeing is believing, I say. And I don't buy that for a second. I'd still rather have an S-Class, than any of those cars, and I bet so would they.
Guests were okay but it's been a while, since we had a really entertaining guest section.
The muscle car bit, well... it's obvious, that the Camaro cannot stand up to the AMG E-Class. But no one's expecting that either. Comparing them is completely pointless but if you look at each one independently, they're both desirable cars for their respective audience.
The wedding party bit was funny. I enjoyed it. Frankly I don't think they're doing the "James getting lost" bit on purpose. I've come to believe, that James indeed has the navigational abilities of a whirligig and cannot find his way in a strange environment at all, and that they're simply making use of that flaw by putting him into situations, where he has no choice but to completely fail.
I think that Top Gear is on a good way towards finding its right balance again and it seems to me, that they definetely haven't shot their last bullet for some time.
8/10
aside from that segment which I likes, i liked the rest as well.... but Its not 9 material 
I much rather they do a 3 ways with Challenger and Mustang - but that would be like their American Muscle Special.
