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  • We've just had an end-of-year flick through our Top Gear maths book. It seems that the last 31,556,926 seconds (that's a year for you non-pendulum peerers) have provided some cracking stats.

    We've compiled the best big numbers, small numbers and ridiculous numbers for your pleasure... so if you're arithmophobic, I wouldn't go any further.

    But if you've got any more, feel free to drop us a digital note at the normal address: editor@topgear.com.

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  • The number of insects that met their death against the front of cars this year in the US alone.

  • The number Range Rover Evoques ordered before it was launched earlier this year.

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  • The time it took the McLaren MP4-12C to complete a lap around the Top Gear Test Track. They were so happy that they baked a time cake. 

  • The 15,000,000th Ford Fiesta rolled off the production line this year.

  • The total number of pit stops for the year. We're not making it up,  22 were Drive Throughs and four stop-go penalties. 

  • The time it takes a Koeneigsegg Agera R to go from 0-200-0 mph.

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  • The range of Ford's new Econetic Focus if driven at the claimed 83.1mpg.

  • The time Toyota set around the Nurburgring in its EV race car.

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  • The number of gallons of fuel wasted in traffic jams in the USA this year.

  • The number of World Rally Championships that Sebastien Loeb has now won.

  • The average speed Mark Higgins achieved on his 19 min 56.67 sec record breaking lap around the Isle of Man TT course. He also had this massive 150mph ‘moment'.

  • The time the Mégane RS 265 Trophy took out of its predecessor the Megane R26.R around the Nürburgring

  • The speed Juha Kankkunen managed on ice in a Bentley Continental SuperSport Convertible.

  • The distance our American TG presenter, Tanner Foust, managed to jump in a car.

  • The amount paid for a 1957 Ferrari 250 TR at auction in August.

  • The length of the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, the longest roadway bridge over water... in the world.

  • The number of overtaking manoeuvres (most in World Championship history)

  • The cost of insuring a McLaren F1 for a magazine feature.

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