Viewers of the popular BBC programme Top Gear will be able to see the results of a recent trip to Pembrokeshire this weekend when the series’ new presenters took out their souped-up bright blue hearse dubbed The Overtaker!

Whilst filming in Wales for the episode to be shown on Sunday night at 8 pm on BBC Two, presenter Freddie Flintoff thought things had taken a turn for the worst as for one moment he thought he’d actually killed his co-star Paddy McGuinness during one particularly dangerous stunt!

After the brand new team of presenters dropped in on Tenby back in January for filming at the resort’s harbour, Freddie, Paddy and co-host Chris Harris then headed over to Pendine beach where they filmed alongside The Stig racing around a marked out course after Top Gear producers challenged the team to a ‘series of sensible family car tests’ to back-up Paddy’s claim that the perfect second-hand family car was not a sturdy Volvo estate, or indeed a dependable Land Rover Discovery...but an old hearse!

“They’re spacious, carefully driven, and really very cheap, on account of no sane human wanting to but something that’s spent a decade ferrying corpses about!” Paddy told his fellow presenters.

Convinced, somehow, of Paddy’s genius, Chris and Freddie took it upon themselves to lightly upgrade Paddy’s Daimler, transforming it from hearse into...The Overtaker - Britain’s ultimate family car!

A beach assault course was set up on Pendine sands, complete with deckchairs, 500 buckets, 100 metres of wind breaks, seven jet skis, and two ice cream vans, used for a beach slalom course in which the hearse raced against a Mercedes AMG E63.

However, it was during another part of the filming in Wales - a hill climb off-road challenge with Freddie at the wheel where things went really, really wrong!

Speaking to Top Gear magazine, the former cricket legend said of the crash: “It was genuine panic. I had genuine panic for 10 seconds. It’s one thing hurting yourself but you don’t want to hurt anyone else.”

“I was trying to get around this corner and there was a bit of a bump. I was holding the wheel and I felt it and thought, ‘No, that’s alright, it’s going to come back.’

“We were upside down and I thought - actually, I’m all right - it’s fine!” he added.

The hosts and crew stayed at Lamphey Court Hotel and Spa during their time filming in Pembrokeshire.