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''Driven'' is a motoring

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launched by

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in 1998 as a rival to the successful and long-running

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series ''

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The style was similar to its rival, but with additional features such as the "Driven 100", a road test of three cars in the same class, where each car would be given marks for qualities such as practicality, desirability and cost of ownership. The car with the highest total score would be the winner. The programme launched with the concept that the presenters should interact with each other rather than present items on their own, as was then the case on ''Top Gear''. The first series also featured a "headquarters", a racing team track, set on a former USAF base (Wethersfield, Essex) at which cars were put through their paces. These concepts resurfaced in the reborn ''

'' soon after. Originally presented by

Mike Brewer Mike Brewer (born 28 August 1964) is an English car trader turned presenter of Driving, motoring television programmes. He currently presents ''Wheeler Dealers'' on the Discovery Channel (UK and Ireland), Discovery Channel with Marc "Elvis" Pri ...

James May James Daniel May (born 16 January 1963) is an English television presenter and journalist. He is best known as a co-presenter of the motoring programme '' Top Gear'' alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond from 2003 until 2015. He also ...

and

Jason Barlow Jason Barlow is a motoring journalist and broadcaster from Northern Ireland. He began his television career in 1998, when he was approached to present Channel Four's new car programme '' Driven'', with co-presenters Mike Brewer and James May ...

, subsequent series also featured the rally driver

Penny Mallory Penny Mallory is an English keynote speaker and performance coach, and a former British Rally Championship driver. She is a Leading Authority on Mental Toughness. She became the first woman to drive a World Rally Car (WRC)-specification in t ...

and the racing driver

Jason Plato Timothy Jason Plato (born 14 October 1967) is a British racing driver who last competed in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) for BTC Racing. He has twice been BTCC Champion, in 2001 for Vauxhall and 2010 for Silverline Chevrolet. He ...

. During the show's run, both May and Barlow left the show to join the old format of BBC's ''

''. Following the creation of ''

Fifth Gear ''Fifth Gear'' is a British motoring television magazine series on Discovery+. It is a continuation of the ''Fifth Gear'' format originally broadcast on Channel 5 from 2002 to 2011, afterwards moving to Discovery Channel in 2012, and then in ...

'' and the revival of ''Top Gear'', ''Driven'' was cancelled by Channel 4 in 2002. Plato went on to present ''Fifth Gear'', May joined the newly relaunched ''

'', Brewer presented

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Pulling Power ''Pulling Power'' is a regional motoring programme shown only on Central Television (ITV in the Midlands) in 1996. However, it returned in 2005 and was shown on ITV1 on a series trial basis until 2008, and it was also as a filler programme at ti ...

'' and Mallory could be seen on ITV4's ''Used Car Roadshow''.

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* Automotive television series Channel 4 original programming Driving in the United Kingdom 1998 British television series debuts 2002 British television series endings English-language television shows {{UK-tv-prog-stub

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