Top Gear Africa Special

[rac3r]

Part one is good so far, would like some more challenges though. Hammond's car is awesome for £1500!
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[thx1138]

was quite good,


Volvo best one for sleeping in, but the 4x4 best option for driving in.

[multijoy]

I bet there's some Subaru drivers weeping into their pints at the moment, they do nothing for used car prices when they rock up with their bargins!
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[The Artist]

Subaru owned that episode.

Didn't know you could get a proper WRX Impreza for so cheap.

[Sable]

Enjoyed it not best series but enjoying it enough so far ^^

[0l0dom0l0]

Fair play to Hammond that Subaru was an awsome buy for the money.

Could tell Jeremy was a bit like 'oh shit' when he rocked up in it lol.
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[Legsy.]

Discovery is an estate. Just saying..

[bikertomm]

Was good, I want their job!

Looked so fun in that mud and such a laugh towing each other about haha quality.
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[Vracktal]

Weird thing is for £1,500 James could have easily got a V70 XC and had AWD as well, i'm guessing the producers specifically told them to get unsuitable cars though to make the show more entertaining...
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[Frost]

The producers will have said quite a lot more than that. Starting with "Here is your car, have you read through the script?"

When they had that Tesla roadster electric car on they simply pretended it had run out of power 'for entertainment purposes'. After that car companies started fitting the electric cars with tracking devices. On the top gear test of the nissan leaf, which was obviously given to them with a full battery, the data logs showed the top gear crew driving the thing in circles for ages to run down the battery so it would run out at the right place.

The theme of the show, cars and conclusions are decided in advance. They decide nothing about the route on the fly, it's all planned out. They pretend things are broken, or break them themselves, then they pretend to be unable to fix them etc etc

Just like clarkson claims never to ride bikes and to tally hate them, yet here's him riding a moped:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1076907/Pictured-Bigmouth-Jeremy-Clarkson-man-hates-motorcyclists--motorcycle.html

Him on a 916
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz_pdix53vc

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[BenZXR]

Love Top Gear

I don't care how scripted it is, the comedy value is
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[Im-a-Ridah]

Felt like a very short episode

Still, it's better than strictly cum masturbating, Britain's got talentless a***holes, Eastlosers and the rest.

[Skudd]

[Whosthedaddy]

[The Artist]

One of the contestants on Popmaster today said that he was the previous owner of the BMW and couldn't believe it when he saw it on top gear. Even mentioned something about the door being replaced not long before it was sold and now it has a hole in it.

[EazyDuz]

Movies are scripted, soaps are scripted, Top Gear is scripted, who cares.

James May even said in an episode after cross country race something like, 'When we normally do races like these, we do purposely make the finish as tight as possible, but this one was genuinely that close'.

And the most obvious tell tale signs in almost every episode, on a drive or something where they have to make an unexpected turn/diversion, there always happens to be a camera man at the side of the road they didnt intend to go on...
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[Jayy]

Thought it was brilliant, can't wait for next week. I want a £1500 scooby

[arry]

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[TheBikerStig]

[CaNsA]

https://i.imgur.com/LvsJvXi.jpg

[Rogerborg]

Well, they stuck to the formula. You know what you're getting.

It's not a documentary though, and there's no reason to believe that they actually spent £1500 on the cars, any more than that they really sat in that mental traffic overnight.

I did like May's library and tool shed, splendid work.
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[Gazz]

[Pigeon]

As soon as Hammond turned up, I said "he's got this in the bag". But did you see the preview of next week, looks like he smashed it up pretty bad.

He was giving it the beans everywhere.