This, the botswana, vietnam, africa and patagonia specials are all great the others are okay but didn't really capture the road trip magic. The grand tour specials have all been pretty shit, only recently just watched the nordic one and eurocrash, eurocrash was alright, the nordic one was terrible though.
Actually Seamen was probally the best one they've done for Grand Tour, I would actually re-watch that.
This >when he stays up all night fixing the giant model boat with string, chopsticks, and tape >picks it up with a big smile on his face >hits the ceiling fan and it rips half the sails off again
Almost peed myself laughing
I rewatched it lately and it was worse than I remembered. The actual driving through India parts are fine, but all the stuff with the train and the party is top cringe.
>All those discussions of Genghis Khan >Rehab >Hammond having a sober clairvoyance moment on recurve bows
Top 3 easy. Maybe my favourite. China was pretty good too even if it wasn't a special.
the polar special is the one that almost broke the show.
clarkson and may where at each others head behind the scene.
And hammond was physicaly broken by the trip.
The physical strain of that special was massive on hamond.
And james and clarkson where stuck with each other for a long time in a car&tent, even good friends can get on each others bad side if they are get in that situation.
Where did you read about this? Just curious, I realized I never seen much behind the scenes stuff about TG/GT
3 months ago
Anonymous
it was way back in a magazine.
i'm trying to look up a source on the internet but "top gear artic special problems" only gives me results on james and clarkson drinking while driving backlash.
I think the Fiennes summed it up nicely before they went on the journey.
3 months ago
Anonymous
yeah, it pretty much came down to that.
I keep looking for the article i read years ago talking about what happend behind the scenes at that special but i cant find it.
There was an interview with James May after this happened, he said Clarkson wanted this car for this special but only 2 was on the market for sale. Clarkson bought the one that was in better nick so really it was the only car available at that time for that special.
The many times these guys almost died for real and got away with it is insane up to one of the most recent GT episodes where James May could have died twice.
It's amazing Hammond survived both the dragster and Rimac crash
Clarkson doesn't look too bad until you realize he was only 59 in 2020. He looks great for 70, he looks like shit for 59. James May is strange to me since I don't think from my tangential knowledge of him and the fact that I don't stalk these fat boomers he lives a particularly rough lifestyle. But he aged like shit, it's hard to even remember he didn't look like an old lesbian.
I liked when they went to 2008-era Florida for a buy-your-own car road trip to Louisiana, expecting to find kindly grandparents straight outta the set of Flipper selling the Mercury's and Oldsmobile's that took their children to school
They got Cubans selling decaying Neon's and Camry's for $5000, no lowballs, they know what they have. The special ended with vibrant youths taking offense to them giving their road trip cars away to needy families, so they had to leave fast. Florida unfortunately isn't like your Michael Mann animes unless you go to Tallahassee with all the other bongs retiring there
>hurricane victims
You've been lied to about how pitiable these retards were, especially since each and every one of those fucks voted and enabled the policies that ensured levies and flood tech were underfunded in the name of the dose programs and the keeds, and just like Flint, pointing fingers at the responsible parties would be evil, racist, fifth column, etc. Katrina was weaponized into sabre-rattling towards Bush, so a good chunk of everyone you could call a "victim" absolutely bought into the notion they were being genocided by the Bush admin, so lawyers in the area upgraded from ambulance chaser to hurricane chaser and got some of the most retarded lawsuits in action as a result
Compare it to Lahaina, where it mysteriously isn't the fault of the fed or FEMA, but ACTUALLY climate change and tourism, and did you know colonizers are attacking a innocent native for caring about opening his water supply up to invaders??????
Katrina wasn't 100% the shitshow portrayed overseas though, natives, as in people who can definitely map Cajun/Creole ancestry, knew that their local government wasn't gonna do shit since they were too busy screaming at Bush, so that area went pretty Bartertown for a while in the most American fashion, much to the dismay of reporters screaming about the audacity of forming community police to deal with looters, because that's FEMA's job! Even though they're also evil and comped! The reality is that there wasn't a whole lot FEMA could do since the safeguards they WERE expecting didn't exist thanks to underfunding, Katrina was gonna destroy shit regardless who was president, and there just happened to be a lot of dems salty over Gore
Probably the funniest moment in the entire show. I'm surprised they allowed them to drive their most crazy creations on the motorway. That would never happen in my country.
I remember seeing this for the first time. I was watching it while my brother was raiding in wow and I started howling with laughter when Clarkson was on the motorway. My brother looked over and asks what I was watching, told him it was new top gear. After he was finished raiding he started watching the episode and I didn't even have to watch his screen to know when he was at the same part because he laughed so hard he started wheezing.
They need to make more episodes before Jeremy is permanently cancelled, James brain turns 100% into slush because of his alcoholism and Hammond actually dies in one of his crashes. Why is amazon so fucking useless? They’ve wasted years of potential kino on making garbage and when they finally start getting it right the trio is too old to do anything anymore
Jeremy makes offensive jokes/opinions which piss off people. He also shits on other celebrities/polticians so he's pissed off enough people to try and smear him. Glad he has the fuck you money to fight back.
Oh right I forgot that one. Doesn’t he fall off a horse in vietnam or something too? He was always the most retarded of the trio so his accidents don’t really surprise me tbhon
The many times these guys almost died for real and got away with it is insane up to one of the most recent GT episodes where James May could have died twice.
I don't get the British obsession over this show. >MUH CARS!
most people don't even own cars in bongland and if they do, they don't even compare to what you can get off the floor in America. I guess it's just a fantasy cope. make sure you've paid for your loisence Nigel.
I just got into Top Gear like 2 months ago. Saw some Grand Tour clips and ended up binging like half the specials. Great stuff.
Question though, how much of TG is scripted? Youtube comments (a cesspool to be fair) call BS alot, but I don't know if Euro TV cares as much about "manufactured moments" so much.
Alot of what happens (especially in the Grand Tours) seems genuine, so I'm not sure. Maybe I'm just bad at spotting stuff like that.
>how much of TG is scripted?
Tons but there's also tons of little moments that aren't scripted because its stuff like accidents, the reality of trying to steer a homemade carboat on the open ocean and actually having to make a tent in the arctic.
Does anybody else get bothered by the fact that they are super scripted and cause a lot of damage wherever they go?
>drives car off cliff >parts break off and go into the bushes and rivers
I find it hard to believe the production crew was able to pick up all the little bits of plastic and probably just fucked up the local wildlife a little bit.
The episodes I like are the informative ones. The ones where they buy a cheap older super car or luxury car and explain why it's bad.
The vietnam one on scooters is up there, but it's hard to decide on the best, they are all very good.
This, the botswana, vietnam, africa and patagonia specials are all great the others are okay but didn't really capture the road trip magic. The grand tour specials have all been pretty shit, only recently just watched the nordic one and eurocrash, eurocrash was alright, the nordic one was terrible though.
Actually Seamen was probally the best one they've done for Grand Tour, I would actually re-watch that.
seamen is great
>. The grand tour specials have all been pretty shit
The guys are too old to hide how scripted it is.
This
>when he stays up all night fixing the giant model boat with string, chopsticks, and tape
>picks it up with a big smile on his face
>hits the ceiling fan and it rips half the sails off again
Almost peed myself laughing
>Always give way to the car from the right!
wtf is this photoshlop
No, it's AI. You can tell by how disproportionately tiny the hamsterlike man on the right is. It's creepy and unnatural.
my fondest memories are of their amphibian channel crossing
Top Gear is superhero level trash for british morons and fat people
it's good slop
It's a show made by men for men.
I can understand why you cant enjoy it, homosexual.
men don't enjoy scripted trash on bbc1
this pic reminds me of jurassic park, and the lost world which clearly knew what was a good thing to continue with from the first film
Dark Souls 2
That one was surprisingly good, he really nailed the vibe
Wtf i just found out about this, the video is so well made it actually sounds like a real top gear episode
beautiful love letter
It's a toss-up between The Nile and Vietnam special.
I'm gonna say Burma. I think it's really underrated.
Is that the one where they were hunting a israeliteel thief?
what's the best bottom gear tho
Including The Grand Tour:
Vietnam > Bolivia > Botswana > Burma > Mongolia > Seamen > Nile > Colombia > India > Patagonia > Middle East > America > Polar > Beach Buggys > Feed The World > Eurocrash.
Then there's a pretty big power gap with scandinavia, french cars, madagascar looking for treassure, and Scotland all being pretty shit.
>India that high
I rewatched it lately and it was worse than I remembered. The actual driving through India parts are fine, but all the stuff with the train and the party is top cringe.
Yeah, the party thing is bad.
>Mongolia is in top 5
My man of excellent taste.
It's so good. I considered puting it higher. It's the most wholesome thing they've done.
>All those discussions of Genghis Khan
>Rehab
>Hammond having a sober clairvoyance moment on recurve bows
Top 3 easy. Maybe my favourite. China was pretty good too even if it wasn't a special.
Yeah, that's a great episode.
How the fuck is Polar that low?
the polar special is the one that almost broke the show.
clarkson and may where at each others head behind the scene.
And hammond was physicaly broken by the trip.
Do tell more
The physical strain of that special was massive on hamond.
And james and clarkson where stuck with each other for a long time in a car&tent, even good friends can get on each others bad side if they are get in that situation.
Where did you read about this? Just curious, I realized I never seen much behind the scenes stuff about TG/GT
it was way back in a magazine.
i'm trying to look up a source on the internet but "top gear artic special problems" only gives me results on james and clarkson drinking while driving backlash.
Ah all right, cheers for checking anyway
I think the Fiennes summed it up nicely before they went on the journey.
yeah, it pretty much came down to that.
I keep looking for the article i read years ago talking about what happend behind the scenes at that special but i cant find it.
polar severely underrated here
i do not care for the Mongolia special
>Eurocrash at the bottom
literally a top 5 special of all time
Why?
>Eurocrash
Is that one of the lockdown ones?
Latest one, weird cars in europe. For me it's -
Vietnam (Bikes) > Africa > Bolivia > Mongolia > eurocrash
Ah shit, I didn't even know there was a new one. Guess it's kino time tonight.
I don't know if it would be top 5, but eurocrash was indeed pretty fun
I'd swap Nile for Polar, but otherwise solid.
The one where they nearly get stoned to death
It's really sad to see the 928 end up like this after Clarkson told that story about why he picked that car.
Do you guys think his license plate was actually random?
It seems exactly like the kind of thing clarkson would do
I feel like it would have come out by now if it wasn’t random. I really do not believe that clarckson would keep that secret for very long
There's no way it was just a coincidence.
The violent mobs and death threats after have made sure he'll never admit to it being planned as a gag.
There was an interview with James May after this happened, he said Clarkson wanted this car for this special but only 2 was on the market for sale. Clarkson bought the one that was in better nick so really it was the only car available at that time for that special.
Tbf, they haven’t aged too badly.
Jeremy
It's amazing Hammond survived both the dragster and Rimac crash
Clarkson doesn't look too bad until you realize he was only 59 in 2020. He looks great for 70, he looks like shit for 59. James May is strange to me since I don't think from my tangential knowledge of him and the fact that I don't stalk these fat boomers he lives a particularly rough lifestyle. But he aged like shit, it's hard to even remember he didn't look like an old lesbian.
Vietnam is my favourite. I think the Botswana one is objectively the most interesting with the most spectacle though
I liked when they went to 2008-era Florida for a buy-your-own car road trip to Louisiana, expecting to find kindly grandparents straight outta the set of Flipper selling the Mercury's and Oldsmobile's that took their children to school
They got Cubans selling decaying Neon's and Camry's for $5000, no lowballs, they know what they have. The special ended with vibrant youths taking offense to them giving their road trip cars away to needy families, so they had to leave fast. Florida unfortunately isn't like your Michael Mann animes unless you go to Tallahassee with all the other bongs retiring there
>Give away your car for free to hurricane victims
>They sue you because the car was a few years older than you said
That episode really opened my eyes to how shitty Americans are.
Took you that long?
>hurricane victims
You've been lied to about how pitiable these retards were, especially since each and every one of those fucks voted and enabled the policies that ensured levies and flood tech were underfunded in the name of the dose programs and the keeds, and just like Flint, pointing fingers at the responsible parties would be evil, racist, fifth column, etc. Katrina was weaponized into sabre-rattling towards Bush, so a good chunk of everyone you could call a "victim" absolutely bought into the notion they were being genocided by the Bush admin, so lawyers in the area upgraded from ambulance chaser to hurricane chaser and got some of the most retarded lawsuits in action as a result
Compare it to Lahaina, where it mysteriously isn't the fault of the fed or FEMA, but ACTUALLY climate change and tourism, and did you know colonizers are attacking a innocent native for caring about opening his water supply up to invaders??????
Katrina wasn't 100% the shitshow portrayed overseas though, natives, as in people who can definitely map Cajun/Creole ancestry, knew that their local government wasn't gonna do shit since they were too busy screaming at Bush, so that area went pretty Bartertown for a while in the most American fashion, much to the dismay of reporters screaming about the audacity of forming community police to deal with looters, because that's FEMA's job! Even though they're also evil and comped! The reality is that there wasn't a whole lot FEMA could do since the safeguards they WERE expecting didn't exist thanks to underfunding, Katrina was gonna destroy shit regardless who was president, and there just happened to be a lot of dems salty over Gore
No idea but this is my favourite episode
Peak comfy
>camping
>cheap super cars
>cheap porches
>cheap british classics
There is so much kino stuff in the older episodes
£10,000 supercars is super underrated. I love how usually in the challenges one of the 3 cars is a liability, but in this all 3 of them are awful.
So fucking good. It's a shame there's not a high res box set out there.
The bad quality adds to the experience in my opinion. Like looking back to a better time
>james may keking as a lorry overtakes a screaming clarkson and his tower block car is swaying heavily by crosswind
Probably the funniest moment in the entire show. I'm surprised they allowed them to drive their most crazy creations on the motorway. That would never happen in my country.
The card cut from Clarkson screaming to May's laughter is pure comedy gold.
>buy cheap car and do thing
These were all so great.
I remember seeing this for the first time. I was watching it while my brother was raiding in wow and I started howling with laughter when Clarkson was on the motorway. My brother looked over and asks what I was watching, told him it was new top gear. After he was finished raiding he started watching the episode and I didn't even have to watch his screen to know when he was at the same part because he laughed so hard he started wheezing.
>pushes it off a cliff
>Clarkson having ice cream at the bottom
>see a tiny white spec fall in the background
God I laughed so hard
Hammooooooond!
Polar special is kino every time
why can't we have man shows for men anymore?
Because turns out woman viewers bring in more money then male viewers.
africa/vietnam/usa
best car review?
ferrari 599 because of the sound during the drift montage
The one where they were all flayed.
No wait the one where they were all instantly killed because they finally shut the fuck up
Seething third worlder
Is there anywhere to watch this besides Plutotv? They only ever show the India special
Africa one is my favorite because I own the exact year/model volvo 850 wagon James was using.
They need to make more episodes before Jeremy is permanently cancelled, James brain turns 100% into slush because of his alcoholism and Hammond actually dies in one of his crashes. Why is amazon so fucking useless? They’ve wasted years of potential kino on making garbage and when they finally start getting it right the trio is too old to do anything anymore
Why do people hate Jeremy? He's like your older uncle that makes the racist jokes at christmas but everyone still loves him
Because everyone is chronically online and didn’t get beaten and bullied enough as a child.
Jeremy makes offensive jokes/opinions which piss off people. He also shits on other celebrities/polticians so he's pissed off enough people to try and smear him. Glad he has the fuck you money to fight back.
>He also shits on other celebrities/polticians
Immensely based Im claiming him as my real dad
best to worst
Botswana
US
Vietnam
Patagonia
Burma
Arctic
Winter Olympics
Bolivia
Nile
India
Middle East
the one where james may got knocked the fuck out and the interactions were forced to actually be real and not 100% scripted for once
Which one was that?
middle east
Oh right I forgot that one. Doesn’t he fall off a horse in vietnam or something too? He was always the most retarded of the trio so his accidents don’t really surprise me tbhon
The many times these guys almost died for real and got away with it is insane up to one of the most recent GT episodes where James May could have died twice.
I don't get the British obsession over this show.
>MUH CARS!
most people don't even own cars in bongland and if they do, they don't even compare to what you can get off the floor in America. I guess it's just a fantasy cope. make sure you've paid for your loisence Nigel.
The whole appeal of Top Gear is the fact that you can enjoy it if you don't give a single shit about cars.
>Hammond's face when
I like the American one with them running away from bloodthirsty rednecks. Crazy shit.
I just got into Top Gear like 2 months ago. Saw some Grand Tour clips and ended up binging like half the specials. Great stuff.
Question though, how much of TG is scripted? Youtube comments (a cesspool to be fair) call BS alot, but I don't know if Euro TV cares as much about "manufactured moments" so much.
Alot of what happens (especially in the Grand Tours) seems genuine, so I'm not sure. Maybe I'm just bad at spotting stuff like that.
Early top gear was less scripted, by the end of top gear it was more scripted then made up on the spot.
grand tour is mostly scripted.
>how much of TG is scripted?
Tons but there's also tons of little moments that aren't scripted because its stuff like accidents, the reality of trying to steer a homemade carboat on the open ocean and actually having to make a tent in the arctic.
>carboat
that one was fantastic. Good on Jeremy for the Toybota
Does anybody else get bothered by the fact that they are super scripted and cause a lot of damage wherever they go?
>drives car off cliff
>parts break off and go into the bushes and rivers
I find it hard to believe the production crew was able to pick up all the little bits of plastic and probably just fucked up the local wildlife a little bit.
The episodes I like are the informative ones. The ones where they buy a cheap older super car or luxury car and explain why it's bad.
Vietnam, Africa and Arctic.
>that should do it
>OH FOR GOD'S SAKE
How do you use this shitting contraption
You put it over a bucket
Pull ass out of the window, shit
The caravan episodes always killed me.
I personally liked a lot of their different races that they did. especially the race to city airport
>TONIGHT!
>I wear a hat.
>James wears a hat.
>and Richard wears a hat.
The Polar Special