Just finished the africa special. Fucking comfy/10. Are these the pinnacle of reality TV?
>>70550913
Vietnam and Bolivia is better mate.
>>70551720
Second this.
Vietnam especially
vietnam special best special
botswana, usa are good too
Clarkson's likely getting too old and frail and intolerant of discomfort for these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbbkDiuz9fw&sns=tw
>>70551883
FACTS!!!
>>70550913
Vietnam and Bolivia already been mentioned
Polar Challenge is good aswell
>>70552620
All of them are great.
Except India. Fuck India.
>>70551720
>>70551778
>>70551869
Polar special wins it any day of the week, even if it's a bit low on banter and embarrassing themselves with the locals.
>>70552293
Yet we have evidence that suggests he did his "most dangerous stunt ever" filming his new series.
>>70550913
Are these the pinnacle of reality TV?
Basically, but Bolivia/Botswana/Vietnam are the best specials.
>>70552794
what's with the 'india special is bad' meme?
I've watched the Arctic, Bolivia, Middle East, and Vietnam.
Any others on that level?
>>70550913
It's not as good as the new series.
Latest special where they get trucks to fuck around in jungle is pretty comfy.
Vietnam and Bolivia are however absolute pinnacle of reality TV.
>>70552069
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I70lhj98dqA
Is this just paid promotions for DHL? They're funny either way
>>70550913
I want an Opel kadett after watching this, such a comfy car.
>>70556018
I actually really liked the Patagonia special.
Also not really a special, but the Japan Nissan GTR was a pretty good trip as well.
>new show is 100% clarkson hammond and may globetrotting
>>70556089
may's youtube channel is fucking amazing
>>70556089
Africa, Vietnam and USA were the best because they were the least scripted
>>70552069
my sides
>>70556189
you're not wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q4NIrQxac0
Can you guys imagine how bad the new top gear specials will be with Matt and Chris. They will probably force some prank stuff in there too. New top gear is a disaster
>>70557499
I feel sorry for LeBlanc, he could be a good host if he had someone to work off
Vietnam > Bolivia > Burma > Botswana > Polar > Patagonia > Middle East > Africa > USA > India
Although not even India is bad tbqh
>>70557632
>USA
>that low
It's easily in the top 5
>Reality television
>scripted beyond all recognition
What's a good torrent for these? Tried one now but quality was fucking garbage
>>70556189
>>70556960
its pretty comfy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5_SB1FxAWg
>>70558068
>Performed by James May, unemployed.
Holy shit, I don't know why but that got me
>>70557694
it's "scripted" in the sense that the jokes are thought of before hand and written up and then the "actors" try and find a good spot to throw them in.
Also the Top Gear crew don't go for scripted jokes as much as they go for some scripted gags which are better in my opinion.
>>70550913
Top Gear specials have the perfect mix of real interesting adventure, scripted / edited performances, and f e e l s. When clarkson starts rambling on about that piece of shit camaro he has to drive through the ass-crack of America I knew exactly what he was talking about and it really does keep you invested. Watching those specials you are rooting for the cars that have just as much personality as the hosts by the end of it and that is so rare to see on TV.
>>70555982
Indian is just a shit country.
>>70557632
USA with shit cars is top tier, USA with modern cars was okay.
>>70558219
His bit about the 928 during the Argentina special was an absolutely fantastic bit of TV.
>>70556089
>Is this just paid promotions for DHL?
>It's a plug
>implying Top Gear is the pinnacle of reality TV
Sorry lads, Japan already blew everyone out of the water by having a man live naked and alone for over a year, filling out thousands of postcard entries to try and win himself food to eat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2GLb3yuFls
Top Gear is pretty fun though.
>>70558611
Kek.
They can make a cheesy joke and really get away with it, but the new guys just fall flat - especially with that terrible hospital bed skit at the start of last episode.
>>70550913
Hey you autistic turd. you know that watching people drive is like watching somebody playing video games or watching somebody fucking your gf ?
>>70558718
Japan is the pinnacle of game shows.
That's a completely different beast.
>>70557499
Thanks for that, just when I thought it couldn't get any worse , I pictured the charisma vacuum that is Evans trying to banter with an American and a German who he barely knows whilst driving across Siberia.
>>70558861
i know right, watching anyone doing anything makes you a cuck lmao
retard
>>70558718
Eh, I honestly prefer the banter to that sort of shit.
If I want Japanese sadism I'll watch MAD series. JAV.
vietnam special is the best
india special is literally poo
not only the worst special but the worst episode as well
>any special besides Vietnam
so good
Anyone else feel legitimately sad for Hammond when The Donkey rolled down in the Bolivia special?
RIP Donkey :'(
why does everybody hate the india special?
>>70560574
Basically nothing happened.
Plus rumour.is that they did an insane amount of editing not to seem raycus.
>>70560592
i agree the ending was a bit shit, i really enjoyed the section where they held the party though
>>70552794
India disappointed me as there was potential for it being really good. Then it just wasn't.
/tv/ always jerks off the Vietnam special but it wasn't that great
>>70560592
Being in India for five minutes would make anyone a massive racist
>>70562099
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36417789
Fuck going to India.
>>70561938
Kill yourself.
>>70551720
The fucking fake party in India is the worst thing they ever did. Horrible.
The India special is still better than 99% of other tv though.
>>70562181
I wonder if he started with hello
>>70562171
>getting this upset when someone disagrees with your opinion
Hello autismo
>>70562272
Okay, what's your favourite special then.
India and the Middle East were the worst but at least India had the Genesis bits.
>>70562337
I prefer the middle east to India.
>moronic American Christian furious about blasphemy detected
>>70562308
I liked Burma and Africa better. Vietnam wasn't even about cars.
I think the challenges are better than most of the specials:
>Make an amphibious car (x2)
>Make a train
>Make an electric car
>Break a Toyota Hilux
>>70551778
>>70551869
>>70551720
My sides entered orbit with the USA bike.
>"Children watching at home, if you don't understand why this is inappropriate, ask your parents."
>>70555982
It was a load of overscripted bullshit.
>>70562500
Patagonia bants > Vietnams bike bants
>>70562509
Like the rest of top gear?
>>70562454
Top Gear is a travelogue and buddy comedy, m8. It can be bikes or boats and it's still the same.
Fact!
>>70562454
It was about bikes.
>>70562569
Doesn't even need to be about bikes or boats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbNUWBGV2Z8
>>70562542
yeah but at least the other stuff was a bit more subtle about it
>>70562542
Hey he did his meme guys! He's soooo funny.
No, hang on not 'funny'.... he's ....a boring contrarian cunt! Thats it! A massive cunt.
>>70550913
Hows the american Top Gear on the history channel?
>>70562648
The one you obviously know nothing about? Guess.
>>70562633
i feel like I just ruined Christmas for a child. Top gear is scripted.
>>70562715
We all know top gear is scripted, but the difference between the deliver is what matters.
Plus with the challenges/treks a lot of genuine stuff happens between scripted elements.
>>70562217
India special is the only one I've never rewatched. It was pretty poor overall.
>>70562867
Middle East is honestly more forgettable. They really didn't do anything
>>70562500
>BORN IN THE USA
>>70562931
Didn't that one kind of get fucked up a bit when one of them had to go to hospital?
>>70562457
>not listing fuel economy challenge
shiggydiggerydoo, mate
>>70563002
that's only funny because may comes dead last
>>70562931
It was comfy though, with a lot of neat stuff.
India was just filthy and boring.
Rumor is that a lot of content was cut because it would have been racist to depict Indians Street shitting/being general filth.
>>70562515
>implying anything in Patagonia beats
>I AM THE MOST MISERABLE HUMAN BEING ALIVE
>>70562457
>Make an amphibious car (x2)
>Clarkson's car flips at the end
>Hammond starts trying to hold onto the rolling tyre
>>70563124
And then in the follow-up they managed to actually get Clarkson's all the way to France.
Funny Vietnam is everyone's favourite, and it's the only one they did on bikes (which Clarkson famously hates)
>>70563140
>This week on Grand Tour, we drive to Midway.
>>70563140
>coast guard try to stop them
>WE'RE TRYING TO BEAT BEARDY BRANSONS RECORD
>>70563188
There was a lot of genuine bantz there, the genuine interaction between friends is just really great TV.
Plus we're all miserable cunts here and we need a friendship simulator.
>>70563027
just like the three modes of transport across london which was almost as good
>it's a special where they say this is the most beautiful spot they've ever been to
>>70563306
Well, it makes for great TV and they visit a lot of beautiful places.
>>70563001
They still weren't don't no anything. James hurt himself in the middle of the desert.
>>70563247
>Plus we're all miserable cunts here and we need a friendship simulator.
Reminder that when Hammond had his massive crash in the Vampire dragster, Clarkson and May dropped everything they were doing to immediately go straight to the hospital he was taken to.
>>70562595
That was great. Never watch sport relief and all that stuff I only discovered this a few months back.
>>70563373
That and they point blank refused to do the show without him.
>You will never have mates that would turn down millions of dollars to continue the show without you.
>>70563093
They managed to piss off entire towns with just a license plate. No one in Vietnam cared about the bike.
>>70563373
Can't help but wonder how many speed limits the two of them must have broken to get there as fast as Hammond's autobiography says they did. They did literally drop everything the very moment they heard to rush to his bedside, and were basically family as far as visitors were concerned.
>>70563546
That really warms my heart.
>>70562457
>train challenge
>Clarkson makes a stable with hay for the working class
>>70563773
>Richard throws a banana on the floor as the caterer.
Made me kek heartily.
>Christian is super butthurt at the Baby Jesus stuff and Clarkson pretending to be Jesus and is pretending nothing happened in that one to try and shit on it
>also shows the people of the Middle East are generally nice humans who just want to he happy and not bombed
>>70563546
Clarkson told a story about some car, I cant remember which one but he owned it when he was young. He was working in London, had just cooked a chicken and got a call that his dad was in hospital in Yorkshire, Clarkson sped all the way there to see this dad and took the chicken for his mum to eat. When he got there the chicken was still warm and his dad died 20 mins later. He says if it was not for that car he would not of been able to say goodbye to his dad.
>>70563862
Porsche 928.
>>70563862
The way he delivered it was perfect though, tears were shed.
>>70563836
>Baby Jesus
>not behbee jeezus
how can people unironically hate Clarkson?
>>70563911
Agreed. It was real.
>>70563836
>defending mudslimes
Classic yurocucks
>>70563939
The left hates him cuz too much banter
>>70556276
>Africa
Who was the man with the comb-over? I never figured that out.
>>70564011
>Defending Israel
Business as usual
>>70564213
Quite a jump there m80.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKcJ-0bAHB4&ab_channel=TopGear
pretty great bit.
>>70564638
I remember watching that for the first time, seeing that spray painted message, and thinking "fuck. they're dead. Shot and murdered."
>>70562951
>>70562500
Went travelling in Vietnam a few months ago and heard Born in the USA playing on 2 occasions. People there really couldn't give a shit, which I guess is why they got away with it so easily compared to the Patagonia thing.
Other funny easter egg after going there is that they act like 15m is a tiny amount of money when tourists who buy better bikes than the ones they did regularly only spend around 6-8m, and that's more than someone vietnamese would pay.
>>70563288
4 modes. Stig took the tube. That was a good challenge.
>>70564941
Wow that's funny. Thanks for sharing.
>>70562181
>dick wet
>>70563811
SCUM CLASS
>alabama
>guys fuck their own family
>rabidly hate 'fags'
>>70565287
fucking your sister isn't homosexual you faggot
>>70564941
No you've got this all mixed up.
15 million dong is currently $671.25
They could not buy a decent CAR for $671.25 so they had to buy interesting motorbikes. (obviously they knew this in advance or at least the producers did)
I am sure they did not say how much the bikes cost them or that they cost the full 15 million dong, but I may have forgotten them telling us the prices. (I am sure they didn't)
You think The Grand Tour will do some Mad Max related stuff if they go to Australia?
>>70565442
I think Clarkson didn't say, but Hamster and May did.
'leftists' don't 'hate' Clarkson as most of us know Clarkson's TV persona is partially a succesful character he plays and he's regularly made to look an idiot.
Evans' TV persona IS his real persona. A rich arrogant cunt.
>>70565499
Can you remember the prices? I've watched this about 5 times and I can't recall them.
>>70563773
SOME POO'S COME OUT
>>70565494
>Show opens with James May spraying his teeth with aerosolized Bovril.
Part of the used cars/bikes etup is also that they only get 1 hour to buy something. They allegedly don;t have days to get good stuff at a decent price.
The state of Clarkson's dangerous Vespa suggests this is probably true. It was a lemon and a deathtrap.
Hammond's bike was the absolute best buy and always was.
May's 50cc bike was a decent bike but I've owned a 50cc Honda it is NOT powerful enough for the long haul, as he discovered.
But all of this is deliberate. They educate you about the best vehicle to buy and show you how shit the other choices are, all done in a fun way.
>>70565684
>Part of the used cars/bikes etup is also that they only get 1 hour to buy something. They allegedly don;t have days to get good stuff at a decent price.
Would explain the Bolivia special, where May realised as he saw his purchase that it was a different colour to the one in the picture. If he'd had time to check and double check that wouldn't have been an issue. Maybe.
>>70565802
In that one they say they bought those on the Internet and none of them had seen the cars before.
Clarkson's car had a smaller engine than he expected.
>>70551720
James is the kind of guy who already looked and dressed like 40 at age 25
>>70565877
It said it was fuel injected, but instead had carburetors. Was expecting a 3.9 but got a 3.5
>First Aztec bird we come across, She'll make a beeline for me in this
>an American sitcom actor who only owns muscle cars
>a millionaire DJ who only buys Ferraris
>a German woman who only drives one track 10, 000 times
>some posh Youtube cunt
>some other nobodies
Same show, my arse.
>>70565979
>Chris Evans has been making graphs with MS Paint and Comic Sans.
JUST
>>70566004
It was supposed to be the Turbo version, I think.
>>70566072
AFAIK LeBlanc's a bigger bike than car guy.
>>70566131
No, just injected.
>Watching Top Gear.
>Really enjoy Clarkson's interviews.
Honestly, he's one of the best at it - he's not just reading off a card, he's invested in the interview and gets the guests really invested as well.
>>70566235
you're right
>>70562500
The joke is, there was more of an uproar against the 'really offensive' stuff in the America special. Americans down south are just so thick they can't take a joke so they have 'ter get the boys and the guns'
>>70565442
Yeah just the point I'm making is that $671 is easily enough to buy a motorbike that will never break down, never have any issues going up hills or anything, and that's in 2016 let alone in 2008 or whenever the episode was. May's bike in particular would have been like $100, Hammond's maybe more along the lines of $150-200. Dunno about JC's, not sure what it is.
Not a particularly interesting fact, and obviously they're never going to buy something that doesn't break down since that's half of the entertainment value, but it's something that caught my attention when I came back and re-watched the episode having done something similar myself.
>>70567101
Clarkson wouldn't have given a shit anyway, he hates bikes.
>>70567101
And I will repeat what I said
They give them a limited time to buy the things, deliberately.
$100 dollars for May's bike? That's £68 at current exchange rates. If you can get me a Honda 50cc bike for 68 quid, please tell me and I'll buy them all.
One more thing - they did not say how much those bikes cost them at all, did they?
>>70563773
Make a Reliant Robin rocket.
![article-2080152-0F4C2E8700000578-989_634x395[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/cIhjnxr.jpg "article-2080152-0F4C2E8700000578-989_634x395[1].jpg")
>>70560592
POO IN CAR LOO
>>70567101
>Not a particularly interesting fact
>not actually a verifiable fact at all
>>70567310
>If you can get me a Honda 50cc bike for 68 quid, please tell me and I'll buy them all.
Good luck shipping them over from Vietnam, you dumb cunt.
You can buy a super cub in most places around the world for that much. In the first world, you're looking at maybe 200 quid for one that's rusty but functional because they're workhorses that don't break down because they've got nothing to go wrong on them.
>>70567101
>$671 is easily enough to buy a motorbike that will never break down
How the fuck do you know what's available in Vietnam and what price things go for m8?
>>70567453
>Good luck shipping them over from Vietnam, you dumb cunt.
Right now we know. you're a fucking mongoloid trolling cunt, as suspected. Just fuck off you boring liitle prick.
>>70567310
In Vietnam you can sure. That's absolutely the going rate for a Super Cub when I was there, could probably even get one for half that if you try really hard and get someone Vietnamese to buy it for you. They're pretty outdated bikes and there are a lot of them.
Going rate for a Honda Win (the most popular full size motorbike now instead of the Minsk) is around 200-250 for tourists, again less for locals.
>>70567400
This is the updated version of the bike James has, far newer and more up to date. You can see that the prices start at around $130, and bear in mind that listings on craigslist are purely aimed at tourists, a local would get one for less
https://vietnam.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=honda+wave&areaAbb=vietnam
>>70567476
Just did a very similar roadtrip to them, spent $350 on a Taiwanese bike which didn't break down once aside from the wing mirror needing tightening.
>>70567499
sure
>>70567499
>this man has severe autism and can suck all fun from any conversation
>probably an American
The going rate for one of those Cheap Chinese motorbikes in Vietnam is ~$300.
The Russian 2-strokes, like Hammond rides in the special, have all melted long ago from not being pre-mixed properly.
>banter killed by car bores
>>70563862
An old porsche, great episode
>>70568323
The 928 specifically.
>this is why American Top Gear is fucking boring
>Non-ironic mongolian-americans droning on as if they are worth listening to.
>>70564638
Americans, how much danger would they really be in? How bad is the deep south?
>>70567499
You realise they went to vietnam fucking years back whilst vehicles where still really expensive? You can't compare prices last month to ones from 10 yaers ago.
>>70563939
People take their shit way too seriously and get mad when they say shit like
>Cars reflect national characteristics... a Mexican car's just going to be a lazy, feckless, flatulent oaf with a moustache, leaning against a fence asleep, looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat
or
>I'm sorry, but just imagine waking up and remembering you're Mexican
>>70570135
that entire episode was scripted
>>70562181
>>70550913
Watched Africa a few weeks ago. It's such perfection.
I tried watching the new one and that ginge started shouting so I turned it off.
NASCAR SUCKS
>>70556189
the series on bbc4 when he took apart things and reassembled them was comfy as fuck
>>70556100
That is the only opel from this time survived to this day because it is in desert where never rains. If you let it in the rain it will disintegrate like its made from sugar. I've never seen opel from 50 or 60. The oldest one is like from early 80 and it was rust painted with 5 different paints having rust spot everywhere couching brown balls of half burned fuel.
I like when they totally set fire to a stranger by accident with the flamethrower they'd stuck on a combine harvester.
Then they drove into a snow pile that just so happened to have a car parked in the middle of it!
Shit was amazing.
>>70556018
Surprised Burma wasnt mentioned.
>>70574274
Wow you just opened my eyes, I never thought these events are scripted! You should also go to /asp/ and tell them wrestling isn't real, I bet they don't know that!
>>70574495
jap moot booted them off /sp/ for a reason
literally came in and asked: anything you wanna change? everyone was like errrrr you know what lets get mandrama fags off this board and half an hour later it was history
>>70574613
And? the point was that telling people top gear is scripted is like telling people wrestling is fake, everybody knows yet there are fags that are going to tell people it's not real like they were the smartest person in the world and discovered something new
>>70570135
Irl, niggers and fags live rich full lives in the south.
Its television m8
