Top Gear - Bolivia Special

Jo
Jo Posts: 2,098
edited April 2012 in All Encompassing Trip
That was the most refreshing reality movie on TV, that I had watched in a long time.

The time before that, would have been Top Gear - Vietnam Special.

Cheers to Top Gear. :)
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  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,581
    Yeah i've seen it several times, one of the best episodes if not the best.

    One thing i've grown to love with top gear is how funny Clarkson is.. this one is a great episode as it isn't heavily edited.

    The end bit is just pure madness!!
  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    Was that the one from this last season where the had to drive in a jungle at first?

    Either way, Top Gear is the greatest show on earth. I would kill to hang out with Jeremy Clarkson for a day.
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  • Jo
    Jo Posts: 2,098
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    Was that the one from this last season where the had to drive in a jungle at first?

    .

    Yep. They had to get thier old, banged up 4WD's off the barge in the Amazon and drive up and through the Andea's.
    This one was extremely good, nerve racking and informative entertainment!
  • Franny
    Franny Posts: 2,054
    LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE TOP GEAR! Unfortunately I missed as I was at work, but will end up getting the dvd anyway......but it will probably be repeated on GO! on thursday night I think
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    OMG!!! i watched this last night. those guys are mad. but i was thinking how thrilling itd be to be there with them. i cant believe they tackled that death road in the dark. insane.
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  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    I love Top Gear so much. I would kill to get tickets to the show. Those guys crack me up. Haven't seen the Bolivia episode yet, I thought the Vietnam one was amazing. And the one where they drove across the desert - somewhere in Africa maybe?
  • 81
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    good show. even the gf likes it, and she can't tell a ring gear from a pinion gear
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  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    Jo wrote:
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    Was that the one from this last season where the had to drive in a jungle at first?

    .

    Yep. They had to get thier old, banged up 4WD's off the barge in the Amazon and drive up and through the Andea's.
    This one was extremely good, nerve racking and informative entertainment!

    yea I would have to say that was the best top gear special they have ever done. Clarkson on that incredibly dangerous highway actually had me nervous, and hammonds unnecessary lift kit that ruined his Toyota had me cracking up.

    Top gear can do no wrong. There was never a single time where I watched top gear and I wasn't thoroughly entertained. Greatest show on earth.

    Oh and btw YouTube "top gear ground force" not a car challenge at all but it's HILARIOUS. It's them trying to design a backyard for an Olympic canoer. All they do is fuck up!
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  • nuffingman
    nuffingman Posts: 3,014
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    yea I would have to say that was the best top gear special they have ever done. Clarkson on that incredibly dangerous highway actually had me nervous, and hammonds unnecessary lift kit that ruined his Toyota had me cracking up.
    Yep I think it was the best special they've done. If you look up the world's most dangerous roads and read about the Yungas Road in Bolivia you can see how dangerous it is.

    Sadly there are reports of Top Gear finishing. I hope not.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    best special for me was the Vietnam one... Bolivia was awesome though!

    I still like the redneck one from deep south of the States... that one was really funny from start to finish. :lol:
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Austicman
    Austicman Posts: 1,328
    Saw the Boliva episode last night. it was awesome. We don't get the Vietnam episode until next week here. Can't wait to see it. I can take or leave the studio shows. If it's on I watch it but I don't make a point of watching every week. But I'll be watching the road trips they're classics.
    I can't go the library anymore, everyone STINKS!!
  • HeyWayne
    HeyWayne Posts: 316
    Just me that's bored of it then?
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    HeyWayne wrote:
    Just me that's bored of it then?

    nah, I'm sure there are a few people who don't get it/like it/whatever... my wife even watches it and she couldnt give a shit about cars. she just finds it very entertaining.

    I shall resurrect my Clarkson thread.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Jo
    Jo Posts: 2,098
    Austicman wrote:
    Saw the Boliva episode last night. it was awesome. We don't get the Vietnam episode until next week here. Can't wait to see it. I can take or leave the studio shows. If it's on I watch it but I don't make a point of watching every week. But I'll be watching the road trips they're classics.


    I don't watch much TV but I make a note of when Top Gear is on.
    I find The studio shows are entertaining to some extent and you get to know what LOVE these guys HAVE or have HAVE NOT got for one another , so then the way they treat one another during these episodes is friggin funny.
    Just mates on a road trip, but going through the best places in the world!!
    And not to mention the cars, the cars, the cars. I like cars so it suits me just fine. :)

    How do we get a job like that??
  • HeyWayne
    HeyWayne Posts: 316
    dunkman wrote:
    HeyWayne wrote:
    Just me that's bored of it then?

    nah, I'm sure there are a few people who don't get it/like it/whatever... my wife even watches it and she couldnt give a shit about cars. she just finds it very entertaining.

    I shall resurrect my Clarkson thread.

    I think the thing is, it's become a bit of a self parody. I'm pretty sure that even in the Bolivia one James even said as much - something along the lines of "If you do what you always do every episode, and run into the back of me...I'll rip your f*cking head off".

    It's been running for so long now that I think they've run out of ideas - it's predictable now, Clarkson and Hammond are caricatures, James is however a thoroughly good bloke.
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  • Jo
    Jo Posts: 2,098
    dunkman wrote:
    best special for me was the Vietnam one... Bolivia was awesome though!

    I still like the redneck one from deep south of the States... that one was really funny from start to finish. :lol:


    Predictable I think not.
    I laugh my head off every time they are being 'Red Necked, politicaly incorrect' in EVERY part of the world......Lighten up people! :) .........it's just for fun. :lol:
    The Vietnam one is well worth waiting for. The countryside is some of the best I've ever seen, and the gags the guys play on one another, are, life threatening!! :):D:lol:
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Jo wrote:
    dunkman wrote:
    best special for me was the Vietnam one... Bolivia was awesome though!

    I still like the redneck one from deep south of the States... that one was really funny from start to finish. :lol:


    Predictable I think not.
    I laugh my head off every time they are being 'Red Necked, politicaly incorrect' in EVERY part of the world......Lighten up people! :) .........it's just for fun. :lol:
    The Vietnam one is well worth waiting for. The countryside is some of the best I've ever seen, and the gags the guys play on one another, are, life threatening!! :):D:lol:

    i doubt theyre as life threatening as theyre made out to be.
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  • HeyWayne
    HeyWayne Posts: 316
    Knowing what I know of the BBC, and the culture of litigation we have in the UK, I can guarantee those 'stunts' are not as life threatening as they appear to be. The British licence payer (which is how the BBC is funded) wouldn't tolerate the premiums if their lives were truly in danger.

    I grant you, it's entertaining to a point I just think we've had it now for so long it's run its course.

    In my humble opinion of course.
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  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    ... although I think Hammond is testament to things occasionally getting a touch life threatening.

    I'm sure since that they've had been even more careful with the stuff they do.
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • Jo
    Jo Posts: 2,098
    Anything filmed is not as life threatening as it seems, because there are other people around filming and recording and directing.......
    but these blokes are still doing it.

    What could the film crew do? if someone started slipping down those slopes?.....not much.
    And that is what makes it entertaining.
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