This was one of the "specials", it was one of my favourite episodes ever, taking place about 1 year after Katrina had destroyed New Orleans. They landed in Florida, bought $1000 cars instead of renting, and the idea was to drive to New Orleans and sell them to prove that buying could be cheaper than renting a car. The show had some great moments along the way, but the shocker was when they got to New Orleans and the devastation and destruction that was still there after a year. I hadn't even realised how much hadn't been cleaned up. They really shone a light on it for me. My other favourite (absolute favourite episode) is the Vietnam Special. They did 1000 miles from the south to the north of Vietnam. I wont say any more to spoil anything, but it is one of the best episodes. Beautiful country, a lot of fun along the way and a fantastic ending.
The Vietnam Challenge was hysterical. They were given shoe boxes of cash, but didn't realise the exchange rate was dire. They ended up with total junkers.
@@TheBeardedAdventurer Original broadcast version if you can get it, the dvd version or whatever is not as long and they replaced the music with royalty free sound alike, so like when they reveal the forfeit bike and it plays "Born in the USA" in the dvd version it's just the US national anthem, which also destroys a lot of the jokes. Also on all of the re-broadcast/dvd version they always replace the A-Team music, which bums me out :D
I second the Argentina episode as they had an entire country gunning for them, and I might be wrong but didnt they (from memory) need a Police escort to protect them from the mobs searching for them and their controversal car?
Makes me laugh when you see *certain* Americans complaining about $5 for a gallon of petrol. In the UK, we buy in litres. In the last 2 years it's been as high as £1.90 a litre. For a gallon that's £8.55. Americans don't know lucky they have it. Even at an all-time-high, their petrol is still cheaper than ours by an insane margin.
@@BugattiONE666 the joke is, Alabama is known for being very slow when it comes to changing This proves them right They haven't changed much from monkeys
I find it absolutely hilarious that "the land of the free" and the only country in the world that allegedly has "free speech", is not actually a lover of "free speech". lol
The free speech thing is so that you can't be prosecuted for speech. If you walk up to someone, call them a name and they punch you. You can't hide behind "free speech". Here in England we recently had someone get arrested for retweeting a picture.
@@owainharris The "land of free" obviously doesn't consider free speech valuable enough to defend its citizen trying to use the right to free speech. Otherwise all these crazy people in the South would have been thrown to jail already.
Honestly, 150 years ago there were many attempts to drive a carriage with an engine. Some tried it with gas others with electricity. Legally, the first patent for a motor vehicle with liquid hydrocarbon was granted to Carl Benz in 1886. His later companion (Mercedes-Benz) Gottfried Daimler tried it at the same time with gas. That's why there's confusion in many languages; even in German, people say "Gas geben" for going faster. And honestly, Clarkson is an arrogant douche, which was also the reason for the end of the show with the Three.
@@keineahnung5466 good info, thanks. But it also means that they had 150 years to correct it to something logical :) BBC is very extreme when it comes to political correctness, they hated Clarkson for ages. The trio moved to Amazon, and bbc had to fire 2200 workers due to lost of fund and the lost of 1.5 billion viewers around the world. The ratings of Top Gear dropped like a bomb. Clarkson is arrogant as Simon Cowell and Gordon Ramsey (also Brits), but funny as hell
@@keineahnung5466 No, the real reason was his alcohol problem. While mightily sloshed he hit one of the producers, and this, and only this had been the final straw. His drinking problem was quickly ended, and amazon paid them a lot of money for the follow up "The Grand Tour". The TG-team consits actually of five people: the three presenters, a producer and his editor, and ALL 5 of them, as one man, marched over from the BBC to amazon. Now, that's what I call friends. And yes, Jezzer sometimes is a moron, haha!
I love how she calls the place a 'Hick Town' like she's proud of it haha HICK Noun NFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN 'A person who lives in the country, regarded as being unintelligent or parochial.'
A bunch of people painting things on their cars obviously designed to piss off her and err neighbors, with film crews to obviously film your response? She's just saying out loud what they're implying. There's a long history of groups that are looked down upon taking terms of opprobrium that have been pushed upon them, and adopting them as identifying terms within the group - just to give the elite the finger.
They crossed the Kalahari and the Atacama deserts, drove across Mongolia in a car they had to build from a fully disassembled state dropped by parachute in the middle of nowhere, endured death road through Bolivia, almost had brain aneurysm while crossing the hights of the Andes starved of oxygen, drove on the mad roads of India deep into the Himalayans, crossed legitimate civil war areas in Myanmar, several tours across Africa, and many more things, but the only time they were legitimately in real danger, was in Alabama, when armed maniacs thought they could attack people for expressing an oppinion they didn't like that wasn't even meant seriously. Shows you what level of a shithole the South of the US is. They then even donated their cars to people affected by hurrican Catrina, and got sued, because the cars had some issues. Yeah, they bought them for a thousand dollars, and it was a fucking gift. If it was worth nothing more than its scrap metal value, that was more than you had before.
I would bet my left nut that every one of those garage people would also be the 1st ones to scream about their 1st Amendment rights if the shoe were on the other foot!
Yes, more Top gear reactions!! I love seeing someone else enjoy for the first time it's like watching it fresh again! You should react to the one where they turn their trucks/vans into boats 🤣
The Patagonia special is a two episode special from Argentina, where things go seriously wrong in the end, when the Argentinians go mental over the Falklands war, due to the unrelated date on Jeremy's licence plate.
The security they used to travel with back in the days when they did stuff like this was a team of Ex SF. Generally they were armed and totally prepared to protect their principles but they weren't fully expecting this sort of reaction in the US.
Not sure anyone has explained, but the start of all of the challenges is always the same -- each is given £100 £1000 or some small sum to buy a car/truck etc and then normally modifies it to take on a massive long drive or other challenge type. So the cars are normally bad from the start, and then asked to do near impossible things -- like make it drive on land and also water.
I still find it mad that the top gear team drove right across the middle east and through war zones and they still say there trip to Alabama was one of there more terrifying moments in making top gear.
On the radio they said that the guys from the gas station tore past them on the highway. So they assumed that the guys drove ahead to prepare something up ahead, like an ambush or something very unpleasant. That's why they realized they need to get off the road immediately to get the writing off the cars.
For the Patagonia one - please remember the war between Argentina and the UK over the Falklands was in 1982 - then when watching take note of the license plate (It might not be as obvious what the issue is to those that are unaware of this)
I was lucky enough to go see an episode filmed - what you see on the tv is NOTHING compared to what goes on at the recordings! It's utter filth and I loved it 🤣
Has to be the Argentina episode when they got chased out of the country . I think there is part one and two on RU-vid... Top Gear crew escapes Argentina.
Brilliant reaction video as always. Would love you to watch you react to a full episode, as only seeing small parts doesn’t give you the full story of whats going on. There was a lot more good content from that one episode as well as many many others. It was a hugely successful show.
The thing with these TG youtube videos is that they don't have the full segments. By all means keep reviewing them but I can only suggest you find somewhere where you can stream full episodes.
"20 military time"...... that would be 20.00 (20 hundred hours) to us....There are so many Top Gear Challenges/Specials and every one of them is worth watching. Its hard to suggest one for you to react to, because every time I think of one another comes to mind that's just as good. Best thing you can do is react to them all I reckon
Love that you're loving old Top Gear. For years, it was the best thing on television. Every sunday most of the country tuned in to 3 well spoken morons doing stupid things for us. This one had us genuinely concerned for their safety as did the Argentina special
There are so many classic Top Gear episodes but I would start with the Specials: the Polar special, Vietnam, Botswana, Burma, Middle East and just too many more to type.
For reference at 7:17 this episode was filmed just after Katrina in 2005 if memory serves the challenge was to buy a car for a 1000 dollars or something, then sell the car in New Orleans but in the end the cars were given away.
RIP Vangelis - he croaked a couple months back :/ This scene was part of a full episode challenge - definitely worth watching the full journey (S09E03)
I love that every top gear fan around the world left so many negative reviews of that woman's gas station that she was forced to sell it shortly afterward. Actions have consequences.
This was the pinnacle of Top Gear. They did some great special episodes like this US one, the Vietnam special and Bolivia special. Check out the Vietnam special next if you've not already seen it.
Top Gear - the Aquatic Cars, Winter Olympics, Toyota Hilux Destruction, Football in Cars, Aquatic Cars Part 2, Race to Monaco and many more. Only from the Clarkson, Hammond, May years 😊
When they're used to $1.70 - $3 (depending whereabouts they live) because of the amount of domestic oil fields in their country, but domestic drilling has been prevented from expanding since that Last of The Summer Wine reject took office....they are crying now. You know Biden sold a fifth of their emergency national reserves to China (well a Chinese company, but we all know that means the CCP) a few weeks ago? That's tens of millions of barrels. The closest fields we have are in the North Sea and most are drilled by foreign owned companies. All of that bumps our fuel prices up further than theirs.
Oh gosh, you must be so proud of your country, the risk of death by expressing a view that isn’t shared by others. This would never happen in the UK. Possibly Russia or China maybe
They've done some amazing and hilarious things over the years. People have mentioned the Argentina trip - which became as scary as Alabama... but for something equally ridiculous and with fewer angry locals, try their attempt to drive across the English Channel, or turning an old 3-wheeler car into a space shuttle.
Their specials are pretty good, even if a bit long for youtube. Also may I suggest looking into The Grand Tour as well, which has those 3 from top gear. There's a whole thing about that too.
Alabama ? What about a slogan that insulted LYNYRD SKYNYRD? THAT would probably gotten all three of them killed. heh, One of the best uses of "Sweet Home Alabama" was in the opening if "An American Carol".
