Bolivia's Death Road | Top Gear | BBC 

Oh look you came back after almost 7 years :D

Id rather not

Bring back Clarkson Hammond and May

Biggest mistake, oh wait this is the BBC. Clarkson is a genius!

No because the new top gear is shit

His brakes weren't working properly

In latin america you have to go with the speed of traffic if you can. If not, people will overtake on corners and then crash into each other and fall off the mountain... (Long story short)

The brakes were drum brakes and they had gone. They were worn to nothing or stuck open, so he could not slow down.

@@MrWolfSnack so on a death road with shot brakes. Madlad.

@@MrWolfSnack He could shift into a lower gear

Although atleast the camera crew drives a decent new car instead of these shitboxes

The cast said that they normally drive land rovers because the back window can be taken out for those shots of the car from the front

No. We all know that camera men can't die. Name one movie where the camera man died.

@@thederperone4653 Blair witch?

@Bulgarian Lion older cars are way more reliable and durable, but it's never gonna be as comfortable as a new car Especially with the fucked up suspension on those cars, the shock absorbers are as hard as wood

Or James with a machete

Well what do you expect Jeremy is literally inches from death

Lmao the look of both relief and fear was priceless. I lived in Bolivia when I was younger and the buses would haul so much ass on the mountain roads.

@@JR-ub3yv you either drive fast enough to miss the drop, or drive hard enough to make it a quick end, those are your choices. Or place c is haul ass and have faith in your crack bus driver that been doing this for 10 years and seemingly is alive.

Everyone is gangsta no.

69th like, nice

2:54

1000th like

Oh no! Anyway... Onto the new McLaren!

*but

😂😂😂

Priorities people, priorities.

well spotted.

If he didn't then he would need another push.

Old Range Rovers with traditional manual gearboxes. I don't think that's even an option on the modern models. We had a Mk 1 Discovery in 1993 which was manual but all the other JLR cars I've seen more recently have been auto.

Sorry, but it just sounds funny to say “ I saw Mr. Coffin driving along this deadly road today “ 🙄😅

The pleasure? I don’t know how anyone could possibly enjoy that drive. I would avoid it at all costs.

And that looked much higher than a 100ft drop

@@derpyderp1991 Lol yea he's a little off. Some of the drops are close to 1500 feet.

@@allmotorfg2437could have meant 1,000 feet but just didn’t add a zero

ironically fear of heights dont come when riding a plane or a helicopter or balloon

@@sparrowlt could be he's more afraid of falling. In a working aircraft you're not at risk of free-fall.

@@TempestCrown i renember long time ago something about fear of highs only ocurring when you have your feet on the ground.. once you are "in the air" it doesnt appear. probably some psycological process.. as you say when you have your feet in the ground you can fall.. once in the "air" you cant fall or are not "about to" as you are either inside an aircraft or in a baloon basket. parachute jumpers also say this.. after leaving the plane (or while riding it) there is no fear of height even when you are in fact falling towards the ground

In aircrafts, you can control where you want to traverse. But in uncontrolled ones like falling off a ledge as tall as a skyscraper with your car, it's a whole new story.

@@sparrowlt Untrue I have a fear of heights not really falling but in planes its the worst I'm literally having a constant panic attack the whole flight but im 5 stories up in a building and look out the window and I get anxiety I cant really explain why tho in a plane its also the feeling of being so small

Our parents*

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

Except up-hill both ways, barefoot through snow.

damn, two r/wooosh'd

Pietro Anghelone lol I don’t think you got the joke, “Pietro”

They also were concerned in the Syria special when James hit his head on rocks and was both literally bleeding and forgetful of where he was. They are true friends. Rat on each other when it's not serious, be GENUINELY concerned when it is.

@@314rft Peak male friendship

​@314rft They haven't always been friends all of the time. All three have spoken about there being times when Top Gear was just Work and the others were just Colleagues.

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*A REASONABLY PRICED CAR*

H A M M O C K

Hannomd.... hellp!!?!!!11

hamond idiot brok car crash in fhield again?.!??

Reminds me of the landing scene in the movie Airplane 😂

Jeremy had three kinds of moisture in his clothes at this point.

😂

Hm yes flood here is made of floor

Cold sweat

Only once per season. I would say it’s pretty lopsided towards cars.

Lmao he'd survive. He's Hammond after all

@@gavin2715 *Rimac Exploding Noises*

@@finlandball1939 *insert people on an ATV and sirens in the background*

@@finlandball1939 *Vampire dragster has entered the chat*

Argentina was alot more dangerous than some hick US state

@@BrakvashDo you know what is even more dangerous? How oblivious you are to jokes.

Benjamin Antman is that something to be proud of?!? Idiot

@@Brakvash L

@@Brakvash Just delete your reply for the sake if humanity

He said that his brakes dont really work

He said that his brakes really not work.

I wouldn't even be doing that shit without brakes and a proper steering wheel.

Incog Spectator well they bought Japanese what do you expect

Daredevil

That is the road from La Paz to Coroico?

Terrible icon

@@Kylirr Ky is right. It's awful

Your parents will use your real name when they bury you

@@connorrose_0447 Tf?

Been searching for this comment, he seems really pissed.lol

RIP.

Paulo K So did Jeremy! (almost)

RIP

I think Jeremy was legit just one more wise crack away from an untimely death by rusty machete lol

*modern problems provide modern solutions*

They make the camera wobble on purpose to make it look fast

thats just fake and made up lol they originally drive slow af

Hammond is a "Driving God" after all.

@@Engineer9736 or maybe....the camera wobbles because the suspension of their beaten up trash mobiles is shot?

Ironic how the cameraman _always_ survives.

@@ps2bndled If the cameraman didn't survive, how would we know? They wouldn't have any film to show us.

@@ps2bndled ever seen the blair witch project?

@@bearmarco1944 These were amateur camerapeople. Only professional camerapeople have the ability to be invincible.

@@ps2bndled fair

What choice did he have?

Maxer13 He Had...

@@tomplaysbonk couldn't be have just stayed still and let the white car pass? It seemed to have enough room to get through

@Salmonfaky It's definietly staged or maybe edited

There was a wide shot though that showed him driving it that close. It was scary neverthless. And it would still take some ball of steel to drive to that.

So the road we've seen in this video is paved now and it's a normal road?

@@AntonySimkin I think now there is another road (Route 3), and this one is now just for bicycles.

@@militarpoliticanoticias9539 That helps me sleep at night lol

@@AntonySimkin I heard that this isn't the authentic Death Road experience. The old one was so dangerous that they closed a large part of it and are building a safer, more modern one.

yea no, fuck that shit srsly, 3rd world country smh,

Tell? They can watch

He was promoted to official cameraMAN after this special. True story

@@BoberBoomMan and then later died from radiation poisoning

I’m pretty sure there is a camera there not the actual man lol

@@naheednawaz6004 you must be so fun in a party ^^

el Malo he probably is lol

"lovely" isn't exactly the word I'd use...

The most polite of murder maniacs.

It's not polite. Its British. Consequently his specific British accent is grating on the ears

@@gxlorp u wot m8

Gayyyyy

HAHAHAHAHAHHA

They don’t have to say anything just watch the show lol

@@CTeves97 exactly

@@CTeves97 I'm pretty sure they also lived so many things that weren't filmed or cut from the show. So they do have many things to tell their grandchildren

Only Jeremy and Richard will be able to

Ppˆo

I don't even think it was a joke

I read that when they said that🤣

I just read your coment y that exact time that they say it in the video

Yeah like where tf is the end,

I like how it's a ten year old show and they can't show it all so they can squeeze another 13 cent out of the viewers.

Probably fall but maybe it flies

Did you just wait for that truck to come out To comment this?? Lol jk

@@bigiron7547 yeah

on Autopilot

is this some sort of ironic joke? regarding the US's right wing coup in Bolivia to acquire lithium for Tesla

Great idea

How hard can it be?

@@brinley9629 Yeah i figured as much. You took my comment too seriously, I was just using the quote TopGear always put when they dream up some crazy challenges. They always say: "How hard can it be" and then things will sink, catch fire or get destroyed. LOL.

@@brinley9629 Nah....

Yes

...and is a good indication of why Brits aren't allowed to have defensive weapons any longer. Sheeple.

Andy Taylor in America James would have just shot Jeremy and claimed self defence 🤷🏼‍♂️

bruh can we just have a comment pointing out funny bits without having to get political like *sHeEpLe*

banh mi it's not even political...

Joey Williams sheeple is often used in a political way though, like people blind to what the government is doing

Like badLy made in zamboanga mampang. by:khriegsss

They’l kill him

Well outside a few models Japan don't really make great vehicles, Nissan has like 2 Toyota has 3 or 4 and Honda makes a solid motor but everything else is trash

@@SmEiF- Whilst I can not comment on Japan's local car makers, there are other japanese brands that we have not hear off. Nissan, Toyota, suzuki and Honda cars are pretty well built. They are very reliable. I currently live in the UK and most old cars are Japanese. Most Japanese cars were not made to be the fast as money can buy but they are made to be reliable as money can buy.

@@SmEiF- Japan makes probably the most reliable cars. They may not be the fastest or strongest, but they are the most reliable and well built. Any honda will easily give you 150k miles with no issues. Same with Toyota and Suzuki. Although Suzukis arent sold in the US anymore

Lunar Virtue there’s a always a price to everything you just gotta find out what it is

Aaron Mubwanda there really isn't

I'd love to drive my bike there. It's the part of the adventure

Looks fun. I'd pay to do it.

I’d get payed enough to put metal barriers and pave is and then I’d drive on it

It didnt have sth to do with being the most experience driver. Its because he was the one who would have fallen to his death, not the other car that couldnt see the edge

Not to mention the bypasser has probably traversed this road multiple times before and thus knows the road and it’s dangers far better than Jeremy

You know that's TV, right? Probably a stuntman and camera tricks were used.

@@DoctorNeuras don't say that:-(

the cliff was a paid actor

I think it's from Back to the Future.

It sounded very Gerry Anderson

@@markhenley3097 wut?!

Daunte uflay that is terror, jeezus..

Sounds like a descending minor 6 chord arpeggio

I think its a range rover. Our land rover has survived 20 years and still works perfectly well on a farm, where it belongs. Range rovers are the city equivalent. No farmer owns a range rover, only the posh c*nts in the fancy house has a range rover.

@@Kat-mu8wq i think he meant the brand in general, not a specific vehicle. old ones might have been reliable, but any land rover from 2005 or newer is garbage afaik. got one as part of a payment and it cost me a brand new toyota hilux to replace the seized engine that broke like a week after i sold that fucking thing. i only used it for 13 km and it cost me the price of a good new car. most expensive transportation of all time.

Not sure if he owned a Japanese car to back up what he said. I used a 20 years old Honda City with 160k+ km mileage, never gave me a headache. Guess what, almost all the Ford Raptors from my place (BRAND NEW) had to break their transmission in less than 500 km mileage. 🙄

Its just Jeremy making a joke because range/land rovers are know to be historically unreliable whereas Japanese cars are known to be some of the most reliable and well made cars in the world.

@@Kat-mu8wq range rover is made by land rover 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

There roads like that often in New Zealand too. Usually small roads leading to a beach or one only used by people who live along said road. A lot of them are also only one lame though so if you come across someone you gotta reverse all the way back. Was on one of these roads when I saw a sheep murder another sheep by pushing it off the cliff.

James: about to kill Jeremy Jeremy: checks he is in neutral

Unicorn Power some say that this is what what mario practices on

@@glynrh8892 the comment is a reference to how many cousins the stig has.

True

@@jessepinkman6079 Doesn't make much of a difference.

Wrong video sorry

I don't think any car got the chance to drive back down

Javorca?

Looks like you beat natural selection

Next time ask him to build wider roads.

Almost went to see Jesus on the way to trying to find church

@David Galea well no shit sherlock

@@unicornkiss If you knew about it why did you wrote this comment?

PouLS PL because I can?

@@unicornkiss I don't know.

David Galea I’m not convinced that part is scripted people die on that road for a reason

I would, because on a right hand you'd able to jump off if it started to fall.

@@wolfensteinJB 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

vin I mean the weight could be unbalanced, and don’t ask me how Jeremy didnt fall lol

I wouldn't cuz if your car tipped over you would die and you can see the side of the mountain so you can't fall too easily

@@wolfensteinJB but you would definitely fall of since you could not see exactly how far you could go. that's why they drive on the left there(only on that particular road)

4:45

Ever heard of Cam Drones?

If you don't see them they are not there

@@sinuosalice-1434 at 4:05 you see a cameraguy

I made my oooowwwn luuuuckk

This is a pretty big difference between being in a safe plane and theres this, on the edge of a massive cliff driving a vehicle that iant worth a tire moat likely

@@tonygables626 no there is not

@@jhonproctor6926 Yes you can...

@@TheFilledk Idk man, a plane can fly but a car can't.

@@PotatoWagon a plane can crash, so can a car, However when a plane crash the risks of dying is much higher MUCH HIGHER than cradhing into Say a tree in a car...

Other than a dual carriage way in india xD

solarplexis5 I would of fucking shit myself

O hell nahhhhhh

I would have crawled out of the back and pushed the car over the side myself, and then told James and Hammond a ridiculous tale of how I climbed out at the last second. But, ya... me too.

I have no idea what any of you are on about. i chickened out at 2:37... yeah, my fear of heights is that bad...

The second I would see another car I would rush to the side next to the rock even if I’m going in the wrong lane. Nothing in this world will make me pass in the same side as the cliff, I would fucking hug that mountain.

Not raining. There's a waterfall right there, which is why the road is corroded. It's known to be one of the worst corners within this road. Yes, I've been there, several times.

Rodrigo Goytia do you think it was edited or completely real how close he was to the edge

@@PROofHAPPYWHEELS that could've been edited, of course. All I'm saying is that specific part of the road is always soft and narrow.

Rodrigo Goytia well how narrow is it actually roughly around that part. I want to know so I can tell how edited it could be

@@PROofHAPPYWHEELS idk man, didn't bring my measuring tape with me.

Gabriel Edward John D'Argo Sun-Smith I don't understand why JM didn't just go last in the convoy, then no-one would've run in the back of him.

Gabriel Edward John D'Argo Sun-Smith l

Christopher Hargreaves whats the fun on that?!

Gabriel Edward John D'Argo Sun-Smith lmao that's how the locals would do it to lmao

Thats why you should put captain slow at last.

the far view is different from the close-up, so maybe exaggerated a little. But he did sign a contract ;)

It´s TV. Safety-lines aren´t visible. Nobody would risk his life there. I bet the other car could have easily pass and Jeremy only had to wait.

I doubt they were even driving there, since it's TV

@@damiengates7581 Maybe. it´s all a big show. The Machete ("blabla not in common bbc shows" or whatever), the extra old/crappy cars ("brake not working blabla steering not working blabla") Ok and WHY should a BBC TV-Crew take this crappy cars and risk their life ? I bet the cars are technically checked and ok and the final scene at the abyss... its short and the camera scenes are well set and selected - even Bear Grylls uses safery lines for those kind of scenarios

The BBC tried their best to kill all three presenters over the course of the series. Hammond is lucky to be alive after they told him to try breaking the UK land speed record.

Take us on some sweet jumps, alright

Shit balls

@@alexsitar1453 [Beep]

The true scariest moment i being too close to Stig's chinese cousin

@@karankumarmageswaran1550 yep, if it’s staged then it’s not scary anymore 🤔

IDK, the altercation at the gas station in Alabama was pretty nerve wracking. I live not far from Alabama, and people there, as well as in hick parts of other neighboring/southern states, really are as insanely fragile in the head as they were portrayed in that challenge. Same goes for people in certain parts of the hoods/ghettos in Washington DC and Baltimore, that I live just 30 minutes away from. You can literally be doing nothing at all that you yourself consider provocative, and suddenly be seconds away from getting jumped/beaten, robbed, stabbed, shot, etc. There are people in those places literally so angry at the world that they are out looking for a fight, and will take any excuse to start one, even something as simple as coincidentally locking eyes with someone that's just looking around them casually is enough... *in an angry tone of voice* "Whatchu lookin' at boi/muthatfucka?!" is usually how it starts, and then they don't let up with the questions/intensity, unless you show (or pretend to show) fear, until finally they do what they intended to the moment you caught eyes with them, which is start beating you up and probably robbing you of something. Coming form experience in these places over the years, the best way to stay safe in hick towns/ghettos is the keep your eyes to yourself, and fixed on wherever you are going/whatever you are doing to avoid eye contact entirely. Don't speak unless spoken to, and in that case respond with neutral and apologetic excuse like "I need to go pick up my kids, sorry." because ignoring people itching for a fight just escalates their desire to harass you. Not everyone in these areas is like this, but they do exist and can appear out of nowhere, so it's good to very be aware of your surroundings (without looking around too often that is, because that makes you look scared) and always have a plan if you get into these situations. Paying close attention to your peripheral vision and hearing is important in these places, as is giving off a relaxed, calm, nonchalant demeanor. *This is all probably more useful to post on the actual Alabama video, so I'll do that in a moment, but it's worth mentioning to anyone, just in case you end up in this situation some day.* At least on unstable roads and such you have the reliability that the only danger is misjudging the perpetual forces of gravity and physics that apply the same way there that they do everywhere else in the world.

PatriotPigeon It’s things like that which confuse me, how do you perceive someone merely glancing at you as a threat? It just doesn’t make sense to me.

@@sirapple589 it's not the physical act of glancing at someone that causes them to be irritated and start a fight it's more the fact that the glance could mean that they're being judged or looked at in a certain light or way. It's the possible perception or judgmental view that someone may be looking at them with not just the fact that it's a momentary glance of the eyes. That, or it's just someone who, like I said, is looking for a fight and will use anything as an excuse to start one. They're usually angry about something else completely, and you just happened to be in the wrong place the wrong time when you encounter them. Some people just don't know how else to process extreme amounts of emotion, (usually frustration and anger, but also sadness and betrayal) and some people are just taught that that is an acceptable way to do so because of the environment that they just happen to be born into/grow up in.

Punith S except it's totally staged and Jeremy wasn't driving at that point

krombee why ruin the fun? Lol

We cant have fun on the net since pedantry abounds

Jeremy was driving at that point, look at 7:15. What the 7:15 shot also shows is that he's not that close to the edge and the shots of the wheels has been filmed at another location.

It's oviously staged because it's a too dangerous stunt (literally a few inches from death). However, many locals have to do it on a daily basis

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@@anzua7x580 what the actual fuck

Look man, get it through your head that not everybody shares your fetishes.

lmao pervert it's top gear NOT a porno

@Dick Kickem you ruined it

Dood I would jump off that cliff yolo

But that was fake but

He said Japanese cars are badly made. Not TOYOTA TRUCKS

Simon B. He said ''THESE Japanese cars'' And plus Fj Cruisers are different from reliable Hilux. He's NOT even talking about TOYOTA TRUCKS, And learn how to spell Clarkson.

And he's driving a Range Rover a notoriously unreliable car.

It was clearly a joke considering his car

You know that he mock everycar right??

You're gonna walk massive distances through the mountains? These roads are used to get from one village etc.. to the other and there is really no alternative.

@@CptAngelKGaming I meant walking along the road, not going a different route. I wouldn't risk my life to a car on that road. The risk is too high.

I'd rather ride a mountain bike

@@ianglennorbunaos2627 I've done it on a mountain bike, they offer tours starting from the top.

Going on a motorcycle maybe, that seems like a long distance for a walk, and you cant exactly camp out the night either.

My dad's car does the same lmao