Revealing the TRUTH About the Top Gear Polar Pick-Up 

better help is awful, they sell user data...a company that helps with mental health issues... sells your data....even been fine 5 million $$$$$ for doing it

Betterhelp - sharing your personal data so you don’t have to. You really should do your homework on “sponsors” before recommending them

Not DriveTribe supporting a scam 💀

Let's hope they've redeemed themselves after the scandal of 2017.

When you support con's like BH, I can't support you. Stop.

agreed. I had a really bad experience with Betterhelp. Really poor company.

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They also Doxxed real therapists with a Doordash type company, when people called them to make an appointment they said the real doctor was fully booked and told them to use better help.

Assume you (and most everyone that liked your post!) are not writing this on a smartphone that uses precious metals mined from companies guilty of some of the worst human rights abuses on the planet?

Agreed. But seems they are sponsoring absolutely everything atm. Terrible company

I wish creators would research these companies before they take their money.

In fairness to them, Betterhelp helped me when I needed it, I was working for myself and couldn’t afford time off to see someone in person. They’re not perfect but until nhs services get better they’re better than nothing.

Instead of placing the burden on creators. Maybe make some complaints to your government agency responsible for managing these issues.

What's the problem with them?

might have had a flat battery lol

Only Chuck Norris can stop a Hilux from starting 😜

It was a rhetorical question. 😁

As a Hilux owner I was thinking the same thing. I love in the Highlands, on a farm, it's off roaded, on road, snow, ice, mud.... It's a relative baby at only 9 years old but literally everything works and it has never let me down despite the abuse it gets. Same engine and drivetrain as this one. One of the last of the 3 litre models.

I kknow, right? its a Toyota, of course its gonna start 😄

i agree. top gear was on the rise, but once the polar special released, it shot off into the space. i started watching top gear staring from series 10. in the US, it was hard to watch top gear back then.

@@yanguskhan8513I bought the complete series on dvd from eBay for 109.99 USD

​@@yanguskhan8513top gear was already booming before that episode was released lol

@@westnawton5942 The America special is probably what blew it up in the UK, not sure about internationally.

Considering it's Top Gear... I would have expected Gran Turismo 4

@@Jonathan.R.Pereirathey lived it. They didn’t need to play it

​@@typedrewJeremy had a sim racing setup & had people like Richard burns round to play it with him.....

They would not have left games in the car that they liked, just saying.

@@Jonathan.R.Pereira Reckon they took that with and left the game they never touched 😂

You should vet companies before using them and not base it on a yt advertisement. The fact BH is sketchy is more of a reason to take their money and use it for a better purpose

Although they did have some questionable practices I believe they’ve made right , I’ve been wrong before but I think they fixed those issues

@@clayshealthandhapinesstour8528 Appreciate your reply - I really hope that's the case. Like I say, I think the sentiment is great and a car channel like this is an even better place to see it

advertising alchol and drink driving to younger viewers, times have moved on since then, like what health and safety has done and the changes made to protect people over the years (if people were to follow it in the first place). yes we get it as a joke but its a lawsuit waiting to happen for the BBC if they keep showing drink driving from that episode.

@@douglasreid699 Put a warning on it or age restrict it, or provide a edited version option, yes, certainly. But censoring it outright due to the lowest common intellect denominator is an unfortunate side effect of our times I guess.

Find something better to be angry about, gammon

Do people still pay the TV licence 😂

@douglasreid699 even jeremy says in the episode its not illegal as they are in maratime waters (or something like that) and it isn’t illegal

the way that particular series was set up, pretty much any6thing would have survived and ran. it was dropped dead square on all wheels, so worst case it would have burst tyres or broken some leaf springs. leaving it in the sea, it had no ECU and wasnt running so no engine or electronics damage, crashing into a tree was done so it missed the radiator etc if the impact was misjudged and too hard, even setting fire to it, the fire was confined mostly to the seats to prevent the ignition wiring being burnt through etc. even the wrecking ball only hit the bed, from memory, or its likely the cab would have crushed or been unable to open the doors. set up like that they could have used pretty much any Diesel vehicle from the pre electronics era

​@@petelattimer6808Have you seen what Whistlingdiesel did to a Hilux? Watch it and Come back here.

@@petelattimer6808Yeah? I’d love to see you try it with vehicles other than a Hilux from that era. There may be a few that would survive, but not many brands… Chop chop, hop to it😂

That Hilux Top Gear blew up on top of a building was an older generation. People on YT don't seen to use their brains.

@@automation7295 Toyota hiluxs are still rock solid pieces of engineering, do you really think people would take an unreliable car to the pole, doesn't matter what generation it is.

Impotence from a small minded man that couldn't handle the truth from Clarkson.

Id love to know what Jeremy thought he would do to an SBS guy that was probably half his age and twice as fit. I doubt the guy would have stood there while Jeremy yelled at him either.

@@remyllebeau77 Hello, Jezza! Did you like the water?

@@TheRivieraKid If you are too pathetic to handle words being thrown at you, and you turn things physical, that is a crime and it is called assault or battery.

@@remyllebeau77 Funny you say that about a person who's known to hit people when angry.

They should open a museum with all the Top Gear/Grand Tour vehicles they can gather.

@@fosterfuchs as amazing as that would be I doubt they'd get enough visitors to make it viable maybe extend the current section at beaulie

Well if that happens, we definitely know the Porsche 928, Lotus Esprit V8 and the Mustang Mach 1 won't be there

@@benllewelyn98 They could make it a Grand Touring Exhibition. If they move the cars then it could get enough visitors. They could even give people the chance to pay for driving the road-legal cars to the next stop. That could make it viable. The exhibition could move all over the world.

@@fosterfuchs was about to say the same thing, a Top Gear/TGT museum to showcase all the stuff from over the years

I guess a special forces guy probably has a better chance of hitting that bear than Clarkson does. I still agree though. If one warning shot doesn't deter it, you should probably consider it a real attack and act accordingly.

And an angry, moving target the size of a car. I am NOT betting my life on that single shot bringing it down. Absolutely not.

What slightly confuses me is why you would pick a shotgun in the first place as a deterrent against polar bear attack, let alone for actually killing it if you absolutely needed to. I mean, it is one of the largest species of bear, if not the largest: Adult males weighing 550 Kg on average (adult females are usually about half that, unless they are pregnant), though they can on rare occasions reach almost double - the largest specimen ever recorded was apparently just over 1000 Kg. They also have thick fur, thick and tough skin, plus a subcutaneous fat layer at least 10 cm thick. Plus they can run at 20 to 25 mph - so if a polar bear starts chasing you, unless you can run at Olympic sprinter type speeds, it is going to catch you. Given all that, you're going to need a rather powerful gun to have much chance of stopping a polar bear which is determined to chase you down and rip your face off. Some kind of large calibre rifle firing high velocity armour-piercing ammunition would seem to be in order. Something more akin to an "elephant gun", of the type which were at one time used by big game hunters. This could be considered overkill, but if you're somewhere approaching the north pole, thousands of miles away from the nearest hospital or any kind of backup, why would you not want to leave as little to chance as possible?

@lloydevans2900 Canadian gun law, probably. Also, elephant guns are unwieldy and take training to fire accurately. I doubt that any of the guys present at the shoot would've been able to hit a moving bear with any type of gun.

Except Jeremy didn't want to shoot any warning shots and wanted to shoot the polar bear straight away. In the video they said that he fired the 5 shots at fake polar bear during the training.

The quick “how dare you…” from clarkson was so funny to me.

"much better then a pink fluffy towel"

It's been so long and I can still hear every nuance of how the man with the blurry face pronounced these words.

Reminds me of dealing with little preschool kids when one of them knocks a bottle of water over. Pick it up again? Nah, just stand around and watch it empty onto the carpet.

Have a friend who's an aircraft fitter and a few of the others he works with all have diesel cars. They run them this because it's mostly a bye product of emptying the tanks on the planes.

Not quite right. Jet A1 is standard whereas Jet B is for cold temps.

Huh. Ya learn something new every day. Neat!

Jet fuel has less lubricating properties because of that, so thats why some modifications are required to a normal diesel car if you wanna run on it.

@@KingGiac he was also correct - jet A1 has a lower freezing temp than jet A (-40 vs -47 c) - Jet A is only used domestically in the US, international flights which spend longer at altitude all use A1 for that reason. Jet B goes all the way down to -60.

Ya a standard offroad rig hear has 15s and 35s or 17s and 37s as a start

@@noahfyan9617 Lol. Truth. And we got a spare set of 40s in the garage “just in case.” 😂

But this is 17 years old and reliable :)

@@Monk-Darlington many of em are 15+ years old. And a lot of em are Yotas. We have Toyota in the States too ya know. Nothing in my comment was brand specific or age of vehicle related. We’ll stick 37s on anything. Lol

"In Americuh we have bigger tyres than this on our pavement princesses!"

Same. With Vietnam following closely behind.

​@@nathanparry8315 The Vietnam trip was great, beautiful country.

Ummmm....thats a game.

@@andgate2000 yeah and? I know it's not real life but it's as close as we can get to driving it

It was a black Land Cruiser. It was the boss’s wife’s car… And it’s still in Iceland, I believe! 😎

@@MrCreamPye yeb the black cruiser is alive and well saw it for sale few days ago. the top gear hilux was a pretty regular 38" hilux like they are done over here, and they are so common you dont even look twice when you see one. and there is alot of much bigger ones

Having been to Iceland twice on 4x4 tours I never saw one hilux most drive land crusers and Nissan patrols

@@martynharcombe7920 the pickups (incl. Hilux) on Arctic Trucks’ fleet outnumber Land Cruisers by about 5 to 1.

@@ivarmarkusson382 I know. I work for Arctic Trucks and spend a bit of time in Iceland! 🇮🇸😉

It's probably because they see it as drink driving, despite Clarkson saying that theyre technically sailing.

its a lawsuit waiting to happen for the BBC to leave it up on show because it shows drink driving.

He used a similar one the camera crew used

Come and visit us (Arctic Trucks) anytime. Happy to give a tour and show you what we can do, first-hand! 😎

Watch out for rust.. They are notorious bad. Like playing with paper planes in the rain. If it's a daily driver from 97 it's probably not worth buying it if it's not from "desert" area or been taken care of by an enthusiasts from day one. Just look at this car with just so few miles on it, it's sad..

True but they still have polar exploration pioneers on their resumes which is hilarious

I absolutely agree. I just think a lot of people forget to mention that Lada did it first. Not trying to take anything away from the Top Gear guys still an Incredible achievement.

That’s one of the reasons I’m not watching this channel as much as I used to. They inject ads as big as the actual content and some of them as certainly not worth it

RU-vid shills gunna shill.

You should ry watching the video.

Today's audience you know...

When Clarkson was on a rant and James had enough "Seat the pole" with menace.

…. You do know the exhaust is routed around the tank right? Look again.