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I love that this truck is still around :D The Polar challenge was one of the seminal moments for Top Gear. They had many, but that was truly memorable.
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.
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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.
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@@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
I have to say I am livid at the thought that the BBC have censored the episode on iPlayer with the Gin & Tonic bit. It was upheld as a non issue at the time so what is the sense in censoring it now. What exactly is the point in a TV Licence for a public service that isn't serving the public?
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.
Mike did you really just ask 'will it start' of a Toyota Hilux 😂 did you not watch top gear blow up a building with a Hilux on top of it to then start it amongst other beatings 😂
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
@@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😂
@@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.
The funniest bit about the ice drop is that Clarkson started with "How dare you..." and the guy just shouted him down. The first time he's ever actually shut up :D
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.
@@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.
I hope that all of the cars in the upcoming final Grand Tour episode are recovered. It'll be the end of a very long era and they'll be an important piece of motoring history!
@@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.
NGL, I agree with Jeremy about the shotgun part. Maybe you can give the polar bear one, MAYBE two warning shots. But if that doesn't deter it, I wouldn't expect two more to make any difference, other than leave you with only 1 round to hit an angry moving target exactly at the right spot.
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.
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.
"DON'T JUST STAND THERE! DROP THE POLES!! HANDS ABOVE YOUR HEAD! HANDS ABOVE YOUR HEAD! HANDS. ABOVE. YOUR HEAD! NOW ROLL IN THE SNOW! ROLL IN THE SNOW! ROLL. IN. THE. SNOW!!" Epic! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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.
If you're wondering why jet fuel. Jet fuel is basically just a diesel with additives that prevent parafination in very low temperatures. So yeah it makes sense that they used it.
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.
@@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.
The Polar Special was the first episode I watched. Showed up on RU-vid in 480p heavily artifacted in like 6 parts. Watched them all. Went and found the rest. Have watched TG now like 5 times all the way through.
That was a great TG episode, and I really enjoyed this. Nobody could've hosted a "car show" my daughter, wife, mother and grandmother all looked forward to watching except for those three idiots; they were brilliant on screen. I'm glad DT is keeping it alive.
The Arctic trucks team also modified the electric Nissan Ariya that went to both poles in 2023. They didn't need the modified giant fuel tank, they just towed a trailer with a folding wind turbine on it.
Car guy from across the pond- look at these huge (38 x 15.5 x 15) tires, I’ve never seen a tire so huge with so much sidewall. American- hold my beer, going to my garage, I’ll be right back.
@@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
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And everyone has a chance to drive it as it is in Forza Horizon 5 and has been in the Forza Horizon games ever since the Hotwheels expansion of Horizon 3.
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
I love these trucks and I'm pretty happy that James did another adventure with one, the volcanic episode. However I've always hoped that to cap off the Grand Tour that the trio would take the Polar and the Volcano Hilux along with something clever as a third seeing that Richard used the dog sled and do one long global Grand Tour. The Grand Tour goes long way round. Featuring different guests, adventures and cars along with way. Ahh, one can dream.
Wait a minute... Wasn't the support car the later renamed Volcanobuster and used also on Top Gear to get May to the top of the active volcano with unpronunciable name?
I love that for the 1/2 second shot of the underneath.... it is extremely rusty, like all Toyota pickups. If you don't want to wait until the very end to watch the "big reveal"..... basically, it broke down, and they swapped the truck for the nearly identical production truck to finish filming
I apologise if someone else has mentioned this already the Toyota might have been the first car to magnetic north but two Lada niva’s reach the Geographic north pole in 1999. They only picked magnetic North because no one else has done it but when you look at any other firsts to the north Pole, it’s always to the geographic not magnetic.
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.
The Royalty of Top Gear Challenge vehicles. I suspect these cars are the pride and joy of Arctic Trucks. The one thing I've always wondered: where is/what happened to the black HiLux? You had the two red ones, but there was a third one that was black, which I assume was a crew-car.
@@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
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there aren't many things i covet but this truck, or at least something similar, definitely hovers on my list consistently. James really underplayed how much of unsung heroes the support trucks were. at least the other one got to sneak up on a volcano
Well, the drive tribe exist because the absence of the original top gear… so yeah they will keep making content about the og top gear and most of us will enjoy
A channel directly attributed to the existence of what was literally the most popular tv show in the entire world at the time, and has one of the hosts of said show directly involved, makes content related to that show. Shocking. Haha.
I can’t believe they cut the G&T part! It was one of the funniest parts of that episode, and seemed for them like one of those simply joyous less-scripted moments.
"Modified to take jet fuel" ...You mean... You just put jet fuel in it..? Jet fuel and diesel and nearly identical save for some extra ingredients for high altitudes.. We used to pour the jet fuel from fuel filter changes into our forklifts rather than send it for disposal
Cue Jeremy ruling around in the snow looking like he's about to die and Richard pipes up "We three function as a unit here in top gear, and as we are a unit it means we no longer have to do that test". 🤣🤣🤣
Does anyone know if not having very much experience actually building or operating vehicles is a prerequisite for automotive media or does it just help?
"Will it start?" In this particular case is the dumbest possible question one could ask. It's a Toyota Hilux, there's essentially nothing you can do to a Hilux to make it unable to start short of depriving it of air or fuel. Great video as always.
It's always fun listening to a guy talk about off-road setups that know nothing about it. Very cool looking truck and one of the best episodes/adventures they did. Yeah, I give the polar bear one warning shot. The rest is going in the body if he charges.
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My neighbours dad had one years ago a 03, I remember he had dash open & behind the clock a wee note with “oh no not again” hand wrote on it haha!! 😂 think had 165kish when he bought it lol
Its hilarious to me when brits talk about off road rigs. I see trucks on the road with bigger tires in california haha. Just saw a 4runner on one ton axles and 40s going down hwy 49. Not to take away from this hilux at all that thing is amazing and one of the greatest episodes of top gear.
My Karin Everon in GTA V might have more miles. It sucks that the gin and tonic scene was cut. Having a gin and tonic because you're in international waters was hilarious.
I'm guessing that most viewers don't realize that "jet fuel" (aviation turbine fuel, commonly known as ATF or "avtur") and diesel fuel are essentially the same, so diesel engines can all run on jet fuel and gas turbine engines ("jets") can run on diesel. Jet A1 is the most commonly used specification worldwide. JP-8 is basically the same thing but with more additives (for corrosion inhibition and to lower freezing point) and is the standard fuel of the US military... including all ground vehicles.
The final position of the team was some 800 miles from the true geographic north pole and around 250 miles from the magnetic north pole at the time the programme was made. The distance covered from the starting point in Resolute was only around 350 miles. But still a fun episode!