The Scenic Route to Iraq | Top Gear 

The difference is they didn’t deface the Iraqi Leaders or use offensive slangs toto their citizens.

true😂😂💀

True

And Alabama was even safer, despite offensive language, than the Falkland people getting pissy over a fucking plate.

@@armchairmaster I know right, they are❄!!!

Sends middle aged men in convertibles

As spies

look at ur likes xd

@@LeonekYTSatan obviously likes this one chief

@@GruigiTheFirst5008 ikr man

The peace ambassadors!

Really fits their personalities

Correct on the first two, but May is wearing a modern British helmet. Looks like the Mk 7 Ballistic Combat Helmet. The UN has a random assortment of old helmets that get given to them by countries like Britain, so they do have a bunch of the old Mk 6's, but it was still a British helmet first and foremost.

@@Sean-zf7il Oh, thanks for the heads up 😅 Didn't think about it

@@Sean-zf7il not a mk 6 or 7 mate, could a 1970/80 not ballistic jump helmet for the paras but definitely isn't Mk6 or Mk7 (no visor mount or ear defender bulge and a different rim cut to the mk 7)

And may has a fear or heights

"Put the handbrake on!"

@@ztm454 aye but he was at the back, he was the safest

Mays a pilot

@@Mimiczeylon I know but he's scared of heights as said in the Bolivia Special

@TheOneAndOnlyMuffinCat Nazi is an abbreviation of national-socialism. There's nothing cowardly about calling nazi germany national-socialist, it's just a fact.

@@PGraveDigger1 United States of Soviet Russia or USSR! :D

@@spamuraigranatabru1149 union of soviet socialist republics

@@watermalone5782 Yes i knew i got it wrong but come on, that was the perfect opportunity!

To me it looks like a YU-made helmet.

War only bring chaos

@@comrademkz6658 no shit

@@Tektabyte some people seem to not get it unfortunately.

@@ermisntaskas2414 like who. everyone knows it

They were in Haremi Kurdistan, kurdish people are divided ISIS attacked kurdish people areas and peshmerga are the ones who destroyed ISIS and their land is much safer than Arabic lands in iraq, Arbil is the safest spot in middle east

One of my favourite lines of the show ever!

Same though😂

Ask any teenager

@@subie1019 well there's no sense actually watching it, one third is gossipy nonsense, another third is complete and utter bullshit and the rest is so biased and exaggerated it may as well be bullshit, the only difference between the shows is who they're biased for

@@johnmccrossan9376 Ehh we get most of our news through Twitter and Instagram news hubs anyway lmao

What season and what episode is this?

Yeh they go all over the world

@@evansyrbos88 This was series 16, a special.

but at the same time they get paid for traveling and having some really fun things to do and drive cars. i would love this job

And too be fair we would watch all the 2 weeks of footage if they released it 🤣

It happened before the Syrian civil war

but they landed in Erbil

+Zozek Amedi The Syrian Civil War didn't start until several months after this was filmed

+Vharrel Devana Isis sandstorm

BBC is not allowed to Iran so today, they would probably go through Hatay and then Syria anyway. Syrian coast is still safe.

"Hold my vodka..."

O curva!

exactly what happen comrade

Iran

@@memonavaramirez6261 kurwa*

😂

James, knowing full well the other two cars in front of him were going to stop his if it rolled

It's clear which one has a pilots license

Hasn’t May stayed he’s afraid of heights.

@@HenryDoohickeyII Yes but only in specific circumstances. He is a professional pilot.

I'm only just noticing that

The reversing lights only work on the Italian car.

If James May looked at the driver's side door panel tyre sticker it should say BMW Greenville Spartanburg South Carolina. Therefore his car is the only German American due to it being made in South Carolina even his London race GLE Suv is from Alabama Benz

So what

This week, on Top Reich

+Geordie P What episode was this?

That being said, he was right about Mosul

+Geordie P But still, the epicenter of terrorism in the Middle East.

+Geordie P Iraq has been at war for a long time, bud

+The Dawkturr 7 % of the worlds terrorism comes from the Middle East, it's all perspective a USA fighter killing civilians by bombing cities is a terrorist to them

lol 😂😂😂

I live 1 mile away from Detroit

anyone ever watched the Fistful of Yen skit in Kentucky Fried Movie?

you are more likely to be killed in detroit but atleast it wouldnt be from a car bomb or be headed

Leslie Chow i

Tbf if they put the same gay slogans on their cars in Iraq they probably would have been stoned

@@FluffyBuzzard2TheMax they would have definitely been killed

@@FluffyBuzzard2TheMax same as in the USA then z😂

How about the argentina ones?

they didnt provoke the iraqis

If it had been me, the producers would've been dead the MILLISECOND I got off the plane.

Hammond was the funniest

Yeah and then what we’ll do is tell them we’re in Iraq

MichaelD8393 sure they would

GenericUsername they might do that to slow the plane or something.

For real?

+Jelarob Makes sense. I'll believe it.

No, the pilot did a fly by because the plane was to fast, you can only land at a certain speed depending on the length of the runway

crichton55 not just to show to the tv where they were?

+OfficialShadowKing It was to ensure the runway was clear. Trust a pilot

Ikr

Lets be honest tho, which woukd you rather watch

“Thanks, Mum!”

This is WAY better than F&F

Yes and like in fast and furious they weren’t actually in the cars while the planes bay doors were open lol

Interesting. Time stamp? Why do you think that happened?

@@hytk6481 Probably cause he was shit scared.

😂

@@hytk6481 7:33

Well, he was very nervous and stressed from the open cargo doors of the plane. After all, he was first in the row :D

Lars Brakel, he should use aluminium zirconium deodorant

@Teamgeist if kinda late...

Me to i live in a neighboring country isreal! And it's HOT

thats how my armpits look on a average day

It's amazing what 4 walls and a ceiling do to the human psyche

Yep

"I'm aware of it."

Lumin8 omg its simul8

Either Hammond is just a angry, easily excitable midget with height issues or he's simply oblivious to whatever happens outside his little Ross-on-Wye world.

Or this is a scripted comedic program made for entertainment. You decide.

G

Well, everyone knows that where ever these guys goes, Death and destruction follow

+16patie However, amazingly, after the Burma/Myanmar special, the first free elections in years were held there. The winner is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, so I suppose it's not all bad wherever Top Gear goes...

Myanmar just took longer than normal to react. Come to think of it, they did *two* specials in the U.S....

"The 3 petrol heads of the apocalypse"

16patie yeah. And then, after Burma special (or Myanmar), there's a "genocide" happened.

The landing was on the old airport, Erbil is pretty much the safest place you can get..

Well it’s all for show. They also weren’t in those cars while the planes bay doors were open. If you pay attention I some of the shots they’re literally not in the cars it’s just a little movie magic

erbil is safer than London these days

+LattiMonstaaa The plane is registered i Armenia however

+LattiMonstaaa For political reasons, they had to.

GodSaveThe UnitedKingdom thats a very nice touch if thats true

+LattiMonstaaa tho the plane does not belong to russia

+LattiMonstaaa yes

BIG UP NOEL EDMONDS AND ANGELA RIPPON

"Trust me Mosul is properly dangerous, that's as bad as it gets right now" And that was before ISIS were there

+Cwmbran1984 XD

+Cwmbran1984 *was not were

+PoliceMarksmen Jonathon Tremain Uhh... No it's were.

+PoliceMarksmen-Jonathon Tremain Also it's Marksman.

Why bother, it's all BS anyway!

Or Damascus and Aleppo

That's not a fun place...

Or just nuke the Middle East, restarts and name it new Russia

Do it in raqqa or mosul

lol

+derrick martin stop

derrick martin ;)

Ray Walker those two pieces of meat are my tits :)

lol

+xJEPA44 My exact reaction haha

+Hans Wurst oh, he would know the difference if he got shot.

+Hans Wurst Oh we are sorry, teach us more about "bulletresistant vests" so we can please you, oh omniscient one!

+Hans Wurst yeah, i think it's a boron carbide level IV plate that can stop 30-06 AP, but it still doesn't have kevlar in it

Yes because these experts aka CS GO players have been outside of their homes let alone in Iraq

May: I've just seen a runway :D

GTAIV can kiss my ass!

Its nice to see someone else loved gta iv

Michael Wootton Shit on the Baggies

Niko, it’s Roman, let’s go bowling!

"If the straps break, I'm *BAHAHAHAHA!!!!"* 😂😂😂😂

This is on eof my favourite May lines 😂😂

galihxtreme It’s a badass soviet plane tho

Honestly, where did they get an Il-76 in airworthy condition from?

@@Xiphactinus probably contracted somebody to deliver all their stuff.

@@teodoreberbach3651 there are a lot of ex military Il-76 flying around being used for cargo transport

@@aregularperson7573 that's literally what I said.

+Folopolis Lol I was thinking the same thing.

+Folopolis Really, the entire Middle East Special is impossible now due to ISIL and the civil war in Syria. It's quite sad, actually.

*IS

+Majestic Skywhale Yeah, I've recently decided that's the only name they deserve. They're not an Islamic State, and they're not confined to Iraq and the Levant-they've expanded their control to regions of Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. I'm calling them Daesh from now on.

Eccentric Gamer What makes them not an Islamic State?

he was checking the runway for debris, it wasnt to scare them

@@vitamins6611 Wrong. The low pass was just for show.

You do know they weren’t actually in the cars when the planes doors were open right?

Teatro Theageri the Z3 , worst sports car ever

Mercedes is better

Teatro Theageri lmao ikr, if you want reliability go for a Japanese car

I’ve heard bimmers are higher quality in Europe

BMW engines are pretty tough, it's just what's around them that breaks

appreciated :)

Thx

And I think you meant season 16

@@Birb_of_Judge it has the same meaning

Julian Kern what, instead of series? In the United Kingdom, we tend to say series.

Hammo in the subtitles

Cause he looks the funniest with it

I did think it was rather odd that Hammond and May got the modern kevlar helmets but Clarkson got stuck with that Soviet-era piece of junk.

It's his helmet. He bought it at a flea market in the former-GDR. Hammond and May presumably got whatever the BBC has in stock.

@@Orca19904 If it makes you feel any better, neither the PASGTs or the Russian helmet provide good ballistic protection. PASGTs and MICHs, as well as later evolutions of the MICH such as the ACH were made in prisons by a company called Federal Prison Industries, also operating under the trade name UNICORE. Besides not being stellar helmets at all to begin with. All information available indicates that PASGTs, MICHs and ACHs would routinely fail to defeat threats even out to distances well past 500 yards, and would also degrade over time because they were made of Kevlar in many cases, as opposed to the UHMWPE construction of more modern helmets like the FAST helmet. Also ~44,000 in United states inventory of the later ACHs were found to be defective. www.businessinsider.com/prisoners-made-helmets-for-the-us-military-and-they-were-defective-2016-8

@@mikethemaniac1 The "MICH" looks more like a British helmet to me

They landed in Iraq, not Iran.

Lmao the ignorance -

Isn't that good?

Oh, yeah.... I forgot WW3 was a genuine fear back in January 2020. Ah... you wouldn't have believed me if I told you back then but those were simpler times.

@@inigofenwick5108 I mean they predicted it with the 1820 and 1920 having plagues memes

It just has a completely different title.

Boys in burkas

You need to buy it.

Red Winter not on this channel

Red Winter not really, this channel only has two videos from this episode, so there can only be two parts.

n Linggod Definately applicable today.

4 years later... Still true lol

@@venoxee4954 what about aleppo?

Veno xee not really because isis hasn’t been in Iraq for two years

Funny is not exactly the term one would pick but yes

Maybe that not the cause, is really hot here in iraq

@@osama_falih Isn't there AC in the car?

@@nowtmrb3337 they're open top cars...

Il-76 doesn’t have climate control for cargo. It’s just hot as absolute sh*t over there

@@coopdrips512 huh?

Ohnoo but I thought Israel never does anything racist or apartheid-y s/

@@zenalseed1408 He's it is. Palistine is a made up terror state.

@@gggggggggggggggggg161 Has nothing to do with it you idiot, it is in war with its neighbours.

@@noco7243 So thats why isreal kills there cilivians then?

@@noco7243 You've got it flipped, friend. Palistine ain't the terror state created out of thin air.

Jeremy: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!... We're coming in again.... landing this time, sunshine!

Kevin Lumoindong I

@@lowgunfire2671 he said land it this time, sunshine

And how they used ERBILs castle for their dramatic scenes with ancient looks and narrow streets :D

yes safer as an constant military presence and burning buildings. Sounds about right mate.

marwan mahmoud yep. The would never drop them into a red zone.

As a iraqi the answer is simply it is not the safest.

Spoken like someone who's never been to the U.S Most? LOL

I'm aware of it.

we should make a meme out of it.