The sheer excitement in the hosts/engineer's faces was just epic. Even though I'm not there, you can feel the joy and exhilaration. Even though it crashed, the launch was a immense success!
6:59 "The tension now was almost unbearable. You can almost hear Jeremy preparing some intergalactic smugness" 🤣 BTW do someone remember the reliant robin top gear minigame on their website from ages ago? 👌
This channel is a god-send for Americans just discovering the joys of old Top Gear. I've never seen this video before, and it was glorious. When you think about it, they were ahead of their time to the glide bombs and drone warfare of the modern day.
Of all the memories of my very varied and unusual memories.... this will still be a memory when I'm saying goodbye. Kids....... this was when we had to wait until 7:30 on Monday evening to watch it on TV. Thanks Top Gear! I now haven't watched TV for years. Thanks technology!
Rubbish 13 year old conspiracy theory. The explosion at the end is from the fuel and rockets onboard the Robin itself (mentioned in the film it has 3 rockets to extend the glide if needed) and unspent fuel in the main orange tank.
There's videos on RU-vid that bystanders filmed with their own cameras, and you can clearly see it didn't explode anywhere near as big as in this video. Also the explosion here you can see it's like treetops/jungle but there aren't any trees where they are
@Azra386 watch it back at .25x speed, and you'll see that the grass is yellow just before the rocket hits, and then the grass with the explosion is a dark green. Which kinda sucks tbh, i wish they'd used the real one
an interesting side effect of the increase in pixels is that, if you look closely, you may notice that hammond is now barely visible. a quick fyi for those wondering where he had gone and why his disembodied voice was the only remaining semblance of his existence in the higher quality version of this clip
Watched this countless times over the years, and still hold out some small amount of hope once it lifts off that in fact the separation will occur. Of all the failed Top Gear silliness, this is the one I wish they’d come back to and have one more go 😅
There is a young future astronaut who has watched this, and has sworn that somehow, someway, they will be the one to get a Reliant Robin into space in the names of our trio.
Probably because due to the highly technical nature of the launch, the hosts weren't really involved (not that they're actually doing the majority of the mechanical work or whatever in other episodes. They have real mechanics for that). So they had to tack on things like digging the "bunker".
Love the uploads in HD but what a garbage choice of music for the detachment failure sequence - original was miles better but let me guess... licensing issue right?
Yeah, the broadcast can use whatever it wants due to BBC's funding model, but not on RU-vid (and possibly certain DVD compilations.) That's why Grand Tour's music is rather bland by comparison (along with everything else in that show, really).
