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Sep 1, 2010 10:47 AM
anybody else watch this show...available on this side of the pond on BBC America...
it has become a "must see" for me...absolutely hilarious car reviews with some occasionally actual useful information, stunts, and celebrity driving contests.

The hosts have that typically dry British humor.

Manufactured their own electric car and drove it slowly, with many mishaps, around London.
Sep 1, 2010 10:47am
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Sep 1, 2010 10:49 AM
Probably the best show on TV, save for the interviews of famous brit people. The race across the south of the USA was probably my favorite segment they did.
Sep 1, 2010 10:49am
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Sep 1, 2010 10:51 AM
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Sep 1, 2010 10:56 AM
Jeremy Clarkson is awesome, I love that show.
Sep 1, 2010 10:56am
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Sep 1, 2010 11:08 AM
The Hilary for president car one of them drove through Alabama, that almost got them killed by red necks

Sep 1, 2010 11:08am
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Sep 1, 2010 12:10 PM
The newer ones aren't as good as the old episodes, IMHO.
Sep 1, 2010 12:10pm
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Sep 1, 2010 12:11 PM
I love it.
Sep 1, 2010 12:11pm
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Sep 1, 2010 1:36 PM
Love it. It's a shame they can't come back and entertain due to the mishap in the south.

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Sep 1, 2010 1:36pm
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Sep 1, 2010 1:39 PM
I just started watching this in the past month, I've enjoyed it thus far.
Sep 1, 2010 1:39pm
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Sep 1, 2010 2:33 PM
One of my favorite shows. Clarkson is hilarious. Anyone see the episode when they were racing with buses? It was nuts!
Sep 1, 2010 2:33pm
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Sep 1, 2010 5:11 PM
Absolutely love this show. The race across the south was absolutely hilarious.

This is one of my favorites as well. A fan writes in complaining they never do any regular car reviews, and what Clarkson does is just awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zy78tFPQwQ&p=ECCFE8FFE8492C7D&playnext=1&index=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYIyCmcuQno&feature=related
Sep 1, 2010 5:11pm
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Sep 1, 2010 6:24 PM
My favorite is the Toyota truck test.
[video=youtube;OVkedyQZfwQ][/video]

Part 2
[video=youtube;0Uc4Ksz3nHM][/video]

Part 3
[video=youtube;YfZDtC9kjVk][/video]


Second favorite is where an apache has to get missile lock on a Lotus Exige.
[video=youtube;hCC7LrHu7cw][/video]
Sep 1, 2010 6:24pm
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Sep 1, 2010 6:58 PM
I think I may have seen the british version(I was in Scotland) , where the older guy had a 3 wheel car and would flip it over on purpose to make people have to pick it back up for him. Pretty funny.
Sep 1, 2010 6:58pm
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Sep 1, 2010 9:00 PM
OneBuckeye;467995 wrote:Probably the best show on TV, save for the interviews of famous brit people. The race across the south of the USA was probably my favorite segment they did.
My favorite show, no doubt.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxflDjfBdoI
Sep 1, 2010 9:00pm
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Sep 2, 2010 3:55 AM
Love it.
Sep 2, 2010 3:55am
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Terry_Tate

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Sep 2, 2010 9:53 AM
Jeremy driving the world's smallest production vehicle

[video=youtube;dJfSS0ZXYdo][/video]

Jeremy driving the aforementioned 3 wheel Reliant Robin

http://www.streetfire.net/video/top-gear-reliant-robin_2032682.htm

So many great clips from this show.
Sep 2, 2010 9:53am
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Sep 2, 2010 12:22 PM
Top Gear is my favorite show on TV. Have a ton of episodes DVR'ed. It is hilarious...I will be watching it and some friends or family sit down to watch it with me...I start busting up laughing at something and they sit there and don't get it. I think I cry laughing so hard in every episode. For some reason their humor cracks me up. I recommend it to everybody I know.
Sep 2, 2010 12:22pm
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Sep 2, 2010 1:10 PM
The Stig is revealed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11162227
Sep 2, 2010 1:10pm
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Sep 18, 2010 5:51 PM
I started watching this show this past week, and it took me all of two minutes to get hooked. Marathon of every episode starts next Friday at midnight, and my DVR is set.

Read on wikipedia that this show is watched by an estimated 350 Million, yes 350,000,000 people worldwide. Wow.
Sep 18, 2010 5:51pm
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Sep 18, 2010 8:51 PM
Love it.
The truck driver episode and the race to the north pole or two of my favorites, along with the Bugatti Veyron racing a fighter jet.
Sep 18, 2010 8:51pm
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Sep 18, 2010 9:29 PM
MrPoke;488649 wrote:Love it.
The truck driver episode and the race to the north pole or two of my favorites, along with the Bugatti Veyron racing a fighter jet.
The first episode I watched was the race to the pole, and it was incredible!
Sep 18, 2010 9:29pm
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Sep 19, 2010 11:52 AM
I understand the premise and actually appreciate the humor in the the show but still....there's a part of me that has a difficult time dealing with the blatant anti-Americanism in it.
Sep 19, 2010 11:52am
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Sep 19, 2010 2:53 PM
believer;489409 wrote:I understand the premise and actually appreciate the humor in the the show but still....there's a part of me that has a difficult time dealing with the blatant anti-Americanism in it.

I haven't really noticed any of it, although I have only seen a couple of episodes. They seem to be pretty kind towards our cars, and I thought most of it was just tongue and cheek.

I actually thought for Brits, they were pretty damn conservative.
Sep 19, 2010 2:53pm