Top Gear's wild ride
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- čas přidán 13. 08. 2011
- Steve Kroft reports on "Top Gear," a TV show whose witty humor, outrageous speed, destructive vehicle stunts and car reviews attract an estimated weekly worldwide audience of 350 million according to the BBC.
"Top Gear is a billion dollar global goldmine for the BBC." Well, it was...
+azapro911 and can you get, why it was closed?:D
If Jeremy and Andy hadn't sold their rights for the show to the BBC, they could have been Billionaires.
Or rather closed after one and a half seasons and sued for a total amount of annual budget of a 1st world country.
BBC is public state television, paid for by the taxpayers, protected in its existence by laws of UK and an army of top Cambridge law school sharks, in order to carry the beacon on. There is no way anybody could've personally dodged as many bullets as Top Gear did under BBC.
While absolutely true, they probably also needed the investment from the BBC in order to push Top Gear to be what it is.
of course, "it was very expensive show", but anyway, it was goldmine for BBC.
One of the best interviewers this guy. Never even once interrupted and listened attentively to what Clarkson May and Hammond had to say. He left all the talking to them and looked entertained as well. And he didn't shy away from showing the unpleasant incident in Alabama even though he's an American himself.
It’s always funny and quite fascinating when they do road trips in dangerous or underdeveloped countries. I think they do a decent job at showing it’s not all like the stereotypes but some of it is.
I find it amazing how they've been to some of the poorest war-torn regions in the world, yet there were only two places that they truly faced any danger from the locals: Argentina and the US.
That's because Alabama is a joke to the rest of the US too lol
Is there a link to the full interview?
@@martinnjoroge7867 I too searched a lot but couldn't find any
Explaining Top Gear is so hard, the journey through a bloke's mind, three middle-aged guys with chemistry, what the hell is that?. But it all makes sense when you watched the show
2 Middle Aged Guys and a 38 Year Old.
if someone asks me to explain it i just tell them to watch it because its impossible. Just watch it and I promise it will be great
An wild orangutan, an OCD-ridden grandma and an accident-prone hamster
and the BBC threw it all away lol
lee taylor Kiddy shagging morons the lot of them.
Clarkson was the one that did that, not the BBC.
Yeah, I guess your idea of entertainment is watching the kartrashian, towie, and other brain rotting TV reality shows.
Your opinion is pointless, like you oh 'dead men tell no tales.'
With good reason matey ejl1000.
In fairness the Beeb's hands were tied.
Hamster didn't have his teeth whitened, damnit. He just stood next to Jeremy and it made his look absolutely flawless.
Young Frankenstein but he dyed his hair tho?
@@Thigrandil yes he did
I don't understand the drunk driving argument here. It's not the public roads, not even someone's field or a backgarden. Who were they going to hurt? A strayed seal? An eskimo? Were they going to crash into an igloo?
I am all for punishing drunk drivers and I believe in no excuses as to why they had to get behind the wheel. But this - this is different and if someone has a problem with that - they are just picking holes...
+Jackie Scholl - they crushed into ice while sober. As for crashing into the camera crew car (no one was running along side) I think that people whose job is to pay attention to hosts car would notice in advance if it would get dangerously close or If they would have one to many. After all in most countries you are still good to drive after one small drink.
They are actually in international waters there so you can drink and technically drive legally. What I find more interesting, is that if you hijack a car there... You'd be a pirate.
@grisznik - Some people just tend to always need something or someone to complain about.
Y’all a bunch of ‘tards! Go smoke some poles 🐓🍭’s
There was no speedlimit signs and certinally no cops to give tickets
The main complaint nowadays must be: "Its not on anymore ..."
Muck006, it is......on CZcams....but I agree as it was just about the only TV show on the BBC that was worth watching.
Grand tour baby
i love their morbid sense of humor when it comes to dying. saying "anyway..." moving on, and finding a similar replacement. it really speaks to me and i don't know why.
10:10 Jeremy's words of wisdom. He's absolutely right.
Nice name lol
Twitter
BBC threw away a giant diamond, then Amazon picked it up
When he say's BMW owners are 'WINNER' types, he's so right. My gf's dad is exactly how he describes, and he has a beamer.
12:31 “he was operating at the very limit of his capacity” 🤣 well it is a hick town as the woman said
"Hammond is the only one who BOTHERS to whiten his teeth" - hahaha! That's American mentality right there....
mrnoodles100 Yep ... even not believing Hammond when he says he didnt do it ... "we know better" (probably because the NSA got hold of a bill sent to Hammond via email).
mrnoodles100 it sounds more like clarkson and/or may told the producers of sixty minutes that it would really piss off the hamster if they said that
Whats wrong with getting your teeth whitened? I use the crest strips to whiten my teeth once a year
He should have said "Hammond is the only one who bothers to BRUSH his teeth."
Bothers.... Jeez!
Tom cruise didn't nearly kill himself...
Karl Hillary "must agree to drive an underpowered car ..." clearly shows that someone doesnt understand the whole thing.
+Karl Hillary You mean a journalist exaggerated something for a sensationalist effect? Holy shit, right?
His car had a rollcage and bucket seats.How?
Listening to Steve Kroft say "blokes" is like listening to nails on a chalkboard
I think it was Hammond that said "we really are the cutting edge of cocking about". Which is a 100% accurate description of Top Gear/ Grand Tour.
Argentina was worst than all Alabama
+Theextreme enigma - Argentina was few years after this interview.
Theextreme enigma yeh the argies couldn't take a joke oh and getting there arse kicked by us aswell lol
froggo doggo that's not entirely true.
+froggo doggo well, I really don't mean to play the devil's advocate for americans here, can't stand 'em like the next guy, however also in Argentina the problem arose because of the interpretation of a number plate... if that is much smarter
Chitwan S no. It wasn’t.
My daughter is 11 and loves the show Mostly because she can understand the interaction of the guys as they act 11 - And yes I LOVE it also - But then I am a grown up 11 yearold also.
You're eleven and your daughter is eleven makes sense
You failed at being funny. Why are people always trying to be funny, when watching top gear? lol
Especially Jeremy. Reminds me of myself with the recklessness
The Alabama thing was the best thing ever 😂😂
@Matthew Hopkins Wasn't the Argentina things after this?
@@danield8528 argentina one was highly dangerous tbh
They got mad at the show for glorifying speed? But...
“Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that’s what gets you.”
I love this interview. Well done, CBS.
What makes Top Gear the best show in the world : 25% Jeremy Clarkson, 25% Richard Hammond, 25% James May, 15% The Stig and 10% cars.
"SPEED SAVES LIVES!!!"
"SPEED AND POWAAAA!!!"
Hahahaha I love Clarkson!
"It's a journey into the Male's mind, .....a fun place....cause nothing really happens there!!!" haha
BBC, 2011: Top Gear is our gold mine.
BBC, now: Top what?
Best show on the planet. Especially if you watch the BBC2 airing that includes all the excellent music (that gets stripped out on the BBC America airings)
They remove the music? WTF?
I absolutely love Top Gear UK. These guys have the best job in the world and I would love to have it. I do hope it goes for another 10 years with the fantastic trio.
Renee Leighton YOU JINXED IT!
Jinxed what?
Renee Leighton Well, since Jeremy got fired and the other two didn't renew their contracts... I guess he's blaming you for jinxing the show by wishing another 10 years lol - Thankfully they're rebooting on another channel :)
diablothe2nd yeah I figured that out, eventually. I made that comment 9 months ago, long before the "fracas". People should realise that a comment made months ago needs a more complete reference when one comments on said post. Just saying.
Renee Leighton Jesus Christ Renee, they were having a laugh!
There is nothing feigning about the Hamster's sincerity.
Top gear will never be the same again
"An all men line up" equals sexism?! Oh for the sake of all that is good and funny... I'm a woman and I love Top Gear, the original series. Watching reruns on Spike.. Loved their humor and chemistry.. (don't have access to Amazon or where ever it's on nowadays)
11:01 Obviously this was before the Argentinian episodes.
Americans have that unique ability to make the hilarious mundane!!
Lol @ stiggy with a walkie talkie on his hip...He uses Morse code to communicate with it..
Unwilling Participant I remember a series where he would listen to Morse code in that weeks car as he went round the track in whatever super car they had. Good times...
The Stig drove my daughter and me around the the track in 2015. It was a thing you could do. There was the choice of a “Hot Lap with The Stig”, a lap in “The Reasonably Priced Car”, drive an Aerial Atom, or go off road ping in a 110 Land Rover Defender.
Will be great see this full episode
absolutely amazing group of guys
What a great interviewer! Best segment ive seen. And he didnt even shy from showing the ugly (but also because it was hilarious) side of the america special despite being an american himself.
What I do want to know if someone could tell, when James car broke down why did they decide to jump start it when a gang with guns are behind them. Why didn't James just got into hammond's car and drove off.
Well at least Hammond got that near-fatal crash thing out of the way. Couldn't possibly happen more than once, could it?
I could not imagine him going down a swiss mountain in a lady shaver.
"Are yall gay trying to see how long it takes to get beat up"
That woman had obviously read the plot of the script. She didn't just work out what they were doing by herself.
Where i find this episode full version?
+HanZie82 The Toyboata was for the first challenge, the channel crossing they did in a Nissan
***** Yep they took the Toyota Hilux to Bristol on an earlier occasion. But I think they tried to cross the channel earlier and it totally very didn't work. So they reattempted it and got it right.
+Stan Dando No they tried to do it in separate cars on a lake but then the producers decided that they wanted to try it again so Top Gear (being Top Gear) decided to drive to Dover and travel across the Channel in new cars that they bought themselves. They all had individual boats but James's boat hit the pier so he shared Richard's boat. Then Richard's boat sank and James "got a bit bored of sinking" so they all shared Jeremy's boat. Then Jeremy came up with the idea of trying to break Richard Branson's (or Beardy Branson, as Jeremy would call him) record of travelling across the Channel to France in an amphibious car so they had to go back so they could go all go in the Toyboata and try and have a go at the record. They were unsuccessful, as you could probably guess.
+BigBadBuzzRoyt You are correct. But somehow i didn't get notified about your comment.
Thanks for the correction and my apologys for my 1st comment. Which was obviously flawed.
JEREMY CLARKSON RICHARD HAMMOND JAMES MAY ARE THE BEST FOR RELAXATION LAUGHS AND INFO ON CARS KEEP IT COMING GUYS
LOVE YOU😘
Hammond is the only one who bothered to feign sincerity when trying to explain the show. That got me more than the teeth lol
Part car show, part Monty python, part good buddy movie = perfection!
Greatest Trio Ever Existed in History
What an Epic legacy They accomplished So jealous of them
2:37 Just hearing Hammond scream "FIRE!" is funny to me... Especially when it is the truck is very obviously on fire.
That’s Hammond
@@jaymercer4692 good shout
The interviewer was clearly entertained, brings a smile to my face
Top gear was a Top show. This is a great documentary to equal the quality of the show. Well done
but none of them can ever be replaced
Wish it was still on
You can at least watch the Grand Tour..
10:17 are you listening BBC ?, this is a big reason Evans TOP GEAR really STINKS you PC obsessed boneheads !!!
That, and the shouty Ginger....
The best show there is..!
ndhn100 *was...*Sob*
Hiwired96 "Anyway here's the new ford..."
+ndhn100 Too bad those nimrods in Alabama couldn't see that.
Where i find this 60min program full on Internet????? Please help
I think this interview was conducted before the Argentina segment
Love that even cbs knew it was mostly about these three not the cars
It was a TOYBOATA that crossed the channel, not a NISSAN!😂
If you drive a 3 ton Hilux in a race against your mate on a dogsled on top of really cold water, drinking and driving (keeping in mind ISS would most likely be closer than any form of road) would be one of the last thing I would worry about.
Greatest TV show ever made in my opinion,Clarkson May and Hammond version obviously.
Also love topgear!. Just have a question. When you get to see them IRL on the show, Do you get to talk to them while they watch the main missions?
I don't know that, but I do know that you can't get to talk to them on the Top Gear Live shows.
kewk ng I doubt they sit and watch the film inserts in real time.
Speed and Power!!!
Best show, in the world.
They're the Monty Pyton of the car world
Have you watched top gear unauthorised? It focuses on the period between 1988 ad 2015. Its on youtube
Best show in the world! My son and I had so many laughs watching Top Gear UK when these three were presenting. What made it so attractive is they are so un-PC in a PC world. How refreshing!
I like this interview. Good job.
bring it back... please pritty please with sugar on it
One word, LEGENDS.
7:34 even before they set off Steve was scared out of his mind XD
"Tom Cruise almost killed himself" Weeeel, he was up on two wheel. I wouldn`t say that`s almost killing yourself, not in that car lol.. :p
Would like to watch full inteeview?
Amazing show, sad that even The Grand Tour is technically done though they are doing a few specials.
Damn fine television
5:20 campers are those in the vehicle, a campervan is the thing being towed
11:57 He should have only said that he was married. Hahaha
Why are 60 minute clips are always less than 15 mins
Billion dollar for the BBC, and they butcher the golden goose who laid those golden egg for em
After working decades at dragstrips and Bonneville Salt Flats all I can say is that didn't look like 300 mph. The jet dragster may be capable of it, but would the owners and the BBC insurance company allow him to drive it that fast?
He didn't get to make it that fast before the tire blew. Since they've been driving for around 90 years collectively, have had plenty of practice, and have driven with experts in every aspect, and have done much more reckless tests and trips, they aren't an insurance risk. Even if they were, I'm sure they have had the time to get enough money to cover death. But thanks for the professional take on this...
TheSkittles1001
TheSkittles1001 sorry. My phone is a bit quirky.
TheSkittles1001 ". Since they've been driving for around 90 years collectively, have had plenty of practice" That's like saying I've just started parachute jumping and got 1 successful jump under my belt so now i'll never fail because I will always jump with my two other friends who have both been jumping for 50 years so I've got 101 years experience
Richard nearly dies - show goes on1 punch - show ends...
how is this being recommended to me a decade later
Best show ever
*350 million*
Golly
Did that host/voice over man do gta iv the history of liberty?
It’s technically sailing
This was the best top gear
Wilman looks so young!
yeah. starting with the "transfagarasean" in romania!
How did I never saw this?!
fullfill you life please ☺ from the 1st season to the 22nd ☺
This guy's voice makes me fall asleep
"subliminally sexist" Are you fucking kidding me?
made me laugh too! I will stand up for my fellow women any day but the reason this show works so well is because the blokey chemistry that happens
I hope the new Amazon version keeps the chemistry going. But I am not counting my chickens. I fear they demanded so much money they are going to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Top Gear is hosted by a driver I’ve never heard of, a retired cricketer and an annoying northern game show presenter. Not the same as three professional car enthusiasts. Thank goodness for The Grand Tour.
Sorry but Chris Harris is one of the best automotive journalists that have ever lived.
The fact that you've never heard of Chris Harris completley destroys your point...
12:27 classic
What that man would be saying in 2016
"Top gear WAS a million dollar gold mine"
I didn’t know top gear was popular in America
It's a bit funny to have some foreign no-name guy try to present one of the biggest TV shows of all time like it was something people didn't know :D
its hilarious that they put Hillary for president on that car and now it might happen.
x_SAIYA-JIN it didn't
x_SAIYA-JIN lol trump chan
She went for president before though, she went against obama
x_SAIYA-JIN IT HAPPENED
xGUTS, now in 2018, she lost ha...ha...ha..and...ha, but Trump got elected...
This was the best show I used to watch it with my father but the bbc threw it all away
350 million viewers every week. Let’s concentrate on that.
idk why it makes me a lil' salty he didn't just say on the BBC