The Scenic Route to Iraq | Top Gear
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- čas přidán 18. 04. 2011
- In the back of a Russian cargo plane, the boys discuss the cars they've bought for their road trip and get ready for landing, but end up with a rather more scenic view than expected!
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Friendly reminder that they were safer during this entire episode than they were going through Alabama for twenty minutes.
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❄!!!
"Have you ever seen a television program called the news?"
"Yeah I'm aware of it"
😂
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
The US: sends drone bombs
The UK:
Sends middle aged men in convertibles
As spies
look at ur likes xd
@@LeonekYTSatan obviously likes this one chief
@@GruigiTheFirst5008 ikr man
Lmao, Jeremy is wearing an East German helmet, Richard, a NATO helmet and May, a UN helmet
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)
Doors open -
Clarkson: OH MY GOD!
Hammond: *uncontrolled screaming*
May: It's a runway! :D
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
It's so melancholy to see the top gear presenters drive through Syrian and Iraqi cities. This was made before ISIS, before the Syrian civil war picked up steam... to see the clean, bustling Syrian streets, knowing that by now most of them are ravaged war zones... it's a sad thing.
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
I forget sometimes that these specials are not just 1-2 hours long, but probably weeks. These guys spend a long time to create entertainment and I salute them.
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 🤣
Hammond: screaming in agony
Clarkson: standing on the brake pedal
James: "oh look i just saw a runway"
😂
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 like how Hammond and May got more modern helmets, and Clarkson got an old East German helmet
@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.
That has to be the coolest air service on earth!
"We will pay you to take a big ass plane, load it with our guys and 3 cars, fly around like it's a roller coaster, open the cargo doors while flying, abort a landing, and set down in Iraq. You in?"
"ДA!"
"Hold my vodka..."
O curva!
exactly what happen comrade
Iran
@@memonavaramirez6261 kurwa*
Has no one noticed that they have a German car, a Japanese car, and an Italian car?
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
"Bethlehem is 1200 miles away but between here and there, there are a few wars"🤣🤣🤣
If they did this today They would totally go the other way round and avoid Syria
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.
Don't forget that this episode was made before Isis and the Syrian civil war broke out...
+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
"we're not three wise man. We're one wise man, an idiot and a cheat."
HAHAHA!!! I loved that!
Ikr
It’s funny how this trip ended up being less dangerous than their trip through the Southern USA
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
Producer's: hey, let's open the rear doors mid-flight and scare the boys shitless. It'd be good for a laugh :-)
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.
at least you didnt land in Detroit
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
‘Mum can we have fast and furious 8?’ ‘No we have fast and furious at home’ 2:50
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
7:33
That's probably the most British thing I've ever seen Jeremy do. It was so sarcastic and then the follow up question about the news and the way he took his glasses off and the pause after he politely says "perhaps." It was like watching one of the 18th century British explorers with a Pith helmet respond to a stupid question.
"have you ever seen a television program called.... the news?" haha
"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
I've noticed that when Jeremy was talking about Mosul and Baghdad being places to avoid, traces of his original South Yorkshire accent were evident.
Interesting. Time stamp? Why do you think that happened?
@@hytk6481 Probably cause he was shit scared.
😂
@@hytk6481 7:33
Ahhhhh the famously advanced protective properties of a big shed
It's amazing what 4 walls and a ceiling do to the human psyche
Yep
"Have you ever seen a television program called the news?" One of their best lines
No one can beat the original Topgear team.They where the best idiots for the script because it's grown around those people.
BIG UP NOEL EDMONDS AND ANGELA RIPPON
This episode is quite special. It was from 2011 and they drove through Syria and northern irak. Seing the stunning scenery and the people who live there. And now at exact the place where they drove along some years ago, now there is such a massacre.
I would be really interested in the thoughts thes three guys have nowaydays about that journey
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.
You can tell how scared Jeremy was by the way he held his breaks on his car for the entire time the cargo door was open
Where they landed is actually one of the most safest places in Iraq, on the map they opened, it shows as Arbil but it's actually called Erbil and is displayed as Erbil if you check on google maps. They landed in some sort of military base instead of Erbil's elegant airport.
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
I can completely understand the sweaty armpits of Hammond at 3:50
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
That was a flyby to make sure the runway was free of debris.
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
Months later, this route will be impassable due to civil war
3:40 is it me or I hear this sound everywhere..
"have you ever seen a television program called the news?" "well I'm aware of it." ROFL that was so funny!
"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.
"HAMMOND, PUT YOUR HAND BRAKE ON!" Hahahahaha
"If the straps break, I'm *BAHAHAHAHA!!!!"* 😂😂😂😂
This is on eof my favourite May lines 😂😂
"HAMMOND PUT YOUR HANDBRAKE DOWN!"
Also
"Hammond, tell me, have you seen a television program called the news?"
“We’re banking aren’t we”
Clarkson winks at the camera
0:32 bringing a car registered in Georgia onto a Russian plane. Oh the irony
+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
Next you guys can try a downtown drive in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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
Clarkson: OH MY GOD OOOHHHH
Hammond: AHHHHHHHHHHHH
May : /
May: I've just seen a runway :D
This video is magical for me when I was a kid I always watched top gear so much memories it’s a shame bbc fired them they were legends
"I hope you have car insurance!" Niko Bellic
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!
guess how i escaped IRAQ.
IRAN
SYRIAsly?
lol
+derrick martin stop
derrick martin ;)
Ray Walker those two pieces of meat are my tits :)
lol
Jeremy: "Have you seen a television programme called... THE NEWS??" 🤣
Kudos to the lads in the cockpit, that was brilliant
Hammond and Clarkson's faces after the pilot intentionally doesn't land are priceless! 3:06
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?
the Il-76 is famous for its long takeoff distance, but in this, the pilots shown that it is highly maneuverable. anyway, quote of the scene: "if this straps break I'm GYAAAHAHAHAAA...!!!"
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.
3:15 I love how Hammond has his brakes slammed in + handbrake + straps
EDIT: seems to be Clarkson
I bought a black Z3 recently and its so weirdly satisfying to see my own car used on a Top Gear special
They thought Mosul was bad in 2011. Then ISIL happened.
+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?
"There are a few wars along the way."
Literally haveing to be strapped down so they don't fall out
"Hammond put the hand break on"
I love how the MI 17 is spectating some headless chickens making a clown of themselves.
*pulls a steel armor plate out of plate holder*
"kevlar"
*FACEPALM*
+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
Loving the part with Richard screaming his head off, while James it shouting advice to him and happily pointing out that he's just seen a runway. One's freaking out, the other one's just all "yeah, whatever..."
after 9 years im watching this, i remember this day as its yesterday cuz i was really sad i wasn't old enough to come to erbil and meet you i knew its my only chance to see you
I always love the line “have you ever heard of a television program called... The News”
7:37 "Have you ever seen a television program called..THE NEWS!" Haaaa!
Jeremy Clarkson: "Have you ever seen a television program called the news?" LOL!!!!
i love old top gear so much
IL-76 carries 3 convertible cars
6:04 🤣😅😂
series 16, episode 2 you're welcome!
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.
"(...)As Israel will not allow cars registered in its surrounding neighbours to enter its borders, they must buy cars from Georgia before flying to their destination in an Ilyushin_Il-76 cargo plane."
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.
4:02
That's an Ilyushin Il-76 Candid
Being a pilot from this point of view seems like the best thing ever!
I love that Jezza's got his brakes on during the landing :D
> Legendary reliability
> BMW
May just proved that he knows nothing about reliability
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
they’re sense of humor really makes my day 🤣
I'm in a big shed.
Bravo Hamster, bravo
3:50 shows Hammond was sh*tting his pants lololol
I don't know why but "Hammond! Put your handbrake on!" always makes me laugh. Probably because, as usual, May is being the sensible one while Jeremy and Hammond are wigging out in front. To be fair, I would be screaming too! I was laughing so hard while watching the last episode of the final series when Hammond was seated (literally) on the acrobatics plane cause I was thinking about this episode. The poor guy is always being flung through the sky with only little cloth pieces to hold him!
the part in the syrian desert is pure gold, and the ending is the best plot twist since keyser soze
This brings me back
Huh. "Mosul is as bad as it gets anywhere in the world right now". funny how that sentence is still applicable.
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
3:10
Richard : WOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Jeremy: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!... We're coming in again.... landing this time, sunshine!
Kevin Lumoindong I
@@lowgunfire2671 he said land it this time, sunshine
That Fiat showed one of the most enjoyable character of any cars in these challenges. Lovely little car! And Oliver, of course!😂
This whole opening scene is so cool
6:43 lol the soldier is waving ^^
Why did only Jeremy that wear the East German battle helmet?
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
This shows up in my recommendation in 2020 and feel like im gonnq get recruited
7:36 somehow I find that hilarious. I mean the way he says it just tickles me.
4:20 Ah, Jeremy, that there is a Rifle Plate. It's either made of steel or a certain kind of ceramic. It can take rifle rounds, not just pistol rounds and fragmentation. Downsides: the plate is heavy, uncomfortable, and is quite small compared to the rest of your chest. But the little rifle protection is better than nothing.
I just watched the full episode, and, i have no words. I havent been bored 1 sec in 76 minutes.Its just epic.Thank you TopGear
I feel like crying 😢....
Who else doesn't miss these guys?😢😢😢
I love the F&F style thing with the jet
That landing was so so SO COOL. I want a go now.
2:04: They got a glimpse of what Top Gear would be like after they left. That's why they screamed.
Sees title with iraq in it..
Realises that the humor will be the bomb
I like how they could source kevlar lids for two people, but Jeremy's ended up with a steel Eastern Bloc job.
HAHHHA the line "have you ever seen the television program called 'THE NEWS' "
I'm aware of it.
we should make a meme out of it.
Lol, they are in Arbil... that's the safest place in Iraq. I believe it's safer than most nighborhoods in The U.S.
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
2020 now...and still sad over watching this episode
Its mad that this episode is 10 + years old. How time flies eh
but.............................wheres the rest
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.
Did May say "legendary German reliability"? I almost chocked on my coffee when I heard that :)
One hell of a landing experience!
The place they went to in this special where they had a load of those happy young fans surrounding them and taking pictures was Al-Raqqah in Syria.
It's chilling and heartbreaking to think what those people have seen since 2011. Or how many of them wouldn't have made it.
James : did you stall ?
Jeremy: yes, I did
😂
3:10 Jeremy's Face Is Priceless
I agree with clarksons car choice
love the NVA helmet clarkson got