The perfect pilot vehicle

[KAG]

Just saw this on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3uvx93QV1U
It would be the perfect truck for a new broke pilot...it just never dies.

[iflyforpie]

An old Top Gear gem. Beater challenges are the best!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRFf6rGb3K0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx0S3cIW-q8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7wa-h_4 ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jPaYnaKVDk

[SuperchargedRS]

How did Toyota go from making a gem of engineering like the hilux to making the prius

[longjon]

Go to Africa, one of the demands with a hostage taken is a TOYOTA. Did the English ever lose out with the demise of the Rover.They absolutly LOVE the Toyota brand on the dark continent.

[SuperchargedRS]

Does the hilux come with that roll cage (looks like it even has some bars inside the winshield) or did they just do that for the show?

[Just another canuck]

Yeah, they smash the hell out of that truck a couple times... it now stands as a trophy on set at the studio. My favourite episodes are the Vietnam one where they had to drive from Ho Chi Minh to Hanoi on scooters and the one where they raced from Resolute (I think) to the North Pole (magnetic)... Jeremy and James drove a custom Toyota truck and Hammond went by dog sled. The truck one the race, but they had help along the way.

[Expat]

Yep! Afghanistan, 35 million people, 95% Toyotas!!!

Even us...

[iflyforpie]

Richard Hammond's Land Cruiser fails spectacularly several times during the Top Gear Bolivia Challenge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4V-vaKMC24

(use links for the other parts).

Still tough to imagine driving a vehicle higher than most planes fly...

[culver10]

I thought the perfect “pilot vehicle” would have at least 5 mirrors on the inside so he/she can admire how cool they look in their Raybans and spiffy blue polyester suit?

[Dust Devil]

Richard Hammond's Land Cruiser fails spectacularly several times during the Top Gear Bolivia Challenge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4V-vaKMC24

(use links for the other parts).

Still tough to imagine driving a vehicle higher than most planes fly...

Thanks a lot I just burned my whole afternoon watching the Bolivia Challenge.

Pretty cool stuff

[iflyforpie]

Top Gear is my son's favorite show...

[Hedley]

Top Gear is usually worth watching, but their parochial national bias - which I am sure they would dump on any other country for displaying - gets a bit tiring after a while.

Typical: they review a Jag, a Merc and a BMW. The Merc and BMW thrash the Jag which fails to make it around the track because the transmission jams in first gear and then the wheels fall off, and then it catches fire.

Top Gear concludes the Jag is the best car because of "100 bonus style points" they awarded it.


Next week they review an Aston Martin, a Ferrari and a Corvette. The Ferrari and Corvette trounce the Aston Martin on the track which doesn't even make it around one lap because the Aston Martin's differential fails, and then they can't even get out of the Aston Martin after it coasts to a stop on the back stretch because the electrical system goes bananas and the windows won't go down and the doors won't unlock. They have to call the fire department and the Jaws of Life are used to cut open the Aston Martin to get the driver out.

Top Gear concludes the Aston Martin is the best car because of "100 bonus style points" they awarded it.


What a bunch of Brit bananas. Yawn. What's on the Military Channel again?

[iflyforpie]

What's on the Military Channel again?

Speaking of parochial national bias... the next program coming up is how the United States singlehandedly won World War Two in a mere three and a half years...

[rigpiggy]

http://www.japan-partner.com/Auto/10169 ... -sale.html

probably get it landed here for 8k

[Expat]

Top Gear is usually worth watching, but their parochial national bias - which I am sure they would dump on any other country for displaying - gets a bit tiring after a while.

Typical: they review a Jag, a Merc and a BMW. The Merc and BMW thrash the Jag which fails to make it around the track because the transmission jams in first gear and then the wheels fall off, and then it catches fire.

Top Gear concludes the Jag is the best car because of "100 bonus style points" they awarded it.


Next week they review an Aston Martin, a Ferrari and a Corvette. The Ferrari and Corvette trounce the Aston Martin on the track which doesn't even make it around one lap because the Aston Martin's differential fails, and then they can't even get out of the Aston Martin after it coasts to a stop on the back stretch because the electrical system goes bananas and the windows won't go down and the doors won't unlock. They have to call the fire department and the Jaws of Life are used to cut open the Aston Martin to get the driver out.

Top Gear concludes the Aston Martin is the best car because of "100 bonus style points" they awarded it.


What a bunch of Brit bananas. Yawn. What's on the Military Channel again?

Enough of watching these two gay-looking guys drive incompetently. What is on Al-Jazeirah again???

[Expat]

What's on the Military Channel again?

Speaking of parochial national bias... the next program coming up is how the United States singlehandedly won World War Two in a mere three and a half years...

Do not mention it to the guys from a country that lost 25 million people during the war, and caused the US to jump in when all was OK...