Top Gear drives tank over tower bridge

shauncr91 · 1 Sep 2008 at 12:02

Just wondering if any londoners here got to see any of these going offs today, Top Gear drove a tank, F430 and a DB9 across londons tower bridge to launch their world tour

First I have heard of a world tour, definitely sounds interesting

Pic's courtesy of PH -

And the news article on ITN - http://itn.co.uk/news/fa8307e095c1626d9bac9e2c313c08de.html

Conscript · 1 Sep 2008 at 12:06

My sister works at the GLA, Ill ask if she saw anything.

David91 · 1 Sep 2008 at 12:13

aw damn, was in london from wednesday to sunday. cant beleive i missed a chance to see the legend that is jezza.

GeX · 1 Sep 2008 at 12:18

should've seen them in blackpool last friday, that was worth hanging about for.. honest!

RastaManBob · 1 Sep 2008 at 12:22

GeX said:
should've seen them in blackpool last friday, that was worth hanging about for.. honest!

It really wasn't

Less than 2 minutes... And no James May!!

BigT · 1 Sep 2008 at 14:34

This explains why my walk over the bridge this morning was more annoying than usual. THey closed half the pavements off to put scaffoldign up. Then I walked past the hotel on the North side and spotted the Ferrari. I thought it was a tad unusual since I've never seen a fezza with a roof rack, so I took a photo of it. Didn't realise it was Top Gear related:

shauncr91 · 1 Sep 2008 at 17:30

http://www.topgear.com/content/news/stories/3183/

Full story there, turns out it was a DBS, not a 9

theNude · 1 Sep 2008 at 18:01

noooo, i work right next to the bridge *looks out window*

never mind.

MattandJet · 1 Sep 2008 at 18:04

shauncr91 said:
http://www.topgear.com/content/news/stories/3183/

Full story there, turns out it was a DBS, not a 9

I was gonna say; they arent going to have AM's previous generation car lol. This is TG

paradigm · 2 Sep 2008 at 13:13

What's the tank?

TurboMonkey · 2 Sep 2008 at 15:36

Looks American to me.

Rotty · 2 Sep 2008 at 15:53

so they disrupted folks and used up police time for this, why ?

paradigm · 2 Sep 2008 at 16:07

Rotty said:
so they disrupted folks and used up police time for this, why ?

Fun? Publicity? Because they wanted to?

Who cares why, I wish I'd have been there to see the convoy

Rotty · 2 Sep 2008 at 16:15

paradigm said:
Fun? Publicity? Because they wanted to?

looks like I'm a grumpy old git then

seems pointless and annoying to me