Top Gear: Series 19
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Yes, quite a few went for <£1500 on a well known auction site.
Associate
just get the 850 t5 and you can do top gear reenactments
Caporegime
I noticed this too. You see James putting on some new 850R wheels when his first ones cracked. Yet 2 minutes later he is running on after market black multi spokes.
It also looked to me they gave Hammonds car a wash after they fixed his suspension which I found odd and replaced all his wheels.
Also what is the point of the backup car in this? I guess it is really just for the producer to get in with the action? I know it apparently sank but if they were going to go to all that effort for Hammonds wishbone then the backup car seems kind of pointless.
I found it very surprising that the E39 which was the most unreliable car there ended up with all it's original wheels.
Soldato
Lol, had this been a modern BMW those alloys would have been turned to dust.
Soldato
Yup, sadly...
Needs to be 20 episodes long
Felt like part 1 was a bit better, but both good.
Has this series been rather short?. I thought there were usually more episodes?.
*EDIT* Perhaps not, I make that 4 'normal' episodes and then the 2 part Africa special, so about the norm.
Man of Honour
Surely they didn't actually find the source? Surely not on Top Gear
Great special though, loved it
Great special though, loved it
Soldato
It was good but not the best TG Special they have done.
Hugely dissapointed that the series was so short and they chucked in last years christmas special to fill the series.
I thought the special was good though. Not the best, but certainly better then the crummy india special which was full of terrible gags.
I thought the special was good though. Not the best, but certainly better then the crummy india special which was full of terrible gags.
Caporegime
Whether the car was there or not they had all the kit there to fix the cars.(The whole car sinking was staged and I bet it was pulled out and started again) You miss the point. The Botswana special had the whole point of fixing the cars with simple tools. Same with the Vietnam special. The backup car/bike being there for this very reason. Do not trash your car or you end up using the backup which none of them wanted. It seemed the backup car was entirely pointless in this special.
Soldato
I've watched the special 'back to front' - watched part 2 last night at work and I've got part 1 recorded at home on Sky+ still to watch. We were in stiches last night at Clarksons 'handbrake' going through the back window. 
Caporegime
Thats because the footage wasn't from 2 minutes later.
They had a support truck full of spares that obviously got continually raided - they said as much when they said that James used all his spare fronts. They obviously didn't have matching wheels so when somebody wanted a bit of footage of them driving down the road, the production guys stitched in footage from later on when he had a different set of wheels.
Continuity errors are bound to happen when the cars keep swapping wheels and you need to edit down several days worth of footage into an hour episode.
Your falling into the mistake of believing everything they say is true. The backup car is just an ongoing joke, like the Dacia Sandero thing was. It was never about having to drive the scorpio if their car failed. Its not pointless, its just part of the ongoing joke, you're trying to take it far too seriously.
Caporegime
Couldn't disagree more. You can't level the criticism that any of this is "too staged" because thats what every top gear special is. Its the only way it would work.
If they didn't "stage it" they'd all drive off in their £1500 estates and the whole thing wouldn't be funny as it would end after 5 minutes when they broke down. Nothing funny would happen as they just drove around aimlessly in the african desert.
Gutted the series is now over 
Soldato
I think you are confusing the word 'staged' with planned.? The Jon Richardson and Sean Lock off roading through Siberia programme was similar, but the problems they had were genuine rather than staged. I think thats the point.
Soldato
How did I miss this? Whats it called?
World's most dangerous roads.
They only did one episode, and each episode had different celebs/comedians driving through a different area.
I quite liked last nights episode.
It was one of the most successful top gears they've had, which I was fond of. Yes it got a bit silly, but ultimately, even if we discredit the concept of finding the source of the Nile (no word on that yet), they managed to build a river ferry!
kd