The 11 Greatest Top Gear Challenges From Around The World
The African sun has set on Top Gear's 19th series. But fret not, for here are 11 of the greatest Top Gear challenges from around the world.
Top Gear USA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNCDaRnF-k8
A typical Top Gear challenge from the first series of Top Gear USA. This car vs 'not car' challenge sees Tanner Foust in a Mitsubishi Evo X take on a couple of skiers down a mountain. As a drift professional Tanner gets suitably sideways on the mountain roads before joining the pair on the white stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0rmlSwbLsU
The American trio are given $1000 to purchase a vehicle to transport 25 gallons of moonshine. The cars are battered after taking on a motocross track in part 2, with only Tanner's Nissan 300ZX even starting the final challenge. Though that bit's not online so you'll have to take our word for it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P05j37Q5VTY
The TG USA crew are given $3000 to pick up a truck. But there are conditions; that the truck must have done more than 150,000 miles and the presenters can't check it out before they buy. They then travel to Alaska and, you guessed it, undertake challenges to discover who has bought America's toughest truck.
Top Gear Korea
http://youtu.be/Xa3E03nXfWY
By far the most famous clip to come out of the Korean version of Top Gear is most certainly deserving of the 'epic fail' tag. To be fair this looks as slick as anything us Brits have offered... until the finish. The challenge is a simple race between presenter Kim Jin Pyo in a Corvette ZR1 and a hairy faced man piloting an AH1 Cobra helicopter. Cobra v Corvette: who wins? Physics.
http://youtu.be/DlrkJQiSx4w?t=1m47s
It's not all fails in the friendly bit of Korea. Here we have Asian Stig in a Chevrolet Spark attempting a loop the loop. Check out the G forces he's pulling when he hits the ramp!
http://youtu.be/snO4PO_9fQU
Without subtitles this one might take a little bit of guesswork, but basically it seems the chaps were tasked with buying their dream car on a budget. We have a smokey Pontiac Firebird, a stunning Nissan Skyline and a tank of a Mercedes 300SEL. The challenge is to complete an assault course, and the Pontiac's effort is genius. Watch part 2 here, and then check out the aftermath of the losers' punishment!
Top Gear Australia
http://youtu.be/dpuk4KPbjEc
Retracing the route taken by David Norrish in 1974, our friends in Oz undertake a 1000 kilometre trek across the Outback, using 1970s cars. Taking on some of the most unforgiving dirt tracks on Earth in a bunch of 40-year-old family saloons is quite the challenge. Check out part 2 and part 3 for the full story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmkYEE3eW0Y
When you have vast swathes of inhospitable terrain on your doorstep it makes sense to use it. In yet another outback related feature, the TG Oz boys take 3 luxury 4x4s and see how they handle real off roading. Check out all the sand that Lexus inhales on the way! Here's part 2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XHHA2HqoHw
One of the most appealing things about touring car championships are that they feature cars that look like something you an actually buy. We have the BTCC with our supermarket runaround hatchbacks. Australia has the V8 Supercars series; the name says it all. If you've never seen it before we highly recommend you rectify this (by watching this awesome battle to the chequered flag), then see Mark Winterbottom's Ford make its way tentatively into downtown Sydney.
Top Gear Russia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVd4XJjtrIc
You may not be surprised to learn that Russian Top Gear involves stuff going bang. Here they take our indestructible Hilux feature and replace it with a massive Gaz truck. The Gaz's opponents include a small car dropped from a big height, a wrecking ball... and fire. In Soviet Russia, part 2 watches you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR10EkUpVHA
This one doesn't have subtitles, so not entirely sure what brought this on, but here's a Rover Maestro funeral. As wonderfully sinister as only the Russians can be.
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