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Seven fantastic challenges that test the mettle of the Top Gear team.
The Top Gear boys - Jezzer, Hamster and Captain Slow - can do brake-horsepowers, torques and 0-60s until the pumps run dry. But when they take on a challenge, the action gets competitive, hilarious, dangerous and, at times, downright humiliating.
Robin Reliant Space Shuttle:
Combining cutting edge amateur rocketry, British Grit, and truly intergalactic levels of messing about, Richard and James try to put a Reliant Robin into space.
Building Amphibious Cars:
Can the lads create a vehicle equally at home on land and water? Will they even make it across the reservoir without drowning or catching hypothermia?
Building a Limo:
The boys are up against it, making their own stretch limos from everyday cars. But the challenge has only just begun. There are some high-profile celebs who need a lift to the Brit Awards...
Building a Convertible:
Attempting to turn a Renault Espace into a fashionable 'drop top', the team prove that trying to make your own convertible is a bit like trying to cut your own hair... you can do it, but you probably shouldn't...
Parkour vs Peugeot 207:
They may wear silly trousers but these parkour (the barmy sport of leaping across rooftops across the city) lads are serious competition for Captain Slow's Peugeot 207 in a race through Liverpool.
Veyron Race from Alba:
It's Top Gear's most dramatic race yet. Jeremy's in the Bugatti Veyron - the fastest, most lavish supercar ever - while Richard and James are in a flying washing machine - with Captain Slow at the controls!
Crap 70s Supercars:
They were once state-of-the-art Italian supercars - the Maserati Merak, the Ferrari Dino 308GT4 and the Lamborghini Uracco. Now, all the lads need to do is try to drive them from Bristol to a "gentleman's" club in Slough.
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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Content: excellent - five stars. Admittedly it is only as seen on the television - there are no extras of any kind, which is a shame, but the challenges are presented as seen on television in their insane glory.
Presentation: atrocious - can I actually give a negative rating to this? The challenges, rather than being presented in order, are intercut, with no immediately obvious pattern. The breaks between the sections also fail to line up with the chapter starts, which appear to have been selected largely at random. As such, locating the start of a particular segment almost invariably involves fast-forwarding or rewinding as required, which is somewhat irritating. There's also no facility to simply play an individual challenge - an obvious feature that would surely not have been difficult to implement.
In summary, if you wish to sit down and watch three hours of car-based lunacy, this is a great disc. If you only have half an hour and have the desire to watch an individual challenge, you'll find it really quite annoying. The quality of the content is offset quite seriously by some extremely bizarre choices with the presentation, which actually feels like it's been made intentionally awkward.
Presentation: atrocious - can I actually give a negative rating to this? The challenges, rather than being presented in order, are intercut, with no immediately obvious pattern. The breaks between the sections also fail to line up with the chapter starts, which appear to have been selected largely at random. As such, locating the start of a particular segment almost invariably involves fast-forwarding or rewinding as required, which is somewhat irritating. There's also no facility to simply play an individual challenge - an obvious feature that would surely not have been difficult to implement.
In summary, if you wish to sit down and watch three hours of car-based lunacy, this is a great disc. If you only have half an hour and have the desire to watch an individual challenge, you'll find it really quite annoying. The quality of the content is offset quite seriously by some extremely bizarre choices with the presentation, which actually feels like it's been made intentionally awkward.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
If Top Gear is the most watched program on BBC2 then why couldn't they have got a decent editor???
20 Sep 2007
I was so very looking forward to this is DVD as the challenges are my favourite part of the show and definately the funniest. I was so dissapointed at the quality of the editing in this, it is appalling!! They skimped by using cuts from shows to present each challenge rather than getting clarkson, hammond or may to do it for the DVD and split the challenges into parts so you couldnt watch it in one go!! It was put together so badly it doesnt flow at all and is so frustrating to watch.
Come on guys you can do better than this!! I only hope they do better next time!
P.S. Please release a DVD of the Polar expedition but PLEASE PLEASE get a decent editor and don't cut any of it out!!
Come on guys you can do better than this!! I only hope they do better next time!
P.S. Please release a DVD of the Polar expedition but PLEASE PLEASE get a decent editor and don't cut any of it out!!
33 of 36 people found the following review helpful
Top Gear is one of the funniest programs on TV. The presenters are funny and the audacity of the stunts is hilarious. Turning a Robin into a "Space Shuttle"!! Classic. When I saw this DVD I knew instantly I had to have it (unfortunatly not bought on amazon but down the high street). I got home half an hour before I had to leave for work and thought "brilliant, I can watch a Challange before I have to leave" and this was where the trouble started.
On the back of the DVD case the 7 challanges featured are listed, when you press play this is not the order they are in at all. More infuriatingly they are split up, you will be merrily watching a stunt and it will switch to another. Moreover parts of the stunts are then left out (where was the Veyron scene where jeremy trys to get insurance?). And if your thinking "as annoying as that soudns ill just skip the interuptions" your in for a let down, pressing chapter skip will put you randomly halfway into the next challange. To top it all off the chapter select menu is the most frustrating waste of space there is, it consists of a number of screen shots of the challanges, you have to work out yourself what challange is what as they are not labelled and when you select one you do not then commence veiwing from the start of the challange but somewhere in the middle.
The DVD is a fantastic thing to watch if you have a spare 3 hours. Its a frustrating waste of time though if you just want to watch your favourite challange because you will probably spend most of your time just trying to find the start.
On the back of the DVD case the 7 challanges featured are listed, when you press play this is not the order they are in at all. More infuriatingly they are split up, you will be merrily watching a stunt and it will switch to another. Moreover parts of the stunts are then left out (where was the Veyron scene where jeremy trys to get insurance?). And if your thinking "as annoying as that soudns ill just skip the interuptions" your in for a let down, pressing chapter skip will put you randomly halfway into the next challange. To top it all off the chapter select menu is the most frustrating waste of space there is, it consists of a number of screen shots of the challanges, you have to work out yourself what challange is what as they are not labelled and when you select one you do not then commence veiwing from the start of the challange but somewhere in the middle.
The DVD is a fantastic thing to watch if you have a spare 3 hours. Its a frustrating waste of time though if you just want to watch your favourite challange because you will probably spend most of your time just trying to find the start.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Top Top Gear
Brilliant DVD, has some very entertaining moments from the shows.
My son was disappointed that they cut out the making of the limos so if you want to see that part, don not... Read more
My son was disappointed that they cut out the making of the limos so if you want to see that part, don not... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Claitheo
itty, bitty, ****ty
Some Clarkson fan boys seem to think you should only be allowed to review top gear if you are fanatic yourself and give it no less than five stars. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. P. A. Martin
Top gear
When i brought this i didnt know what the episodes were untill it came. I think it has all of the good episodes which are all my faveourites
Published 5 months ago by Cameron
First but nit last.
This was bought with the next 3 in a box set but have also ordered number five. This series sees th birth of the amphipious cars, the attempt at building a convertible people... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Aces F
Menu problems sorted
The issues with the DVD Menu and selecting the individual challenges have been resolved with the new release of this DVD
Published 11 months ago by Dr. Zoidberg
Useful notes if buying the DVD or already own it
More than enough reviews have said this DVD is good but suffers from abominable editing. This is the list of items on the DVD, to help you find them using skip and fast forward. Read more
Published 17 months ago by woppit
Awesome!!
This is topgear at its funniest. You get a nice collection of challenges which amounts to nearly 3 hours of classic topgear. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Filmbuff 89
The Challenges are the best bit of Top Gear and these are some of the...
The technicalities of which cars are best in various categories passes me by on most Top Gear programmes. The Challenges are a different story though. Read more
Published on 24 May 2010 by J. Southern
Fantastic
Ok, I am the first to say that I am in no way a rev-head or car junkie, and I only see cars as a convenient way of getting from a to b, with possible stops at c, d and e in... Read more
Published on 7 May 2010 by K. L. Stephens
Brilliant!-But just let down by the menus......
I have to say, this is a brilliant DVD. For any fan of Top Gear, this is like heaven. All your favourite challenges (Well, some of them) on one disc. Just brilliant! Read more
Published on 8 Dec 2009 by Dan Getliffe
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