Topic: Top Gear; Icelandic Jeeping Video

[Jeffy]

"...see these headlights, they're painted on..."  Richard Hammond in Iceland.

[jackhammer]

Yea ive seen stuff on this maniac in other places....those snowmobiles hve been doing that for a while ....that was awesome thou...thanks

[Jeffy]

The video is from an 7/31/2005 airing of the show.

This Top Gear is still mostly unknown in the US though.  I still think it's one of the best automotive shows out there.  Clearly much better then any of the US shows.  Car & Driver, MoterTrend...  Boring.

[jackhammer]

where do you get this channel

[Jeffy]

You don't.  At least not in the US.  They show is on BBC 1, I believe.  You can find it on Bit Torrent though.

I should make one correction.  You can see it sort of on the Discovery Channel.  The show is still called Top Gear but is watered down.  They have to remove much of the music and the stage shots are redone.  This is bad since the show is unscripted.  For the US version, they reinact what they said.   They do a lap on their test track and that part is all redone also.  (has to do with the music.)  Overall, it's waterdown and not nearly as good as the original.  That doesn't mean it's bad.  I think it's still better then the US shows.

If you want to get into bittorrents, I can help you out.

[jackhammer]

yea I could never figure out that bit torrent thing I was trying to get some legal live music stuff but I could not figure out how to do it

[midnightcwby]

It's on late at night on the Science channel now!  Great show!!!!!

[Chad]

I was in Iceland last march and I couldn't believe how many jacked up wheelers I saw.  Gas was more than 6 bucks a gallon at the time and I'm sure more expensive than that now.  Iceland has the ballsiest cars in all of europe, yes it is part of europe.