Top Gear America..... 4wd edition

[bleakhorizon]

Sorta surprised no one has commented on the newest Top Gear America episode....  Had a decent looking 3rd gen pickup that was used as the "punishment" if any of there trucks didnt make it lol... was seen as a disgrace to drive it...

thought it was pretty funny.... looks like Alaska would be an awesome place to wheel....

[IronClad]

i wont watch TG america. they try way to hard to be like the brittish show and do an extremely horrible job at it

[4LoRunner]

i was very pissed when they said the toyota was a disgrace.....
to be honest we all kno the 93 p/u would of made it through the whole thing with out breaking.... well it did make it through to think about it. i wish they actually showed the p/u doing all the trails also. just very dissapointed how they talked towards it

[jrock]

That was a good episode. Sure was funny with the toyota.

[87hillbillyoter]

Sorta surprised no one has commented on the newest Top Gear America episode....  Had a decent looking 3rd gen pickup that was used as the "punishment" if any of there trucks didnt make it lol... was seen as a disgrace to drive it...

thought it was pretty funny.... looks like Alaska would be an awesome place to wheel....

haha we were talking about it in the youtube vid threa, but freds40 said to start a new thread. i figured someone would
i didnt like the trash talking on the yota, but it was the rig that everyone could trust to be the recovery vehicle. so that sums it all up right there.

[Nimyad]

Yah i was definitely wanting to know the stats on that yota lol.
For wheeling in alaska, most people have huge wheelbases and giant tires, i went up there a few summers ago and saw some of the biggest off road rigs i've ever seen

[4LoRunner]

haha we were talking about it in the youtube vid threa, but freds40 said to start a new thread. i figured someone would
i didnt like the trash talking on the yota, but it was the rig that everyone could trust to be the recovery vehicle. so that sums it all up right there.

yea hahah we went off topic a little 

Yah i was definitely wanting to know the stats on that yota lol.
For wheeling in alaska, most people have huge wheelbases and giant tires, i went up there a few summers ago and saw some of the biggest off road rigs i've ever seen

it was a 93 extended cab v6 looked like a 6" sas on like 37" or 38" boggers but thats my guess looked and sounded beast

[83 Crawler]

ya it made me mad that they talked crap about the toyota the hole time but it made it farther them the ford am dodge tho!

[yoshaleng]

"i was very pissed when they said the toyota was a disgrace.....
to be honest we all know the 93 p/u would of made it through the whole thing with out breaking.... well it did make it through to think about it. i wish they actually showed the p/u doing all the trails also. just very disappointed how they talked towards it"

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screw their comments, we all know how capable this trucks are.

[Stocker]

Meh..... it's a TV show, entertainment for the masses. Of course they trash talked the Toyota, the episode was 'toughest American truck'. But they paid Toyota a high compliment by picking it as their rescue rig -- one they knew would be fully capable and bulletproof -- for when their American trucks failed. I would have enjoyed seeing more of the Toyota on the trails, but that wasn't the theme of that episode.

[Runar]

You mean that the US version of the show don't have a Hilux on a podeum in their studio like the BBC one?  

[junya92toy]

Anyone know where you can watch this episode online?

[IronClad]

Finalgear.com has torrents and downloads of every top gear uk/aus/us episode aswell has fith gear and such

[jrock]

Meh..... it's a TV show, entertainment for the masses. Of course they trash talked the Toyota, the episode was 'toughest American truck'. But they paid Toyota a high compliment by picking it as their rescue rig -- one they knew would be fully capable and bulletproof -- for when their American trucks failed. I would have enjoyed seeing more of the Toyota on the trails, but that wasn't the theme of that episode.

Yes.

You mean that the US version of the show don't have a Hilux on a podeum in their studio like the BBC one? 

They have not learned of Yota's powers... yet!

[Shamb]

I was gonna post a thread but figured someone would eventually. It was a pretty funny episode, notice how the Toyota technically was the back up. I was waiting for all of them to be cruising in the toyota at the end. Toyota was the backup because they knew it would take everything and not break down, i'll take that as a complement.

The bashing they did on the whoopdy whoops was absolutely hilarious, Tanners hood hahahaha...  you know the only reason why any of the other rig's broke down is because they don't know how to drive.

I watch both BBC top gear and american, i prefer BBC but love both for different reason's.

British humor is just so damn funny.

Season finale on sunday.



Edit: btw they already did a toyota episode and now the trucks in the main studio because of all the abuse it took and kept on ticking. that was a classic episode.

[bleakhorizon]

You mean that the US version of the show don't have a Hilux on a podeum in their studio like the BBC one? 

I would say 99.9% of the non toyota community over here doesnt even know what a Hilux is LOL...

you know the only reason why any of the other rig's broke down is because they don't know how to drive.

no doubt about that, as with most other "auto" shows... they are all pavement pounders...

and yea.. I dont prefer Top gear America to The BBC version, its like nissan trying to copy toyota, they look to be the same, but are miles apart... just tried too hard....

Then again, last week Foust loved the Raptor, for being big and bold... but way back when Clarkson drove the lightning, he hated it for the same reasons..... Its all about the location... they do things a bit differant over the pond....  

Now.  If we could just get some of those little diesel cars they hate so much over there....

[bigarms23]

watched it and was wondering why they never aired down the tires or learned how to wheel and i still don't believe that the 97 Dodge cost 3,000 and the original top gear is 1000% better

[brainlessfool]

i wont watch TG america. they try way to hard to be like the brittish show and do an extremely horrible job at it

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[87hillbillyoter]

watched it and was wondering why they never aired down the tires or learned how to wheel and i still don't believe that the 97 Dodge cost 3,000 and the original top gear is 1000% better

yea i agree. theres no way that dodge cost 3k. id say at least 6 or 7.

[motormouth559]

So what happen to BBC top gear ?

[4LoRunner]

So what happen to BBC top gear ?

im sure they still air it

oh and does American TG have a Stig?

[joeycool00]

well see how long before this american top gear is cancelled....

[66cobra]

i like the show and theToyota as a rescue truck sums it all up i used to be a hater but when my bronco was broken (quite often) and the toys were going by it was obvious that the toys rocked. but in my defense when i was growing up all the tools cruised massive lifted Toyotas with no front drive line . glad that's over with

[brainlessfool]

oh and does American TG have a Stig?

yes they do, and they call him...........the Stig.   

[83 Crawler]

well the same producers of the bbc one produce the usa one to

[Trunkz]

gotta be honest the british version has a diesel hilux on a podium because it couldnt be killed.... many of the engines available here in the states in toyotas arent as strong as the diesel version

[blackdiamond]

I watched the first few minutes of the episode last night and plan to finish it up tonight.  It's obvious that the intent of the show was entertainment, in general, and the fact that they were "bashing" on the import Toyota was obviously nothing more than contrived American bravado.  They don't have an issue, from what I've seen, with non-American so I doubt they really have a bais toward import trucks.

I was surprised at the quality of the Dodge that they obtained for $3,000, but the world is full of moron's so I don't doubt that someone didn't know it's value or it has some major flaw that wasn't mentioned or identified during the episode.  Maybe a salvage title after a nasty wreck.

I would also say that the Toyota would be expected to complete the run as it was brought along for "official" support and as a punishment.  It's possible that it wasn't even along for the majority of the shoot, but who knows.  I would expect that they new it was mechanically sound as compared to the three trucks that were obtained sight unseen other than the obvious addition of the roll cages and seat belts.  Someone other than the three drivers had looked the trucks over at some point before the show.

The episode was about humor and entertainment and the punishment for riding in the Toyota was intended with the same seriousness of the Calvin pissing stickers.  I would suspect that they even called it a Hilux to avoid having the uninformed people of America realizing that they were bashing a Tacoma.

[Shamb]

Agree'd.


btw they still make BBC top gear episodes. i watch 'em both and like 'em both for different reason's...

they do 8 hour run's of BBC top gear on Monday's. of course my pos dvr didn't record them like they were suppose to.... thankfully my bedroom dvr did 

[IronClad]

The episode was about humor and entertainment and the punishment for riding in the Toyota was intended with the same seriousness of the Calvin pissing stickers.  I would suspect that they even called it a Hilux to avoid having the uninformed people of America realizing that they were bashing a Tacoma.

only it wasnt a tacoma it was a 3rd gen xtra cab with a v6  so its technically a "hilux" even though we never called them that over here

[GNasty 82]

Ya know, I personally kinda liked the way the portrayed the Toyota as the 'wild and untamed'.  Every time they mentioned it and did a quick camera shot at it, they had it 'growling' and jerking forward as though it was ready to pounce.  Almost every mention of it referred to it as a predator waiting to jump on the weakest member of the herd who inevitably would fall behind.