[10x04] November 4th, 2007

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After one of the most balanced episodes in the recent series, it's straight on to a big chunk of cocking about. Followed, hopefully, a week afterwards, by 2 things with a combined amount of at least 3 tons of downforce. Renault R25 driven by Hammond (the last champion F1 car with a V10 engine) and the Caparo T1; I'm sure they're both in the same episode.
 
So the car list for the show is
Lancia Beta,
Opel Kadett
Mercedes E-klass(??)
 
"You look like a gay cowboy and you look like a gay terrorist" :lol:

I can't get over that line :p
 
From http://www.topgear.com/content/tgonbbc2/

"In stark contrast to that, but in no way any less epic - in fact, considerably more epic - this Sunday's show sees our intrepid adventurers in a Top Gear special, as they drive across the spine of Africa.

In very unsuitable vehicles.

Jeremy and James take an old Lancia and Merc respectively, and Richard goes in his trusted friend Oliver, a 1964 Opel Kadett.

It's all typically Top Gear, and will also show that by driving three, ordinary two-wheel-drive cars across Botswana, you don't need a 4x4 to do the school run in.

So that's the Botswana Top Gear special, Sunday November 4t at 8pm on BBC Two.

Or, if you can't wait until then, you can read a full report by the man Hammond himself in this month's issue of Top Gear magazine, on sale now."
 
New spoilery info from http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/show/episodes/series10episode4.shtml

"On born-free Top Gear, we ditched our draughty aircraft hangar and headed for the wide open spaces of Botswana, on a 1,000-mile safari across the spine of Africa. And, as a lesson for the people of Surrey, who think they need a 4x4 just because they live up a lane that sometimes has leaves on it, we asked each of our presenters to complete the journey in a normal two-wheel drive car bought for just ?1,500.

Our story began in a little village on the border between Zimbabwe and Botswana. Unusually, James was the first to arrive, in his 1985 Mercedes 230E. Next up was Jeremy with a 1981 Lancia Beta Coupe. Finally, Richard turned up in an Opel Kadet made in 1963, which he immediately bonded with and named Oliver.

To reach their destination on the Namibian border, the presenters had to negotiate the vast openness and primordial sludge of the Makgadikgadi salt pans, the choking dust of the Kalahari Desert, not to mention the treacherous rivers and hungry wildlife of the Okavango Delta.

Along the way, they encountered more or less every dangerous animal known to man, including hippos, elephants and the apparently testicle-crazed honey badger - as well as petrol shortages, flying vice-presidents and the Stig's African cousin.

Incredibly, the cars survived everything Africa could throw at them - including being dismantled, crashed, drowned and shot. Of course the presenters were well motivated to keep their cars moving: anyone who broke down irreparably would be forced to complete the journey in the spare car - an irritatingly unstoppable Volkswagen Beetle.

Nevertheless, when Namibia came into view some 1,000 miles and almost a week later, the scale of our achievement really dawned on us. Plus we learnt a valuable lesson: if you live in Surrey or need to cross an African country, you don't need a BMW X5 or supercharged Range Rover. All you need is a Beetle. Damn."

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Parts of this will be just like the Convertible people carrier in the Wobun Abbey Safari place.






...Except on crack

Very much looking forward to this epi
 
Ok seriously, with $3000 in Africa you can get a very good second hand car. I mean you could easily find a second hand 90's car, even something good like a BMW 5 series or something similar. Or an 80's Rolls Royce (James...). Most cars that are older than like 8 years or so will sell for around that price in Africa.
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/show/episodes/series10episode4.shtml The BBC have been at it again with a teaser profile of the episode.

On born-free Top Gear, we ditched our draughty aircraft hangar and headed for the wide open spaces of Botswana, on a 1,000-mile safari across the spine of Africa. And, as a lesson for the people of Surrey, who think they need a 4x4 just because they live up a lane that sometimes has leaves on it, we asked each of our presenters to complete the journey in a normal two-wheel drive car bought for just ?1,500.

Our story began in a little village on the border between Zimbabwe and Botswana. Unusually, James was the first to arrive, in his 1985 Mercedes 230E. Next up was Jeremy with a 1981 Lancia Beta Coupe. Finally, Richard turned up in an Opel Kadet made in 1963, which he immediately bonded with and named Oliver.

To reach their destination on the Namibian border, the presenters had to negotiate the vast openness and primordial sludge of the Makgadikgadi salt pans, the choking dust of the Kalahari Desert, not to mention the treacherous rivers and hungry wildlife of the Okavango Delta.

Along the way, they encountered more or less every dangerous animal known to man, including hippos, elephants and the apparently testicle-crazed honey badger - as well as petrol shortages, flying vice-presidents and the Stig's African cousin.

Incredibly, the cars survived everything Africa could throw at them - including being dismantled, crashed, drowned and shot. Of course the presenters were well motivated to keep their cars moving: anyone who broke down irreparably would be forced to complete the journey in the spare car - an irritatingly unstoppable Volkswagen Beetle.

Nevertheless, when Namibia came into view some 1,000 miles and almost a week later, the scale of our achievement really dawned on us. Plus we learnt a valuable lesson: if you live in Surrey or need to cross an African country, you don't need a BMW X5 or supercharged Range Rover. All you need is a Beetle. Damn.

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I m so confused on the time change, I m in the US now, there should 7h time difference between IL and London. Why is FinalGear website stating its still 10h till next TG episode?
 
TopGearManiac said:
I m so confused on the time change, I m in the US now, there should 7h time difference between IL and London. Why is FinalGear website stating its still 10h till next TG episode?
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If you are curently in Illinois, it is 6 hour time difference.
 
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