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Actually, Top Gear is a show about cars - which sounds
rather uninteresting for all those people not into cars - what sets
Top Gear apart from other car shows though is that its presenters
- Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May - are not all that
interested into cold car facts but rather want to have fun with their
cars, which basically means they have lots of (intentionally) silly
competitions and feature a lot of original stunts in either pretty good or
really crappy cars.
Now this alone is not reason enough to feature Top Gear
on my website, after all it's a car show that qualifies in no way for the
standards of my site. Yet every now and again, they have specials, meaning
they kick out the news aspect of the show altogether and substitute it
with somewhat resembling a narrative ...
And now we arrive at the Top Gear Winter Olympics: To honour the
2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, the Top Gear team travelled to
Lillehammer, Norway (location of the 1994 Winter Olympics) to feature
their own version of the typical Winter Olympics sports events ... using
cars:
There's Jeremy Clarkson (Volvo XC90) against James May (Audi Q7) doing
their version of the biathlon - with the loser (Clarkson) eating golden
snow. Then there's a test man (Richard Hammond) against machine (Citroen
C1) concerning cold weather endurance by artificially exposing both
to arctic temperatures in a test who breaks first (this time it's the
car). Next it's Clarkson in a Jaguar XK8 against an iceskater (Eskil
Ervik) in a speed skating tournament, which the skater wins hands down
because the Jag lacks any kind of grip. Then it's off to a frozen lake for
a slalom with Clarkson (still in his 2-wheel Jag) against May (4-wheel
Landrover Discovery) - which not surprisingly May wins. Bobsleigh against
Mitsubishi Evo rallye car is next, withj the bobsleigh winning. Then it's
icehockey, played by 10 Suzuki Swifts - which naturally crash a lot. The
highlight is the ski jump of a rocketpowered Mini - which doesn't make it
nearly as far as a professional ski jumper. And to finish things off, the
Stig (the show's regular stunt driver) drives a snowmobile down the
skijump, just for fun ...
Of course, none of this is to be taken seriously, and the presenters
leave little doubt about that either, it's just mindless fun with a few
cars doing a few crazy stunts, and as a critic I have to add that the
whole thing is edited a bit too quickly to really enjoy the stunts in
full, but still, even if you're not a car fan (and I'm not one either),
you can still watch this to have a laugh, it's funny, no more, but
certainly no less.
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