The Africa Special is a Top Gear special in which Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May attempt to find the true source of the River Nile in secondhand estate cars on a budget. News, videos, and reviews of every car on sale in the UK These specials differed from regular episodes insofar that they were longer than the standard sixty minute episodes; the Top Gear studio is only used at the beginning of the episodes and there are no power tests or SIARPC segments. Top Gear Burma Special Part 1 of 2. Elsewhere, Hammond takes a look back at 50 years of Touring Cars racing history, Top Gear … The world‘s greatest car website, from the team behind the telly show. Top Gear returns with a crash, a bang and an overwhelming smell of burning. The Burma Special is the fourth Top Gear special to be filmed in an Asian country, after Vietnam in the Vietnam Special, India in the India Special, and Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, and Israel in the Middle East Special. Introduction. The team is crossing Burma to build a bridge over the River Kwai. The series was preceded by a two-part special entitled "Patagonia Special" which aired during 2014, the first part on 27 December, and the second part a day later on 28 December. The special is an episode featuring a route across India, one of the many countries Top Gear plans to visit over the course of the new series, according to Jeremy Clarkson. The team is crossing Burma to build a bridge over the River Kwai. Shooting in India began on 2 October, with the first leg of the shoot beginning in suburbs of Mumbai. The world‘s greatest car website, from the team behind the telly show. Top Gear: Series 16 ‘Middle East Special’ ... Top Gear’s armed escort steps in and fires a round through the door to see how well Jeremy’s idea has worked. Here are just some of the cars from the upcoming series, including the mighty VW I.D. The “Middle East Special” may be in the middle of this list, but that is very much relative and shows how strong the Top Gear specials are. Top Gear returns Sunday 26th January at 8pm on BBC Two in the UK. Top Gear: Polar Special is a special edition episode of BBC motoring programme Top Gear that was first broadcast on 25 July 2007 on BBC Two. News, videos, and reviews of every car on sale in the UK Top Gear: US Special is a full-length, special edition episode for BBC motoring programme Top Gear, and was first broadcast on BBC Two on 11 February 2007, as part of the 3rd episode of Series 9, with the special repeated in an edited version for UKTV channel Dave. Jeremy, Richard and James decide to buy second-hand lorries, despite knowing almost nothing about the world of trucks, and then set about discovering how easy it is to be an HGV (heavy goods vehicle) driver - which turns out to be a lot harder than they thought. I was talking Toyota trucks with someone the other day and was surprised to find out that he had never seen the Top Gear series where the British trio tried to kill a Toyota pickup. Oh my word, there's a new Honda S2000. The team is crossing Burma to build a bridge over the River Kwai. This car graveyard is where rare gems go to die. The Patagonia Special is a two-part Top Gear Christmas special, which aired as part of the show's twenty-second series. This special was different from the others as it did not feature a road trip, with the first of the familiarly-formatted specials being the USA Special in 2007. You know, the one where they let it get swallowed by the ocean and drop it from a building (technically, the building was imploding). The special is the second that Top Gear has filmed in South America, after the Bolivia Special. Patagonia Special (Season 22 Ep 0-1 & 0-22) There is a poetic justice that the last Top Gear special featuring Clarkson, Hammond, and May ended in disaster. The twenty-second series of Top Gear aired during 2015 on BBC Two and BBC Two HD and consisted of 8 episodes, beginning on 25 January before abruptly ending on 8 March, and not fully concluding until 28 June. Top Gear Burma Special Part 1 of 2. Top Gear Burma Special Part 1 of 2. ... Gordon Murray teases his new hypercar, and McLaren gives us another track special. Popular on Top Gear. The show's final special, the Patagonia Special, aired in 2014, as a prelude to Top Gear's twenty-second series. The episode follows presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May in their successful attempt to be the first people to reach the 1996 position of the North Magnetic Pole (in Canada) in a motor vehicle. Generally, these specials aired at … Top Gear Tries To Kill A Toyota. The Africa Special is a Top Gear special in which Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May attempt to find the true source of the River Nile in secondhand estate cars on a budget.