Advantages: fun in motors, for men and women to enjoy Disadvantages: Porche, Ferrari, Lotus I want one
...had caught my attention,
Top Gear is what I thought was just a BBC TV, car-buying guide, but it is this and a hell of a lot more.
The DVD Revved Up was great fun to watch, Presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May have a great connection each one feeds of the other naturally, with their wit and banter, towards one another and the cars.
I didn't realise a car programme could be so much fun, I was laughing out loud almost all the ... ...Renault Espace, all raced by top professional racing car drives, and number 1 car presenter James May, does he stand a chance?
Amazing a Mitsubishi Evo (okay a rally car) racing of all things, a Bobsleigh, of course the car has to handle its self-downhill in similar conditions.
The piece I really enjoyed, was when the trio had £1500 and have got to buy the best Porsche they can for their money, and then put them through a series of tests, including ...
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Advantages: Whole Winter Olympics Special (not a clip compilation), Widescreen, two extras reels Disadvantages: One of the segments has previously appeared in the Revved Up compilation.
...For anyone who's unfamiliar with TOPGEAR, it is the motoring review programme on BBC2 which is hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. And if it was that simple, it'd be boring. Thing is it's not that simple, and ever since the 27 year-old programme underwent a dramatic format overhaul in 2002 - it's never been boring.
TOPGEAR 3 - TO THE METAL (a pre-release title, the DVD is now available as TOPGEAR - WINTER OLYMPICS) is the third BBC DVD release of the programme. Where previous releases BACK IN THE FASTLANE and REVVEDUP have focused on providing best-of series clip compilations TO THE METAL is one complete episode, the TOPGEAR WINTER OLYMPICS SPECIAL.
This was broadcast on BBC2 to coincide with the 2006 Turin Winter Games and this programme's premise was to take winter Olympic events to Lillehammer, Norway and...
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Advantages: Three hours of non-stop Top Gear Disadvantages: Three hours of non-stop Top Gear, no extras.
...of the segments are interleaved into one BEST OF TOPGEAR programme with studio introduction inserts from the original programmes, and the total run time for this one programme? 164mins. That's 2hrs 44mins with no option to watch 'just one' segment - as you can with TOPGEAR: REVVEDUP - in viewing terms it's Gone With The Brake Fluid!
I've lost a fair few dozen weekends to UK G2 and UKTV People when they've been running back-to-back episodes of TOPGEAR. In fact, it's something I do regularly. All I have to do is hear the theme music while I'm changing channels and I stop, wonder if I've got time to put the kettle on and mark the rest of the day down as a write-off because I know I'm going to be in a happy, semi-hypnotic state for the next six hours or more.
When you can do that and still think the DVD run time is far too long. I'm sorry...
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