John L wrote:

Anyway, on a serious note, I wonder if the Hamsters Land Cruiser was allowed to roll down the dune deliberately as it would have simply been too dangerous for him to chance driving down it

With no roof no brakes no rear suspension no front wish bone and his form for rolling

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Did you notice that when the vehicles were delivered on the barge not one had a winch - yet as soon as they were in the jungle they sudddenly all sprouted winches?

I recall that were some other 'sudden transformations' as well, so Snappa's suggestion of only a 3 vehicle + mechanics back-up is probably an underestimate!

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They was delivered a box off required things, tampax, condoms, winches etc

but then they all got a winch, according to the D3 forum they was supported by a fully rigged out back up crew Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

PepperPot wrote:

Did you notice that when the vehicles were delivered on the barge not one had a winch - yet as soon as they were in the jungle they sudddenly all sprouted winches?

I recall that were some other 'sudden transformations' as well, so Snappa's suggestion of only a 3 vehicle + mechanics back-up is probably an underestimate!

I have to admit that I was half hoping that Clarkson would actually drop over the side when he squeezed past the Landcruiser on the road with the sheer drop.

Thats because they were in the Ann Summers box with the condoms, tampons and Viagra.....they then bolted them to the front of the cars - (which was edited out!)

They have a large back up crew and I don't believe thats a secret - from mechanics, to fixers to Doctors...

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Back to the subject!! I love Top Gear but agree with other comments that there is a lot of 'staging' and purposeful 'set ups' rather than the 'lets sit back and see what happens' approach. I know they do it for entertainment value but it insults the viewers intelligence.

Take for example the famous caravan episode when they try and make a U-turn in a narrow road only for the police to suddenly appear and setting fire to the neighbouring caravan when trying to put out the fire, was it me or was the hamster aiming that seat cushion rather than lobbing it out the window?

If you check out youtube someone has posted numerous errors in the show, can anyone remember Clarkson driving the RS4 up a mountain whilst 2 rock climbers clamber up? At the top Clarkson gets out of the Audi with the window up, a second later another camera shot of him talking to them clearly shows the window down, whilst talking another shot shows the window up again! Another example was the America episode where the Hamsters bbq he fitted on the back makes an appearance about 10 minutes before he actually had it fitted!

shilen wrote:

Take for example the famous caravan episode when they try and make a U-turn in a narrow road only for the police to suddenly appear and setting fire to the neighbouring caravan when trying to put out the fire, was it me or was the hamster aiming that seat cushion rather than lobbing it out the window?

And the problem is?? wouldn't any sane man aid and abet a caravan fire, I would have suspected staging if he had tried to fight the fire

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And the problem is?? wouldn't any sane man aid and abet a caravan fire, I would have suspected staging if he had tried to fight the fire

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