Top Gear: US Special (2007)
The Top Gear team go on a US adventure. Its the ultimate road trip and finds the guys driving $1000 wrecks over 700 stifling miles to New Orleans. In a Chevy, a Caddy and a Pick-Up, their challenges include preparing a road kill feast and baiting rednecks of Alabama without getting shot.
- Date of release
- 2007-02-11
- TMDB
- 8.2 / 10 (23)
- Runtime
- 59m
- Genres
- Documentary, Comedy
- Director
- James Bryce
Casting
- Jeremy Clarkson — Self
- Richard Hammond — Self
- James May — Self
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana
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. The special sees hosts, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May travelling on a journey from Miami to New Orleans in three used cars to find if it's more economical to buy a vehicle rather than rent one. The Production Notes section of the Top Gear website describes the creation and production of this episode as "...damn near finishing off several members of the crew through exhaustion."
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