50 best Top Gear episodes
By Elizabeth Jackson of Stacker |
50 best Top Gear episodes
The popular and long-running show “Top Gear” has a simple premise: test how car manufacturers’ claims stack up against reality. The way the show accomplishes this is as simple as it is varied send its hosts to different parts of the world with specific types of cars, ranging from rare and high-end vintage editions to contemporary mass-market cars (or “Reasonably Priced Cars,” as the show calls them), to find out just what kind of extremes the cars can handle.
The range of vehicles the show has covered since launching in 2002 is breathtaking. The hosts (James May, Richard Hammond, and Jeremy Clarkson, until the latter was dismissed in 2015) have traveled everywhere from Vietnam to Palm Springs to Myanmar a country that was largely off-limits to Westerners until several years before that episode was filmed. By providing varied backdrops for vehicle testing, the show gives audienc