Which was your favourite Top Gear Special?

[Ribol]

Further to the other "India" thread running, which was your favourite special?

[Megaflow]

The north pole...

[Ribol]

Megaflow said:

The north pole...

Go on then, have your vote

[TheHeretic]

Vietnam.

[YorkshirePudding]

Vietnam for me.

[Tyre Smoke]

Vietnam by a mile. USA and Bolivia were pretty good too.

[Simpo Two]

The North Pole episode was good but they went nowhere near what we understand to be the North Pole. IIRC they went to where Magnetic North was in 1888 or something, hundreds of miles away, which then makes a good programme seem a slight damp squib.

[Halb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear:_Polar_Speci... The Polar one was good. Not seen the most recent one, the US was a little too obvious.

[Simpo Two]

Only 790 miles from the 'real' north pole! Surprised no-one else seems to have noticed that it was basically a sham (albeit entertaining)

[Halb]

How can it be considered a sham or a squib? Their destination was the 1996 magnetic pole and they achieved it, the show is called Polar Special. No-one else had gotten a car there.
"making them the first people to reach within a mile of the magnetic north pole location of any year in a motor vehicle."
Quite an achievement.

[aeropilot]

The Vietnam one for me too, with the Bolvian and Botswana ones holding a joint 2nd place.

[CurvaParabolica]

Tyre Smoke said:

Vietnam by a mile. USA and Bolivia were pretty good too.

This is exactly what I thought when I saw the thread title.

[ajprice]

Vietnam. Even though they were on bikes and went on a train for part of it so had nothing at all to do with cars

[Guvernator]

Not sure if it was a special or not but the episode where they turned a Robin Reliant into a space shuttle was one of the best things I've seem them do.

[hesnotthemessiah]

I voted Vietnam. A close second for me was the North Pole. But I think the funniest moment (for me) was in the Middle East one when May had just come out of hospital after cracking his head open and Clarkson and Hamster were stood there in their burkas etc disguised as women.

[Ribol]

Simpo Two said:

Only 790 miles from the 'real' north pole! Surprised no-one else seems to have noticed that it was basically a sham (albeit entertaining)

TG is just TV entertainment, I doubt anyone cares if it is factually correct or not.

The problem with the India Special in particular is that it simply wasn't that "Special" in the way the Vietnam one was.

The pole with India currently at 3% might be a bit of a clue.

[Gun]

Favourite for me was Vietnam, closely followed by Bolivia

[BDR529]

I voted for the North Pole episode, but I thought the Vietnam one was great too.

[dudleybloke]

the rally special where they followed the competition winners attempt at the lombard.

[Snoggledog]

Gun said:

Favourite for me was Vietnam, closely followed by Bolivia

Same here.