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That's 7lbs of high explosives, I'm surprised that there is any of it left. We used to use RDX (the non plasticised version of C4) to blow up armoured personell carriers in Bosnia and there was about as much left of those afterwards.
If you're gonna watch the Argentina episode, just a bit of back story: our countries hate each other for a small British island off the coast of Argentina. They want it back, we don't want to give it back, so there's loads of diplomatic tension.
We wouldn't mind handing the islands over if the people who lived there wanted us to, but when there was a referendum there were only three votes to become Argentinian.
Here in Northern Ireland the British Army had their version of the marauder called the saracen or pig. After the troubles a local firm bought one, just as you said to hire out for weddings and functions.
The team that produced Top Gear were actually pretty careful - you just can't casually pull stunts, they all have to be carefully planned up front. The good thing about TG was that they saw the value in staging all this supposed buffoonery, knowing that it made really good telly! Big budget, big show, big pay off. And sometimes their films were the complete opposite, but still good. Clarkson hypermiling an Audi V8 diesel from London to Edinburgh and back - way beyond even Audi's wildest predictions of economy - was pretty good, because it was an absurd challenge in the most unlikely of vehicles. No way he was going to make it. And that ended up making the point that the best way to get a more economic car is to drive economically. Other films they did served multiple purposes - more kids learned about the dangers of messing round near train crossings watching Top Gear than any kind of formal public information campaign. Plus we got to see a big smash up between a car and train (in controlled circumstances) Sometimes things did go wrong - Hammonds crash being the most severe. Thankfully he made an excellent recovery, and because of the show's popularity an awful lot more people are aware of the care and consideration needed by people who've had big head injuries. Then he drove a hyper car off the side of an Alp at high speed...
They said the thing about driving style a couple of times. They "proved" that a BMW M5 are more fuel efficient than a Prius. They had the Prius driving as fast as i could around the track and then had M5 following at the same speed. Edit: rewatched the clip and it was a M3
@@mikgus I remember that one! I think that specific one was a bit more tongue in cheek! But they said similar things about the BMW i8 hybrid; very efficient around town, not so good on a long run. They made similar points about other cars. They'd occasionally point out that the larger engine variant of some fairly ordinary hatchback was more efficient in the real world than the smaller one. What struck me about that was that they'd have to have tried it to know it (or got someone else's data).
It was South Africa's first attempt at an urban compact crossover... It even pioneered the split headlight design that's now popular in the segment. Truly a vehicle ahead of its time.
I know, right, just look at the headboard on that modern moving horse and cart thingy! Reminds me of the dashboard of my 4-poster! Brilliant as always King!
Should look up Ariel Atom with Clarkson driving it. The Patagonia moment is 2 parts on YT cause on the show it went back to the studio to explain what was about to happen.
You should check out The Grand Tour. It puts Top Gear’s budget to shame! The first episode opener is the most expensive opening scene in television history. $3.2M for 4mins of footage!
Hey KB , you Muppet ! as others have said , check out Top Gear "Killing a Toyota" . If memory serves it takes part over three episodes . Just incredible/unbelievable performance from the used and abused motor. Been driving Toyota ever since. (Just in case I park in the sea or on top of an about to be demolished tower block 😁)
South Africa has some pretty lax security laws so its very easy to play around with military gear and weapons without the red tape that you get in Europe and to an extent the US. Hence why they filmed this one there. The little porthole in the window is to point a gun out of to defend yourself if needed
Their new show on Amazon, The Grand Tour, is great. There was a change at the end of season 1 or 2 of the GT (they're currently in season 4), where they stopped doing their bits with live audiences and started doing only specials (which is what most people react to and talk about anyway). And now many months go by between two episodes (I think the last one was around February and the next one will be this Friday, September 16th). One other thing I noticed is people often put those three in one box or another, and though they were always exagerated personas of themselves, they were also always more complex "characters" than that. But people did love putting them in boxes and, for a while, in GT, it seems they put themselves in those boxes (hey, what the people want, right?).That didn't turn out so good, and in the current season 4, they're back to being "naturally" exagerated versions of themselves. If that makes sense.
Yeah so the Marauder is a part of a family of Vehicles developed by South African weapons firm, South Africa is one of the leaders in buiding mine proofed vehicles for the last 40 years, South Africa used the V-shaped hull design in the 70's and 80's which the other western nations only started using recently. The replacements that the US got for the Hummvee were actually the big brother of the Marauder's due to it's Crew survivability and protection against mines and IED's, a couple thousand were built by South Africa and the rest were licensed produced by the US in America and has been used extensively throughout Afghanistan, which helped drastically to the reduced deaths by IED's.
You should try reacting to the Top Gear "Christmas Special" from several years ago, ehere they are dropped in the middle of a desert in Iraq and they have to drive to Bethlehem in Israel - Absolutely Awesome.
The hole in the window that he opened was a rifle port, just incase somebody thought they'd car-jack him 😋 The hummer that they featured was an H2, which honestly is just a glorified Cadillac Escalade. The original series would have probably fared a tiny bit better.
@@Haenki my mistake, it was a long time ago and I couldn't make it out properly on my phone screen, so I took a guess. Yes, both versions are terrible. It is clear that GMC knew its real customer base was going to be the shiny chrome wheel, pavement princess drivers, not the off road enthusiasts. Still a shame, the Hummer brand could have been the go-to off roader.
To me, Grand Tour and Old Top Gear is one and the same just with a much higher budget. Still the same humour and gags, just with a few extra billions to burn :D
Top Gear had 350 million viewers in more than 200 countries continuously at this time. Still, the budget was set by the BBC so those cars were scrap cars they had put there, it's taxpayer money after all and in the UK that means restrictions rather than handing it out to your supporters. ;)
Mr. K Boomer, when you and the Queen return from Greece please react to Tim Minchin 'Thankyou God' It's great and he has many more if you find that you enjoy it.
The drive-thru reminded me of a real short reaction - 'British McDonalds drive thru guy'. As for characters in Top Gear - don't believe the hype, some of the most disliked people in the UK include Jeremy Clarkson and Richard 'the hamster' Hammond. New run of series actually holding it's own and currently with great hosts - yes 'real' characters :). Hoping Greece is still a blast, have fun you two. Si.
Try the Top gear "specials" Boomer! There is quite a few so you will have to do a bit of research but they are all good. A lot of staged sh*t in there but still great watching. And yeah... don't bother with the new top gear as much, there is about 15 years worth of the original that gets replayed constantly on multiple channels in the UK, and that's enough for me :)
Hi guys, Only recently came across you and am loving your reaction content. Has anyone ever suggested you watch "Celebrity Juice" which is hosted by Keith Lemon, you will love it for sure.
Completed staged but no less funny for it e.g., the cars they drove over would have been from a scrapyard with some minor accident damage, probably never even had engines in them, I think you'd enjoy some of the mad races they had, they'd have crazy long-distance races with cars, planes, speedboats, public transport etc.
Most of the country did not, they only became more and more successful. Although I’ll agree nothing better then the trio getting some cheap cars in a shitty country and see what happens
Overall top gear was no1 but then now it's dead after firing Jeremy and replacing it with American presenters and they are still struggling after more then 2 year's no one is interested it's simple we followed them to grand cross after they left top gear it is now dead
Was designed to take a hit from a landmine so not surprising it easily drove away. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marauder_(vehicle) Painful to be inside when one goes off and can still get quite badly banged up, but at least alive.
Personally I'd avoid the Argentinian stuff. Its shocking, its real and it is not in the slightest bit funny what happened and therefore a poor example of what Top Gear was like. Most of what Top Gear did was staged but some of it was real and not knowing which often adds to the tension and the comedy of what happens. I still don't know whether the chase out of Alabama was real or fake; but it doesn't matter, it was still entertaining. Richard Hammonds two near fatal car crashes were obviously real, but the aftermath still had classic comedy arrangements (especially after the second crash). Argentina wasn't funny, it was terrifying; good television certainly but its a poor example of what Top Gear was like. Something best saved for when you have a better understanding of the show I'd go for something like th-cam.com/video/nl3bsL7Nbnk/w-d-xo.html (Amphibious Car Challenge on a lake) th-cam.com/video/WTVPPTV-bQM/w-d-xo.html (Amphibious Car Challenge on a Sea; watch the Lake one first) th-cam.com/video/dJfSS0ZXYdo/w-d-xo.html (Jeremy tests the Peel P50 the worlds smallest ever car) th-cam.com/video/aFdBcYN3sNw/w-d-xo.html (Jeremy tests the P45 a car he constructed himself to be the worlds new smallest car) th-cam.com/video/QQh56geU0X8/w-d-xo.html (Jeremy tests the Reliant Robin, a 3 wheeled car from the 1970s) th-cam.com/video/zgRXi2svWPU/w-d-xo.html (Jeremy, James and Hammond review Caravan Holidays) th-cam.com/video/PCSNCs7bwCw/w-d-xo.html (the three build their own Electric Car)
You should do the one where they try to destroy a Toyota hilux, you'd love that
Well try too!
Which one 😂 there's multiple lmao
I second this!
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Deff watchstraps.. its class I never cheered for a vehicle before I since....sit down yourself and j8st watch top gear..
Top Gear specials are very funny, I highly recommend
More Top Gear! I love your reactions; especially Top Gear and the Inbetweeners. Hope you and the Queen have a good holiday.
That's 7lbs of high explosives, I'm surprised that there is any of it left. We used to use RDX (the non plasticised version of C4) to blow up armoured personell carriers in Bosnia and there was about as much left of those afterwards.
If you're gonna watch the Argentina episode, just a bit of back story: our countries hate each other for a small British island off the coast of Argentina. They want it back, we don't want to give it back, so there's loads of diplomatic tension.
Argentina doesn't want it "back", it's never been theirs in the first place. They just want it.
They don't want them "back". They "want them".
@@BradTheThird it's alright mate, I've got this.
We wouldn't mind handing the islands over if the people who lived there wanted us to, but when there was a referendum there were only three votes to become Argentinian.
I am from South Africa and love your videos. Grew up with British humor and love it
Here in Northern Ireland the British Army had their version of the marauder called the saracen or pig. After the troubles a local firm bought one, just as you said to hire out for weddings and functions.
I brought an ex armoured Land Rover that had been used in NI. 😎👍
My dad bought a pig. Great fun driving it through town with sports cars trying to carve you up.
The team that produced Top Gear were actually pretty careful - you just can't casually pull stunts, they all have to be carefully planned up front. The good thing about TG was that they saw the value in staging all this supposed buffoonery, knowing that it made really good telly! Big budget, big show, big pay off.
And sometimes their films were the complete opposite, but still good. Clarkson hypermiling an Audi V8 diesel from London to Edinburgh and back - way beyond even Audi's wildest predictions of economy - was pretty good, because it was an absurd challenge in the most unlikely of vehicles. No way he was going to make it. And that ended up making the point that the best way to get a more economic car is to drive economically. Other films they did served multiple purposes - more kids learned about the dangers of messing round near train crossings watching Top Gear than any kind of formal public information campaign. Plus we got to see a big smash up between a car and train (in controlled circumstances)
Sometimes things did go wrong - Hammonds crash being the most severe. Thankfully he made an excellent recovery, and because of the show's popularity an awful lot more people are aware of the care and consideration needed by people who've had big head injuries. Then he drove a hyper car off the side of an Alp at high speed...
They said the thing about driving style a couple of times. They "proved" that a BMW M5 are more fuel efficient than a Prius. They had the Prius driving as fast as i could around the track and then had M5 following at the same speed.
Edit: rewatched the clip and it was a M3
@@mikgus I remember that one! I think that specific one was a bit more tongue in cheek! But they said similar things about the BMW i8 hybrid; very efficient around town, not so good on a long run.
They made similar points about other cars. They'd occasionally point out that the larger engine variant of some fairly ordinary hatchback was more efficient in the real world than the smaller one. What struck me about that was that they'd have to have tried it to know it (or got someone else's data).
Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦
The tire looked like it re-inflated itself at the end.
It was South Africa's first attempt at an urban compact crossover... It even pioneered the split headlight design that's now popular in the segment. Truly a vehicle ahead of its time.
The patagonian special is a 2 parter. With both both episodes over an hour long.
It's a good idea to look at the Specials/Challenges. The Robin Orbiter challenge would be a good one to check out
I recommend reacting to Top Gear build an electric car, or their caravan holiday, or anything they’ve done in fact
Geoff was a great car
I know, right, just look at the headboard on that modern moving horse and cart thingy!
Reminds me of the dashboard of my 4-poster!
Brilliant as always King!
Should look up Ariel Atom with Clarkson driving it. The Patagonia moment is 2 parts on YT cause on the show it went back to the studio to explain what was about to happen.
You should just do the full Patagonia top gear special 👍
AND! The Grand Tour is amazing! Highly recommended!
In the UK it`s called a "dashboard"
At 10 tons, I wonder what the fuel consumption is, frightening. 👍
The fuel consumption is Yes
single digit mpg
You should check out The Grand Tour. It puts Top Gear’s budget to shame! The first episode opener is the most expensive opening scene in television history. $3.2M for 4mins of footage!
The port holes in the windows are for firing guns from.
Hey KB , you Muppet ! as others have said , check out Top Gear "Killing a Toyota" . If memory serves it takes part over three episodes . Just incredible/unbelievable performance from the used and abused motor. Been driving Toyota ever since. (Just in case I park in the sea or on top of an about to be demolished tower block 😁)
It is a South African made vehicle, built for our troops in the South African National Defense Force (SANDF)
This would make the ultimate bug out vehicle.
Argentina was a full episode ..it may be split for here
South Africa has some pretty lax security laws so its very easy to play around with military gear and weapons without the red tape that you get in Europe and to an extent the US. Hence why they filmed this one there.
The little porthole in the window is to point a gun out of to defend yourself if needed
yeah its the SDF (south afrikans defence force) specialist heavy apc
You got a follower from SA here . Although I moved to the UK in 2005.
Their new show on Amazon, The Grand Tour, is great. There was a change at the end of season 1 or 2 of the GT (they're currently in season 4), where they stopped doing their bits with live audiences and started doing only specials (which is what most people react to and talk about anyway).
And now many months go by between two episodes (I think the last one was around February and the next one will be this Friday, September 16th).
One other thing I noticed is people often put those three in one box or another, and though they were always exagerated personas of themselves, they were also always more complex "characters" than that. But people did love putting them in boxes and, for a while, in GT, it seems they put themselves in those boxes (hey, what the people want, right?).That didn't turn out so good, and in the current season 4, they're back to being "naturally" exagerated versions of themselves. If that makes sense.
You do have a South African...I actually found your channel today and subscribed
Yeah so the Marauder is a part of a family of Vehicles developed by South African weapons firm, South Africa is one of the leaders in buiding mine proofed vehicles for the last 40 years, South Africa used the V-shaped hull design in the 70's and 80's which the other western nations only started using recently. The replacements that the US got for the Hummvee were actually the big brother of the Marauder's due to it's Crew survivability and protection against mines and IED's, a couple thousand were built by South Africa and the rest were licensed produced by the US in America and has been used extensively throughout Afghanistan, which helped drastically to the reduced deaths by IED's.
It may have been said but dashboard was the word you were thinking of lol. From a fellow boomer
You should try reacting to the Top Gear "Christmas Special" from several years ago, ehere they are dropped in the middle of a desert in Iraq and they have to drive to Bethlehem in Israel - Absolutely Awesome.
You need to do a watch along with one of the special episodes the Vietnam special was amazing infact all of them are 👍
Hey from South Africa 🇿🇦
You should watch the space shuttle they built and launched!
Love your Tampon Bay packers tee shirt 😂
Hello from South Africa 👋🇿🇦
i'm sure the owners of those vehicles was the production company ;)
50 million a year that show brought in globaly
Watch them turn a reliant robin into a space shuttle!
The BBC definitely owned those cars
Would love to see some of the unscrupulous yanks try to carjack the marauder haha
The hole in the window that he opened was a rifle port, just incase somebody thought they'd car-jack him 😋
The hummer that they featured was an H2, which honestly is just a glorified Cadillac Escalade. The original series would have probably fared a tiny bit better.
Actually a Hummer H3, they may aswell have used a Vauxhall Astra.
@@Haenki my mistake, it was a long time ago and I couldn't make it out properly on my phone screen, so I took a guess.
Yes, both versions are terrible. It is clear that GMC knew its real customer base was going to be the shiny chrome wheel, pavement princess drivers, not the off road enthusiasts. Still a shame, the Hummer brand could have been the go-to off roader.
To me, Grand Tour and Old Top Gear is one and the same just with a much higher budget. Still the same humour and gags, just with a few extra billions to burn :D
You can't call a town Tampa....... It'll confuse the ladies!
Al Murray haha 😄
You should really watch Top Gear The Burma Special 😁
TH-cam analytics exists. You can actually see if you have subs from South Africa.
7lbs of C4 would demolish the average house. Completely!
Top Gear Middle East Special , broken into several series and episodes.
Top Gear had 350 million viewers in more than 200 countries continuously at this time. Still, the budget was set by the BBC so those cars were scrap cars they had put there, it's taxpayer money after all and in the UK that means restrictions rather than handing it out to your supporters. ;)
You gotta react to some drill, A92 on plugged in as a suggestion
You need to pimp my ride before making it fit for a Batchelor party
The Grand Tour👍
check out the one with the bugati veyron
The hole in the window is for shooting.
Mr. K Boomer, when you and the Queen return from Greece please react to Tim Minchin 'Thankyou God'
It's great and he has many more if you find that you enjoy it.
You need to reaction to the reliant robin clip of top gear 😂
Nice to see you react to my dream car
South African design . built to protect troops in minefields.
Biggest foreign earner for a tv series for BBC ever
You need to watch max&paddy road to no where
You must check out grand tour the three guys new show its epic mate.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE WATCH A CHAP CALLED RIC MAYAL AS LORD FLASHHEART FROM BLACK ADDER FROM THE UK.
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The grand tour on Amazon video
Dope for Bachelor party
You need to watch the Argentina special where rioters and police chase then out the country
The drive-thru reminded me of a real short reaction - 'British McDonalds drive thru guy'. As for characters in Top Gear - don't believe the hype, some of the most disliked people in the UK include Jeremy Clarkson and Richard 'the hamster' Hammond. New run of series actually holding it's own and currently with great hosts - yes 'real' characters :). Hoping Greece is still a blast, have fun you two. Si.
South African made vehicle.
Try the Top gear "specials" Boomer! There is quite a few so you will have to do a bit of research but they are all good. A lot of staged sh*t in there but still great watching. And yeah... don't bother with the new top gear as much, there is about 15 years worth of the original that gets replayed constantly on multiple channels in the UK, and that's enough for me :)
King Boomer,I am from SA
Hi guys, Only recently came across you and am loving your reaction content. Has anyone ever suggested you watch "Celebrity Juice" which is hosted by Keith Lemon, you will love it for sure.
Nice
I'm not on Instagram ect infact I'm only on TH-cam. If ur getting married CONGRATS .
React to Hammond's crash
Completed staged but no less funny for it e.g., the cars they drove over would have been from a scrapyard with some minor accident damage, probably never even had engines in them, I think you'd enjoy some of the mad races they had, they'd have crazy long-distance races with cars, planes, speedboats, public transport etc.
They bought the cars to run over
Dashboard you muppet
react to kevin & perry 😃
Headboard😃
You said there wouldn't be any videos while you were away on the inbetweeners episode you cheated on the queen to react to. Tut tut, lol.
WE NEED MORE INBETWEENERS!
I hated all the high budget nonsense. I liked it when it was a little more raw and dirty... It went downhill when it started being clearly staged
Most of the country did not, they only became more and more successful. Although I’ll agree nothing better then the trio getting some cheap cars in a shitty country and see what happens
Overall top gear was no1 but then now it's dead after firing Jeremy and replacing it with American presenters and they are still struggling after more then 2 year's no one is interested it's simple we followed them to grand cross after they left top gear it is now dead
All? I only knew Matt was American, or I think is Matt from friends, rest I thought was British
Was designed to take a hit from a landmine so not surprising it easily drove away. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marauder_(vehicle)
Painful to be inside when one goes off and can still get quite badly banged up, but at least alive.
Personally I'd avoid the Argentinian stuff. Its shocking, its real and it is not in the slightest bit funny what happened and therefore a poor example of what Top Gear was like. Most of what Top Gear did was staged but some of it was real and not knowing which often adds to the tension and the comedy of what happens. I still don't know whether the chase out of Alabama was real or fake; but it doesn't matter, it was still entertaining. Richard Hammonds two near fatal car crashes were obviously real, but the aftermath still had classic comedy arrangements (especially after the second crash). Argentina wasn't funny, it was terrifying; good television certainly but its a poor example of what Top Gear was like. Something best saved for when you have a better understanding of the show
I'd go for something like
th-cam.com/video/nl3bsL7Nbnk/w-d-xo.html (Amphibious Car Challenge on a lake)
th-cam.com/video/WTVPPTV-bQM/w-d-xo.html (Amphibious Car Challenge on a Sea; watch the Lake one first)
th-cam.com/video/dJfSS0ZXYdo/w-d-xo.html (Jeremy tests the Peel P50 the worlds smallest ever car)
th-cam.com/video/aFdBcYN3sNw/w-d-xo.html (Jeremy tests the P45 a car he constructed himself to be the worlds new smallest car)
th-cam.com/video/QQh56geU0X8/w-d-xo.html (Jeremy tests the Reliant Robin, a 3 wheeled car from the 1970s)
th-cam.com/video/zgRXi2svWPU/w-d-xo.html (Jeremy, James and Hammond review Caravan Holidays)
th-cam.com/video/PCSNCs7bwCw/w-d-xo.html (the three build their own Electric Car)