Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2741 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-05-21
• Rating: Exempt
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1

DVD Description
Seven fantastic challenges that test the mettle of the Top Gear team.

The Top Gear boys - Jezzer, Hamster and Captain Slow - can do brake-horsepowers, torques and 0-60s until the pumps run dry. But when they take on a challenge, the action gets competitive, hilarious, dangerous and, at times, downright humiliating.

Robin Reliant Space Shuttle:

Combining cutting edge amateur rocketry, British Grit, and truly intergalactic levels of messing about, Richard and James try to put a Reliant Robin into space.

Building Amphibious Cars:

Can the lads create a vehicle equally at home on land and water? Will they even make it across the reservoir without drowning or catching hypothermia?

Building a Limo:

The boys are up against it, making their own stretch limos from everyday cars. But the challenge has only just begun. There are some high-profile celebs who need a lift to the Brit Awards...

Building a Convertible:

Attempting to turn a Renault Espace into a fashionable 'drop top', the team prove that trying to make your own convertible is a bit like trying to cut your own hair... you can do it, but you probably shouldn't...

Parkour vs Peugeot 207:

They may wear silly trousers but these parkour (the barmy sport of leaping across rooftops across the city) lads are serious competition for Captain Slow's Peugeot 207 in a race through Liverpool.

Veyron Race from Alba:

It's Top Gear's most dramatic race yet. Jeremy's in the Bugatti Veyron - the fastest, most lavish supercar ever - while Richard and James are in a flying washing machine - with Captain Slow at the controls!

Crap 70s Supercars:

They were once state-of-the-art Italian supercars - the Maserati Merak, the Ferrari Dino 308GT4 and the Lamborghini Uracco. Now, all the lads need to do is try to drive them from Bristol to a "gentleman's" club in Slough.

Customer Reviews

Very entertaining
I sometimes get bored with some of the car reviews in top gear as I will never buy an expensive car , however the challenges are always the very best of the show and it was great to put the best 7 in a DVD .

The idea is simple ,3 men and a very stupid idea and some cars.

The only problem with DVD is the index and can be a bit frustrating to find what you are looking for. I also miss the USA tour of the southern states with offensive logos( perhaps the team were thinking of the American market ).

However this is a prefect DVD for 3 hours of fun with some friends and some beers in front of the TV.

Great content - let down by the 'editing'
Like Barnard Clam reviewing before me I believe this DVD is seriously let down by the DVD scene selection format.

I received the DVD today and settled down with my eldest son to watch the great Veyron vs Cesna challenge - a good 20 minnute diversion I thought. This excellent challenge was interrupted halfway through to start the 70s supercar challenge. I was then very dissappointed with the scene selection and couldn't find out where the Bugati race re-started.

Looks like I'm going to have to find 160mins somewhen at the weekend to watch the whole thing back to back.

Top Gear is fantastic. I've probably had my funniest televisual moments over the last year watching the boys restle caravans, stretch limos and of course space-rocket-reliants. However, I probably shall only watch this DVD once and then it'll get passed on through the family as opposed to being watched over and over again.

Great content, pity about the presentation.
Content: excellent - five stars. Admittedly it is only as seen on the television - there are no extras of any kind, which is a shame, but the challenges are presented as seen on television in their insane glory.

Presentation: atrocious - can I actually give a negative rating to this? The challenges, rather than being presented in order, are intercut, with no immediately obvious pattern. The breaks between the sections also fail to line up with the chapter starts, which appear to have been selected largely at random. As such, locating the start of a particular segment almost invariably involves fast-forwarding or rewinding as required, which is somewhat irritating. There's also no facility to simply play an individual challenge - an obvious feature that would surely not have been difficult to implement.

In summary, if you wish to sit down and watch three hours of car-based lunacy, this is a great disc. If you only have half an hour and have the desire to watch an individual challenge, you'll find it really quite annoying. The quality of the content is offset quite seriously by some extremely bizarre choices with the presentation, which actually feels like it's been made intentionally awkward.