I have a grudging respect for Top Gear because even though I’m no car fanatic, if it’s playing on someone’s telly I’ll almost always make a nice cuppa tea, grab the digestive biscuits and get stuck in.
Part of me’s also jealous of Clarkson and co. because they get up to some crazy sheeit. Remember when Clarkson and May (in a truck) raced Hammond (on a dogsled) from Canada to the North Pole?
Or when the gang painted pro-homosexual slogans on each other’s cars and drove into Alabama? Or what about the unbreakable Hilux back in season 3 that kept going despite being crashed into a tree, driven through a garden shed, and hit with a wrecking ball (among other things).
The good news for Top Gear junkies though is that the show is back on BBC Entertainment (DSTV Channel 120), starting tonight at 20:00.
To get you in the mood, here’s another moment that gave me goosies watching the show – the Bugatti Veyron vs the most high-tech strike fighter on the planet, the Euro Fighter Typhoon.
How bonkers was that?!
If you want to stand the chance of winning flights, accommodation and tickets to see the Top Gear Festival in Durban this year for you and a partner, all you have to do is watch every episode of the show (starting tonight) watch for a question to pop up on the screen and answer with #TopGearSA.
In the meantime, I’ve got some pics from the new season, courtesy of my friends at the ©BBC, to give you guys a taste of what to expect.
Check it:
That is all.
-ST