Top Gear Live 2010 featured an-all new live action show. Here's a quick taster of just some of the amazing stunts you could have seen in the show...
While it’s true that all the action at Top Gear Live takes place in the middle of the arena, with a series of sensational stunts and thrilling high-octane displays coming thick and fast, there are plenty of chances to get involved too. The show features the infamous Dunsfold Lap where you race against the other shows. Can you beat the best audience in the world?
>>>Click here to see the leaderbord for the previous shows
OK – you know what a car is and you know what a game show is, right? Imagine if the same people who sailed to France in a Toyota HiLux and converted an S-Class Mercedes into a mobile country cottage decided to put those two things together.
Imagine you were driving to work and your car burst into flames. We’re guessing, but we suspect your first course of action would be to pull over to the side of the road. And get out. Not the bloke who drive the Top Gear Live Flaming Rally Car, though.
Cruel Wall - that’s the nickname some Hammond fans have used to describe one of the most popular features from the TV show – The Cool Wall. Why cruel? Because it’s been one of Clarkson’s favourite ways of being ‘heightist’, deliberately sticking cars he rates as cool out of Richard’s reach.
So we’re told, the TGL engineeronauts have found a way of making a car change colour. We don’t know how – and nobody dare ask why – but this is no ordinary car in the first place; it’s the new Focus RS, Ford’s latest amazing hot hatch.
The world is in the grip of recession, which means we’re all broke and have no money. However people still need to get about, and Top Gear found out that New Zealanders spends a fortune on gardening each year. Now obviously a lot of that is bird seed and soil, but the vast majority is on things with engines and motors. So the producers challenged our plucky presenters to go out and make vehicles that could be used as proper transport using only things found in your average New Zealand garden shed.
The demands of a world tour have no effect on The Stig. He has a built-in KERS energy renewal system, just like some 2009 Formula One cars. When he is walking, unused movement is stored in the upper part of both legs and when he stops, this ‘power’ becomes available to help him then move again, but at a higher speed. As a result, The Stig never needs to sleep for longer than 7 minutes and prefers not to sit down