Hammond says Top Gear crew's scariest moment was infamous Southern U.S. episode [w/VIDEO]
Top Gear's Rednecks in Alabama USA - click above to watch the videos
Seems like forever since we've run a Top Gear post, no? And hey, when the world's most popular car show is on hiatus we tend to get a bit... withdrawn. Because, well, we just love the antics. Like the time Clarkson had a Bugatti Veyron and Hammond was stuck in the back of May's Cessna as they raced back to London. Brilliant, right? Or how about the £1,500 Porsche challenge. We try to watch it once a month. And let's not forget the time they bought a bunch of used cars in Florida and drove 'em across the South. Actually... was that even real? Like, did Confederate Flag crazed rednecks really try to kill all three of them? Here's what the tiniest but toughest member of Top Gear has to say about it:
Hmm, okay, yes – very funny, but really? Like, for reals?It's a pretty lengthy story, but in the course of our trip, by way of an entertaining diversion to keep up our spirits during an especially lengthy drive, we had devised a plan whereby we would each try to get the others killed.
Fun! And then they pulled into that gas station where they were approached by a woman that asked, "Y'all queers trying to see how long you can last in a hick town?" If you've seen the episode, you know how it ends. And if you haven't, we've got it after the jump. And we strongly advise you to read the rest of Hammond's remarks, as they are quite, um, enlightening.[W]e all felt that we would cause, at worst, a ripple of offence no deeper than that which might be generated among the residents of Cornwall by three visitors driving their cars through Truro with "Cream teas are rubbish" painted down the sides. We covered three miles before being placed in genuine fear for our lives.
[Source: Top Gear]
Rednecks in Alabama USA Part 1
Rednecks in Alabama USA Part 2
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 6)
MachinaDC5 7:35PM (10/07/2009)
USA! USA! USA!
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Sea Urchin 7:54PM (10/07/2009)
I would love to know what Hammond thinks about USA, but i am too busy admiring his bad teeth.
erik1080 8:25PM (10/07/2009)
@Sea Urchin
He got his teeth done, remember? But of course he denies it...
Quantumphysics 8:36PM (10/07/2009)
I really hate rednecks.
Murc 8:37PM (10/07/2009)
imma, imma let you finish, but this was the best top gear of all time, OF ALL TIME
Matt (that likes ford) 9:09PM (10/07/2009)
@Murc, Too soon bro... lol but +1 anyways
MachinaDC5 11:11PM (10/07/2009)
It really was one of the best of all time. OF ALL TIME.
Mike 1:19AM (10/08/2009)
no way, the Polar Special was by far the best one yet. Amazing too because it had no cars to speak of. Also it's the only one in HD until the next series in November.
notYou 9:13AM (10/08/2009)
MachinaDC5: "USA! USA! USA!"
Sadly, people outside (and inside, judging from a lot of the comments) derive a monolithic stereotypical image of the country from stuff like this.
Too bad Hammond and Co. didn't have the hampster balls to write some mildly-local-offensive stuff on their car and go toodle'ing around in, oh:
Los Angeles
Detroit
Atlanta
Miami
Washington D.C.
Chicago
The we'd see similar - if not worse - ignorance, hatred, bigotry,and lunacy. You know, the kind that gets honor students beat to death in the street when they are walking home from school.
It might still be funny sport, especially to foreigners who don't know any better, to perpetually stereotype southerners. But those who do are about 30+ years too late in lampooning the locales and people that are the core of America's problems today. Their bend-over-backwards to show anything but the obvious is telling.
Mike 9:24AM (10/08/2009)
OK, so the scariest thing ever for the limp-wristed tea drinker was a bunch of stone-chucking bumpkins. I dunno, he looked pretty askeered when he was crying his eyes out while being dragged across the arctic by a team of brave husky dogs.
MONTE 1:38PM (10/08/2009)
:hiccup: Yep, us Southern folk like nothing more than hangin' us some colored people or Europeans :hiccup:. Maybe next time they can go to a more sophisticated part of the US like Cabrini Green in Chicago, or Watts, or maybe even Compton. Folks there are as nice as can be and will be really helpful to a bunch of white Europeans driving around. Top Gear douchebaggery is lost on me.
:hiccup:
OptimusPrimeRib 12:05PM (10/11/2009)
Imagine if they were black and did this? There would have been a lynching that night.
Lucas 7:36PM (10/07/2009)
I don't trust Top Gear anymore. It's gotten too unbelievable.
I still love it, mind you, but my disbelief can no longer be suspended.
Who knows, that lady may have been an actress...
Lucas.
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JC 7:41PM (10/07/2009)
You must not have ever been to the deep south. I used to live in Georgia and honestly them making it up never even crossed my mind.
Lucas 7:47PM (10/07/2009)
Sitting in ATL as I type, actually.
Polly Prissy Pants 8:03PM (10/07/2009)
I don't think that's a southern thing, I think it's more of a hillbilly/redneck thing. As a side note, for some strange reason the people most likely to rely on gov't assistance programs are the ones most likely to be violently opposed to same. Love an explainer for that.
Lucas 8:07PM (10/07/2009)
@ Polly... yup, those tax hatin', gub 'ment fearin' Red States sure do eat more than their fair share of Federal spending!
Lucas 8:08PM (10/07/2009)
@ Polly... yup, those tax hatin', gub 'ment fearin' Red States sure do eat more than their fair share of Federal spending!
Sea Urchin 8:12PM (10/07/2009)
@ Lukas, yeah, because they pay taxes. Federal Spending is not for welfare queens only.
Lucas 8:20PM (10/07/2009)
Check out his map, THEN make your point.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/UserFiles/Image/Blog/ftsbs-large.jpg