I was meandering the net and stumbled upon an interesting topic about a British car program called Top Gear. Apparently they did a US special where they sent three people to Miami with 1000 bucks to buy a car and drive it to New Orleans. Along the way they completed challenges and such, and at the end of the show, they gave the cars away to Katrina victims.
From what I gather, one of the challenges was to drive through parts of Alabama with 'slogans' on their cars. Does anyone see where this is going? Let's put it this way, what they did was the equivalent of driving around a British football stadium wearing a pink jumpsuit proclaiming the home team is just a bunch of girls who couldn't even play American football well.
I sort of wished I could've seen the episode, because I can't think of anything funnier than Euro-snobs getting ran out of town (state?) by a mob of backwards, angry rednecks.
Posted by Zoso at February 15, 2007 07:19 AMI love Top Gear! That show is fantastic.
American's watch Nascar and car auctions. While Top Gear gets an Aston Martin (think james bond) and races a french passenger train from paris to the coast - and beats it with enough time to grab a cup of coffee before the train arrives.
Which is only secondary in awesomeness to the time they got a subaru WRX and raced a bobsled down the side of an ice and snow encased hillside in switzerland or some place....and won. Without anyone dying!
Perhaps the signs were an attempt to bait people into chasing them out of town, but waiting for the locals to strap the lawnchairs into the back of their rusted out trucks took to long.
Posted by: Sarah at February 15, 2007 12:17 PMIt sounds like a cool show, actually. I'd like to watch a few episodes. The bit about the hillbillies bugs me because the Top Gear folks are bitching about how badly things went for them. Sort of a no brainer, if you ask me...
Posted by: Zoso at February 15, 2007 04:26 PMAh. I love Top Gear. They often get complaints about some of their comments, it's all a bit tongue-in-cheek. Sometimes. =)
Posted by: DR at February 16, 2007 03:43 PM