Top Gear Magazine – Issue #214
The Top Gear Middle Eastern Special received widespread critical acclaim, with many praising the hosts' adventurous spirit, camaraderie, and good humor. The episode was watched by over 5 million viewers in the UK alone and helped to revitalize the show's popularity. top gear middle eastern special
The cars rebelled. Plastic trim melted. Glue seeped out of the windscreens. Hammond’s Golf began to smell like a burning toaster. The production crew, following in air-conditioned Land Cruisers, wore hazmat suits just to hand the boys water. Top Gear Magazine – Issue #214 The Top
The defining moment of the special is, of course, the dune. Not a hill. A mountain of sand. Clarkson, in a fit of "power and arrogance," floored the BMW. He made it 200 meters. Then the sand swallowed the Bavarian beast whole. Plastic trim melted
What followed was an hour of sweaty, cursing, hopeless physics. The more they dug, the deeper the BMW sank. It was a metaphor for British foreign policy in the region, but funnier.