Description


*Top Gear: The Great Adventure - US Special* - Region 4 DVD - is used, and in "very goodcondition. Light level scratching and marking is apparent on the disc. The case has numerous dents and scratches, and displays overall signs of general wear.

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**The disc has been tested, and appears to work perfectly***

The item is exactly as pictured (I don't use stock photos). It will be placed directly in a padded envelope/mailer for shipping.


What you get (refer to pics)

If it's not on the list, it's not included


 Guarantee


I buy things on eBay as well, and completely understand how disappointing it can be when something isn't exactly what I expected. As a result, I offer the following guarantee on this listing. If for any reason this item isn't up to your expectations in any way, simply return it and I'll give you a full 
refund of the item price - no questions asked!

Please note: any shipping and packaging charges incurred during the transaction are non-refundable. Leaving neutral or negative feedback concludes the transaction and voids this guarantee.


Synopsis* (possible spoiler alert)


Attempting to see if it is cheaper to buy a car for exploring the southern part of the United States for 2 weeks rather than renting one, Clarkson, Hammond and May travelled to Miami and were each given US$1,000 to see what they could buy. Over the course of several hours, they discovered that there were very few cars available at a price within their budget, with all three having to venture into parts of the city where the risk of danger was great; Hammond found a dealer, during his search, that specialised in decommissioned law enforcement and government cars, while Clarkson encountered a dealer who owned both a small pistol and a rifle with a scope for his personal protection. Eventually, all three met up outside a stadium with the cars that they had managed to find within budget - Clarkson had bought a 1991 Chevrolet Camaro RS, which he claimed had a murky past to it with the discovery of a mysteriously stained shirt in a compartment next to the spare tyre; Hammond had bought a 1991 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck, which despite dents and a loose tailgate, was in quite good condition; May had bought a 1989 Cadillac Brougham, which had considerable wear and tear to it, and was quite bouncy as Clarkson and Hammond found when they pushed against it. Despite the initial faults, all three were delighted with their purchases and soon found themselves tasked with travelling to the Moroso Motorsports Park. Along the way, each revealed that their car had other issues to deal with - Clarkson had a radio that could only pick up a gospel preaching radio station, while most of his dials didn't work properly; May's Cadillac had poor acceleration and struggled to achieve a fast speed, yet was the only vehicle with working air-con, which he appreciated in the Florida heat; Hammond had a radio that was broken and not connected, while his pick-up chassis appeared to be bent, veering to the right under acceleration, and to the left when braking.

Upon reaching the Motorsports Park, the trio learned that their cars would be sent around the Park's circuit and achieve as quick a time that it could make. All three learned that for this challenge, the car's would be driven by the Stig's American cousin, whom they nicknamed "Big Stig" owing to his obese appearance. Clarkson's Camaro proved the fastest with its time, while May's, which was found to have an electrical problem before it began that required it to be jump-started, was the second fastest. Hammond's pick-up was sluggish around the track and was the slowest, but quickly revealed that it had poor brakes after it came off the track. Following the challenge, the trio were then tasked with seeing how quickly they could reach 50 mph before seeing how quickly their cars stopped from that speed, and discovered that the challenge would take place at the drag strip portion of the raceway's track, where at the bottom of it was a river filled with alligators. Both Clarkson and May managed to reach the speed and brake before reaching the end of the strip, but Hammond failed to achieve the speed and only narrowly avoided driving into the river.

Following their time at the raceway, the trio were told that they would be heading onwards to New Orleans, stopping for the first night at a hotel, whereupon May suffered another electrical fault that required him to get another jump-start, much to the annoyance of the other presenters, while Clarkson bought fans to help both himself and Hammond deal with the heat, although Hammond discovered his had been sabotaged as a practical joke. Eventually, the trio were given $100 in cash to buy something for their car that would "make the journey more comfortable", with Hammond buying a grill, Clarkson buying a shower to replace his broken air conditioning and May buying a clothes rack, before learning that they would be camping for the second night and that their dinner would be whatever they could find dead at the side of the road. Switching to the side roads, they first found a possum which May accidentally ran over, and then a tortoise which Clarkson refused to kill and instead set back towards a nearby swamp. Hammond eventually found a squirrel which was collected, and whilst prepping the camp with May and considering how to cook it, Clarkson went off for one more search, returning with an enormous dead cow on the roof of his Camaro, which May refused to eat. Later that night, Clarkson and Hammond, feeling that he should suffer like them, successfully sabotaged the Cadillac's air-con, much to May's annoyance in the morning.

Prior to entering Alabama, the presenters stopped at the village of Bagdad and were instructed to paint each other's cars with slogans that could lead to them getting shot by the locals. While May gave Hammond's pickup a homosexual appearance and slogans, Hammond painted "Country and Western is Rubbish" on Clarkson's, and Clarkson painted "Hillary for President", "NASCAR sucks" and "I'm bi" on May's car. However, the challenge had to be aborted when the three stopped at a filling station and offended the owner so much, that, in one of Top Gear's most famous moments, the film crew's vans were pelted with rocks by friends of the owner, while May had to get another jump-start before he and Hammond could join Clarkson and the film crew in fleeing from the angered locals. Once the group had lost sight of them, they hastily removed the slogans on their cars and beat a retreat for the state border with Mississippi.

Once back on their way to New Orleans, the trio looked back to the journey they had with their cars and remarked that all had been enjoyable to use. Upon nearing their final destination, the presenters planned to sell their cars to see how much of the money they spent on them they could get back, but upon witnessing the damage that had been caused to the city by Hurricane Katrina the previous year, they abandoned the challenge and instead decided to give away their cars to a Christian mission. While Clarkson and Hammond managed to do so, May failed to find someone to take it. In the studio, May was declared the loser, while Clarkson revealed that after filming of the last segment of the film had been done, a lawyer had approached the group representing the mission and threatened to sue them for misrepresentation after it transpired that Clarkson's Camaro wasn't a 1991 model as promised but a 1989 model, further stating that they were told the lawsuit would be dropped on a settlement payment of US$20,000, before May added that after the lawyer had seen them, a group of "burly" men arrived and told them to "get off their street". Clarkson concluded that it was viable to buy, rather than rent, a car but summed up the trip by ending with "Don't go to America!".

As a reference to the American redneck stereotype, the four main presenters were credited as Cletus Clarkson, Earl Hammond Jr., Ellie May May, and Roscoe P. Stig, while each crew member's first name was replaced with the words "Billy Bob"
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* Information sourced online in the public domain.

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