Botswana Adventure Part 1 – Top Gear – BBC

October 20, 2008

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Botswana Adventure Part 1 – Top Gear – BBC

Jeremy, Richard and James prepare for their epic adventure across the Botswanan salt flats. Never crossed by a car before, the Top Gear boys face death as they ready their cars, meet the vice president of Botswana, and set off into the desolate wastelands.

Watch Part 2 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adkgoa1Eeug

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Patrick Rathbone
October 2, 2020
Who would win:
| Two torn apart , lightweights cars that look like they came out of a mad max movie |
| Oliver |
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Logicel soft
October 2, 2020
They just went mad max
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Jawadi ahmad
October 3, 2020
nice, now try the trinity of hypercar
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SWAT
October 4, 2020
the thing is that i am watching top gear in secret rn and the subtitles aren't that accurate
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Hanupratap Singh Chauhan
October 4, 2020
Is this show still there with this caste? I wanna see more of it
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Nagraz
October 5, 2020
"-and as wide as Portugal." uh how am i suppose to know ?
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Tanmay Deshpande
October 5, 2020
Just use the car which the camera crew was using
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Doggo
October 5, 2020
Hold on if those are bogging down what’s the camera crew driving-
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MCDONALDS union
October 6, 2020
they should’ve just used a 2cv you can take the doors off really easily
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Nathan Glover
October 7, 2020
Richard Hammond saying "We need a hundred men or more" as if he's literally the first man to make a Toto joke :')
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guest1754
October 7, 2020
"Now this is light"
proceeds to drive with no doors on the vehicle
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Mxz Aiw
October 8, 2020
0:10 PORTUGAL CARALHO 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹
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Extra Wubs
October 8, 2020
Real question is how did the filmcrew come with
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Smidge
October 9, 2020
What were the camera crew in then?
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M Cortes
October 9, 2020
"You can see the curvature of the earth." – said no flat earther ever.
Guess they weren't fans of top gear.
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Hennessy
October 10, 2020
james looks like he doesnt have anything to do on a sunday afternoon
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Andrew Saunders
October 10, 2020
How did the camera cars get across?
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James Neave
October 11, 2020
Salt flats like this are what make oil fields in another few million years.
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Kaden Ludwig
October 11, 2020
Oliver
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BLEEP Vlogs
October 11, 2020
“Permission to say cock”- James May, 2008
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Toke the Dude
October 12, 2020
The vice president surprisingly spoke very good clear English
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Aakash Singh
October 12, 2020
Everything in the beginning ended with 'you die'
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Elli
October 13, 2020
I really love the way Jeremy says Lancia Beta Coupe Superlegera! starting at 5:27
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SilverKoffee
October 14, 2020
I hear a starcraft pylon being warped in at 4:08 😳
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huntleysheep
October 15, 2020
how did the car with nothing modifies be fine longer then the other ones
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Ayaan Shakir
October 15, 2020
8:35 the guy speaking some other language gave me chills
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Mak 3k
October 15, 2020
Any one else notice the multiple tire tracks? Almost as if this was setup for them to get stuck…lol
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Sebby 324
October 16, 2020
Richard still has Oliver
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B.H.L blue hill lotus
October 16, 2020
Absolute real fury road,,,..
look at may's Benz lol
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mr hater
October 16, 2020
Can i express how great top gears soundtrack is?
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Collin Jones
October 16, 2020
any one notice the beetle at 7:16
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