Top Gear UK
Complete Season 12 (2008)

Includes: US Salt Lake Flats racing, build your own EVO,
the Ford Fiesta test, Vietnam Special & much more.

* DVD Edition! *

(4 Disc Set)

Region 1 NTSC US/Canadian Version - Brand New, Factory Sealed DVD Set

These are original and factory sealed.
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DVD FEATURES:
Description:
Top Gear - Season 12 - Coming to DVD with Extended U.K. Episode Cuts

This past April saw the release of Top Gear - The Complete Season 10 on DVD. Want more? You got it! The folks at BBC America are saying at their blog that the 11th Season and the 12th Season will both be getting DVD releases. What's more, the report says that we'll get the extended U.K. versions of the episodes (58 mins each) on those sets, rather than the edited local cuts.

While the 11th Season release will otherwise be a bare-bones, episodes-only set, the 12th Season collection is planned to include bonus material: "commentary on the Vietnam special, and deleted scenes".

Top Gear - The Complete Season 12 will be a 4-DVD set running approx. 500 minutes. Specs are the same as S11, with video in widescreen and audio in English Stereo, and also with English subtitles.

Intro:
 Top Gear is the UK's premier motoring show. Consistently BBC TWO's most-watched program, it attracts audiences of nearly four million each week. It could be said to be ultimate boys' club, but also one that through its tone and style is accessible to everyone - 40% of viewers are female. Irreverent, witty and unbiasedly honest, the Top Gear team, led by Jeremy Clarkson, take cars to the limit and beyond to find out if they're any good or not.

Full of stunts, challenges and special features, Top Gear is self-deprecating, inclusive and passionate - there no boring stats and impenetrable conversations about camshafts and tire pressures. Instead you get authoritative information, entertainment and style.
 

Episodes:

12x01:
Jeremy and the boys wonder how hard it is to be a truck driver – and ponder for long enough to buy three lorries and take on a series of challenges. With, as ever, hilarious consequences...

JC drives the monumentally aggressive Porsche 911 GT2, then ditches it in favour of a slightly more tame Lamborghini Gallardo. Richard, as you can imagine, is disgusted.


12x02:
The boys go back to the US to test some muscle cars. Last time they were attacked with guns, this time they get pelted by rocks. Anyone else spot a theme developing here?

Jeremy tests Fiat’s hot new 500 on the track and wonders how it’ll do against some other fast little tiddlers. And does it have the character to properly live up to the Abarth heritage?


12x03:
The boys attempt to deliver Mitsubishi Evo-matching performance for a fraction of the price by simply enhancing a normal car with a series of sensibly applied mods. Doesn’t go well.

Ever the domestic entrepreneur, Delia Clarkson presents a Top Gear-style food masterclass: how to make a beef, brick and chilli smoothie, with the help of a V8 blender…


12x04:
 Jeremy, James and Richard race from Switzerland to the north of England, each aiming to be the first to turn on the Blackpool Illuminations. Only catch is, they’re not allowed to refill their cars.

It’s the Stig’s lucky day as our tame racing driver finally gets his hands on the 1,000bhp Bugatti Veyron and 600bhp Pagani Zonda F. Which one will be quickest round our track?


12x05:
Boris Johnson wants to know which bus is the best for London. To find out, we get a bunch of touring car drivers to race them round a gravel circuit. Scientific...

What’s the best way to blast around the French Riviera? A gorgeous classic Ferrari... or a thousand-horsepower carbon fibre powerboat?


12x06:
Some people reckon all cars will one day be made in China. And that got Jeremy and James thinking – has communism ever produced a good car?

Jeremy responds to a reader complaint about us not doing proper car tests by landing a Ford Fiesta on a beach and being chased through a shopping centre...


12x07:
Jeremy drives the all-electric Tesla Roadster and – guess what – he actually likes it. Something, probably, to do with the sub-three-second 0-60mph time...

Apparently Fifth Gear holds this record, so Richard decides to talk the TG Stuntman into attempting to beating it. Except he doesn’t, which is a bit of a shame...


12x08:
Top Gear ends the series in epic style as Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May go to Vietnam and are told to travel the entire length of the country in just eight days, thereby achieving what the American military failed to do in ten years.

First they must each buy some suitable transport for the trip, but will the several million dong they have in their pockets prove enough in one of the most expensive car markets in the world.


 

The Guys:


Jeremy Clarkson

Jeremy has often been described as ‘the most influential man in motoring journalism', mainly by himself.

Estimates suggest that he is slightly over nine feet tall, owns 14,000 pairs of jeans and has destroyed almost 4.2 million tyres in his lifetime.

He is best known for possessing a right foot apparently consisting of some sort of lead-based substance, for creating some of the most tortured similes ever committed to television, and for leaving the world's longest pauses between two parts... of the same sentence.

He has never taken public transport.


Richard Hammond

Richard started off his career in hospital radio, before graduating to a presenting slot on popular cable channel 'Cars and Boobs TV'.

Since then, his telly career has blossomed: at one point, it was possible to turn on your TV and see Richard on every channel at any time of day.

Despite this, he still finds time to appear on a second-rate motoring show on BBC Two, in which he can usually be found volunteering for stupidly dangerous challenges on the promise of a bag of crisps... or a 2am take-away kebab!


James May

James is a man of many and varied talents.

He is the only person in the world who understands how ‘torques' work, once invented a new kind of pie, and has single-handedly kept the tweed industry afloat for the last two decades.

He also has sensitive hair, an array of brightly coloured jumpers, and a deep and unswayable mistrust of the French.

He likes his cars in two flavours:
 - giant luxury land yachts favoured by larger-than-life
   cabaret singers and dictators,
 - and tiny cheap super-minis.


The Stig

Some say...

...he urinates 98 RON petrol, and he can smell corners. And that the outside of his nipples are shaped like the Nurburgring and when there's a really important job to do, he skives off to play croquet.

No one knows when the Stig was born, or how. But we do know why he was placed upon the Earth. To drive quickly.

"All we know is-

he's called the Stig!"


The Stig's lorry driving cousin

Some say...

...his favourite all time tune is "Forever Autumn" by Justin Hayward. And that he has the world's largest collection of p0rnographical material.

"All we know is...

he's NOT The Stig...

but he is The Stig's

lorry driving cousin!"


The Stig's Communist cousin

"I am not doing it... and nor will you two."

"The bikes today will be ridden by

The Stig's Communist cousin!"

(In extras)

 

   
  • Encoding: Region 1 NTSC
  • Format: Box set, Colour, DVD, Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Rating: NR (Not Rated)
  • Studio: BBC Warner
  • DVD Release Date: January 12, 2010
     

Number of discs: 4

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