This is either the final episode, or the 2nd last. Read something about filming in Zimbabwe for the final episode. This one is Paris-Dakar.

that looks to be awesome - they hit it out of the park yet again

I've been watching the original Top Gear on Prime and I'm up to Season 5, and although I've seen clips from those shows, I've never seen the entire episode

they were the ultimate fun bunch

SamsungTVPlus has a dedicated Top Gear channel. It's my go-to white noise in the background.

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Originally posted by P250UA5:
SamsungTVPlus has a dedicated Top Gear channel. It's my go-to white noise in the background.

Available elsewhere as well.
In addition to Plex, these sites carry it:

https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/top-gear

We've had more fun watching those jokers over the years.

Waiting patiently. I've enjoyed the trio's work for the last 15 years.

now if only I could find Benny Hill

Looking forward to it! Have loved Top Gear and The Grand Tour for a long time.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
now if only I could find Benny Hill

^^^^
Mr. Bean is on PBS right now. Close enough?

I love these guys!
I’m sending this to my friends who will be joint me on a trip across the Sarah’s this fall. Let’s hope we have half as much fun!

I went to the app expecting to watch it tonight...

Feb 16 it debuts, sigh

I watched it last night

excellent as usual, they seemed to be genuinely enjoying themselves

of course there are the usual things that go sideways

the photography and drone work was excellent

Clarkson is starting to show his age as is May, but they still have some good chemistry going

Wasn't as humorous and enjoyable as their previous trip shows have been.

I think it was Clarkson who summed it up in an interview, that they've been there and done that, quite literally all over the world. They're out of ideas and both Clarkson & May are getting up there in age where these types of shoots are pretty exhausting. I believe all three have contracts with Prime for their own shows so, they aren't hurting but, this one appears to be the end of the road.

Edit- Just read that there's one more show, as they were filming in Zimbabwe at the end of 2023 with release target sometime in 2024 so, one more special.

It was still a fun watch, just finished it.
Some good chuckles & the usual antics.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
now if only I could find Benny Hill

DVD box set

I just tonight caught up with watching the last episode of Season 5, "Sand Job".

I had a quite different perspective watching this, because of all the road trips they've ever done, this is the only one I've ever done myself--although in the other direction and 58 years ago.

My Peace Corps Mauritania I buddy Walt and I hooked up with some French guys who had done their military service teaching in Senegal. They had four Citroen 2CV's--perfect for this as they are high, FWD, very light (stuck in sand? No problem, we'll just pick up the back end...), and repairable literally with baling wire. It was end of June, early July, so pretty hot; no AC of course. We started in Dakar, Senegal, took the ferry (all that crap about building rafts was just an eye-roller for me) across the Senegal River from St. Louis. Headed north to Nouakchott: in 1968 Nouakchott probably had 50,000 people, it was maybe three miles of paved road in the entire country in the capital. Not at all like the crowded African city/slum of 1.2 million people driven there by drought and desertification in the decades following 1968. Almost all the road was gravel track; we drove lots of washboard but we were used to it from our time as volunteers in Mauritania--something else they blew out of proportion.

We did not know about the ancient libraries in Chinguetti. I read in Wikipedia that more recent PC volunteers have helped try promote tourism in Chinguetti with tours of the libraries and "skiing" down the dunes that are now threatening to bury the town. So that part was interesting.

The train that they met in Choum really exists: it's the longest train "in the wuhld" and the entire railroad was built to carry iron ore from the mines. We visited the mines, they had enormous Bucyrus Erie trucks for hauling ore, twenty-foot high tires.

At that time, what is now known as "Western Sahara" was Spanish Sahara. Spain left, now Morocco claims it, and the "Polisario Front" I think still fights a guerrilla war there.

We crossed through Spanish Sahara to Morocco, ended up in Rabat. I flew from there through Spain to Germany where I reunited with my college sweetheart and proposed to her.

So all-in-all an interesting adventure, even without the silly stuff added on by the Grand Tour guys.