Top Gear Episode 4

This episode of Top Gear wasn't as good as the previous episodes in this season. The topic of this episode was nicknamed "speed". To me this episode was nicknamed "poor". For this episode, the had a to buy the cheapest vehicle possible for the least amount of money. But,the vehicles that they bought had to be capable of reaching 150 mph. Having that said, They each spent less than $3,600 dollars on their car. Adam chose a 1995 Pontiac Trans-am, Rutledge bought a 1994 Infiniti Q45 and Tanner bought a Saab 93 Vegan. With these vehicles, they had to reach at least 150 mph. But, they couldn't just go straight for it, they had to to do a couple of tests to see if the car could handle well because when you are traveling at a high rate of speed, there is a lot of things that come into play that you have to worry about. When traveling at high speeds, you have to worry about many things, those "things" includes, winds, what type of pavement you will be driving on, how old the car s, and many more. Top Gear set up a couple of challenges to test the cars weaknesses. As each challenge finished, each of the challenges tested how the car would handle in different positions. And there last and final challenge was set to see if their car of choice would be able to go up to 150 mph. Both Adam and Rutledge having V8's under the hood thought they wouldn't have a problem. But with the final challenge being done, Either Adam or Rutledge could touch 150. But Tanner, with his 4 cylinder stock turbo beat the challenge by 1 mph reaching 151 mph. But on the show, both Adam and Rutledge didn't believe that Tanner did it, so Rutledge claimed that he won the challenge. But Rutledge hit only about 138 mph. The show went on, since Rutledge "won" the challenge he was able to drive one of the fastest cars in the world, the Bugatti Veryon that has an outstanding top speed of 225 mph from the factory. Rutledge was told to deliver the car to a VIP which turned out to be Tanner. Adam and Tanner found out that Rutledge had cheated which was totally scripted. Tanner got to test out this beast and see how this car performs. This episode could have been way better than how it was planned. You could definitely tell that this episode was scripted which ruins the show in my opinion. Seeing this episode, i am hoping that the next episode will be a big step up. In my opinion, from a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the greatest, i thought this episode was a strong 6.

Top Gear Episode 3

Episode three for Top Gear was actually a pretty good show. This episode consisted of the guys buying any vehicle of their choice to convert them into RV's. And after they each picked their choice of vehicles, they were told to meet at a camp site. Tanner was the very first to show up, picking a  1983 Porsche 928s with a rocket on the roof top for his living space. Adam chose a 1973 Buick Centurion with a huge flat iron looking mini building mounted on top his car. Rutledge was the very last to come with a 1989 Honda Civic Wagon. Rutledge's wagon extended into a longer wagon with other RV like supplies to have a camp site. They had a series of challenges to test the durability, speed and strength of their "so called RV's". The very first challenge was to race to their camp site and see who could set up first. With Tanner being the professional driver, he was the very first one to show up at the site. After reaching there, they got news that they would be traveling 200 miles to Charlotte to meet others at a race way to camp out in field . But on the way there, they had to compete in a series of challenges. The very first challenge was to compete in a four wide drag race challenge, also racing a $400,000 dollar RV. The had to race all the way to the end of the track then make a U turn, and the first one back where they started won. Tanner obviously won because he had over 200 horsepower under his hood. The third challenge had them park their cars in front of 80 mile per hour fans that had a hose hooked up to it to produce a hurricane like situation. They each had to get situated in their RV's and get rain suits on as fast as they can. Adam won this challenge because he had a huge advantage of his RV being huge. After these challenges, the finally reached their destination, the had to camp in field on a race way with others. After this they headed to their last and final challenge which was on a dirt track. They had to race around it as many times as they could. Adam flipped first, Tanners engine died and Rutledge was the winner.
In my opinion, this episode was one of the best episodes that they had produced for awhile now. And this really caught attention because of all the challenges that they faced. I liked this episode so much that i cant wait for the next one to come out.

Top Gear (US Version) Episode #2 Review

Top Gears episode two was a pretty good episode that featured entertaining challenges. This episode was called, "Americas Toughest Vehicle". This episode was about the guys purchasing a vehicle that was at least 20 years old, and less than $2,000 dollars. With that being said, they could choose any vehicle that met these standards. Rutledge choose a 1990 Volvo 240, Adam choose a 1992 Chevy Caprice and lastly, Tanner choose a 1987 Toyota Corolla. After each of them gave a little info about their cars, they set off their first challenge which was a three way drag race. Rutledge had the slowest car and didn't even make it past the speed limit of 55 mph but while Adam had more horsepower under the hood, Tanner got the start with his 86 hp Corolla. But Adam was closely catching up to take the win of the first challenge. After this challenge  they drove to a gun range and parked right behind each other  right in front of the targets. This was their second challenge titled "reliability", They each had to shoot their cars with a 12 gauge shotgun. With is gun, they had to shoot each others cars three times. They chose to shoot the Volvo first, then the Chevy and finally the Corolla. Each car suffered bullet damage on the body and broken windows. But they were not done yet, they had to test the build quality by placing a bomb in each car located in the rear seat. Each car was set off by the owners of each car which meant Adam, Rutledge and Tanner. All of the cars suffered fire, burning everywhere and all the windows blasted out except the front window. But the real question was, did the engine still start? All of the cars started with no problem at all. After this, they slowly drove to a closed course for their third challenge. For this challenge, they had to drop their cars using a crane from 15 ft off of the ground. They could choose how they wanted their cars to be dropped, like on their side or on the trunk. Tanner was the first to go, he decided to drop his car on the passenger side. The car dropped and fell on the side leaving a pretty big mark, Adam went next and did the same. But Rutledge decided to be different and drop his car on the back. He did that and it dented the whole back of the car. And again, they tested to see if the cars would start. Each car started but showed a bit of struggle. Their last and final challenge was at a dirt bike track that was a small oval and consisted of humps and logs to go over. Each vehicle was completely drained of their oil. They had to run as many laps as they could until their car stopped. they all set off, and right off the bat, Adams car died leaving Rutledge in first and Tanner in second. Both of them were hitting each others car like it was a game of bumper cars. After about 10 laps, Rutledge's Volvo finally died leaving Tanner as the winner to end the episode. But lastly whoever won this challenge was competing in a totally different challenge. Since Tanner won, he had to drive a Mercedes Benz G-63 AMG, his task was to escape the military in this vehicle because he was being chased. After about 5 minutes, they caught him.

In my opinion, this episode was slightly better than the previous episode. But they could have did a better job on entertaining the viewers by doing more unexpected things to try and "wow" the audience. They had cut out on a lot of things that they did in the very first season such as "big star small car", they also had many other challenges and way more interesting things but now they don't. With all this being said, hopefully the newest top gear episode coming out this Tuesday night will be better.