Top Gear Episode 5

This Episode of Top Gear seemed very short and a very small step up from the previous episode. On this episode, the guys challenge was to replace the regular taxi cab that roams all around the busiest and major cities such as New York and Las Vegas. With that being said, they each chose a vehicle that could be a possible choice for the taxi cab drivers. Tanner chose a Scion Xb, Rutledge chose a Chevy El-Camino and Adam chose a Ford Ambulance which was named the "Cab-ulance". After they all met up at their meeting point, they headed to a series of challenges trying to prove to each other why theirs was better than the others. After that, they were told to set out on the Las Vegas Strip to see how many passengers and how much money the could get. Tanner won this challenge by receiving $80 dollars in tip money.His reward for getting the most tips was that he could test out a newly released British car called the Maserati. After getting used to all the driving features of the Maserati, he put it up against a NASCAR stock driver. They were to race around half of the oval and in a in field track that was curved in many different directions. Under the hood of the Maserati, this vehicle pushed over 500 hp, but on the other hand, the stock car pushed over 900 hp. Both of them raced, many people would think that the stock car would have an easy win but the Maserati had an amazing lead straight off of the line and all the corners of the track, but on the straightaways the muscle of the stock car over powered the 500 hp Maserati. The stock car won the race but the Maserati was right on the bumper which was really good for a 500 hp car keeping up to a 900 hp car. This episode wasn't the best in this season, in my opinion, the episode called "RV's" was the best. And since that episode, Top Gear hasn't stepped up their game since that episode. I feel like that they should include more activities that will draw the audience closer to the episode. They should add more unusual things because more people will be more focused on things that they haven't seen before. Yes, we haven't seen a El-Camino and a "Cabulance" but they could have tried a lot harder to set their differences. Hopefully, the next episode will be better.