Customer Reviews
worth every penny!! - By: Mr. Thomas Wagstaff, 26 Jul 2008 
top gear is my favourite show this box set is excellent & well worth the money. i have watched the boxsets more than 5 times now & i still have a laugh watching it thank you top gear. jeremy clakrson richard hammond james & the stig all legends!
all hail mr clarkson - By: L. Frayling, 03 Dec 2006 jeremy clarkson does it againin this excellent dvd boxset. & outstanding value for your money. jeremy clarkson is what this country has been waiting for. no other motoring presenter has what jeremys got..style, guts, & an honest take on life.
buy this now youll have years of entertainment. watch over & over again youll never get tired
lee frayling herefordshire england
Top Gear, in a box. Brilliant. - By: Ms. L. M. Forster, 01 Oct 2006 The reasons why we watch Top Gear are wide ranging, but whatever joy you get from watching the show you will also get from this box set.
If you watch it for the very fast cars then "Backin the Fast Lane" with it's supercar lineup from start to finish will satiate that urge, although if you are expecting to see James May & Richard Hammondin that production you will be disappointed. James provides one voice over & Richard about 3 sets of footage. The rest is entirely Jeremy Clarkson. And very very very pretty cars going very fast. If you enjoy the general tomfoolery & insane stunts of a normal Top Gear show then "Winter Olympics" is the DVD for you; it's a stand-alone episode with stunts ranging from sensible to mad. And if you watch the show for the competitions or Richard Hammond, then "Revved Up" has lots of both to keep you entertained. "Winter Olympics" is probably the most complete DVD when viewed separately, but the other two DVDs still have a lot to offer.
The outtakes includedin "Revved Up" & "Winter Olympics" are funny but very short - they must either get a lot of it right first time round or the rest of the mistakes are too crude to be shown even on DVD. There are Stig features on all three DVDs, although the one on "Winter Olympics" is a bit too drawn out. Footage of all three is not repeated bar one stunt - the bobsleigh vs Mitsubishi Evo race - which is on both "Revved Up" & "Winter Olympics".
As a box set, I love it. It's definately worth what you pay for the entertainment you get, & it's a laugh - just as Top Gear itself has proven to be over the last few years.
Some say it,s made of titanium and will clean your house as it plays....i just call it a very good DVD - By: russell clarke, 03 Sep 2006 Why do I enjoy "Top Gear" so much? Me who don't drive & who could write what he knows about cars on the edge of a postage stamp. I shouldn't give a tuppenny toss about this programme but every Sunday at 20.00 hours I'm satin front of my TV salivating like Tony Blair introduced to a media tycoon. What's more I get the impression I am not the only motoring ignoramus who does so.
In answering my own question, or at least attempting to, I would say because it's the most entertaining thing on the box by several laps of that track they drive around every week. The mix of presenters works brilliantly. Jeremy Clarkson is not every ones cup of tea, indeed he is some people's cup of warm vomit, but he is superbly engagingin his opinionated way & is capable of genuine wit. His interviews with the starsin the reasonably priced cars are invariably illuminating & amusing & he tackles everything with an unabashed damm the consequences enthusiasm that never fails to entertain. Richard Hammond (he of the very white teeth) is also a terrific natural presenter & engaging personality & though he lacks Clarkson's sardonic edge & totalitarian judgments he makes a good sparring partner. The real coup is having career bachelor, the fastidious & anal "Captain Slow" James May, who's more considered urbane demeanour contrasts perfectly with the more tumultuous lad's together approach of Clarkson/Hammond.
This DVD is an amalgamation of all the previous "Top Gear" DVD's released since the re-vamped show returned with it's more irreverent approach-"Back In The Fast Lane", "All Revved Up" & "The Winter Olympics"- & at the price advertised is an absolute bargain, especially when you consider that the "Winter Olympics" DVD which is basically one episode of the show has previously been sold at a similar price. Best of these is errr the best of DVD from series one & two which has the right balance as we seein the show every week. "All Revved Up" presented by Richard Hammond has some great footage of "The Stig" & more of those pointless , insane, hilarious stunts but is edited by Pete from Big Brother , or so it would seem. " The Winter Olympics" episode is "Top Gear" at it's best , impudent, asinine , utterly meaningless yet fantastically entertaining & has only recently been hoisted from it's position as the best stand alone episode by the one where they all went caravanning which should win a BAFTA but will probably loose out to something more worthy & about a tenth as pleasurable.
The truly great thing about this show is the presenters are not afraid to make complete tits of them or to make them selves look stupid, indeed Clarkson seems to revelin it. I care not if a Pagani Zonda is better than a Lotus Elise & I do not even know what 1600 brake horse power means but I love this show to bit's , & so do the rest of my family ( apart from "Dr Who" it's the only show we all sit down to watch together). Now we can watch whenever we want. Tremendous...... as Clarkson might say, more "POWERRRR" to its elbow.
