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Title: Top Gear in America's redneck country Post by: rip|mrkavanagh on October 06, 2009, 12:34:14 PM http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/features/article6858884.ece
Title: Re: Top Gear in America's redneck country Post by: rip|mrkavanagh on October 06, 2009, 12:41:24 PM here is the vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2syY12OPkwI Title: Re: Top Gear in America's redneck country Post by: rip|ChITty on October 06, 2009, 02:44:48 PM Yeah, I'd definitely be one of those people that is skeptical. He doesn't really say much that you can't see in the video. I've never been to Alabama, but I have a hard time believing that someone would really react so negatively to those comments written on the side of the truck. In addition, I don't believe that there are trucks full of cowboys with guns just driving around ready to spring into action.
My thought is that either they antagonized the locals long enough at the gas station to purposely stir up trouble or they pre-planned it. That in addition to embelishing the story (guns? being chased?) and creative camera work made it look fairly dramatic. Top Gear is incredibly entertaining, but constantly on the precipice of being over produced, which I think is what happened with that clip. Title: Re: Top Gear in America's redneck country Post by: rip|Kalian on October 06, 2009, 04:08:50 PM While it may be selectively edited, I can tell you it's like that in some of the smaller towns in the south. I know a man who had to bail his son out of jail for kicking in a hotel room door of a a canadian who spoke with a little too much of a french accent in the winter of 2002.
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