Bl**dy brilliant!!!!

Hilariously entertaining & informative!

It was beautiful
Any chance for outtakes? There must be many.

Could’nt have been better, Really good stuff Guy’s!!

1st comment! very good

What a fantastic way to end 2008!!!

They are all gits to each other but adds to the comedy.

How can I survive until the next series.

Top stuff boys.

this episode was amazing, perhaps the best ever.

I thought that was great!

James May falling at the end made me DIE laughing.

nope, haven’t seen the special, but i’ve taped it, so I’ll be able to watch it a couple times. I’m sure I’ll miss a couple jokes, because I’ll be too busy laughing.
Enjoy making the next season guys!!!

a really good episode even though there was no cars lol
poor jeremy falling off his bike

it was amazing!

ye it was very good, porbably the best so far, and james falling off at the end was hilarious.

Most excellant adventure! This may be a stupid question but who is Francis Ford?

t’was alright

Probably one of my favourite I’ve ever seen it was really funny had a bit of everything.

Overall it hasn’t been the best series ever but it was still a very good one and a very good way to end the series

Absolutely amazing!!!!!! Well done guys…yet another great episode!!!!!!!

Was it the best? Absolutely. Laughs from start to stop, and Clarkson actually got some of the tough stuff for once, in his (still) most hated form of transport! Again, May proved that he knows nothing about how to make things amphibious! Truly epic, truly brilliant. More please

They did get a car in…. A land Rover by Richard in Jeremy’s painting! ;O)

The best thing that i have watch on television.
It was truely amazing!
When will the next series be on ?

woooowowowoo O.o

I would never have thought an episode of TG almost completely devoid of the close study of motorised transport could be so entertaining. I just can’t relate to bikes in any way, but it doesn’t matter – the scenery and atmosphere were the stars, and I haven’t laughed so much with the lads in a long time

Attenborough had better watch his back – he may know his frogs, but he’s no match for Howlin’ Mad Hammond, James Face, and Clarkybal

Very good episode, but what happened to the stigs commie cousin that was shown in the first episode?

What an epic show! Was great. Even though there were no cars, seeing the boys on bikes and having a good time was great and even Jeremy eventually had some fun! Just 3 blokes having a laugh and enjoying Vietnam, what a place!

Francis Ford directed the Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now

top class

I rates as one of the funniest episodes yet, not quite up there with truck driving, but the look on Jezza’s face when he found out they’d have to use bikes was priceless!!!

Thank you Top Gear! It was a wonderful episode of Top Gear ever. Especially, it’s my country.

This was Epic beyond words! And easily one of the best episodes I’ve ever seen!

I had tears pouring down my face laughing!! It was fantastic, well done boys!

And Jeremy, I’d give you such a big cuddle!

I’m at a loss for words here!

Just WOW!

And Vietnam is a beautiful country!

very funny

I thought it was a tad overhyped.
Only a little bit, it was fantastic, but everybody was going on about how amazing it would be, which it was but I don’t think it was better than America.
Possibly not better than Botswana either.

Dare I say it, i don’t think it was situated around cars as much as it should have been.

I love the joke-y elements of the show, but I’d never realised how much the cars make it fun aswell, especially in a special like this.

Fantastic, but certainly not the best!

Poor James at the end and I couldn’t help but feel sorry for Jezza especially when he came off his bike and hurt himself. I enjoyed the episode and can’t wait for the repeat.

It’s been a nice evening of just over 2 hours of Mr May on BBC2.

finally we had something worth watching over xmas,absolutely brill,already looking forward to next series.

Brilliant end to the serie

really funny! loved the amphibious twist at the end, and the fact that hammonds steering broke…again

love the show, thankyou xxx

Congratulations Andy. This episode has had me in tears through laughter, and through sadness at the thoughts of those folks that lost limbs and life.

As amazing as the episode was I don’t know how the guys managed to keep going. Jeremy must have really hurt after falling off that bike, thank god he only chose a small bike.

James is amazing, he smiles no matter what is thrown at him, bless him.

Richard, the biker mad presenter, what it is about this guy, he’s as mad as a hatter, as cute as his nickname Hamster.

I am going to miss Top Gear when it’s not on, thank goodness for DAVE.

Please hurry up with Series 13. The Withdrawl symptoms are as bad for me as they are for Jeremy not drving a car.

O my god, I’m still drying my tears!It just kept getting funnier! Thanx for much needed laughter after the Christmas Days. Esther

Quite simply: yes, the best epic ever

Absolutely fantastic! This ‘Nam Special has to be one of the greatest Top Gear adventures so far! Makes the Licence Fee look like good value again!

Ahhh …………..thanks Mrs B.

Brilliant! Best Christmas present ever! You guys are legends!!!!!

don’t normally like top gear … but this was so brillant! more please

What a fantastic Top Gear special! Even though there were no cars, the humour and the struggle to get those bikes/Jeremy Clarkson ‘up North’ was just brilliant television.

Definitely one of the best specials to date, I can’t wait for the next series. Thanks to all at Top Gear who make Sunday nights interesting and allow for some decent entrainment, despite what the Daily Mail readers might say!

See you again in 2009!

It has to be said, what legends all the top gear team are. Roll on the next series!!!! Thanks for the laughs.

WOW! That was the best episode ever. I laughed so much my ribs hurt!
Thank you so much, i am still rendered speechless

loved the episode best one from the 12th series
liked the gifts they to carry and when they sprayed hammonds bike pink

Brilliant episode, sans one item. Where was the Communist Stig?!!!

LOVEEEE U ALL..
really… it was the best.. i started watching it first expecting to laugh at everything u 3 do but in the end it turned out to be a truly wonderful adventure with our fav presenters.. & hammond is funny again.. after last weeks extra news bits..(rudest person) i love Top Gear all over again… WELL DONE ALL & GET SOME WELL DESERVED REST >___< ur tops

Absolutely fantastic. Francis Ford = Francis Ford Coppola, directior of Apocalypse Now.

woo!!! 24TH COMMENT the special was awesome!!! wowwowwowwowwowwow (Maisy says Richard looked hot) i really liked jeremys vespa, but the fiat 500 at the start and James falling off at the end was perfect!!!!!!!

Really liked your suits!!! you all looked like Jonathan Ross

ahh bugger the 50th comment.

great episode

anyone notice ant the credits all the names were francis ford hammond,
francis ford clarkson ?
why was that? does anyone know?

great show i love it and i’m fourteen

A great top gear special like usual. I don’t know which is the best bike between James and Richard. But the worst bike was definitely Jezza’s and I can’t believe he got there first, he is lucky. When is the next series on?

Absolutely Brilliant!

Especially Hammond getting in touch with his feminine side, not only with his pink helment and pink bike, but also his high heel shoes after comming out of the cave? “look closely” This is one for TV burps. Looking forward to the next series.

Happy new year to all the team.

I think next the team should drive a bus or a camper van across Australia – just thought i’d drop tha idea in Mr Wilman…

Boomting, loved it

shame bout the crash Clarkson (N)

good job, loved it, make some new games

it was BLODDY BRILLIANT i laughed my head off all the way through i dont thing i stoped
WOW it was fantastic the best ep yet.
thank you so much for doing it all i loved it.

And that guys…. is how you do it!

This episode was fantastic, it all all the fantastic cocking about we come to expect from Top Gear, but it was also coupled with the epically stunning scenery of Vietnam.

There are no mere words to describe just how good this episopde was, so i’ll just make one reuest…

…can Top Gear be that long every week?

Amazing! It allowed us to see their friendship more outside of car making. And, as a fan to motorbikes, it was perfect. TG3 riding bikes in a hilliarous and beautiful feat. Just one question, where did red Stig go? He hasn’t being in the whole series but was shown in the over-all bit at the start.

i LOVED your suits as well clasic!

I missed it!!Will it be on again soon??

any chance of outtakes – it looked like a ep wich should be full of them!

i really enjoyed this new series of topgear in vietnam because it was really funny, i hope to watch another episode of it, i liked when they stopped for lunch and then that chinese person vandalised his motor bike because it was pink, my favourite colour.

ha ha thank you?

does anyone know the name or origin of that song that was played when they finally found the bar in the bay? It was from a film but a I dont know what..
if anyone knows it would be much appreciated

regarding comment 55: I was thinking more of Road Trains across Australia

Well done to all on such a fantastic Topgear tonight! The best Topgears are when the guys are all together, and the special tonight was a epic and utterly brilliant example. I will be watching this one again and again – and like everyone on this blog am sad that it is the last of the series. We already cant wait for the next!

Full credit to Clarkson, Hammond & May and Andy, and of course the rest of the topgear team that makes this all hapen. You have done a fantastic job this series and the love that everyone has for topgear is just growing.

That has to be the funniest thing i’ve seen in ages! I actually cried from laughing so hard! Was absolutely hilarious!

10/10! xxx

WOW! I have never laughed so much before in my life. To say it was epic is an understatement. You guys could have been killed to death but you all made it, all be it with a few cracked ribs, but you made it
It just goes to show that you three don’t need to be talking cars to make an awsome programme as you all have the right chemistry, (sounds a bit chinsy that, but it needed to be said).

Hope you guys enjoy your break from filming and enjoy your world tour!

Amy x.

loved your bike and helmet Hammond! Pink suits you!

does anyone know if there are any new topgear episodes coming?

if you do then please write it down somewhere please?

Fantastic, best thing I’ve watched all xmas.

Francis Ford Coppola – see film – Apocalypse Now

We really enjoyed this episode ! Ist there a way to receive this journey on DVD ? thx for any reply

Thanks fellers u were awesome ceratainly saved best for last i could go gooey over Hammond and how lovely beautiful his hair was and how much he clearly enjoyed it but..erm…oh i did hey ho! it was so funny and i really needed cheering up going through tough time thanks TG see u in 2009

THAT SHOW WOS THE BEST I LOVE IT WHEN RICHERD BROKE THE SHIP LOL! YOU SHOULD MAKE ONE WHERE YOU TRAVEL TO 1 SIDE OF AMERICA TO THE OTHER. PICK WHAT EVER CAR/BIKE THAY WANT. THAT WOULD BE THE BEST SHOW EVER P.S RICHED YOUR THE BEST!!!

OH and who needs Ewan Mcgregory and Charlie watsit!! fab Hammond May and Clarkson for next epic bike road trip long way round

…..does anyone know the name or origin of that song that was played when they finally found the bar in the bay?

From Soundtrack of V for Vendetta

Insanely good!!!!!
Definate perfect end to TG 2008.
No better way to end,
But with a journey between three good mates on a road trip..
Who endure;
Unreliable two wheeled machines.
Injuries.
Breakdowns.
Dodgy food.
Destruction of art.
And most of all,
Each other…

Loved it!!!

P.S. Come back soooon!!!!!

Mcgregor sorry

i liked the ending

YOU DONT NO MAN! YOU WERNT THERE!

all round great end to the series

Clarkson….Fail
Clarkson….Fail
Clarkson….Fail
Clarkson….Fail

As a bike lover, I’m glad they got Clarkson on a bike.

Luckily I Sky Plussed it, so will watch it again in a few minutes….I can’t wait!!!!

next series is comming in spring 2009 acorrding to the bbctopgear website

this was brilliant, just thought it was a bit of a shame that the boys couldnt get on justa little bit, for once! i just wanna see mates having fun !

Whilst this was another great show – don’t think you will ever beat the Africa or the North Pole ones – they were special !!!!!!!!

However dad hates TG and even he was laughing – what happened to the model boat – ?

ABSOLUTELY BLOOMIN BRILLIANT!!!!!!!

It was the best Top Gear ever and I loved it. Hamster’s face when ‘the cook’ painted his minsk. It was epic. Also you could obviously tell he was so drunk the first night and that was funny as ever.

I can’t wait for Top Gear to return in 2009, so please come back soon!!!!!

hahahahah hammond getting his ship caught in the fan

its a shame that all the new series of topgear finished and im really sad because i want more to watch so please i want to watch some more PLEASE?

Fantastic!

I was dying in laughter with the bit with the fan – bloomin brilliant!

amazing!
so funny
glad noone had to ride the american bike tho
because they would have been brutally murdered
but just wondering who actually rode it round vietnam following them?
and are they still alive?

the best race sort of thing TG has ever done to date, putting the bugatti vs toaster aside love it like i always say keep up the good work

I am not going to say that it was the best episode but I can say the most funniest you guys ever made.

Well done.

I’m lots for words. It was bloody fantastic. One of the funniest shows I’ve ever seen and the filming and scenery was just stunning.

A BIG WELL DONE TO EVERYONE AT TG… because that was certainly TV at its very best.

Bring on series 13!

Superb, never realised Vietnam was like that!!

Brilliant.
Where was communist Stig though? And the bit where they try to walk across the road in Vietnam?

The best and the funnest ep since the week before last weeks one! I loved every second of it i laughed through every second of it as well it was epic a clasic ep, it just shows you guys dont have to be talking all about cars to make a brilliant show, it also show what great mates you must be to go out for that long and not kill eachother! im sad the seris is over now though i will miss it, im going to get ‘top gear withdrawl simptoms’ soon i must have more why cant all tg eps be that long its just better like that?!! it was a all-round awesome show i enjoyed it soooo much words cant discribe i counlt speak after the show i could only laugh im still laughing now! well done again for making anougher brilliant show.

Abbie x

thank you stuart for comment 76!!

Best ever, by miles. I saw Quantum of Solace (finally) the other day and I thought that was good, but this was epic.

James, Jeremy and Richard are legends.

ohhhhhhhh am i suppost to survive until the next series

Oh but one thing… what happened to the bit when they tried to cross the road in Vietnam??

Gents…..
Remove that Eastenders crap from Christmas for next year and send the boys out to Korea or somewhere… that was the best telly this Christmas, me the wife, kids and even the dog ( despite the thought of ending up in a curry) enjoyed every second…. brilliant TV ! Kudos to you all at TG.

It was brilliant! But I still think the American one was best.

James’ bike was the best. It didn’t break down, and all it has is a 50cc engine.

Well said #99 Twinks

once again a fantatstic episode from my 3 favourite boys. another 1 please!!!!!!!!!!

Top stuff
Just watched and i couldn’t stop laughing
not little sniggers but big loud high pitch laughing, the sorta stuff you embarrass yourself with.
Brilliant

oh sorry, I was looking for The Arse Kissers Of Andy Wilman forum. No no, this is the one.

Excellent! I cant wait until the next episodes! Was probaly one of the funniest Top Gears ever! Thanks Top Gear!

The should do more like this and the American one with the cars for $1000 , there my favorite anyway, i love the films

another classic, i loved it. i guess this just proves that we love top gear for its soap opera quality more than anything else! great fun, and i’m so jealous of those three guys. where will they get to go next??

Very good best one yet !!!!!!!!!!! There are all great people good choice off scooter Jeremy !!!

superb episode, just perfect.

That has to be the best Top Gear I have ever seen, i laughed my head off sooo much

BRILLIANT BRILLIANT BRILLIANT

Loved every bit of it, i cant chose a favourite bit, it was just AMAZING!!

Cant wait for the next series, (please let it come soon)

by the way, luvved it wen Hammond had to eat Rice Kripsies

Fith Gear would never do that…
I love it when James gets angry.

Comment 103 – Hopabout

Sorry if you don’t like the comments here, but judging by what people have said, I think there are alot of people who have been thoroughly entertained this evening. And I for one was one of them. I laughed til my sides hurt, and it is DEFINATELY the best thing I’ve seen in ages and ages. Completely my sense of humour and I thank BBC regularly for Top Gear because it lights up my week.

If you’re not happy with the comments then perhaps you’re on the wrong page for you???

Absolutley brilliant very imformative too the best road trip yet !

i thought this episode was absolutely amazing. If the scenery wasn’t great then i dont know what is, and the constant moaning of jeremy clarkson was unbelievable, Even for me, a fourteen year old boy ! I think that the three of you deserve a medal for doing that because it didnt look easy, not with the ship, the painting and the statue on the bikes ! The funniest bit had to be when richard was trying to fix his bike but fell over in the direction of james may ! And when Richard was driving along and all of a sudden, hits the galeon with a dustbin ! That has go to be one of the most brilliant apisodes of top gear i have ever seen and it sure as hell beats fifth gear. Who watches that show ! Owel, great work guys, hope you had fun doing it !!

this is the best Top Gear Special so far…
this one is just better than the american special .

not an car review… nothing… just the interaction of richard , jeremy and james are fantastic!

thanks.

Great guys, but not the best epic!
Not car related enough for me

Well said #111 Mrs B

Hopabout if you only had 1 tenth of Mr Wilman’s talent you’d be rich.

Enjoy your sour life alone.

The best thing on crimble TV yet! I have not seen anything else as good so far, not even on the Beeb.

its was so cool!

it was* so cool!

omg it was amazing what a special!!!

i really want to go to Vietnam now, to see what they saw!!!

amazing best episode ive seen… i fought der was goin to be a red stig

i heard this song 2.
http://nl.youtube.com/wat ch?v=uIUc0tnmfwU

great song!

I have to agree with the majority here

WOW, HOW GOOD WAS THAT!!

I loved every minute of it not much makes me laugh out loud these days but this did again and again.

(Oh and I also agree Richard looked Hot,Hot Hot!!)

Was one of the best episodes ever was a laugh to watch !

at last 3 sucsessful amphibious attempts

I dont usually watch Topgear and didnt watch this either.

great episode. Hammond’s bike had to be the best – it was the most reliable, it could go up hills, and it was just generally good.
I think pink suited him a little too well, though…

Comment 126 – No, you don’t watch Top Gear, but you read the website… hmm…

So 126 Piers Morgan why bother posting you sad individual?

Pity, you would have enjoyed it. Stick to Strictly Come Sequins.

it was brilliant ….

the bets bit was of course jezzas little fall

and hammonds suit was errrr colourful

jezzas face was priceless when he learned of the bike

its a shame no one was shot and eaten in a bap

p.s i would of loved to of seen may shot on the pimp scooter

good stiff

Wat a show top draw. Well done james may for holding on to ur present
I think jeremey had a brilliat time:P

Great work guys.

Ive got cramp from grinning and laughing so much !!

Loved it all, love the Holy Grail reference by Jeremy too, oo did what to oo LMAO

pure class all the way!!! proper cracked up at parts! great stuff

Top Gear and Wallace & Gromit. Best things on telly.

better than than the african special
20/20

carnt wait for the next special
i hope it is as good as this one

p.s carnt wait for the mph show next year

just watched Vietnam special i can only say fantastic your programme gets better and better, thank you.

GREAT show excellent its not worlds best motoring show for nothing ;D
anyone notice richard was looking well but a bit portly?

10/10 guys x

i loved it and shows that may cub dident go wrong once and the veser was crap but made a good padel boat it was briant and i think hamand did not go much by the food carnt wait for the new sirise

Trek across Australia?

Well that’d have to be Max Max themed then wouldn’t it? (Which would be ace)

Loving this episode, worked really well with some proper comedy moments.

That eposode was brill. Where do you people get the ideas for this stuff.

Keep it up chaps!

Im sorry, but Wilman’s concerns were realised here. The lack of cars killed the show. It didn’t need the extra fifteen minutes, and was only amusing on rare moments. I’m now convinced that Top Gear needs a long break to refresh it. Unfortunately the special was nowhere near as ’special’ as polar,america or africa. Its hard to see where it can go from here.

I think the best ever episode it was basic three blokes cocking about and one big challenge. I rate it 10/10 ! Looking foward to next series I will defentley watch the rpt on BBC2 but not on Dave they cut huge chunks of every episode out

This is by far one of, if not the best top gear program I have ever seen. Totally Brilliant. Will Richard fall in love with his bike and lug it all the way home like he did Oliver i wonder……..

hammo will never eat any thing in a foreign so why not go to a country where you have to eat a spiders arse to survive…………….

i think of every thing you see haha

This episode ROCKED!!! Bring it out on DVD with the Botswana special! Pronto!

Fanatsic episode, had me and my oldest laughing until we turned puce!! Liked the documentary style of the episod; it’s quite entertaining occasionaly (e.g the Polar challenge), don’t think that it would work well all the time though. Still not as funny as the “Fly-Buy USA” one, but on a par with Botswana.

Best bits:

Clarkson’s genuinely p*!*!* off moments (realising having to ride a bike and falling off it).
May falling in the water and getting cranky with Clarkson.
Hammond’s refusal to eat anything and generally looking ridiculous with that ship on his bike.

Great twist at the end with amphibious bikes, but where did communist Stig go? (as shown in trailer at series start)

Sundays just won’t be the same now… (oh and James watched your “Top Toys” show beforehand, and would like to suggest that you use either liquid poly cement as opposed to the tube of poly cement)

The scary thing is that if you want an amphibious vehicle, you have to get a Jeremy Clarkson to build it. There’s hope for us all then!

first james may’s toy’s then top gear, and then have I got news for you with jezza hosting and then never mind the buzzcocks with jezza again.

Thoroughly enjoyed that. Although conceptually in ways it was similar to Botswana, the guys – on bikes – kept it fresh and kept me laughing. Exactly as Mr Wilman said, it was more about the guys, and I thought the country was staggeringly beautiful. Thank you for topping off the series in such an entertaining way.

Was a bit disappointed with the lack of cars and not a real fan of the hole bike scene maslf so found it hard to get engaged in the episode. The traveling acros a country aim though was a great idea and could be potentialy brilliant if repeated with cars.

i would of got a suit just like the boys but i wouldnt of whent so elton johnish

The best TV entertainment ever broadcast. The missus is still cleaning up after I wet myself laughing.

to john D comment 153
if you love top gear like every one who has commented you would not complain even if they were in mobility scooters

Just hysterical, great special!
So many fantastic bits to choose from…so I’ll just go with one at random :

“You’ve simultaneously headbutted me in my gentleman’s area and knocked the prow off your galleon.”

157 Ryushinku, I’ll add one more

On the train:

“I’ve got my hand down the front of my trousers, don’t read anything into that”.

Great show, absolutely brilliant, loved the piece on the train, especially JC getting burnt with the glue.

Bloody great. Seriously.

Not my favourite epic (I just love the America trip and the Arctic) but still great. My favourite bit was the bit where they were trying to get the license – “Jeremy Clarkson: FAIL.”

Where was Communist Stig? I saw him on the trailers on Hammond’s bike. Hmm…

amazing, best epic i reckon. IS there going 2 b a new series, if so, wen???

Where was the red stig; otherwise known as “the stig’s communnist cousin”.
We better see it in some sort of uncut video on the website like we have before with other episodes.

Great Episode, Great TV!!!!

one of if not the best episode yet and can all the spisodes be that long please. HAPPY NEW YEAR BOIZ

Awesome, but you can’t beat the America special! BTW after seeing top toys just before shame they didn’t do a V8 train set LOL

It was fantastic. I am telling you that was one of the best 1.15 minutes i have ever spent.If you haven’t seen it ,go and watch it now on iplayer or you will have me to answer to.The best bit was every single second of it.You cannot miss it for the world.So now get you back side down to iplayer and watch it.Don’t forget get your self a drink becuase it is very lond and great to watch.

Wow. It says 161 comments, but I’ll probably be about 200th with all these comments!

So many people have something to say, and it’s obvious why. That was a fantastic epic special, bravo.

The way it was edited, it seemed like the extra 15 mins stuck on the end were just for the little challenge stuck on the end. Maybe it just so happened to be that way, but I could easily tell when it would’ve ended had the amphibious bit been cut out to make it 60mins.

That extra time was fully justified though. “Everything was going smoothly, which in true TopGear fashion meant it was all going wrong for James.” So funny! When the advert said amphibious scooters, I first thought it was a sarcastic joke about the apocalyptic weather!

LOL Bet it was the first time any of them could boast about having plenty of Dong. Ah, the innuendos. James: “Oh, my Dong’s gone all soggy!” Well it will in those trousers, mate!

Anyway, truly magnificent. Don’t turn into TopHandleBars, though. Cars are still better than bikes where we live. I’m expecting a Directors Cut DVD!

Oh, only 168th. S’pose it’s getting late.

See you in 2009!

Very good but different to the other specials, not quite as good i think but that may change on repeat viewings.
Also, did anybody see the programme after it, and think the TG team should try to replicate the Mille Miglia with budget cars?

that was a brilliant episode. at first i was a bit sceptical that the boys werent using anything on four wheels, but the whole thing was just excellent. i liked the tailored suits :]

and of course, Vietnam’s tourism numbers are bound to increase.

It was the most entertaining show I have ever watched!
It was so funny!
Hammond’s bike looked like a pink barbie bike!
I hope it will come out on dvd because I will want to watch it over and over again!
It was a great way to end 2008 and a great way to end the series!
Happy New Year and best wishes to the Top Gear team!!

It was fantastic. I am telling you that was one of the best 1hour 15 minutes i have ever spent.If you haven’t seen it ,go and watch it now on iplayer or you will have me to answer to.The best bit was every single second of it.

You cannot miss it for the world.So now get you back side down to iplayer and watch it.Don’t forget get your self a drink becuase it is very long and great to watch. And also i hop you watch every series that is made for you to watch.

Once again this is an incredible show and i hope that you also have enjoyed it as much as me.I can’t describe it any more but to watch every show that is coming your way and to enjoy all of it.Well this one was ludicrusly enjoyable .

Oh don’t listen to the rest of every one else who has already commented ,always listen to Allan the man and to top gear’s best fan.Goodbye and have a lovely new year with all of your family and friends.

I can’t wait for top gear’s new show yet to come in the new year.

Top Gear is the best show on earth and will be because of Jeremy clarkson,Richard Hammond, James May and the stig ,the one and only.

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Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. And good idea, sps152 – replicating the Mille Miglia in budget cars would be hilarious too!
Now, roll on the Spring!…

Great episode best ever!!!!!

When hammond spoke to the man on the beach it made me sad and just showed how top gear can join with everyone.

3 words – Best episode yet

Loved it when the girl decided to paint the random bicycle pink aswell!!!

Top Gear wouldn’t be the same without the three of them together!!

Brilliant entertainment. Not at all car related, but I’m going to buy a moped “just because”.

Simply brilliant

Absolutly brilliant epie, Vietnam is a lovely country,yes Andy,great idea sps152 has,was thinking the same thing,although maybe the bbc can’t afford the fees for the Mille Miglia,would make a great epie though.

Back to ‘Nam, best bits were Jeremy trying to ride a scooter, Jeremy on the train,when he realised they’d gone wrong with that.Looking forward to 2009. Happy New Year guys

Well, as an initial reaction, the top gear ’special’ felt as pleasant as a bath of warm water; as opposed to the many other specials where the team sink into decidedly HOT water – none of which being planned or foreseen. There seems to be an air of the contrived wafting its way through the newer series of top gear, and this is no exception. As the producer said, as the innocence has slowly evaporates from the show, it becomes harder to recapture the shockingly good moments when the shokingly bad happens.

But disregarding the hype, the end result is a very enjoyable romp in a country as rural and unusual as it is. The journey; although lacking of the sence of urgency which was the Polar Special, strides forward at a cracking pace. So much so that the experience is hightened all the greater with repeat viewings; an opportunity which the BBC excels at: repeats. This also reveals one or two glairing continuity errors (such as the statue mysteriously appearing on James’ bike moments before Jeremy drops the bike and breaks the head off), and a few obscurities; such as Richard wearing black strappy high-heels on his bike-ski.

As a programme obviously trying to top itself each year, with the problem of “how do we top a show already AT the top”, there is little room to manouver. However, the lastest episodes and indeed series prove that it is indeed possible to do so. At least sometimes.

Absolutely Great. Many of the places Richard, Jeremy and James passed are places I have been to. Nice seeing the Top Gear guys doing it with style.

nam was fantastic

amazing when are you back

that comment takes away from the episode sorry it was amazing
amazing
amzing
fabulous
brilliant
best ever
you dont know you wernt there

yet again they failed to disappoint clarkson hammond and may are the best presenters this coutry has ever had ! long may top gear continue

Hilarious! Awesome episode!

I think I would of survived off cereal too the whole time!

The best episode yet… Stupendous.

this show even had my sister who just happened to sit down and watch it with me red in the face cos she laughted so much. the best thing on tv.

vietnam… my favourite country
top gear… my favourite programme
perfect

With the way things are in the world today with unemplyment growing and money trouble’s. They all seemed to disapear during your show tonight I think its one of the best iv every seen. Thanks Gent’s for another great show and what a way to end the year. I think you all should be knighted. For bring some enjoyment into peoples live’s on this evening.

Well Done Team TG

I was extremely dissapointed with the episode, I suspected it would not be good as they had a lot to live up to, and to do so it would be contrived situations and humour.

I found the “humour” fairly absent, made the Australia’s top gear’s plastic snake under the car “joke” look good.

Main faults lay with the presentation of “mistakes” as being that, e.g. train to Han’noi…If they had truly accidently caught the wrong train with the mobile film crew in tow, how did the film crew Van and all accessories think USA bike etc, make it on time to Han’noi not their intended destination…

It was pretty obvious they 100% planned to go to Han’noi as it is an important destination in Vietnam to visit/cover, but the fake as h*ll “oops we got the wrong train” just grates.

Then all the awkward load gifts. Again just a huge feeling a script writers wet dream, not really the “boys playing tricks” on each other.

Then even worsly acted was the Vietanamese driving license….well lets put it this way, my girlfriend said to me when Richard Hammond was giving his bad answer, “I bet Clarkson will answer in Vietnamese and correctly”, and hey presto as corny as hell reading from a script on his desk/memorised, he answers a supposedly random question correctly in a language he surely does not know.

How low will this show go.

Stick to doing it like America, sure some of it is set up. But just take the 3 of them to the location, give them a car, tell them to go from A to B then to C then to D, and give them competitive challenges and each location. But putting in corny slapstick humour like it is a Morcambe and Wise show ruins it completely.

If they dont get lost, if they dont get mugged, it should still be a good enough show due to location, cars, chat, and the competition of the challenges. But this pre-scripted, juvenile, rubbish needs to be stopped, it just weakens the whole show.

I live in America and I can’t watch the episode on iplayer. Any ideas where I can see it. I love this show, but on BBCAmerica I can only see up to series 11. So I watch the show on the web mostly. I tried youtube but there are only some small clips. Thanks
This is the best show ever!

TG.com staff, stop ignoring the American fans you’re screwing over!! Why can’t we access the UK video archive anymore??

A good way to end this series. I was kind of dissapointed with the 3 lads not buying cars (which is the whole point of Top Gear!) but having said that seeing Jeremy on a motorcycle is like seeing a Bugatti Veyron go round the track (it doesn’t happen that often). It was funny and I noticed how this episode focused on the 3 lads more than on the vehicles. Some people are saying that this is the best Top Gear special yet. But it’s hard to call.. they are all just as good as each other!

A true masterpiece.

I really enjoyed it, it felt like I was actually somewhere else, I was completely taken away.

So, all I can say now is: keep up the great work and a Happy New Year to all.

Amazing stuff..Better than the polar race, arguably the best special of them all. Loved all 75 mins of it.

Thank goodness I have Sky+. <3

I really do think that this episode was one of there best episodes yet. can’t wait for the next one =]

has to go down as one of the greatest episodes if not the greatest episode in the history of Top Gear. Possibly the best bit of TV all year. Well done guys!

to be honest o never thought anything could beat botswana, i thought it was the best top gear episode ever never mind special, but this has beaten it by miles.
quite simply the best top gear episode ever. it wasnt even in this country or about cars.
simply amazing

Well it was a great episode. but did i miss the part where they try to walk across the road without looking?

Great episode, not as good as the polar special but up there with the best of them. TG just seems to be getting better and better and the years progress!!

Botswana was an amazing episode but this was truely brilliant i enjoyed every minute of it!! Thumbs up to everyone!!

Please take your head out of your ass. And don’t show ur shitface on here again

I THINK THAT EPISODE WOULD BE HILARIOUS.

reg: 194.
As a piece of ‘Television’, I think the show stands up as a great work. All those improvisations are part of that work. Yes, Jeremy reads the lines, but don’t destroy the magic. That’s what TV is, it’s SHOW business – putting on a show! And the guys of Top Gear are the best in the business; in the best possible way; – their enthusiasm is genuine.

HEY LORANDA,, YEA I GOT 5 PEOPLE ON HOLD,,,BUT I CAN TALK…………..

MCLAREN SUCKS.

BEING IN FERRARI IS MUCH BETTER THAN MCLAREN.

TOP GEAR SUCKS.

TOP GEAR IS MY FAVORITE SHOW.

HI

ROCK ON.

i love it it was the best top gear ever.and it was dead funny.and it is the the best show ever

THERE BIRDS CHERPING, THERE WERE DOGS BARKING, AND THERE WAS A CHIMPMUNK IN THE BUSCHES HUMPING A TURLE.

MY MILK SHAKE BRINGS ALL THE GIRLS FROM THE YARD,DAMN RIGHT, IT’S BETTER THAN YOUR’S, DAMN RIGHT BETTER THAN YOUR’S. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. YA’LL HEARD THAT.

How is babby formed?

MY MILK SHAKE BRINGS ALL THE CATS FROM THE YARD,DAMN RIGHT, IT’S BETTER THAN YOUR’S, DAMN RIGHT BETTER THAN YOUR’S. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. YA’LL HEARD THAT.

THE BUGATTI VEYRON IS THE CAR OF THE YEAR.

PETROSA.

I’M CRANKING UP, I’M CRANKY UP RIGHT NOW.

FIFTH GEAR IS THE BEST.

FELIPE MASSA IS THE BEST DRIVER, LEWIS HAMILTON IS NOT GOOD.

DONKEY DUITY STINKY FEET, DUNKEY DUITY STINKING TOES.

I JUST GOT A HAIR CUT.

MY SHOW ON MTV IS THE BEST, YOUR’S LAST.

?????????????????????????  ???????????? NASCAR ROCKS!

MORRIS MARINA IS THE BEST MACHINE EVER MADE.

HEY LORANDA, I ALSO CULD TALK.

FORMULA ONE IS LAME AND BORING, UNIQE WHIPS IS AMAZING. ONLY ON SPEED CHANNEL.

BIRD, BIRD, BIRD, THE BIRD IS THE WORD,PP BIRD, BIRD THE BIRD IS THE WORD.

WHAT UP YO.

GOOD HOW ARE YOU.

GOOD, HOW ABOUT YOU?

GITTY, GITTY,GITTY, GOO! ALRIGHT……………….

#194 Lyla….

Oh no!… Top Gear’s scripted?!… how will I ever watch again??… next thing, you’ll be telling me Jeremy didn’t ‘happen upon’ a dead cow in the USA challenge!!… (I despair!)

Great show guys… best challenge ever… love you all, and look forward to 2009 and more ‘cocking about’… Top Gear style!! XXXX

The stig 10/10

All You emm i think 1/10

the stigy

I’m sure it will be fantastic when it’s finished downloading (we’re in Australia, you see, and our networks over here don’t see fit to show it to us for months yet, so we’re bypassing them)

UBER AWESOME !!!!!

just watched it on youtube .. ( i live in canada ) and its the best top gear episode ive ever seen !! thank you to you all in the TG team , you all did the best hour spent in my life behind a computer ….. thank you =D

ohh… i laughed so mouch at ….

vietnam , You dont know man….. youve’ not been there man….

xD

you are AWESOME !

A truly masterpiece from top gear not only speaking about motoring passion but also for this amazing country:Vietnam

could do with more challenges though but still “epic”

one more thing, where was the stigs communist cousin and when they tried to cross the road?
edited out?

liked the botswana special more because of hammonds attachment to Oliver

I loved it for entertainment, the problem is I then HAD to watch the programme after it to satisfy my car nut needs. Honestly guys its a car show, I would have loved it even more if it didnt take up top gear time but instead was a seperate programme about riding through vietnam.

That was by far the best episode yet and it wasn´t even about cars, I really thought it woulndt beat the polar or africa special but this was just brilliant. The only shitty thing is we have to wait months for new episodes now but it is worth it.

I laughed a lot watching that show and loved it to pieces.

Many people seem to have enjoyed watching but felt the other specials were better.

I have to agree but don’t be dissapointed, your shows are near perfection for Sunday evening entertainment and without a doubt, even if you made a rubbish Top Gear ( you haven’t by the way ) it would still be 1000x better than anything else ( compared to 1000000000x better for a good show ).

Your show ROCKS and long may it continue!

Loved the expression on the faces of Clarkson, May, and Hammond when they got 15 million dong, thinking they were living the high life when it could only get them motorbikes. Instant classic Hmm…perhaps you guys should do a special on the Philippines (which is right next door to Vietnam) and try out the tricycles and jeepneys.

That’s a suggestion for a future episode, by the way…

Funny, frustrating, epic, and surprisingly touching. Hands down the best Top Gear special yet. Thanks to all involved on and especially off camera for your superior work. Enjoy a well deserved break and we’ll see you in the new year.

Cheers,
Wick

P.S. Did you know it’s over a 7000 km drive from one coast of Canada to the other? I do ’cause I’ve driven it a few times. It’s brilliant. Seems to me there might be a good challenge in there somewhere. Just not in winter. I’m pretty sure the boys would never come back here in winter.

Fantastic TG tv!!!
Loved everything about it, very funny indeed!
When Hammond’s motorbike got painted pink, gosh if looks could kill!!

Best TG special I think.

xxxxx

It was ace, loved it. )

The best episode, i love the part where James and Jeremy pinted Richard’s bike to PINK… and he was not happy… ha ha….

Watch Clarkson take the bike test again.
Done it? Now do it again but pay attention to the back of James’ bike, during and after the test.

Went to bed with a massive grin on my face! That was fab and couldnt stop laughing till i wet myself. Next trips i wud suggest is australia, a race btw car and road train. In india, them motorised indian tuk-tuk or summat like that. Camperhome in canada? Horse riding and using vehicle to round up cattle being cowboys in argentina. Floats drivers in rio de janeiro. I’m so definitely in the wrong job as i’m a scientist, should be working wiv you lot if you need my ideas!!! Cant believe that richard is a massive hater of anything that tastes like fish, is that true or an act? Thought of a gag thats rather tasteless but i wont say in case of backlash well done andy and i wud give u a kiss on the cheek 2 show my appreciation. Well done again x

absolutely brilliant! Can’t wait until the next series!

absolutely brill. cant wait for next series but pls make next series longer!!!

Fantastic!

best top gear show i have ever seen top gear is the best show on the TV cant wait till the next series

It doesn’t matter if there were no cars.

It was still the best episode you’ve ever done!
It must have been so hard deciding what to put in there, but what you picked was brilliant stuff!

Well Done!

brilliant way 2 end a terrific series
& a awesome way 2 end 2008

i luved every minute of it
- it was funny wen jeremy fell of the bike lol

Hammonds pink bike was funny
- did hammond pick that jacket 4 a bet or what ??

any chance of outtakes ????

I thought the nam speacial was great to see jeremy so miserable at the thought of having to ride a bike was the best tv ive seen over the holidays.
What surprised me was that jeremy started to enjoy it maybe there’s a secret biker in there somewere.

may: “…infact i think i’ll give him some money. o wait, my dong’s gonna be all wet”. HAHAHAHA

This really was one of the best epidsodes I have ever seen. Congratulations to the whole TG team. My best wishes for the new year!

An epic adventure but missing communist stig…

Christmas special was absolutely outstanding. Fantastic idea to use the Bikes and the travelling gifts were hilarious. The scenary was stunning and made be want to book my tickets to Vietnam. The lads were side splittingly funny and yet again came through with the goods.

PS It was nice to see Jeremy put of his comfort zone.

“And how did Vietnam compare to the other Top Gear epics – better than the Polar race or Botswana?”
!!!!!!!Oh yes!!!!!
And some!

A fantastic episode!

I liked it, but I was a bit sad there was no Communist Stig.

It was funny but I’m no fan of Motorbikes so some of the interest was gone for me. But what about the stig’s communist cousin?

I must admit, I wasn’t looking forward to this Christmas show. I am, like Jeremy, unsure about motorbikes. I have never liked them, and never plan to own one, yet this episode, I must say, was one of the best Top Gear episodes I have ever seen. I am not just saying that on the spur of the moment – I actually mean that! It really surprised me how well written and informative this show was.

I would like to give a special message to the Top Gear camera crew – absolutely outstanding filming! The magnificent views were really taken advantage of!

Now, the future. Could we please have a 1hr 15min end to every series of Top Gear? It really rounds it off well and leaves me in a good mood! I mean, not just at Christmas, but in every series? Just my thoughts.

Now, to the new series! I have a proposal (Off-Topic, I realise!) – isn”t it about time that the ageing Chevrolet Lacetti was replaced with a new Reasonably Priced Car? It has starred on Top Gear way longer than the Liana ever did! The timing sheet looks quite full too. Please!? I could suggest a Kia (possibly a Rio?), or Chrysler? Also, could each of the presenters and the Stig set a time in this car to compare them with the celebrities? Please?!?

I hope you like my ideas – sorry for the long message and sorry that about half is off topic…

Yeah, I’m sure I saw something about the Stig’s Communist Cousin in the pre-series preview. Also Clarkson mentions something about “blinkers on” in that same preview. Is a longer DVD only edit coming anytime soon? (similar to the polar special)

Great episode, died of laughter

keep it up boys,

i don’t know what im going to do with my suday nights without Top Gear on, gonna miss you baddly

looking forward to new series

i absolutely loved it

All i can say is as u guys said I love the place

“God Bless Vietnam”

Okay, I can understand that topgear has chosen to be an entertainment show instead of a carshow, because more people will watch then. But is it really necessary that they even stop driving cars now?
As a car fan, I didn’t like this weeks show.
As someone who is fascinated by epic trips, which I am, it was brilliant, i have to admit.
But come on topgear, get back to cars!

It was brilliant like all Top Gear specials, and it was full of hilarious moments like when James fell off his bike at the end!!!
Can’t wait till next year.

Am glad so many people thought this was the best ever. It was beautifully shot and am sure I’m not the only one who has added Vietnam to my list of must visit places before I die. Must have been a mammoth task to make this show.

Considering the number of positive comments above you’ve proven once and for all that TG’s emergence as a telly super power – as opposed to a very popular motoring show – is all about the cocking about and not really about cars. Since there weren’t any here.

Not to sound churlish – great entertainment – but in my view ’tis a tough task to make Top Gear all things to all people. In Andy we trust to keep the balance right.

Zee

I loved the ‘nam special and the absoulute chaos in the streets. one of my fav episodes ever.

I m sorry for you guys, next season will be hard on you, you have to got to the moon or sth to top that…

Fab episode – anyone know what the music was – there was one track in particular. thanks

Absolutely bloody f**king amazing! The best epic ever. Are there any outtakes? Could you put them on the website and let us view them in Ireland?

Absolutly brilljant

where was stig’s communist cousin like in the trailer? And what about some footage in the trailer that wasn’t in the episode?

Great episode though.

That was one of the best top gears iv ever seen keep up the good work lads. brilliant 10/10

This needs to be put on DVD
Get on it BBC office people.

A brilliant show, great scenery and very funny!
Although my little sister did ask me why the american bike was funny.

Absolutley funny, close joint favourate with africa challenge

lastnights topgear was one of the most funniest i have ever seen

The show was amazing. It was funny. but more importantly, it showed off this incredible country, and the horrors of what the Americans did in the useless war. The deaf guy on the beach showed that the best.

Definitly the best special yet

the best show on tele it was brilliant.jeremy rrichard and james are the BEST….

Was definitely one of the best episodes in a long while. Never realised how amazing Vietnam actually was until I watched it.

One thing though – the “Born in the USA” bike… really? Personally, think it was unneccessary and a bit crass. Mind, that’s just my opinion though. Otherwise it was still a really good episode.

Great show. Just proves that if you want to experience a country ride a bike. Keep the car for supermarket shopping trips. I gaurantee that Clarkson will look back at this as his most memorable and enjoyable trip. Enjoyment isn’t all about air-conditioning and metallic paint.

Hard to say if it was the best, but damn brilliant for sure!

This was excellent watching Jeremy’s sheer hatred of his bike, James’s inability to get up hills and Hammond’s hopelessness at looking after his galleon.
This one of the best Top Gear specials I’ve ever seen because they didn’t go on and on about cars that while amazing, most of us will never possess. This was more about the journey and I liked it that way.
The rainy section and the rediculous clothes they got (No offense but Jeremy looked like a pimp), were brilliant to watch and this exchange;
RH: We should try harder?
JC: No.
RH: Make the bikes go faster?
JC: No.
RH: Cheat?
JC: Yes.
CLASSIC TOP GEAR

One question though, wheres the Red Communist Stig from the trailer at the start of the series?

THAT WAS THE BEST SHOW I HAVE EVR SEEN! omg! i laughed so much i actually fell off the sofa in a heap on the floor
Well done guys
x

Any chance of some cars in the future, y’know, on this car program?

I love watching top gear and i think this episode wasthe best and i think that they should do more episodes like that one.

I still prefered the Botswana special, but that’s not to say it was BRILLIANT! However you could see there was an awful lot cut out, and I think there was too much Jezza, espically the spa stuff which really wasn’t relevant…
Saying that I really just didn’t want it to end. I was even sad enough to sky+ it so I could watch it all over again.
So, when is the extended DVD coming out???

This was definitely the best show ever!! You need to get Clarkson on a bike more:P This was indeed far better that the one with “Oliver”!!

Great job guy’s keep it up!!

a mesige for ajwb the program is caled top gear so it isnt pisificly for cars it could be for lorrys bikes and boats becausethey all have gears dont you agree?

It was awesome. Thanks for such a great show!

fantastic episode,can any1 tell me the name of the song that was playing at the end? i think it was a song from a war film but cant remember the name?

You guys are just so mad,i don’t think i have ever laughed so much it was brilliant.

brilliant best tg special ever

It Was Great Overall. But I Will Miss Top Gear Very Much.

Make New Season The Best Of All TG Guys.

C U!!!!!

the nam special was brilliant i loved every minuit of it thanks top gear. [but the 3 of them r compleatly mental.

I thought this was the best epesode i ever saw

Thumbs up to Andy and the boys on this one! I barely survived throughout the 1.15, due to crying and laughter! Although i am dissapointed that it’s the end of the series, it truly was the best way to end!
Can’t wait for the next series. I’ll be counting down

Good show, very entertaining. Suggests to me that a compulsory moped test prior to a car test would make us better drivers. What about Stars on a Reasonably priced Moped through London. That would sort out the men from the boys!

I thought the veitnam speicial was one of the best speicials ever but I suppose thats what everyone says when a new one comes out it had all the qualitys in it: it was funny and it showed who much the tg boys can work together
wel done chaps cant wait till the next series

great episode… but not as good as the trip through america or botswana.

the episode would have been better if they drove three banged up cars through vietnam

Loved the episode.

What was thee soundtrack/songs used?

i could tell – the boss, beach boys, hendrix, what were the rest?

Ross, I agree about the “US” bike. Having briefly (but rightly) mentioned the horrors that the Vietnamese people suffered during the war, this jarred and seemed out of place. I’m sure a different “forfeit” could have been thought of rather than something that would offend their hosts. There’s a huge difference between mocking outdated and rascist attitudes(as in Alabahma) and making light of loss of life.

That aside, I enjoyed the programme very much although I don’t think it was the best they’ve ever done. But then any Top Gear is better than no Top Gear!

On a more anoraky note, according to the diary that Richard kept for the Radio Times, they bought Jeremy a large ceramic dog – how or why did that turn into a painting?

Where was the Stig’s communist cousin?

Here at 1:19 http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=_a-pSItvKS4&feature =related

this was the best thing on tv all flipping christmas thank god for TOP GEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are they going to do a uncut version, with the challenges they missed out. Like when we saw the stigs communist cousin in the trailer.

Best ever episode on Top Gear!!!

Brilliant, loved every moment of it. Even made my mum laugh and she isn’t a fan.

Maybe Commie Stig was Born In The USA and didn’t show up???

year Where was the Stig’s communist cousin can we see the film

i felt really sorry for jeremy, to do 1000mls on a bike when he has never ridden. this was very dangerous, they have done some stupid things in the past but there was a real potential for any of them to be hurt,especially jeremy.
cheers

I loved the new epic it was so funny when jeremy and james painted richards bike pink but his facial expressions just made me cry i don’t know why?! I hope there is a series 13 on the way guys i love the shows and all the hard work seems to pay off if you ask me!!

by the way ive read your book 16 times hammond “on the edge” was brilliant.

I thought it was alright, with what they had, it could of been better, like more jokes, more challenges along the way etc. etc.

Bl**dy brilliant!!!!

that was great last ep pink bikes lol lol ham was mad as heck lol good one boys

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richard must have been starving i havent eaten for 22 dais n im starvin but when i think about going for summit to eat i feel sick so richard u needed to eat

Well i am not shore if its the best spesial yet, but it was great!

Yes. It was : )

its obvious that for sum of us even without cars the tg lads made it the best it will be and the lads make top gear and thats why we love it cz dey make it funny and the cars do help but seeing everything icluding the motorbikes was all good

I think some points are valid here [paulyG for example], amongst the above drivel.

While a brilliant final programme, maybe some of the “mistakes” are a bit too obvious.
You don’t need lots of forced comedy to be entertaining…think “long way round”.

What concerns me more are some of the risks taken in this series in the name of entertainment.
While I appreciate you’re chasing favorable ratings, I really don’t want to see any of presenters getting seriously injured….again.
Driving through a wall was perhaps OTT [in a lorry], and a potentially serious accident for Jeremy in that traffic on a scooter. I think you just need to pull back a little.

Keep it light hearted and fun, without the forced humor and “risky” risks.

P.S. What about south america for a trip?

Absolutely gutted at the moment sitting here in Vietnam on the 29th dec and have missed the airing of the episode. Looking forward to it when i get back in 3 days. Fingers crossed my bro has saved it on his plus box. Dave, in Nam, near DaNang, yes its still raining

TOP GEAR IS LEGEND.

Absolutely brilliant. It was like watching Ewan and Charley on Long Way Round but much, much funnier. (Long Top Way Gear Round, anyone?)Please do more specials like this! Botswana, the North Pole and Vietnam have now been done, but that still leaves Russia, India, Mongolia, Argentina, Australia, Korea, Taiwan, Columbia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Libya, Madagascar, Mexico, Brazil…

PS. Hammond looked like The Monkees’ Davy Jones in his orange and yellow suit *nods*

Gents.. I take back all the bad & negative things I said in previous blogs about Top Gear not being what it was and unable to deliver top quality programming because last nights Vietnam special was ******* awesome! (I’m eating a slice of humble pie as I type this). The soundtrack you’ve chosen to accompany the programme was brilliant I really love the 60’s music particularly Jimi Hendrix, wasn’t he the most kick ass guitarist ever? And to see Clarkson out of his element when he was riding the bike through the chaos that is Vietnam was a funny to watch, although I did feel a bit sorry for him when he fell off his bike (owch!), the other two weren’t very nice leaving him on his todd to deal with it. All in all a throughly enjoyable programme to make me laugh on a dreary Sunday night, chock full of mayhem, mishaps and mischief which we’ve come to expect from the Top Gear three. I would definetly take a holiday in Vietnam from the looks of it, it’s a very beautiful country.

Well, I hope you all have a great New Year and I’m looking forward to seeing what you have planned for 2009. Until then I will just have to sit and watch Dave to get my Top Gear fix.

xoxox

Mancunian Lass.

PS: Doesn’t Stig have an Vietnamese cousin? he seems to have every other cousin in different parts of the world? LOL…

It was excellent. I’m glad to see people refering to an EXTENDED DVD, when we buy a Top Gear DVD we want something either A: The same as we saw on TV or preferably B: Something that is longer.
Are you listening BBC!! Make one like the Polar Special (longer) not the US Special (Butchered with key scenes missing)!!

Anyone who agrees let the BBC know so that they get the message!

volvo is the best

amazing but where was red stig?

it was staggering! haha

Botswana is nearly off the top of my list though!
Well Done Guys, fantastic as always

The best show on the telly this Xmas, still laughing now

This was probably the best show of topgear ever.

i just want more…..last nights was a great show lets see the stig on a trip with the lads in the new year

Absolutley hilarious from start to finish
Best special yet

Excellent!! The Best!!

Crackin’. Brought back some great memories of ‘nam. Keep up the good work boys…..

becos it had no cars in it i thought it was going toi be rubbish but it wasnt!

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good show better than most of the xmas rubbish
nice to see jezza not very happy with his vehicle
nice suits by the way looking good

Great Top Gear? Hmnn…..yes and no. Jury’s still out.

Great TV? Absolutely, excellent stuff, hope it wins awards. Shows the world what the Beeb can achieve when it thinks about it.

Best ever special, sorry but no. Excellent though it was, it’s only number 2 in my book (thought the original US trip was only mildly entertaining myself). Botswana outstripped it by a mile.

vietnam is great
but top gears abouts cars
the most boring episode ive seen

Not as good as America and Botswana but still brilliant

absolutely amazing i couldn’t stop laughing im so glad i watched it!! it really made my day!!

Great series and a really funny show. Roll on the next series,I Can’t Wait!!

I loved it. Every minute of the 75 of it was epic. I think the new line for the series needs to be:

‘Apocalyptically cross.’

Disappointing. Too much focus on trying to make it funny and not enough focus on the journey itself. Left me feeling cold and there wasn’t enough of a competitive element. The worst TG special by a mile, although the soundtrack was good, at least.

top gear is great. Best one ever!!! GREAT ONE GUYS GREAT WAY TO END.

What a Fantastic way to ending 2008.
thanku boys……..

best telly over christmas havn`t laughed like that for ages

i wAS ONE OF THE BEST EVER

i watch this on tv and its probaly the greatest top gear challenge of all time but my question is top gear coming back cause lots of people say that its the end of the series is that true anyway my favroite bike has to be hammonds

Polar race 10/10

Botswana 9,5/10

Vietnam 8/10

Well what can i say, it was fantastic, really enjoyed this one lol it was nice to see Jezza not having it go all his way as it always does !! even though you could guess that he would finsh first in the end…

Still one of the best motoring shows on the tv, keep it up lads and can’t wait to see the next series.

Last nights episode of TopGear was very moving and poiniant. Firts it was great fun to see Jeramy struggle with a bike and Hommond and May both struggle with the last part of the challenge. But also because of the ammount of history that vietnam has still fresh in the memories of those who live there. I thought the bullet ridden shrine in vietnam and the wrecked fuselage of that down’d yanky plane were striking and compelling. But also the people we’re so welcoming. What a lovelly country well done lads.

brilliant show guys..
no 2 in my book after the first US trip but no Francis Ford STIG hmmm… next stop must be India or Bangkok. BTW that girl in the black shirt is hot..

what a great show! Please can jeremy,richard and May comment on this blog.

top gear is a car show that was a bike show but it was great

Briliant show, but no sight of the stigs communist cousin??

he is mentiond on the video here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/topg ear/show/nextseries.shtml

i was in vietnam for 3 years but i ant seen that side of it

i think that it was one of the best top gear challenges. the guys are lucky! i Have to go everywhere in a proton 1.3 gls mpi (the old one in Purple!!) keep up the good work!

Hi

Very good ending of the series.Funny like hell!

it was very very very good>

The most entertaining and enjoyable programme on television this Christmas period by some distance.

Still laughing, real world “fools and horses”, absolute class. A great adventure, that we all got to share in.

Congratulations to all involved.

Top Gear Specials are the “DB9″ on the Television production cool wall.

big fan i fik all u 3 ur mad

Epic… Do I need to say anymore?

Hammond’s ship hitting the tree, “Oh, dear”.

James falling of his “boat”.

Hammond “headbutting” James crotch. That literally killed me. LOL.

and I loved when Hammond took a picture of the kids

absolutely spiffing! can’t wait till you’re back

It was utterly rubbish…It seems the production team really is out of ideas…and that bit with “born in the USA” totally shows what morons the production team really are. Why rub it in the face of people that have suffered so much from that war. What’s next ? next year the Topgear team does Iraq, Basra to Syrian border in a SAS prepared landrover?, maybe they should wear masks of the past american presidents (Point break style?).
I did not like the lack of sponteneaty (for lack of a better word) in the whole feature. “It has to be funny whitty, nutty, was written all over the episode” not other agenda. Sorry guys you missed it, I liked the North Pole and Africa much much better.

Absolutely Amazing!!!!!!!

thats all i’ve gotta say!

Previous comments endorse this episode as being one of the funniest and most entertaining ever. How about giving Top Gear, Jonathon Ross’s salary to help with predicted budget cuts?

not that great it was nowhere near as funny as the other specials

i am gutted i missed it and cant find out does ne1 know wen it is repeted

BORN IN THE USA!

THIS EPISODE WA OKAY.

A

Questo episodio stato terribile, Fifth Gear è il migliore. E TROPPO NASCAR.

I LIKE COWS.

I LIVE IN KAKA TITI MITI CULALA

MCLAREN IS GOING TO LOSE THE FORMULA ONE CHAMPIONSHIP.

EL TORO GARA.

HATE YA’LL.

NASCAR ROCKS. FORMULA ONE AND TOURING CARS SUCK.

An epic… bloody loved it!

Best Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I loved it. The scenery was gorgeous. I would love to go there someday later on when I have more money. Those mountain roads were beautiful and the beaches – I’d love to be out there. The seafood dishes sounded really good. Thank you, James, for singing. I love listening to you. Jeremy, I know you hate motorcycles, but you did an excellent job once you got used to it. I had a great laugh and enjoyed how all of you got along on this trip. Happy New Year, guys.

YOU BLOODY IDIOT FOR THE PERSON WHO WROTE COMENT NUMBER 385.

YOU ARE COCKS.

HI.

very good episode!!!
and handy if you wanna go to vietnam too!

Hi Top Gear Crew!

I thought your Nam Special was BLOODY fantastic!

Go Jeremy Clarkson, my parents were born and bred in Vietnam and my mum still wont drive a bike around there! so well done!

TOP GEAR IS THE BEST SHOW, I DISAGREE WITH STEVE-O.

Absolutely brilliant!
Now bring out a DVD with nothing (and i mean nothing) left out, in fact put in all the bits you couldn’t show on TV!!!

keep up the great work and roll on series 13!

That show was brillient!!!!!!!
It was the best one i’ve seen yet.
I feel sorry for Jezza fell off his bike but he done good for his first time.

TO THE PERSON WHO WROTE COMMENT 396, THIS EPISODE WAS NOT THE BEST. IF YOU WANT TO WATCH A COOL SHOW, YOU SHOW TURN ON YOUR TELEVISION AND GO TO SPEED CHANNEL.IN THE USA.BECAUSE I AM FROM LALA LAND.

BLUE,BLUE?

i agree why comment 2 argue about f1 you idiots the show was one of the best so far

oh thank u Jeremy, Richard & James for a truly awesome & some what touching show u did, l laughthed & cried all the way through, don’t know what l will do till next year. will have to visit vietnam in my lifetime, please don’t be away for to long, have a fab 2009.
all my love rachel.

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wow funny!! hamster got his bike sprayed pink, awww his face =[ he looked crushed, i bet he loved that bike lol.

yeh it was great- from buying their bikes at the very begining right through to james falling off the bike into the water.

El mejor episodio de todos!

Best episode ever.. who cares about expensive four wheeled vehicles reviews anyway?

This is a smart, pure and a show about truly motoring!

TO THE PERSON WHO DID COMMENT NUMBER 401, FORMULA ONE IS THE BEST SPORT EVER.

I found this episode absolutly hilarious and i was contantly laughing throughout the entire thing. I thought the food was disgusting and cannot believe jeremy and james ate it!!! id have been like richard and would have just starved!!

THERE WAS TWO DOGS HAVING FUN WITH A COW.

that was totally awesome and soooo funny!

Absolutely superb entertainment. Loved it. Do us a favour and please don’t listen to those humourless car bores from “finalgear”. Most of them are foreigners downloading it illegally and moaning about it because it doesn’t cater to their tastes, so bollocks to them. The All-Amercian bike was hilarious and the whole trip very entertaining. Nice one. More please.

Wow sounds great. Too bad I can’t watch it here in america. It was pulled off of youtube so I guess the bbc doesn’t care about the american viewers.

It could have easily been 2 hrs long. A very enoyable 75 anyway.

Don’t throw those clips away. Think ahead.

Very good – only the overnight helmets at the beginning looked overly contrived and scripted, everything else was very good and the scenery was amazing.

Some extremely funny moments, but also poignant – the deaf guy on the beach had a dignity about his experience that I found deeply impressive.

I do hope next year that with your budget cut you do overall less stuff of this quality rather than keeping the quantity the same and dropping the quality.

And I skimmed through the answers, but to #13 if it hasn’t been answered, the reference was to Francis Ford Coppola who directed Apocalypse Now.

I wish they (especially jeremy) would ride a PROPER bike.
“most of it was crap”
Yes of course it is on a 100cc vespa in pouring rain

I thought it was nice how all of the crew shared their generousity by buying each other presents. It made me laugh watching Richard struggle with his Gallion ship.

Excellent. Brilliant. Epic. But not as good as Botswana and the North pole. Why? Lack of cars.

Loved the show, couldnt stop laughing.
Our ex sidecar passenger did a similar: Paris-Dakar on a Honda C90!
Jeremey, have to say i have been riding bikes for years and you did great considering you’re a novice! Cracked me up everytime you came to a stop and just dropped it, quality!

Good show boys!

i’ve always said that the american special was the best with the african special a close second, but you’ve topped it with this one!
it was brilliant! everything good about top gear was in this (except the cars but i’m not that bothered about them sorry)!
if anyone who worked on the show does read this then thank you very much for a hour and fifteen minutes of pure laughter, and well done for creating a brilliant special that i will watch again!
and please bbc.. i know that they are expensive but one special a series would be brilliant! and you’re boosting vietnam’s tourism!
well done and thank you to all involved in making this programme!

Absolutely loved it!! What happened to the chair, though??

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but I’d still say the America one was better- more challenges!!

great show guys i enjoyed it, will you be making another one of these in the future. For example going to brazil

I was just disapointed Hammond did not name his bike

ha ha ha best by far !!!!

What an epic show!

the show was fantastic!
lol has richard fixed that ship yet?

another idea for a TG special is that if JC,RH and JM have a budget and they have to buy buses and have loads of cheap bus challenges!

An epic journey, a wonderful story.
This episode ‘ll be a piece in the history of the TV programs.

Where is stig’s communist cousin??? i have been waiting for the whole SERIES of 2008 for that bit and it turns out its not included in the program.

But nam special was different i liked it. it was good fun. funniest bit was when the vietnamese person said to james “u buy the car??” his expression was priceless lol

One word – A-MAZ-ING!!!!!

Loved every single minute of it. Best TG for years. Sad to see the series end but what an ending.

WELL DONE BOYS!!!

pink minsk, 4 hp honda ,green vespa with 400000mirrorsnearly 1000miles -top gear vietnam special the best episode

what about stigs vietnamize cousin

Thank you Top Gear for a great season from episode #1 to the ‘Nam special. Happy holidays.

Communist Stig was on the episode where they compared Russian cars, wasn’t it?

I am the 4 million person to add a comment and I don’t care!! I had never laugh that much this pass year. What a great way to end this wonderful year!!! See you next year!!!

if there was no top gear , i would not pay the tv lisence

I wish I’d seen it!! – I live in Greece and the only way we get it is on youtube but the BBC are getting FAR too good at pulling them off!!
I would GLADLY pay a license fee – even though i dont live in the UK -

I thought it was really funny when they painted Hamster’s bike pink. I think it suited him right down to the ground. Overall, it was a very funny show but I still think the Botswana journey was funnier.

i think all the shows are great and i think jeremy was so funny, but jeremy, richard and james are great.

i like top gear so much i watch the reruns on dave, plz mension me on your new series in spring.

I thought it was fantastic!! Loved how Jeremy didnt for once, get his own way and had to laugh at Hammond’s face when he was presented with the pink bike. can’t decide whether he was going to cry or smack clarkson… could have been worse. they could have done it to Oliver.

Can’t wait for the next series!! Well done TG and the BBC!!

Ali x

normally i love top gear and sometimes watch the repeats on Dave, but this episode wasn’t that good. in some parts it was funny but not as funny or as interesting as Botswana and the Pole.

Normally they have funny challenges along the way which is always funny, but this episode didn’t. all it had was the driving test and the amphibius bike.

Basically i would have preferred one which had more challenges which would have made it better.

By the way, when does the next seres start???

WOW!!! That was the best Top Gear episode ever, it was AMAZING!!!
I was planning a road trip from the south of Thailand to the north, now i’m gonna cut across Cambodia adn do what you gus did, south to north of vietnam!!!!
can’t wait til next next season, it just kees getting better and better!!!!
thanks
One of your BIGGEST FANS
p.s. richard is the best!!1

best ever episode, hilarious.

it is francis ford coppola director of apocalypse now (vietnam war epic)

I loved it, definitely up there with the trips in Botswana and the Arctic

Personally I think the american epic was just a little bit better but this one was the top shelf top gear that honestly I felt was a bit lacking this series. Mabye its because it was such a good laugh at the expense of the people I have to live with everyday but that one just hit harder for me. The bit with the bruce bike did make me laugh out loud though.

This episode was absolutely brilliant, well worth the wait..

Had my parents over for dinner on the 28th. My stepmum never watches Top Gear. I’ve haven’t seen her laugh so much in ages.She said it was the best thing she’d seen all Christmas!

Hamster , you must of known they’d do something to your bike, you’ve worked with them long enough!

Thought it was the best by far
very entertaining and the sights of vietnam
were breathtaking
cant wait for the next installment

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one of the best…maybe the best of all challenge love your show and happy new year

YOU SUCK.

I AM THE F.I.A PRIESENT. TO BE HONEST, THIS SHOW IS BETTER THA NFORMULA ONE

I HAVE THE BEST SHOW ON BBC. HOTEL BABOLON

I DRINK TO MUCH BEAR EVEY DAY AND THATS WHY I NEVER WATCH TOP GEAR. YHATS WHY I WATCH Questo episodio stato terribile, Fifth Gear è il migliore. E TROPPO NASCAR.

FIFTH GEAR RULES!

YA’LL HEARD THAT.

YA’LL TELL ME HOW THAT GOT IN THERE???????????

I ROCK THE HOUSE YO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE WHO SUCKS! I MEAN THE BAND.

YOU SUCK YOU PERSON WHO WROTE COMMENT NUMBER 458, THE WHO IS THE BEST!

NO,NO,NO! THE WHO IS THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD.

I HATE YOU THE DOGS!

AMAZING ENTERTAINMENT!!! BEST TOP GEAR SPECIAL SO FAR. i think they should of made more episodes, don’t you think?

THE BEST FORMULA ONE DRIVER IS SAKON YAMAMOTO! NOT LEWIS HAMILTON OR MICHEAL SCHUMACHER!

SUPER AGURI F1 TEAM IS THE BEST FORMULA ONE TEAM EVER! NOT FERRAI OR MclAREN.0

I DISAGREE WITH THE DORK SOCIETY. YOU MEAN THAT FORCE INDIA IS THE BEST FORMULA ONE TEAM EVER. THEY WON THE 2008 FORMULA ONE CONSTUCTOR’S CHAMPIONSHIP. ONE ADRIAN SUTIL THE DRIVER’S CHAMPIONSHIP. OKAY!

Absolutely GREAT.

I have to say, I loved James’s dragon design top, it’s fabulous! If he doesn’t want it anymore, ahem, I could give it a good home!

TOP GEAR RULES!!!

I DISAGREE WITH PETROLHEADWOMAN. TOPGEAR SUCKS! FIFTH GEAR ROCKS YA’LL! OKAY!

Nearly 500 comments so far says everything. As it turns out, epic was the right word. Every time we think TG has nowhere left to go after your last triumph you come up with something to rival or better it. Monday to Saturday have become unneccessary obstacles to pass on the way to Sunday and TG. Thank you so much.

i love top gear, but the whole series was dissappointing. This special was not good enough to make the series good. Botswana was by far the best episode ever, and whoever put fifth gear is good is a twat

best show all year defonatly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

absolutely amazingly briiliant
any outakes:)
can jezza really speak a bit of vietnamese and is hammond really that fussy at eating
bl**dy hilarious

Viet-fu*cking-Nam! This is the pinnacle of cocking about.

Happy New Year Top Gear; Jezza, May, Hamster, the crew and the BBC

Outstanding piece of work!

happy holidays everybody!

very funny i enjoyed it. clarkson did you enjoy it in the end?

A true awesome episode.. fun packed, humourous and very thought provocking… I was let in tears of various emotions and with a completely different view on a country i have only one reference point to ..

This show needs better production direction, its now like watching a premiership icon now plying his trade in the MLS , (north american soccer league )

It was biblically good as Jeremy would say.

all the wogo management team where at a meeting and we decided on a break to watch tg. needless to say nothing else got done that night none of use could stop laughing it was great guys.

now can we get this meeting back in action

What a fantastic prog. The best thing on telly this Christmas.

Happy New Year to all at Top Gear

yeah it was decent good insight into life in vietnam as well

H

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what was the name of the hotel where Jeremy relaxed would love to go there and be pampered it was somewhere in hoi an?

The greatest hour and 15 minutes of television since the last episode of Top Gear. Thanks very much to the whole top gear crew for all the effort that must have gone into the trip and then the gorgeous filming of it !! Jeremy James and Richard were on top form too. Excellent !!! Cant wait until spring! ( or whenever TG returns )

their best special yet
happy new year

( i hate every 1 who like fifth gear they r idiots)

where was the stig’s communist cousin? i saw that in the intro, and the bit where they were crossing the road was cut aswell. never mind still amazing

As much as I love the show it was one of the worst films I think they have ever done. Far too obvious, contrived and it felt as if they were trying too hard to be funny, particularly labouring the joke about buying each other presents. The Bruce Springsteen bike just wasn’t funny either, mocking the intelligence of Alabama is one thing but this was a bit too far.

loved captian slow falling off his boat thing

I felt so sorry for Jezza, bit of a rough trip for him falling off the bike and all that rain!!

But the best episode ever boys, amazing stuff!!

thought it was brilliant we was in stitches, well done lads bet ya bums was sore!!!!!!

Lol ! It was the best Top Gear ever !! Felt a bit sorry for Jemery though, them leving them behind :L but James was last, as usual

I thought last nights show was fantastic, it was funny and slightly off the wall, but as always a brilliant show. The guys did really well when you consider the conditions. The scenery was amazing. I certainly think this was the best episode, I thought the US road trip was excellent but this was better. Well done guys.

Amazing show! Loved it from start to finish, the scenery was breathtaking , the boys were fab so funny all the way through. Nice to see Jezza have to suffer a bit on one of these epic trips. Loved Hammonds pink bike, surprised he did’t want to bring it home at the end of the trip. Would love to see an epic trip across the Austrilian outback for their next special, am going to miss Top Gear so much now its off air for a while but everyone needs a break. Happy New Year to you all.

Great bit of TV, best thing i have seen all christmas, fifth gear is donkey balls

Knowing it was going to be about bikes i had my doubts…but like so many have already said, bloody brillant. The enterainment value alone was more than i ever expected. Bravo =)

I’m sorry to disagree with most of you… I think the show was below average. I loved all the other Top Gear specials but this ones seemed a bit too scripted to my taste

Brill,

Loved it and can see from this blog 99% did to.

Lets see the three on bikes again, may be we could call it “The Wrong Way Up”

Well done

Hahahaa

Sooo funny, I watched it and then again staight after !

That was an amazing episode, but my dad worked out, if 15 million dong is about $1000, that made the “bog standard” fiat 500 was nudging $60,000.

Now thats expensive.

Fantastic episode, these guys go out of their way to bring us some great content. You think what next. But till then enjoy this one.

Make a dvd of it please?

Its gotta be up there at the top of my list , even above the American challenge.
What a way to end the year.

You guys always Put a smile on my face . What a team !

Keep up the good work in 2009

prbably da bst episode eva =]

Television gold, absolutely brilliant.

These 3 really couldn’t endear themselves to me any further, just amazing. For 1 hour you can feel like one of the boys on these trips and that for me is what it is all about!

Loved, loved, loved, loved it!

james may needs to drive alot faster and he needs a sence of clothes fasion other than tah helarious

Ok here’s a challenge….

James May if you’re reading this?

As a Triumph Speed Triple owner, would you team up with Hamster to outnumber Jezza 2:1 that he is a position to ride, possibly the best British bike ever, on a British road, legally and then comment on what he really thinks of bikes?
To get there he has to get the best training available on the way. I think you know where “I am” coming from on that one

He has a year….

That would be a great Xmas Special

seriously fantasic episode! Loved every minute! challenges the botswana special for first place in my book!

i loved the Vietnam special. JC falling off made me wet myself for the first time in over 30 years, classic

fantastic!!!! loved to see jeremy out of his comfort zone and richard so happy on his bike. please please release an extended dvd along with the botswana episode(more oliver)
richard rocks!!!!!

grubert is a git! can’t call yourself a top gear fan if you didnt like this show!

this challenge has to be the best challenge of all top gear history m favroite bike is hammonds

Can anyone name the song at the end of the episode when Jeremy is pulling up to the floating bar? I know it has been used in many movie soundtracks but I can’t think of it.

Thanks!

I generally hate all this recent crap on Top Gear (V8 rocking chairs and the other bollocks like that – please spend my licence fee testing some cars), but I really enjoyed that Vietnam episode.
So it was carefully planned and maybe not as spontainous as we’re led to believe. Big deal – it was still great entertainment.
The thing is, though, I don’t want to watch challenges every week. That’s great for a series finale, but let’s leave it at that.
Let’s spend the rest of the time testing cars and talking to stars who want to drive the reasonably priced car because they love cars, not because they have a film/album/book out.
As I’ve said before if it becomes any less car orientated the next time one of the team isn’t avilable they’ll ask Ant or Dec (maybe both?) to step in.
I fear I’ll have to supplement my Top Gear viewing with 5th Gear, just so I can get a bit of car news.
I know the three presenters are intelligent people from reading their articles in various publications. I just wonder if they’d watch TG if it was made by someone else. The Top Gear brand seems to be taking over, distressingly, and the ratings seem to be the most important thing. If they keep it up it won’t be long until the bubble bursts with a very loud bang. For years TG knew it’s core audience and kept the format the same in order to appeal to them. These days it’s the same people who watch X-factor and Strictly who now watch Top Gear. If they’re pandered to too much with drain-dead drivel (which they can get from so many other shows) the once fiercly loyal core audience will leave and then what’ll be left?

Come on, guys!! A bit of artistic integrity, please!

I look forward to seeing what series 13 will bring. It could be extremely unlucky if they do any more to alienate their former core audience.

Happy New Year to all

great episode.. but i was a bit dissapointed about the lack of cars on the show. It was a fantasticly fun and entertaining episode. Couldnt have bin done better. But im wondering if you are loosing your focus on cars a bit, and has begun swithing to pure entertainment? I wouldnt want that to happen

Hahah brilliant special! Loved jezza’s suit…best part was when James comes crawling out of the water with statue in hand

That was fantastic!!!!!!!!!
everything was funny and made me want to go to Vienam and buy a motorbike
please do more shows like that!!!!!!!!!!!

ok loved top gear last ep but………..
Did you watch the show called The Real Italian Job: James Martin’s Mille Miglia
that man is so lame lol it took them 3hours to find out what was wrong with the car if you haven’t seen it try to find it

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how bloody brilliant was vietnam and how funny were our heroes i’m still laughing now i loved it loved it loved it!! Richard falling into james crotch was just hilarious and james crawling out the water with his statue was somethin else!!! and poor jezza……. oh he was funny!yes i know its a car show but these three are entertaining enough without cars, that was funnier than a comedy sketch show just keep it up lads for ever and ever! love you all especially hamster xxxxxxxx

i thought was realy funny because you all bought stupid presents for each other hahahahahahahaha :):):):):):):):)!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!

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so Cool! How can they do that? I am a Vietnamese, but i didn’t think that I can do that. Thats too dangerous. you were so lucky guys.

you are so cool guys! Im in England now. Missing Vietnam so much. Thank you very much guys

I think I saw in the promo a ‘communist Stig’, but in the show, no Stig?
Anyway, Brilliant show as many have already said, liked the fact it focused mre the presenters as, as much as I like cars, it’s always interesting to find out more about the three of them.
Thank you for making this winter abit brighter lads
Looking forward to 2009!
xxx

Hammond with those kids was adorable, Loved Jeremy in this episode, and James was brilliant and witty as per normal!
Keep it up you three, your some of the best things in British television currently!
xo

Very enjoyable special with great humor and breath taking scenery but after it I felt that something was missing.
At time to time the storyline drifted a bit.
What happend to the Stigs communist cousin?
Many of us were expecting him to make an appeareance.

great show,cracked me right up vietnam looked beautiful,cant wait till the next series.
as good as the american show

Excellent contrast to the usual gorge in Supercar silliness. Loved it – I knew Top Gear could deliver – on occasion

Although 99.something % of people here obviously more than enjoyed this great ending to 2008, it seems a few can’t cope with out a car being featured. Does it really matter? This and other series have seen Trucks, Buses, boats, bicycles and aircraft which have none, two, three, four or more wheels. So what is wrong with motorcycles in this perspective? (not real ones either)
Fifth Gear has had bikes featured from time to time. So what is wrong with a sprinkling of two motorised wheels on Top Gear? After all bikes have a top gear.
The format may well be based on cars but I am sure there are a large number of people out there you love two wheels as much as four (not to mention all the other stuff in the first paragraph)? After all two out of the three presenters on TG are bike nuts (aficionados).
Top Gear used to be an informative “what car shall I buy “program, which nearly died.
But now it’s motoring fun, the ridiculous, power, engines, vroooom vroooom and the cool wall.
It’s about boy toys (and girls), is about three guys having fun with motors.
Let us face it; the majority of cars featured are just a dream to the audience, almost all of the audience anyway. I would love one of the cheaper sports cars like the atoms or the Chaterams, but still dream.
So let us have a smattering of bikes, motorbikes. It works in Vietnam so I am sure it will work everywhere else.

My copy and Paste from Word did not keep the paragraphs, ohpppps.

So Top Gear is now a scripted travel show.. Worst series yet, by a long shot. Loved all previous years, by the way. Emphasis has shifted to showcasing the three presenters rather than cars. Very disappointing…

Anyone know the name of the song when Richard and Jeremy were riding down the coastal road?

Another great episode from the Top Gear team. I cant even imagine how difficult it would have been to film that especially in the cities. I think most of the credit should go to the people in the background who organise it all.

godd but a bit planned

that was the best ever it was fxxxing funny i love you all

pleas top gear let me drive the car a round your track i bet i beat you all lol

Laughed so hard when Jeremy fell off.

Great Show Guys

hi i wach the show all the time and these 3 just like smashing car and caravans up but i must admit it is funny lol

can you just block all the american ip adresses?

From now on it’s not about being the world’s best car show or not… it’s about being the world’s best TV show.

Best special yet :3

All of season 12 was so much better than the uber scripted jokes and novelty segments of 9/10.

It was the best “special” episode ever!!!!!!

Oh, yes, can someone tell me when is top gear back???

Cheers avalancher yes absolutly

That episode was hillarious, very well done guys

My favourite quote of the whole thing has got to be by Jeremy.

“I’ve got my hand down the front of my trousers, don’t read anything into that”.

*giggles*

Pretty dissapointed that there was no Stig though

Stig and a motorbike… that just sounds like music to my ears

but anyway, hope everyone on Top Gear has a great 2009

WOW lots of comments for you guys.

I thought it was a great hit. Keep it up!
I actually felt bad for James and his sculpture. I hope Jeremy didn’t get a cold.

There is only a huge problem, THE WAIT until next season. When does it start

WOW lots of comments for you guys.

I thought it was a great hit. Keep it up!
I actually felt bad for James and his sculpture. I hope Jeremy didn’t get a cold.

There is only a huge problem, THE WAIT until next season. When does it start?

I hope that you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year!

Best TG ever. A milestone.

I read most of the comments, I feel sorry for who ever has to read, or check these comments.

i loves it best special yet thanks top gear

This was epic brilliance wrapped in a big pink bow.

I loved the soundtrack. I loved the cinematography. I even laughed at the Yankee bike (despite being a Yankee, I probably would have killed myself to death so I wouldn’t have to listen to Bruce Springsteen). I don’t think there was anything I disliked about this other than the fact Stig’s Commie Cousin didn’t show up. Outtake clip, maybe?

Overall, great job and thanks for a good series.

Very very nice special, but I’d have prefered it to end before the water-bike conversion nonsense. This somehow spoiled it for me. I think the guys in a strange country and a strange mission is enough to entertain for way more then one special.
There is imho no need to bring in ridiculousness..

regards, keep on making the best show out there!

It was pretty good, very entertaining.

It was a shame that “Stig’s Communist Cousin”, shown in the season’s preview, didn’t actually made it into the show.

Wow, 550 comments on your show from viewers all around the globe. And that’s just the people who loved it enough to come here and comment. TG is truely a global phenomenon – congrats.

But you already know that. As a true TG fan who has watched from the first episode, I feel it my responsibility to give it to you straight – like an old friend. I found this special lacking. My biggest issue is that you left out the biggest part of the show – not cars – but a purpose. I watched the special twice now and I still find myself wondering … what was the point of all that?

Normally you guys set out to prove something, to express your views, or to conquer some challenges. You travelled to the north pole to prove a car could do it, you crossed Botswana in cars to prove you dont need a 4WD, you went to America to expose their culture and show that it’s not the car, it’s the relationship you build with it that matters.

This time though, you just kind of … were there. The bikes weren’t tested at all, the only challenge was to drive across the country and, excuse the modern cliche, how hard can that be?

As such, I found the guys trying too hard to make something of the journey, to give it some raison d’etre. I get it that Vietnam is beautiful and has a very powerful history, but why did you go there? I still don’t know what the point of the special was aside from … having a special0? The cinemetography was there, the guys were there, the epic music was there, but I felt like there was no clear purpose driving it all.

Let me likin it to something more familiar. Go watch Jeremy review the V8 Vantage on the Isle of Man. There is a part where he is says “I’m not going to call it slow, that would be rediculous, but it’s not … guuueh!”. So I won’t call the Vietnam special bad, that would be rediculous, but it just wasnt ….

And I’ll finish with the token: I love the show and always look forward to the next installment. Keep up the great work and thanks for listening to all of our opinions.

-Dezza

Read these 550 comments and face it: Clarkson should be anoblished… not prime minister.
It’s time for the Queen to understand that Clarckson is doing more for the spirit of british empire than James Bond, The Beatles and Kiera Knightley united (even naked).

Hilariously entertaining and the perfect end to the series!

Thee episode programme to watch this xmas! Cant wait for more!

The best TOP GEAR ever

Viet Nam is a beautiful country, people friendly, full of energetic. Welcome to Viet Nam !!!

Not as good as Africa

Just saw the show… It was epic! Never a biker myself i can imagine the hardship through the country. I;ve been to India but my god the traffic in Vietnam is just as harsh. Anyways Good work to all of Top Gear’s staff and especially to the 3 presenters who brought us yet again a great great show

By the time BBCAmerica airs this, VietNam will be a capitalist country.

I thought the vietnam was bloody amazing, hilarious, as usual. I can’t wait until series 13.

@247

the trip across canada ive done it 4 months ago … its awesome .. did it in 6 days and i started from montreal destination vancouver.

its a great idea for a tg special… what if i appear with a car behind the crew and become a star ???? how hard can it be ?

pff it’s over again.Can’t wait next season

I loved this one, but that said, they could have chosen better bikes(new ones?? or almost new ) but the show was really good..

What a great programme, Jeremy obviously enjoyed parts of his scooter trip, but Italians can make better bikes than that. Check out Ducati,Gilera, Moto Guzzi, Laverda, Benelli and MV Agusta.
Richard had a Minsk, but (I’ll put on my pedantic voice here!) It’s actually a Simpson, which may have been made in Russia but a Simpson is an East German bike, based on a pre-war DKW (as was the BSA Bantam). My wife bought a 50cc version in new 1984 and we still have it and it runs well.
james’ Honda 50 super cub would have been worth salvaging and shipping back. I worked in a motorcycle shop in 1963 and we were selling them before they came in!!

great show, but get rid of may. don’t need 3 presenters, and would help with the “trimming the fat” as the program put it.

Great, but where was the Stig’s Communist cousin?

the best show on tv over x mas and keep it up next year, shame no stig on a bike thou

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you cnt get rid of james may !!!

he scares me yea, but he’s irreplacable

HAPPY NEW YEAR LADS

WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!  !
Best TG ever
‘Nam was awesome!
and My hat’s off to whoever put together the soundtrack for this show, amazing selection of songs.
Great work lads!
It’s my birthday and I could’nt have dreamed of a better birthday present. Thanks a million.

P.S: Cant wait for S13.

SUPERB!!!!!!

i think that ending to 2008 was brill because insted of 4 wheels you did 2 which is better because it was a change to what you normaly do and i think you should do more of them…

Great episode, so funny. loved the presents, James liked the statue…
jezza couldn’t pass his training! lokking forward to when it starts up again, happy new year everyone!

jermey clarkson rules

Just watched it on i player superb end to a series just epic had me in tears of laughter at regular intervals and in wonder of vietnam really considering going trust the yanks to bugger up the whole point of a country perhaps in ten years doing a tg speacial in iraq

best comedy since fouls &horses

This ending episode wasn’t really very good! They made Last years Polar special much more fun and exiting to watch than this!! They could have done this somehow more fresh and phenomenal way. But it can’t be always perfect. Still the Best show out there!

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Utterly fantastic – the best race yet!

By the way its on again tonight beeb 2

Unbelieveably awesome! Possibly the best one yet. The only way to sum it up is: Pure TopGear Classic!

Absolutley awesome, great country, loads of laughs, best top gear episode ever.

You guys were as crazy as usual! I can’t believe one of you didn’t have to ride the disgrace bike!

Hugely hilarious, and I loved it.

Veitnam is absolutley beautiful! I’d love to go there.

Sorry guys but this was a big disappointment.

First off i must say I am a huge fan and have watched every episode new and old of top gear, but as an Canadian living in Vietnam for over 3 years, I found just to many staged events and forced pranks that too away from the overall experience. I have also traveled on a bike throughout Vietnam and that in its self is epic enough without the over the top staged cuts like the whole driving license scene. I do have a real Vietnamese driving license and I know that foreigners are not required to do the written test if they already have a valid driving license from their home country and the licensing office supplies the motorbike used for the test (making it equal). Also the American Honda Chaley was very tasteless in a country were many people live with the memory of war…can you imagine driving around London in a Nazi liveried car in the 60’s ??

Next time I hope the boys make more effort to show the beauty of the people and the land they are having there adventure in, more like the original…. Clarkson in Vietnam special.

Oh ya I got to add on behalf of a Vietnamese buddy:

The prices they paid for the bikes are out of tune also. In Vietnam an average Minsk is 300-400 with a completely restored one being 500-600 USD and a Super cub is about 200-300 USD like the one Jame’s drove…and they had about $900 to spend with the exchange this summer. Jezza’s Vespa would be at least $1000 in Nam as they are sought after for restoration alot more than the other ones.

We still love the show, just hope they tone down on the antics and forced humor as of late…makes it too American.

Cheers

that was the best topgear episode ever, it was a shame they couldn’t aford cars but it was a great laugh

It was a brill episode! I loved it, but i will say this; it was a bit more of a travel show then a car show. But i can see how that could happen, Vietnam is a beautiful country! I still think ye won’t be able to beat the African epic though. Brill!

Love the show! Can’t wait for it too come back!

This is one of the few topgears that I watched again the second day !

Easily the best special done by Top Gear so far.

Brilliant episode! You guys are awesome!

If you think the traffic and the roads were bad in Vietnam you’ve seen nothing until you see the mayhem in Indonesia. More cars, bikes and motorbikes and way rougher roads.

Brilliant, I dont think Jezza was at all happy on a bike lol!
Loved the pink painting of Hammonds bike lol, yeah he was seriously not happy about that!
I thought it was brilliant, cant wait to watch it again, ive not laughed so much since the crossing the channel challenge lol!

I loved it, Top Gear has some truly funny moments, and this was full of them !!

great show You guys are awesome!
loved the whole driving license scene.

I know it’s (a bit) mean, but Jeremy’s face alone was worth the “price of admission” – sheer terror!
And, dare I say, a bit of payback? Usually Jezza is the one gloating in comfort with “powwaaahr” whilst James and Richard get in a fix (race to Oslo, Veyron race, Japanese race) only this time the tables were turned and he was the one completely out of his element.
What made this one not quite on a par with Botswana was James’s bike; Hamster’s Minsk was a good bike, but the Honda just didn’t have the oomph of even the Vespa. Jez himself said it, “this is the first time we’ve ridden together” since Saigon. A lot of the humour is the way the 3 of them play off each other, and you always felt “sorry” for the one left behind playing catch up.
Still, I’m glad Jeremy’s ignorance caused him to get a Vespa – he’d have killed himself on a Minsk (like that girl who helped him get it started so memorably pointed out: “he’s gonna die”).
Ditto, James’s Honda – particularly if he didn’t have a proper helmet on hidden under that cullinder (and if not, why not?)I cringed at that bit where James scared Jez by just riding straight out into traffic – a thin metal bowl punched full of holes would have given him all the protection you’d expect from a thin metal bowl punched full of holes if James had been hit by one of those mondo I-brake-for-nobody Vietnamese trucks.
I also felt for Hamster – that level of humidity and exertion you need to keep hydrated and food intake up and he went greener than Ha Long Bay’s water at every foodstuff he saw. I presume off-camera he did eat properly?
I was a bit confused by how hot it was supposed to be – when James ran out of petrol in the rain, he was uncontrollably shivering (this is *not* a good thing ) as was Jeremy on the Vespa in the rain, but it was supposedly really hot? That sort of uncontrollable shivering is medically very dangerous and must be stopped sharpish, but James would have been Ok if it was as hot as it looked.
The Vietnam special was very funny but what I really enjoyed was how it showed Top Gear is “genuine”. Showbiz is the most fake environment around and we’ve always got a saccharine laced love-in going on between people whom you later discover would only happily bury the hatchet in each other’s spine.
There were moments of genuine anger (James seemed to genuinely like his present, and I really liked that painting Hamster bought Jezza and I thought it was a shame both had to be broken) and the three bickered like 6-year-olds, but that didn’t matter because it showed that their friendship is genuine and they really are mates. That unconsciously displayed honesty is very rare in TV these days.
I’m looking forward to the DVD release of the Vietnam Special (mega hint) which, given all that Andy Wilman & Co had to cut out of it to keep to 75 mins, should be at least 90-120 mins long!
I also extend my indignant sympathies to everyone at Top Gear – you have worked incredibly hard all year and given us 14 episodes of cracking TV, and you are being punished for excellence by some bonehead bean counter by having your budget cut! It would be laughable if it wasn’t so pathetic.

Any Idea what hotel the guys stayed in HOI AN?

sorry, didn’t like it. I always watched the show and I alwais loved it. But the last couple of episodes are getting too anoy mee. it’s just too much of the same jokes. And of course if you watch top gear for a long time, you start mentioning how many of the things they do are played. They are just 3 actors making a comic-movie.
There’s just too less about cars and too much of the same jokes.

brilliant. the only word for it. go guys!! roll on next series!

A brilliant end to a good series and much better than Charlie and Ewans adventures. A feature length dvd release would be brilliant

Bloody brilliant boys.

Tell Mr Wilman that I’m sorry to hear about the budget cuts. When Jeremy is DG of the BBC (as is inevitable), i’m sure the budget will rocket.

Jezza should have got a Lambretta!

Absolutely hilarious!

However I was expecting a Red Stig based from the series preview and opening to Ep1, too bad that was cut.

Have to be honest!

I was abit dissapointed not the best topgear what has happened to this series?

Very entertaining, breathtakingingly beautiful scenery. Makes me want to go there. Jezza usual hilarious self. Capt Slow, usual philosophical self and Hamster usual falling in love with machinery self. Though I think nothing could ever take Olivers place in Hamsters heart. Made a change that it was bikes and not cars. Though I did not find it as entertaining as the trek across the US.

Keep it up boys, can’t wait for new series and the next special. Love you xxxxxx

brilliant end to what i thought was a damn good series. shame there was no vietnamese stig, so bring on the outtakes soon please!!!!!!

It was hiarious richard is ma favourite presenter i watch every show and that was one of the best.

I absolutely loved this episode it was so brilliant and it was one of my fav episodes! The scenery was wonderful and it just made me want to go there. I can’t wait for the new series and the next special! Love you x x x x x x x x x x x

I think James, Jeremy and Richard are awesome! Especially Richard! He’s cute! x x x x x x x x x x

this one was awesome,
but i think the botswana one just beats it.
just.
=]

i loved the show could nt have been better,
when does the new series start? i love the trips u do america, africa, asia, europe and the arctic i mean wots left for u to do,

great show.

i think best one yet

Very funny but the clothes was horrible! Ahaha!

Poor Jeremy tho…

quite good that.

Wow! Just wow. I’d pay the license fee for Top Gear alone, especially when it’s as good as this! Absolutely brilliant!

Well done to all concerned. Looking forward to the next series already.

Vietnam looked stunning.

in one word world class
but i like botswana more

I liked jeremy´s “allegorical leaving the vespa unattended” at the side of the road and of course the beautiful panorama scenes.
A little bit less cocking about is a good thing, … sometimes.
And yes, the botswana One beats this one.
In the beginning this episode seemed too casted not to seem casted.

Over all i think a very good episode.
I just said the two things I didn´t like because saying what was good would go beyond the scope of this comment!
Even if you could have made it 2 hours long.:)

greetz grom the Queens home country
germany

Top stuff. Road trips are just great! Tops off the season really well, though Stig’s Communistical cousin never turned up like we were promised…

Clarson did well considering he hadn’t driven a bike before the trip – his face at the start of the task was hilarious though!!!

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where was the Stig’s cousin in the Vietnam special? Come on lads, we wanted to see the Stig’s relatives mess up their wheels.

brill only word for it richard rocks he is cute xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

what am i goin to do if out richard and top gear thank god for dave i a looking forward to the next seies all ready

without a doubt the greatest show on the planet todate, jane austen has nothing on the material presented in Top Gear and all 3 deserve at the very least MBE’s for motoring contributions

It is amazing!!!
Brilliant presentation!

CAPTAIN SLOW!!!!! hes a fat/skinny strange old man wagen but jeremny clarckson rules!!!!!!!

Shut up Alex..
James is good!!

that was ccccrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaappp ppppp
its meant to be about cars not crap death traps known as motorcycles
apart from that episode brill show
love the specials
keep it up

brillant i loveed it specially when u spray painted hamster bike pink . jezza u can’t ride bike better luck next time

That Vietnam special was the best Top Gear Episode that was ever made…I think they’ve even made a better one than the one where they got chased out of the hick american town (can’t remember the name) it was brilliant. When is the next series?

Woa thousands of comments! I just wanted to say fantastic show lads! And i fell off a motorbike in exactly the same way as jeremy! Although i was only to 3mph… :S Oh, and was it just me or was the soundtrack based on The Who’s back catalogue? IT ROCKED!

any chance of a dvd
as i thought that that was one of the best top gears ever
as a biker im glad to see jezza take to two wheels!

i thought it was helerious when jezza got a cook to spray paint hammonds bike and then a strange woman joined in and started to spray everythining pink!!! ha ha lol!!!

p.s. all of the lad’s latest books are grat if u want other news on the t.g. epics buy hammond’s as you do!!

It Was Fantastic The Best One Ever Great Stuff.

This was just great!!!

Just a Question

Where,s the Stig Cousing in this one?

absoulately epic 1 of the best episodes ever please let there be outakes cos theyll probably be better than the hole trip

well…………. my brothers charlie like this he thinks it is wicked and he said that the shows are funny :L
and he never stops talking about it haha

i thought it was very funny but the thing about jeremy not knowing how to start or ride a bike is a lie cos he was photographed riding one a month before filming near his home in the cotswolds

This was one of the best episodes yet, make sure you put this one on DVD, and add outtakes of the trip, and I reckon TG fans would buy it in their thousands! That would bump your budget up, then ALL of next year’s shows would be brilliant!!! Lol! xxx

top gear rulz and vietnam killed me the motarboats were class .

OMG! how many comments…. taken me 5 mins to just scroll down!

loved this show! i am so looking forward to the repeat tonight it was absolutely bloody fantastic!

they are so awful to each other but they are such brilliant friends… and i would have been a tad pee’d off if my bike had been painted bright pink and my helemet had been crushed under the wheels of a lorry!!!

utter class pure entertainment

bring on series 13 guys… i am looking forward to it already

happy new year to all xxxxxx

This show is a bunch of lies, Jerry has ridden a moped before in Vietnam !!!

http://au.youtube.com/wat ch?v=kaP353v8JWY&feature= channel

If you google the whole episode he takes out a dream bike for a drive.

The American Bike was ignorant and stupid…have respect for the people and understand their culture

You guys like using the soundtrack to HomeWorld…I’m sure I’m the only person who knows that…

ONE OF THE BEST EVER

31E IS MY NUMBER PLATE ON MY BMW 850CSI (M8)

The show woz GR8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jeremy on a bike HILARIOUS!!!!!
Their presents FUNNIII!!!!!!!!!
NO MORE TOP GEAR FOR SOME TIME

i thought the episode was gd bt woud’ve been betta wid cars

da best episode was polar episode

3 guys 2 bikers its about time the minority gave way to the majority..!! no more chainsawing Ducaties please!!!!

absolutely priceless television….shame it couldn’t have been on Christmas day! even my mother thought it was brilliant. bring on the next series, better yet bring on more challenges
how about getting the lads to do public transport in India!

more more more

all the best for the new year chaps!

i just loved this episode, but then again i just love TG. thank you for making me laugh everytime
happy new year to all

Was disappointed there were no cars, but enjoyed it nonetheless. Probably not the best though – America and Botswana probably better.

can you get jezza to duplicate the bike test on the top gear track maybe also get celebs to do it????

DORK PEOPLE; HOW DARE YOU SPEEK SUCK THINGS ABOUT THE ALL MIGHTY TOPGEAR YOU STUUUPID PERSON
FIFTH GEAR IS THE PROGRAMME THATS SUCKS, SUCK YOURS ASS…!!!!!

I have not ever seen such entertainment and such gorgeous…¬_¬…nus in one show!

E.G.

1. Richard Hammond
2. James May
3. Jezza

Made me proud to be a biker and a car NUT, amazing to see the guys doing what top gear is there for to show us, Excitment, joy, laughter, and a funny crash. ( Thanks Jezza) ha ha. It’s true to say some times it’s not all about fast cars and fast girls. It’s all so good to James may have to swim for it.
Thank you again top gear for a great year
Yours. Ben Tuson

what can u say that was the best episode of TG in such a long time i was pi$$ing myself laughing they should do more of these shows.

Brilliant guys n1

Its was amazing and hillarious. Im Vietnamese myself and so it was a brilliant way to remember what my childhood was like when i lived there.

It was a fabulous episode. Though I cannot compare it to the Polar challenge ep or the Botswana ep. They all stand on their own merits. But I must say the Clarkson humbling was well beyond overdue. Jezza is a damned good sport.

And I have to think that the governments of both Botswana and Vietnam ought to thank you all for the fantastic coverage of their respective countries. If it weren’t for the food,er, difficulties, I’d be planning a trip to ‘Nam myself (by the by, anyone else wonder how they catch those sparrows?). Absolutely glorious country and peoples. And fantastic television. Thank you lads!

i dunno its not realy about cars its taken over from judiths holiday show watch vietnam become the sort after holiday spot but an epic show beautifully done hope there ready over there the brits are coming

It was brilliant! Thank you Top Gear !

Was amazing tho…..
It was funny i could understand everything the Viet people were saying, yet, i couldnt understand anything Jeromy and Richard was saying lol. Amazing!!!!!!

This was exceptional. The country won, obviously. The city scenes were as interesting as the rural scenes were beautiful.

But I don’t agree on ‘Best Ever’. That was Botswana

Saw Top Gear “vietnam special” and really enjoyed it. The combination of jeremy, richard and james is fantastic. They are 3 friends having fun in whatever is thrown at them. Their love of cars and rivelry is understood by the viewer and all th Top Gear prgrammes and challenges are so much fun. They clearly love each others company and its great viewing.
Love all the challenges especially the turning on of the Blackpool xmas lights one. Even though the Polo one i was amazed how well the big Jag did.
Love Top Gear so much wish it ran for more episodes though.
Thanks for great entertainment
stuart

Brilliant. No it wasnt as good as across America…but they can never top that! Still brilliant tho- its like watching a married couple and their kid on holiday- awesone!

What a set up! The Honda 50 Cub’s first gear is a crawler and you wouldn’t have to push it up a hill. If you don’t believe me get one on your show and prove it.

Brilliant. No it wasnt as good as across America…but they can never top that! Still brilliant tho- its like watching a married couple and their kid on holiday- awesome!

Brilliant there is no other way to sum it up. i didnt once get even slightly bored the boys really shine in this sort of challenge i think we should have more and more. bikes were good too (i can only fantasize what cars would have been like)

oh pleas topgear when you do bring the cars back and a new series lets bring back the magic. this series had its moments but was disspointing so high hopes for 2009

Just watched it. Absolutely brilliant-Hammond you were well funny and Clarkson. I hope you do more like that because they were really good. Hope you all had a great christmas.All the best and Happy New Year.

Great to see Clarkson get his comeuppance on a bike. Granted, he’ll just go back to his same old attitude but that’s what makes Clarkson what he is. I now have the urge to take up a motorcycle though. @_@

Very good indeed, but still… Top Gear in America was the best.

Top Gear without cars is a bit strange, and there weren’t enough challenges. Anyway, great episode, but not the best.

Does anyone know the name of the bar in the bay?

Awesome episode

Not as good as America, but defiantely up there with Africa and Polar.

What did James say when Richard head butted him in his “gentlemens area”
I can’t remember the exact quote.
But the whole show was fantastic
Nearly died laughing throughout.
Well done lads!
Love all three of you!

Good if someone wants to see something about Vietnam, which its an amazing country, but the show lacked of cars. Which is what i want to see on Top Gear.

Nice show. I liked Botswana a lot better but this was better than the Polar thing.

Sad to see that nice painting and sculpture ruined as well as the floating fiberglass crap in that bay.

this special was crap.motobikes! for car show come on

Show was very good.
The USA decked bike was insensitive even for Top Gear. They could have just had the threat of a pedal powered bike given the shows theme.
I wish they would show making offs for these specials as well.
The blonde crew members concern for Jeremy was quite funny as well.
Although as pointed out above, Jeremy’s lack of skills on a bike was faked, given he was even in vietnam to do a report on motorbikes years earlier.
Look forward to more mayhem in 2009.

i love it all beginning to end.

the best epic yet no… because its the best episode…YET

Fantastic epic – now my folks can see why I raved about Vietnam so much ……especially the high mountain pass and brige below – even Jeremy was awestruck ………….

The whole programme has become so false. All the ‘funny incidents’ are set up. In fact the whole thing is set up.

Are you really so stupid as to thing that the BBC would risk the safety of three of their presenters, particularly post Hammond crash, by sending them untrained and unprepared to Vietnam to ride 1000 miles on dangerous roads on knackered motorbikes?

Of course thorough preparation would take away somewhat from the comedic impression that they had really set out on a half a**ed ‘adventure’, without proper equipment or training.

I seem to remember seeing that final water challenge before (and I don’t mean a repeat on Dave)! Of yes I remember it was on the previous two occasions that they did the same thing. It was funny the first time, I didn’t laugh on either of the subsequent occasions.

It was better when the comedy was natural, spontanious, and a by product of the main programme. Now that they are writing the thing around these set up and false situations it has lost it’s magic.

one of the most funny episodes of topgear ever couldnt stop laughing

Sorry everyone, but although the Vietnam episode was a very entertaining piece of film that I thoroughly enjoyed, IT IS NOT what Top Gear used to be about, so is there any chance, as very talented broadcasters, Clarkson, May & Hammond could either:

a) Form a spin off series about 3 guys having a laugh doing challenges and stuff and get Top Gear back to reviewing and discussing cars, or

b) Start a new motoring show whereby you review and discuss cars, and let Top Gear spend Sunday nights entertaining people who are tuning in to watch you 3 playing pranks and having a laugh.

I feel I am in a minority with this view but this suggestion is not meant negatively, I just really respect and find Jeremy’s, Hammond’s and May’s views on cars entertaining and would like to see more of this side.

Please producer???

Thanks for a great, great, great last episode. Not so much about cars, but seriously like the best travel show ever.

Just looking at it, and then out on the rainy greyness of Sweden makes me want to cry. I really had no idea about the greatness of Vietnam, thanks for that.

Yes, I got all my bits and torrents finally sorted out…

The best show ever, poor clarkson falling off but by far the best show ever…………..
dont ever stop making top gear of the world will be nothing.

Top Gear ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was a great Special, However, I would have prefered Cars To be honest. I’m on your side Jermemy!

Unfreakingbelievably BRILLIANT
Being over the usual hour helped heaps because it couldn’t possibly live up to what we saw in vietnam. i feel sorry for the man who had to ride the yankee bike.

Fantastic! Best TG Ever ever, seriously! Never tot I would say this when i know the whole show is without the boys driving a single car, but i just did.

WOOOAHH!! that was amazing! greetings from Italy

Writing as a motorcycle fan and rider:
BLOODY BRILLIANT
not the best epic but up there with the best.

Great show!
Lol at the end credits

Francis Ford

Hey people, I don’t know if you know but Jeremy Clarkson not knowing how to ride a bike is false!!

If you ever saw re-runs of his show (Clarkson’s Motorwold I think!) on Dave, he’s in Monaco if I remember and he comes riding on a bike towards the camera to say his lines.

Mark me if I’m wrong!!

yea it was brilliant it was something diffrent 10/10

great episode, but one question.
where was communist stig????

the episode was great

i went to vietnam a few years ago and this ep. brought back some memories. the fact that they took basically the exact same route i did was amazing, from ho chi minh city all the way to ha long bay.

epic…

IN THAT EPISODE, SOMEONE WROTE PENIS ON JEREMY’S HELMET.

Great Episode.

Hi stupido testa castoro torta uomo da Peter Griffin Family Guy. So che uno skunk mangiato a cena. Ma tu sei una sanguinosa idiota.

Awesome episode! Best so far! Cant wait till next season starts!!!

One of the best TG shows ever, keep it up

Congratulations, Jeremy,Richard&James.Not only the best episode of top gear i have seen, but also one of the funniest programmes i have seen on TV for a long time.The neighbours must have thought a nutter was lose in my place i laughed so loud. (: Now you’ve lost your virginity on bikes jeremy how about a one off show dedicated to them? I’m sure Richard & James would approve.Cheers.

We missed the first 5 or so minutes of the first run so watched it all again last night. TG never fails to have us in stitches and this one was no exception. If I ever feel like moaning about the licence fee, I always remind myself that I’d pay it twice over just to keep TG on the air. I’d love to see what ended up on the editing room floor, so if you ever feel the need to do a DVD, I’d have one !

IT WAS BRILL SOOOOOOOOOOO FUNNY But no cars wah wah

Absolutely legendary, I had stitch from laughing so much, can’t wait for 2009!

I want to see the out takes of Richard secretly stuffing his face with Rice Crispies. Please.

Jusr watched it again EVEN FUNNIER

So Funny

AWESOME!

It was really funny, especially because I like those 3 guys so much already! Top gear is all of that: the amazing photography/filming crew, the always interesting script, and of course those 3 blokes being blokey!

This show is now a sucess because it gives us a lot of fun, and makes us feel like we are with them having a nice time and watching those beautiful places.

So to me, thats whats important: the fun.
And if you guys are really having fun, we can feel the atmosphere too.

Congratulations and please, keep making good stuff

Absolutley brilliant. The funniest show on TV for years. I have already watched it 4 x times already.
The 2x most funniest moments:
Hammond spends all night rebuilding his model boat. Stands up to admire it, and the masts are immediately chopped off and destroyed by the ceiling fan.

Hammond says to Clarkson: “Attenborough has never explored a cave on an amphibious scooter in a cloud of two stoke smoke”. Clarkson adds firmly; “and that’s where he’s been going wrong!”

I think the show is a classic, comparable to a good Laurel & Hardy film.
Clarkson should try a ride on a Harley Davidson Electra Glide. This will completely win him over to bikes.
Well done chaps. It was great

That was the best year yet well done keep it up please don’t lose it

great show, had me in stiches!

How the hell am i going to survive until the next series?

Watched the ‘Nam special last night (30/12/08), having just come out of hospital after big op, the programme was so brilliant it made my christmas, I laughed beyond comfort but it was so worth every wince! Fantastic programme on all fronts!

one of the best ever top gear films, absolutely brilliant

Cracking season finished by a cracking film!
I have watched it 5 times since sunday

Now hurry up and make the next series!

Well given that the majority of the preceeding 713 comments have been positive I think everyone at Top Gear can award themselves a well deserved big pat on the back for this.
A real Empire building adventure that made for brilliant entertainment.

Best of all now that Mr. Clarkson can ride a two wheeled death trap and fire a paint-ball gun I have an idea for a future challenge.

Amazing… toooo funny.
Francis Fird made a very famous film about Vietnam btw.

Awesome show and awesome series, only topped by the comedy value of the comments on the Daily Mail website…

Super!! Just Super

does anyone know what the music is that was playin when they were going across the sea to the bar? for there last mission?

I’m a Vietnamese. This show is really cool. Happy new year to all of you.

For seanyb…2 posts back. Music is:
Ride of the Valkyries
by Richard Wagner

I am the 720th person to scribble my opinion down here so i don’t think anyone will read this but i just wanted to congratulate the whole team on another fantstic episode. I loved it, definately on par with botswana which is one of my favourite ever bits of tely. I was wondering if you could them both on DVD as well as the latest challenges Eg Cheap alfas.

I am the 721st person to scribble my opinion down here so i don’t think anyone will read this but i just wanted to congratulate the whole team on another fantstic episode. I loved it, definately on par with botswana which is one of my favourite ever bits of tely. I was wondering if you could them both on DVD as well as the latest challenges Eg Cheap alfas.

Please don’t let this be the last series…you can’t stop, there’s a lot of cars coming in 2009 like the new Ford Focus RS which i really want to see.

It was AMAZING. Beat that Florida/alabama/new orleans special by miles! I liked the bit when they were lost in that village. the kids were really cute! also, may’s revelation of how much 15m dong actually was was hilarious! about $1000 is the same money they got for the american special. Overall, the whole episode will be watched by me probably over 500 times within the next week, i think.

It was the BEST! Top Gear EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Best epic ever.

i thought that the vietnam special was absouloutely amazing and was a great way to finish off the series.i sat in an aston martin db9 on the 27th for the first time and it was absouloutely amazing. i managed 92 mph but i was astonished by that amazing v12 engine. i am going to miss top gear and i think that you should make the series longer. by the way if anyones got need for speed undercover could you give me some of your feedback because i think it is an amazing game. see you soon.

This episode was one of the best (if not the best) in the series. i want to go to ‘nam and ride a bike because the utter chaos looks amazing

I I

Next year: Top Gear’s Drive Through Korea.

Does it have to be an American loosing war? Top Gear’s Drive Through Grenada would be fun.

arg i missed it!!!! guna catch up on it now though

ORSOME SHOW LOVE IT HAPPY NEW YEAR GUYS ,HAMMOND IS COOL PINK SUITES YOU
HAHA FROM JAKE……… OH YES JAMES
HAHA YOUR SCULPTURE BROKE SHAME ISNT IT
JEZZA KEEP CALLING HAMMOND HAMSTER HE
LOVES IT REALLY

Hi I’m Barry Scott

BEST SHOW EVER LOL LV IT TO BITS I GOT ALL THE SEASONS ON DVD I’M TOP GEAR TILL I DIE I’M 12 SO LONG TIME TO LOVE IT HAHA!!!!

HI BARRY SCOTT IM JAKY BOI

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i thought the us special and polar special was brill,then they come up with this,this was the best thing on over christmas and the best top gear by far,this is the onley show on tv that makes me laugh,its nice to see my daughters laughing at something different apart from kids films,they love it,and even call me jezza and call them selfs hamster and captain slow,so come on these 3 man should be in the new years honour list.3 ledgends

it was great the best one yet they should bring a dvd out of it i will recommend it tow evry one i loved it
my dad was cring with laughter

hi boys love the show

That was AMAZING!

I nearly had 2 call a doctor to stich my sides back up!

Jeremy you are a legend!
James, HILARIOUS!
Richard, Phwarr!

That was fantastic. I actually missed it so in my determination to watch it I went on bbc iplayer. I laughed so much!

Absolutely brilliant, i was starting to get slightly annoyed at the obvious scripting of the show and then you pulled this one out, congrats, funniest episode ever.

Seeing Hammond headbutt May in “the gentlemans region” was worth the licence money all by itself, however Clarkson falling off his bike was painful to watch, but probably not as painful as actually doing it, the scenery was spectacular, the people were delightful and I daresay this programme has done more for the Vietnamese tourist industry than a shedload of perky people bouncing about on the beach gushing about it.

I think the Africa special is a little bit better then the Vietnam special, but both are gorgeous! I want to see the extra 15 minutes!

I think it was amazing I think it was hallarios I love the show

Well done on finishing what has been a slightly disappointingly short series again with an epic and probably the best tv program all xmas on TV. Thank you, even the missus was loving it.

you are halerriosIthink Its amazing my brother was lathing in tears I think jeramy and hammond james is halarios

hope you injoyed my coment

hi guys i think top gear is the best and i wish it was on every week and i think Richard Hammond is sexy

dont always watch top gear but by seeing that episode i will watch every other episode

I thought this was amazing, It was the best thing I have ever seen on Tv, It was so funny. I taped it and have watched 12 times in one day and it has not bored me.
My whole loves the show and they thought this was great.

This was the best thing on tv. I loved it. It was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I loved it, sooo funny. I have got it on my ipod it is soo great. Thankyou for making top gear it would not be the same without richard hammond and jeremey clarkson and james may , they are great I loved the U.s boike soo funny

to top gear.
I loved the viatnam special. but the should of had baby prams instead of bikes, it would of looked realy cool but you had to hurt you butoxes.

Excuse my friend he is a little mad!!! I love the show.

may looked brilliant on his bike. i just loved to look a his face. the way he used that gun,it was like richard hamond died and fell of a cliff. may is so hot. I love him.

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hey if anyone could find out what the peice of music is when you first see the bikes they chose i would be greatful cause its been naggin me
http://www.dcopperfield.i nfo/topgear/12/8/2a.mp3

richard i will buy your bike

seriously

Top Gear at its best! All three of you deserve a medal! Jeremy Clarkson is a legend. Cannot wait till the next series.

Vietnam:- Must be the best TV programme of 2008. The 3some are not meant to be comedians, soap actors, stage performers, but for sheer humour and ingenuety the most entertaining programme I have seen for a long time. Beats the hell out of “Kevin and Stacy” Well done JC,JM and the Hamster, gave me loads of laughs and I`m sure you all enjoyed it

It was promising at first, But in the end it was a HUGE dissapointment.

They could have got ALOT better bikes for a start.
Bikes in Vietnam are dirt CHEAP.
So why buy something that is shit?
When you can get Brand new bikes for that amount of money.

They tried to be funny and FAILED big time.
There was a huge opportunity to make something great.
But instead they made shit.

Shit shit shit.

You FAIL…Andy.

It’s like you Dont even BOTHER anymore.
If that’s the case OR if you dont have time to do it Right then DONT DO IT ATALL.
Top gear SOLD OUT.

761 comments to make it clear:
Road movies. Not car movies.

nothing in vietnam

WHAT WAS THE HOTEL THEY WERE STAYING IN VIETNAM?
THE ONE 30 MINUTES INTO THE SHOW.

hello…

love the show, i was laughing my a*s off. sorry fir my bad english if any , i am from Denmark, and by the way my real name is stig : )

* for,sorry, not fir

oh, i am vietnamese, although i wasn’t watched that program,i still feel very happy because Top Gear came to VietNam and do it, thanks BBC and 3 mans

I remembered theres a red stig for vietnam during the 1st episode’s show summary.

“Hes not the Stig but he is the Stig’s communist cousin.”

but sadly theres none..

i would surely like to watch it on the videos in due time.

That episode really ‘head-butted me in the gentleman’s region’. I’m in the US but have to “creatively” download the UK version to really get the savory good stuff. The more US bashing the better. The fat people here need to take themselves less seriously and realize the Pontiac Grand Am’s aren’t something to aspire for. Anyhow, I wanted to also comment on the excellent soundtrack of the episode. I’d like to locate some of that music. How does one go about finding a track list by episode?

brilliant and astonishing…but I love the polar episode more

message for “not what i expected”

pull your head in u ignoramous. The Honda is the most popular bike in the world.. bar none.. ever…. this bike made transport affordable to millions of asians.

The Minsk is known as the old buffalo and used extensively in north vietnam. Although these days people tend to look down on them as old polluting heaps of sh…t, never the less great old bike with a nostagia that the vietnamese just dont get , very popular with ex pats in Hanoi.

The vespa speaks for itself as a giant in the scooter world and vietnamese scooter world too. While you say there are heaps of new bikes to test, sure thats correct but would not reflect the history of the country they were touring. Get off the lounge and go and have a look around the world before u start your nauseating insular dribble.

Message for Darryl… quote….. “The bikes weren’t tested at all, the only challenge was to drive across the country and, excuse the modern cliche, how hard can that be?”

how hard can that be !!!!! classic ! trust me, i’ve done the trip they did and a lot more. Its pharking hard ! no body stays on their part of the road, trucks , buses, cows, ducks, kids on bike (4 abreast on SH1), dogs, people, goats,and and and.

It is without doubt one of the most difficult and dangerous places to ride. I hope they havent encouraged people to go and do it because it is dangerous. Throw into the mix also after lunch half of them are pissed as well.

honestly Daz, if they actuall did the whole trip, it was hard !

I think the more of these you do the less groundbreaking they are, but screw any concern with that! It was bloody enjoyable. Ace! The camaraderie and mischief the boys do each other is amazing and amusing to watch. Keep it up. No one else is doing this, but my friends and I all want to duplicate it.

I’m calling my travel agent for tix to Vietnam and finding out how much it will cost to bring my Bonneville with me.

sundays show was amazin a was rolling around on the floor in creases i never laughed so much in my life lol i cant wait till next show i watch it ever week

i hope your arm and suit is ok jeremy

How about a BBC1 travel spin-off series with these guys….? It would make even better use of my license fee!

botswana was better

only the polar one beat it

i liked the vietnam special

one of the best yet

vietnam and botswana are the best ones you have showed

i think tht in the next seiries you should make another special like that and that only the producers should give you a more resonable amount of money so you can get somethin more resonable though the bike special was great you could also do more challenges with bikes.

p.s i think that all audi drivers are cocks

as i am only 13 you may think tht i just want to see the fastst car in the world and all the exotic things but i sm realy interested in the pedigree of cars.

my big brother has £700 to spend on a car he likes volkswagen jettas though i ask you please to sujest a car he would get better value for money?

i would be really greatfull and so would he thankyou

p.s vietnam special was brillian keep it up

sean

i loved that show so much i watched it again 2 days later .James and Jeremy were really mean spray painting Richards bike pink i want to hurt them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was some journey, it makes me want to take a classic bike on that road. Definitely one of the most enjoyable epics, and a revelation especially of the Vietnamese. One assumes they be the same without BBC cameras around. Well done to the WHOLE team. Happy New Year guys.

I thought it was by far the best challange that they have done. It made me laugh for ages and I feel dead sorry for James jeremy for falling over and richard because of his boat

Scary, how some people can make such good
entertaining and funny television these days,
seldom seen !!! Super.

that show was well cool it was really diffrent and cool at the same time great show

I thought it was an amazing finish to 2008! I also thought it was one of the most epic trips ever! i loved it, every single thing in it. Brilliant.

Let’s wait for season 13, keep it up guys! (i really hope there will be a s.13 if not i’ll be sad.)

Oh and, i really hope none of them will ever quit TopGear (i know they will, but i mean in the soon future) If one of them leaves, it just won’t be the same, they are the best!

When one of them leaves = won’t take long before TopGear is history.

Let’s hope they won’t though!

Aim for 20 seasons! with 10 ep. per season xD

Fantastic, i dont understand the not as good polar, american episode etc comments, the show continues to amaze and surprise, long may it reign.

PS the music as always was brilliant whoever picks the music and has done so for many seasons really deserves a special mention.

that was fantastic!
best episode yet and absolutely hilarious!

keep up the good work guys!

richard is best lol xxxxxxxx

You are bloody maniacs, how are you ever going to top that?

Brilliant work, honestly!!!

I must say this episode really deserved more time. i myself have gone over to Thailand and i’ve since been to vietnam after watching this episode. the roads really need some work done and im surprised there were so little accidents. i myself have found that i’ve been launched off my bike 3 times so far due potholes cleverly disguised as puddles.

IT WAS WICKED!!!!! (Richard looked the best tho)

yep the best bike had to be hammonds, it just looked like right especially in vibirant pink!!and all your road trips are great so this one was as good as ever. completes a sunday night.

great show boys it made my day

Funny, interesting and i couldnt take my eyes of my t.v

A really fantastic episode and what a way to end the series, I can’t wait to see what they will think of for the next Top Gear Special. This was epic.

But, now they have been to the north pole(very cold) then vietnam (warm), I just wonder, will they try to drive a car to the south pole next?

I loved every moment of it.
I died laughing at James in the rain.
Jeremy in the driving test.
Richard and his newly recovered ship when it got caught on the fan!!!

can’t wait till next series

From Daniela

Good job guys
I came from the country and you did things that even local ppl like us wouldnt dare . Thx for coming.
Love it

post no. 797 eh? the worlds biggest passenger airoplane, to go along with the worlds longest comments!!! and not a bad comment among them all!
an amazing series…full stop. what more can i say?

seem like i was beaten to 797 post by saturn, another rather large object to add to the long list of comments…….
(sorry!)
doesnt change the fact that T G is the best…ever

^^ my house was just few steps away from the wrong station they got off in Hanoi.

Im thinking of doing the same trip when coming home this summer

Hi have not seen the nam show yet looking forwaard to it on dave!!!!!!!!!!! Any way tg is by far the best show on the box and the lads should never have a bad word said about them. Makes the licence fee worth the money, when was the last time you heard that, the wife loves the show too.
Good luck and happy new year.
Nick 23.

would there be a chance of an email from the chaps? i am a huge fan of the show and have been watching and loving it since i was 8, i am now 83!
joke! i am 17 though?
maybe by adding some vehicles with a decent ‘Top Gear’ would make the show a bit more, well, car-y! however, it was a bundle of laughs and very enjoyable. i even watched the vietnam special with my cousins on New Years eve for the 3rd time!!!!!!!!!
lots of (????) interest?
James

it was brilliant,i love the show
chuck

could be on a bit more often

The trip up the coast of Vietnam was the best programme on TV over Xmas. The porgramme has done more for the tourist industry in Vietnam than any brochure will ever do. I am looking on the internet already for flights. A great programme. Wish i could have come along. Perhaps the BBC would pay myself and my husband to reinact the whole programme? Well done!

hey must of been good but….
missed it
cud u put sum vid’s of it up plz…
thanks al n chris
xx

best episode i have ever seen
fab!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Once again Top Gear comes up tops with another classic chase, Ambitious, Rubish but Fantastic to watch!!! U guys rock!!

best episode ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

What can I say? Like it was pointed out in this episode “Vietnam is a war, not a country”, so when I found out that the next Top Gear Special was to be in a country which has been off the map for so many years, I was a bit concerned it might be the worst yet.

Not so. It was simply amazing, I insisted on re-watching it on the rerun on tuesday, and find myself looking for the full episode on YouTube.

This was an episode with everything. It was very interesting to say the least, as well as including the laugh-out-loud humour that only Top Gear can provide. There were also those moments where you found yourself gazing open-mouthed at the beautiful landscape with Jezza and Co.

Was it the best TG Special yet? I can’t quite answer that question because they are all so brilliant for the same reasons, yet it doesn’t get boring. In my opinion, the best things on TV are the Top Gear Specials. I can hardly wait to see where Jezza and Co end up next. Top notch entertainment.

the most hilarious episode yet. why is there no dvd of the breathtaking roadtrips u have. i would make sure to be the first purchaser

best episode yet

Loved it. Copying it off my freeview box now. Best tourism advert ever! Gotta visit

I thought that the Vietnam special was great but the only bad thing is that i got my mum to sit down and watch and now she’s getting ideas! She wants to go to Vietnam and rent a motorbike and go around when she can’t even drive a car! This is going to be interesting! She’s 45 Fior god’s sake!

I thought it was brilliant jezza’s a prat (read the manual next time) I thought Hampster should have won because he by far bought the best bike

not bad

Loved the show hope everyone else did

PS HAPPY 2009 EVERYONE BYE

LOUISE OUT

Loved the show hope everyone else did

LOUISE OUT

What A show it was Hilariously and it was gr8. I had to download it to watch it again.

best ever top gear adventure,the programme went so quick as i enjoyed it so much.hope it comes out on the next top gear dvd?as i could watch it over and over again.excellent

The best TV programme ever..
Fantastic and perfectly funny

I loved it so much…a majestic way to end 2008
I just can’t wait till I see your new series..
Wonderful

Thank you all

este juego me gusta y se los queria decirles q es el mejor juego

Amazing episode, really amazing. The scenery made me envious of where they were, it’s nice to know that beautiful landscapes like that exist. Also the funny moments like the customised suits and the outrageous gifts, like three 70s pimps on holiday. The crossing for the ending on those islands was inspired, and the whole thing fantastic. I really thought that the Polar race was great but Botswana was better than that and this is the best yet. I really don’t know how any motoring or travel programme that can top entertainment like it, I really don’t. Keep up the good work lads.

GREAT EPISODE BOYS, GREAT SERIES.
JEREMY FALLING OFF, LOL.
BRING ON THE NEW SERIES
CANT WAIT MUCH LONGER.
WHAT DAY DOES IT START???

Fanastic way to end 2008 and the best thing on the telly all through Xmas. I was laughing all the way through. Can’t wait til next series!!! Keep up the great work lads!!

absolutely ace programme that was!!
i love it!
there isnt anythin like topgear on tv! not evn fifth gear haha!

That was the BEST episode ever.

And i bet Jeremy did have fun getting his shoes fitted )

cleary the best episode ever, jeremy clarkson falling off made my day, james may should of got a faster bike but then again his bike suited his personality, i just hope every episode is like that one

I mised the show .. i had to work. and cause i dont live in england, i had to download it from a torrent.page´ nd fter that i had to clean my computer from some ugly viruses. Hell on earth!
The show was great. As good and amusing as we know Top-Gear for years. 10 from 10 possible points.

Only thing disturbed me was Mr. Clarkson .. playing the untallented scooter-noob. Why? He did make a series .. some hundred years ago … in Vietnam and about motorscooters. He drove them there .. and not even bad.

But thats only a tiny little point. I wish the entire Top-gear-team a happy new year and as much fun producing new series as i have in watching them.

It was awesome, I can sorta relate, as I enjoy long distance bicycling. It was really funny, I loved the “presents” that everyone bought for each other, and enjoyed seeing Jeremy learning to bike. I think it was only topped by the Botswana episode, which is my personal favorite.

Awesome stuff guys!

Happy New Year to everyone on TopGear..hope we’ll have more good stuff coming this year!

please can their be an episode on the best first car to buy if your 18
speed handling price stuff like that love top gear and the vietnam episode was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i agree very goooood !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello all, iam from Portugal, congratulation all team of Top Gear for this unique and amazing show, it’s the only show that make me really laught, i change my personal life to watch the show, i find this show from a friend, car lover, like me, i talk this show to everyone i know, but the problem is the language. I can tell by my family, one of my uncle’s watch every episode without kown english, i have another cousin that all monday after school cames to my house to watch Top Gear, i spend 1:30 translate to him, he has 12 years old, and loved he show, when it’s ends, he asks on the way what will happen on next episode. For me there aren’t rubish episodes, they all are the best, but i prefer the ones that makes me laught, my top 3 are, 1º Vietnam, 2ºBotswana, 3ºPolar race, usually i watch 2 times each episode, but the Polar race, i saw ~6 times on HD, the Botswana 4 times and the Vietnam i am going for the 3 time, between the series break, i watch the old series, i hope the new series came back soon, Top Gear makes my weekend ended on the best way. I have some ideias, maybe some quad bikes across the brasilian jungle, participate on Gumball 3000, some India special, you are the pioneer on this kinda show, it’s harder than normal because takes more time and thinking to create this amazing show, but you are all well experienced and iam expected even more laught and surprise watching the show.

Regards

So who’s that blond girl who helped Jeremy with his motorbike at the start of the race?

Hi guys, does anyone know the name of the song used in the show that I think Mick Jagger sung? It’s pretty famous but i’ve totally forgotten the name.

Ribbo – The song is Paint it Black.

Loved the show. I live in Saigon and have 3 classic bikes myself, so can totally relate to their experiences. Someone should have ridden a Honda 67 (ss50e), a classic bike for Vietnam but probably would have faired worse than Clarkson’s Vespa over the 1,000 miles.

I’d love to see some of the outtakes, will you release any bonus material?

Amazing episode as i expected .
Waiting the next series !
peace.

What happen to the three bloks crossing the busy street?..i wanted to see what happens..and where is the stig’s communist cousin like they showed in the opening clip of this series?…

can you do a challenge on 4×4 love the show. Rob from monmouth.

Botswana is still probably my favourite due to what they had to do in terms of a challenge, doing something no one had ever done before, where as thousands of vietnamese probably do what the Americans couldn’t every month. However, that doesn’t stop it from being GREAT TV, it was a bit like “A Long Way Down….on a Vespa”. Richards bike was definitely the best for the job, if he really did choose it himself then he was right on the Money.

I suspect someone chose the tiny Vespa for the giant Clarkson for the pure comedy of it, and I can’t say I blame them ;o)

-ty. i thought it was terrible the worst this year. good luck every one for easter 1979

The one above this means the complete opposite it was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!1

OMG! The Vietnam special was my fave episode of topgear EVER! Making the guys go on bikes made it even more funny! The episode has made me really want to go to Vietnam, I’m trying to convince my parents to take me (I’m 12)!

Not for me this one. Funny though but not one to sit through again on Dave.

AMAZING!!!

i loved the Vietnam special n got a brilliant idea.
i was thinking maybe in the new series u guys should do a special on the GRAND TRUNK ROAD that goes through INDIA.I mean u can do a special on the great cars of Indian motoring history like the maruti 800,the gypsy and the ambassador,etc.i guess it should be really interesting and a lot of people including me would like to see it…

they are trying to kill you off clarkson watch your back,the other 2 are after the spotlight. brilliant show tho

I could watch again and again and not get bored!BRILLIANT!!!

I should of been included

IT WAS BLOODY ENOUGHING!!!!!

it was the best show you could ever ever do,i could watch it again and again until the day i die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guys i wish i could meet you iam very sorry i went to jail.But anyway you are the best car channel ever!

P.S HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Kind regards.

I really are obsessed with top gear

it was like mint all of them are mint in there own ways
shows mint boys hope for more next year

p.s bring tg dog
tar

So funny the best
fav bit when the bike falls over onto May when Richard and James are trying to fix it…. near the endish.

“you complete numty Hammond!” – James May.

the best!!!!

i love your shows and i am only 12 i think the little car and the rocket are so funny when am older i would love to come to your show it rocks and you should come to liverpool thay have theres boat called duck bout when thay are war bout from the world war two hahahahahah

The Vietnam Special was way cool!! I hope series 13 is even better. Keep it up gang. C’ya

Just when you think it can’t get better those three clowns deliver something that takes you away to a place where you don’t really want to come back. We all want to do it and we all think we could. Anyway, it makes the fee worth it. Pay them what they want.

it was brilliant…best part was them painting hammonds bike pink…cant wait for series 13

thumbs up, love the show, hope to get some tickets for the show sometime soon for an upcoming series

WOW! Possibly the best adventure ever, an epic. So much so that a group of us are planning to recreate the route, especially Ha Long, in October 09. Never have I watched something and been so taken in by the entire film….inspiring in so many ways.

Thanks to the team for thinking it up and giving a group of bikers an excuse for their own adventure of a lifetime….

Raising a glass to the next series…

I liked it but I think the African special was the best.

ATTENTION JEREMY CLARKSON, “SO CALLED VIETNAM SPECIAL”.

My family and I have been very keen top gear fans for years, the show is always whitty and funny, and England will and always have free speech (i hope).
BUT REGARDS TO YOUR SO CALLED VIETNAM CHALLANGE…

but please if you do not like bike’s why make a show about them, need attention do you!!
You are taking the prevervibal**** out of other modes transport,yes it may make good tv, but I and my fellow MODS are not happy, if you want to act like a big d**K do it on someting less than a classic scooter and to play the Who and act like a mod what the diorehea are you playing at. This was utter drivel and a crime against classics!!!!

Rodger Daltrey has been on your show,a who fan are you, only when suits your ordeanese it’s seems,what were you thinking of????

Are you playing to the gallary, it would appear so and at the cost of your audience that has stuck by you, this was very up setting as you had no regard for classics and given we are in a recession and for the most part, your audience would of given their right arm to own a scooter like that!SS vespa scooter on its side, thats a classic man, have you no sole in you?????

If you want to act the a D*** go and ride around on one of your so called cool wall cars, something like a gas powerd skate board maybe, very cool.
the STIG is king and always will be, GET A LIFE JC. AND GO AND PASS YOUR BIKE TEST!!!!!!!

jamie (ALL MOD CONS)

How will you follow that???????

now thats a telling off right there.

I watched it again, and I didn’t see the Stig’s Communist cousin at all like you guys teased in the season 12 trailer on the first episode! What happened to that clip? If that got cut, please place it in the vids section of your site. Otherwise, great show and loved the subtle nuances and references. Keep up the good work!

JAS !! And your Mums 45 !!!!!

gee she must be ancient, lol !

if she wants to go to Vietnam and ride a bike let her rip I say…

having said that make sure gets a fair bit of experience on a motorbike BEFORE she goes. Vietnam is NOT the place to learn.

I spent 3 fantastic months riding around Vietnam on a Minsk between aug and nov 2008 and can tell you its hard yakka..

at 46

ps if anyone wants any information on doing a ride in Vietnam I am happy to help if I can…

esp that guy who wants to take his Bonny over…

hitensile2002@yahoo.com.a u

hitensile2002@yahoo.com.a u not a u

also good information can be found on http://www.lonelyplanet.c om

go to forum and go to s.e.a vietnam. put in seach word motorcycling or minsk etc and heaps of interesting reading about motorcycling in Vietnam.

chuc mung nam moi !

i loved hammonds bike and helmet until you sprayed it pink and crushed the helmet!

i loved hammonds russion bike until it was sprayed pink!

it was the best episode ever, ever, ever!

good singing James!

That spa looked lovely where was it- ao did
Hoi An

i liked the vespa and the russian moterbike but the honda- four horse powers woudn’t be enough me(i feel sorry for James!)

I watched it 3 times on play back, 3 times on youtube and of course once on the acual tv! I loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!! IT WAS BRILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !

Can’t wait till next series!!!!!!!!!!!

does your hip still hurt jeremy

WOW how many comments! It took me 10 mins to scroll down! That was the best series ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!! I hope you make another good 1 like that! Tell james that he is ambiouse but rubish LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!! jeramey learn to ride a moter bike plz! richard is so cute !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can’t wait till next series!

To Jeremy
that vespa you bought looked absolutley brilliant, would you consider selling it to me?

Top stuff! The guys did a fantastically brilliant job! Great scenery over the 1000 miles phew! I like how the episode combined so many elements-laughter, injuries, rain. The communication with that guy on the beach and the citadel shot was incredibly touching That stretch of road on the unspoilt coast would have been amazing for the guys to get into if they had cars!! TG gotta Love it!!!

Way to cap off the year! i enjoyed every minute of the Nam special.brought back great memories of my time travelling there.Seriously want to do the whole motorbike tour one day.

That was AN AMAZING EPISODE :D:D:D:D

Great episode but the food??? What the??? The guys made it quite offputting! haha the look on James face.

It was a great Show. as all specials are. On my Favorite List at First the US Special then the African Special and the Northpole one after this very close of course the Vietnam Special.
But of course all the small challanges and little Specials like the Alfa one for example are very good.

I Loved it! What a Great Show ! But I must say that the Best Of All Time special was, is and I think will be for a Long Time, The African Safari Special! That one was in term of cars the Ferrari Daytona of the bunch!

The hotel in Hoi An is called Nam Hai Resort.

Anyone interested in doing the same awesome trip can try this: http://vietnamvespaadvent ure.com/home.html . I did it awhile back, fabulous experience through adn through

Now, I am just sitting watching Jeremy Clarksons motor world in Vietnam. And it transpires Jezza has ridden on 2 wheels before…….. in Vietnam!

As an aussie, you boys have done an INCREDIBLE job.

credit must also go to the directors/producers..the whole episode was spectacularly narrated and Vietnam still being a commie nation – the sight of ordinary Vietnamese helping out really touched me even though I absolutely (well, most viewers would agree too) hate the corrupted people who run that nation.

simply brilliant!

cheers

Great Show, but hasn’t Jeremy been in Saigon before?, 1995 I think and he rode a Honda dream around the bike infested streets. I seem to remember the future of mass transport was the bike, have the cars arrived and clogged the streets?.

jeremy not only rode a moped in nam before he also rode a ducati monster 900 round the f1 track in monte carlo in motorworld

Jaqui, my dad runs part of the country and he aint corrupted.

that said i would think twice probably thrice about riding around vietnam without a bike awareness

still a bloody good film and great fun to watch keep it up chaps

Absolutely the most amazing episode so far in easily the worlds most entertaining show! Beautiful country, hilarious from start to finish and all of it was captured very, very well. i bow down to the presenters, without them it simply would not be top gear!!

i think that this was the best top gear special and it was really funny at some parts and i was laughing my head off when jeremy said (i am going where no american has been before) then he fell off the bike
but it was funny and really great episode

Best Special ever

Good luck for this year

fantastic. its got to be the best challenge yet and cant wait until it comes out on dvd

that top geas the best yet
jeramy do you stil hate bikes

yes jeramy does hate bikes and if his daughters boyfriend friend turns up to the house on 1~he will open the petrol tank and drop a match in it….

CHALLANGE
USE A HELICOPTER AND RADIO TO THE SUPER CAR WITH ALL ON COMING DELAYS AND WAYS TO AVOID THEM TAKING A DETOUR WITH THE SIGHT OF THE HELICOPTER AND ROADS IT SEES. FAKE AN ACCIDENT ON THE M40 ….CLOSE THE ROAD.

After this challange i decided o make this one from Ireland as Scotland has already been used..
Ireland
they can take 3 routes 1 close to the coast the others working away from .
1st to oxford .start on ferry
depart Ireland 16:40
Febuary
hope guys can use the 4dr porsche
4dr aston martin
4dr lambo
the film crew are only aloud moterbikes and aloud to go in front and drop back
in the back of these cars will be 3 real kids who want everything and everything the drivers will have the make sure they dont get held up in traffic or the internal mode lights are turned on by the kids all parts of the car will get tested the stereo,glove box,seats,air con,windows,the v’s to other drivers.

good look and cu in
Ireland..BYE…JAGUARJAMES

that was definetely the best one yet keep going guys!
p.s you should do that kind of thing a bit more 2 drain the bbc of their money lol.

Hi Guys & Girls at the top gear studio, thank you for the recent series which I really enjoyed. However, as someone who lives in the wilderness of Northern Britain it would be great to see the team showcasing the great driving roads and scenery in the Highlands of Scotland. To give an example the A82 through Glencoe from Crianlarich to Fort William is both visually stunning and a great driving experience. I know you’ve visited Scotland on a few occasions but I believe you still have many driving roads to discover.
(www.highlandlodges.org.u k)

xbow in petrol station now

thanks guys just whot we need

my fingers are getting cold cant beleive how much noise we making

let me out of here

It was entertaining sure. But it didn’t at all seem germane.

had to look germane up in the dictionary…

it wasn’t the germanes who invaded it was the americans

Execellent programme, with many very funny moments and a feeling that this little country left a real impression on the TG team. I was a little uncomfortable with the American bike element, but then again perhaps the Vietnamese have managed to gain a sense of humour about the Americans behaviour too!!

ON THE MOVE AGAIN

I love top gear!

Absolutly Epic!! No other word for it!!

I was laughing from start to end

Keep making millions laugh boys

I cant wait for the new series!

great ending to series, was funny and was a brilliant watch.

How ever clarkson did say he had never been on a bike which is a fib he went on a bike when clarkson was on his own in vietnam, was shown on Dave a couple of days ago but was a young clarkson, was riding a honda dream 100mk2 so he has ridden a scooter before.

very funny one of the best eisodes yet

best ever top gear episode i have seen and especially the funniest

amazing episode, great way to end the series, but in the next one we need more episodes!!

i love you guys all the hard work put in the the shows you cant give up now theres got to be another series out soon please its so funny your show even if you do fall out or fall down its the best tv show and on a morning its the only thing i llok forward to when i get out of bed!!:)

I think you can say that it was one of the best episodes ever made! it was amazing funny..
greetz from Belgium (yeah, even there topgear is famous)

i thought it was bl***dy brilliant the suits were wicked keep up the gd work boys.

Can we get back to some car facts and figures and car industry knowledge as you use to do. Its good to see these challenges once and a while and super cars but I feel as thise you are getting lazy… or am I just jealous !

Hammond is well fit.

One word!…Or two words….F*CKING FANTASTIC!!!

Could’ve easily been a two hour show!

Watched it a few times now on iplayer etc.

Gets better each time. I still laugh out loud at James’ comment on Darcy hitting him in the back each time he brakes.

I’d quite happily have this repeated each week. Or how about an evening of Top Gear specials so we can see them all back to back?

Great show – typical Top Gear lads on tour!

But Jezzer how come you couldn’t ride that scooter/moped – When back in ‘95 (your Motorworld show) you were riding around Saigon on bikes, mopeds and scooters!!!!
I
suppose it’s hard to find a funny angle all the time?
But all is forgiven as the other larking around makes up for that cods-up!

well done lads!!!!! best show yet. bloody hilarious, keep it up.

also im livin in ireland and the web site wont let me watch videos

this was, by far the funnyiest episode i’v seen yet.

that made me die laughing when james may whas falling at the end

I don’t understand what Jeremy was complaining about. He did a series called Motorworld around 1993 where he hopped on a bike and went for a burn round Siagon and seemed to quite enjoy himself. In fact he credited the transport system for the use of bikes stating cars would never work. Funny to see him spit his dummy out though….

Rob

Absolutely brilliant. Every minute of it. And the idea of having bikes in Top Gear was fabulous.

It was a load of nonsense lets be honest!
I love top gear and always have but that was a pi** take, its just them lot on a holiday!
We know jeremy knows how to ride a bike because he does on one of his old shows!
Just shows they dont give a monkeys for their real fans anymore, they just mook about now…..pointless and daft

Y was good stuff but i seem to remember jezza riding a ducati 916 round monacco…….

this was the best episode ever on top gear.i especially loved the part were hamster fixed the gallian the jezzer gave him and then got it caught in the fan at the hotel!

The Best Challange to date, probally best there ever will be. Better than the Polar Challange.

Vietnam is such a gr8 country.

amazing… one of the best episodes of top gear lads

best episode ever. nearly fell off my seat laughing. role on next season hope the cuts dont make the show suffer

If I was going to produce the Vietnam special, I’d give the lads more money so they could at least have a car!!! It was quite funny to see Hammond with his BRAND NEW pink bike with a pink helmet and Jeremys galleon hanging on for dear life!! If I was Jeremy I’d run back to England instead of a bike!!

It was great Christmas TV – even the wife loved it. Jezzer not being able to get off the ground in Saigon, and then, a few days later … Calamity! Dave! History repeats itself and it’s transmitted on Dave. There was Jezzer, in a different time zone, happy on a Honda Cub, happy to be in the ‘Nam, happy to be mixing it with the locals and even riding at night. He even extolled the many benefits of two wheels in Vietnam and hoped it would always be so. This was very different to the Jezzer we know. So, what of the Christmas special and the Jezzer who claimed to have no knowledge or experience of two wheels? I can only surmise that what has happened is that the original Jeremy Clarkson met an unfortunate end those years ago and probably in the ‘Nam (e.g. landmine), and that he was replaced by either a lookalike (it is said there are many J.C. lookalikes and some theatrical agents specialise in this sort of cover for booksignings, bahmitzvahs, etc,) or he was replaced by his own twin brother. Whatever, the transition was seamless. The newer Jezzer does seem to be considerably more Conservative and less eco minded than the original, but that said, full credit to Andy Wilman and to Dave for those repeats.

Great programme & a perfect example of infotainment. So much better than James Martin’s spoilt brat act with his rich man’s toy.

Also, to all overseas TG fans – pay the licence fee & get access to all the BBC.
simple.

one of the best challages yet loved it couldnt stop laughing

i laughed when jezza fell off his bike and when the whole villaged painted hammonds bike

jaguar james said…
Saturday January 3, 2009 at 9:12 pm
“… he will open the petrol tank and drop a match in it….”

I actually tried that once (don’t ask), all it did was put the flippin’ match out, fancy that.

it was brilliant best episode yet.I love bikes and scooters and i want to go on a road trip like that,with a vespa.the journey was epic and i want to experience the same feeling. !!well done guys!!

I think that the Vietnam special was brilliant, very well made very funny, also it demonstrated that bikes are rubbish, JC can’t drive them, and it has made sure that I’ll never buy one for a million years..

But overall brilliant guys, simply brilliant

great show lads,one of the best tg specials yet!! keep up the good work!!

Probably the best challenge yet! I was falling round the place laughing. Are there outtakes available?

IT WAS ACTUALLY QUITE GOOD EVEN THOUGH I HATE MOTERBIKES SO MUCH

Amazing Episode! Although im not a bike person i loved every minute of it.

I am commenting to help reach the 1000 comment mark but i still thought the episode was brilliant.

I WILL BE GOING ON DAVE TO WATCH IT AGAIN

Brilliant episode, but where’s the stig’s communist cousin? Anyway, onwards to 1000 comments

it was soopa i rely en goud it best film in ages

really funny, may at the end was classic. cant wait until new series

Only 50 to go!

I thought the Nam special was very excellent indeed. Good work all round.

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA hahahahah ha ha ha ha ha ha i lavd so mack

p.s my dads a mod and he wasnt pleased with jezza’s actions great show keep it up

SAME IM WITH STEVIE

A fantastic episode that made me laugh. Alot.

Keep up the good work guys!

Recorded it, watched it loads of times and have no plans to delete it. Classic TV! Let’s have more like this.

40 to go

Quality show! For someone that tall and no experience on a motorcycle, A SCOOTER, pretty damn good Clarkson!

This episode was absolutely awesome, great fun and I had to catch my belly…so much laught.

doing my bit for 1000 comments!!
I don’t know why, I couldn’t help myself watching JC falling off several times. Very much loved Hamster’s ‘AK47′ bike. The ending seemed a bit tacked on though, and what of commie stig (i’m sure that’s already been answered)? Not one of the greats, but pretty cool all the same.

very very nice show… and it was soo cool to have the show stretched to 75 mins…

This got to be one of the best epesodes of TG!
Loved it, altough i was a bit sad that there were no cars involved.

Amazing!!! Loved every moment of it!! Come on give us some outtakes!!

great film….loved every bit.

i LIKE

Yes, a fantastic show with so many priceless lines and moments. Jeremy, Richard and James you ARE the BEST.

Great way to end the series guys and i loved it. When Clarkson managed to move 3ft in 1 hour!!! and fall off! that was CLASSIC!!! I cant wait for Top Gear to come back on tele again!!!!

I just love it

Great show, we couldnt stop laughing and the drink stains are still visible. Great stuff!!

Awesome! This was your finest yet! And what a fantastic country – so beautiful! I just can’t wait for the next series!!

Clarkson, Hammond & May – you three are absolute legends! Well done – keep it up!

STIG,

I LOVE YOU

WILL YOU MARRY ME?

I was watching Clarksons Motorwold on Dave over christmas (yes I am ashamed!) And guess what? Clarkson was riding a moped in vietnam. Clarkson summed up buy saying that they had got transport right and the moped was perfect. Its a wonder how they manage to keep Topgear so fresh!

Hey I thought the show was great. The show is always great. I was watching The Fast and the Furious the other day and all the cars were muscle cars and the races had no corners. I don’t like cars which don’t go round corners. I am slightly worriedabout how the whole world is obsessed with muscle cars when an Ariel Atom is way better. We need to stop the anti-corner Americans and tell them to make a good car. The Corvette Z06 is a good car and so is the Ford GT so how come they dan’t make a good car. Anyway loved your show. It was really good and Hammond’s boat was cool until it got destroyed. By the way I agree with Jezza, the DB9 is still the coolest car in the world. I think Top Gear is amazing and all those who don’t like it are retards.

TOP GEAR ROCKSS

Sorry, just seen the length of my message and it is a big one.

The country of Vietnam looks cool. I still prefer cars top bikes though. Could you destroy more caravans on the show.

absoultly fab! laughed from begining to the end. although i was watching a repeat on dave sky channel and saw clarkson in vietnam on a motorbike when he had hair lol. so this is not the first tim eh clarky boy

just becuase the show had no cars it was still one of the funniest series yet!

Can’t wait for the next series!

Hi, my friend katie and i are huge fans of the show and would love the chance to meet hammond, james and jeremy. we watch the show every night and own all the posssible series available of top gear. unfortunatly my friend katie has become ill though and does not have long to live i would love to surprise her with tickets to top gear live for her birthday as im afraid it will be her last.

sorry Mole…. I disagree, JC’s Vesper was best. He arrived first didnt he???

it was brilliant i was in tears with laughter it was one of the best challenges yet you guys are the greatest you two stiggy i am definentley your biggist fan i was in stiches when jeremy and james and all the village painted hamsters bike pink and when james fell in the water when you were crossing the water on the bikes lol you guys rock.

Superb!

best episode of topgear yet!

it will be a hard act to follow with next series

im sure u will manage it tho lol

The best Top Gear challenge EVER! I loved it to the last second!

gr8!