Revealing the TRUTH About the Top Gear Polar Pick-Up
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We found the Top Gear Polar Challenge Toyota Hilux! Mike explores the ins and outs of this legendary vehicle, and also uncovers some of its deepest, darkest secrets.
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00:00 We found the Top Gear Polar Hilux!
01:03 The anatomy of the truck
04:00 The damage to the truck
06:53 The toilet seat
07:51 The truth behind Jeremy's chilly dip
10:58 The interior has a secret
12:17 The TRUTH about this pick-up truck - Авто та транспорт
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Instead of placing the burden on creators. Maybe make some complaints to your government agency responsible for managing these issues.
What's the problem with them?
"will it start?"
He asked that about a Toyota hilux.
might have had a flat battery lol
Only Chuck Norris can stop a Hilux from starting 😜
It was a rhetorical question. 😁
As a Hilux owner I was thinking the same thing. I love in the Highlands, on a farm, it's off roaded, on road, snow, ice, mud.... It's a relative baby at only 9 years old but literally everything works and it has never let me down despite the abuse it gets. Same engine and drivetrain as this one. One of the last of the 3 litre models.
I kknow, right?
its a Toyota, of course its gonna start 😄
I love that this truck is still around :D The Polar challenge was one of the seminal moments for Top Gear. They had many, but that was truly memorable.
i agree. top gear was on the rise, but once the polar special released, it shot off into the space. i started watching top gear staring from series 10. in the US, it was hard to watch top gear back then.
@@yanguskhan8513I bought the complete series on dvd from eBay for 109.99 USD
@@yanguskhan8513top gear was already booming before that episode was released lol
@@westnawton5942 The America special is probably what blew it up in the UK, not sure about internationally.
David Beckham Soccer is now probably the only confirmed video game to have been to magnetic north. Make of this what you will
Considering it's Top Gear... I would have expected Gran Turismo 4
@@Jonathan.R.Pereirathey lived it. They didn’t need to play it
@@typedrewJeremy had a sim racing setup & had people like Richard burns round to play it with him.....
They would not have left games in the car that they liked, just saying.
@@Jonathan.R.Pereira Reckon they took that with and left the game they never touched 😂
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“But they got long memories”
“What? The polar bears?”
Classic top gear humor 😂
I have to say I am livid at the thought that the BBC have censored the episode on iPlayer with the Gin & Tonic bit. It was upheld as a non issue at the time so what is the sense in censoring it now. What exactly is the point in a TV Licence for a public service that isn't serving the public?
advertising alchol and drink driving to younger viewers, times have moved on since then, like what health and safety has done and the changes made to protect people over the years (if people were to follow it in the first place). yes we get it as a joke but its a lawsuit waiting to happen for the BBC if they keep showing drink driving from that episode.
@@douglasreid699 Put a warning on it or age restrict it, or provide a edited version option, yes, certainly. But censoring it outright due to the lowest common intellect denominator is an unfortunate side effect of our times I guess.
Find something better to be angry about, gammon
Do people still pay the TV licence 😂
@douglasreid699 even jeremy says in the episode its not illegal as they are in maratime waters (or something like that) and it isn’t illegal
Mike did you really just ask 'will it start' of a Toyota Hilux 😂 did you not watch top gear blow up a building with a Hilux on top of it to then start it amongst other beatings 😂
the way that particular series was set up, pretty much any6thing would have survived and ran. it was dropped dead square on all wheels, so worst case it would have burst tyres or broken some leaf springs. leaving it in the sea, it had no ECU and wasnt running so no engine or electronics damage, crashing into a tree was done so it missed the radiator etc if the impact was misjudged and too hard, even setting fire to it, the fire was confined mostly to the seats to prevent the ignition wiring being burnt through etc. even the wrecking ball only hit the bed, from memory, or its likely the cab would have crushed or been unable to open the doors. set up like that they could have used pretty much any Diesel vehicle from the pre electronics era
@@petelattimer6808Have you seen what Whistlingdiesel did to a Hilux? Watch it and Come back here.
@@petelattimer6808Yeah? I’d love to see you try it with vehicles other than a Hilux from that era. There may be a few that would survive, but not many brands… Chop chop, hop to it😂
That Hilux Top Gear blew up on top of a building was an older generation. People on YT don't seen to use their brains.
@@automation7295 Toyota hiluxs are still rock solid pieces of engineering, do you really think people would take an unreliable car to the pole, doesn't matter what generation it is.
Ironic Izzy Hammond gets to drive it when Hammond never drove it in the special
The funniest bit about the ice drop is that Clarkson started with "How dare you..." and the guy just shouted him down. The first time he's ever actually shut up :D
Impotence from a small minded man that couldn't handle the truth from Clarkson.
Id love to know what Jeremy thought he would do to an SBS guy that was probably half his age and twice as fit. I doubt the guy would have stood there while Jeremy yelled at him either.
@@remyllebeau77 Hello, Jezza! Did you like the water?
@@TheRivieraKid If you are too pathetic to handle words being thrown at you, and you turn things physical, that is a crime and it is called assault or battery.
@@remyllebeau77 Funny you say that about a person who's known to hit people when angry.
I hope that all of the cars in the upcoming final Grand Tour episode are recovered. It'll be the end of a very long era and they'll be an important piece of motoring history!
They should open a museum with all the Top Gear/Grand Tour vehicles they can gather.
@@fosterfuchs as amazing as that would be I doubt they'd get enough visitors to make it viable maybe extend the current section at beaulie
Well if that happens, we definitely know the Porsche 928, Lotus Esprit V8 and the Mustang Mach 1 won't be there
@@benllewelyn98 They could make it a Grand Touring Exhibition. If they move the cars then it could get enough visitors. They could even give people the chance to pay for driving the road-legal cars to the next stop. That could make it viable. The exhibition could move all over the world.
@@fosterfuchs was about to say the same thing, a Top Gear/TGT museum to showcase all the stuff from over the years
NGL, I agree with Jeremy about the shotgun part. Maybe you can give the polar bear one, MAYBE two warning shots. But if that doesn't deter it, I wouldn't expect two more to make any difference, other than leave you with only 1 round to hit an angry moving target exactly at the right spot.
I guess a special forces guy probably has a better chance of hitting that bear than Clarkson does. I still agree though. If one warning shot doesn't deter it, you should probably consider it a real attack and act accordingly.
And an angry, moving target the size of a car. I am NOT betting my life on that single shot bringing it down. Absolutely not.
What slightly confuses me is why you would pick a shotgun in the first place as a deterrent against polar bear attack, let alone for actually killing it if you absolutely needed to. I mean, it is one of the largest species of bear, if not the largest: Adult males weighing 550 Kg on average (adult females are usually about half that, unless they are pregnant), though they can on rare occasions reach almost double - the largest specimen ever recorded was apparently just over 1000 Kg. They also have thick fur, thick and tough skin, plus a subcutaneous fat layer at least 10 cm thick. Plus they can run at 20 to 25 mph - so if a polar bear starts chasing you, unless you can run at Olympic sprinter type speeds, it is going to catch you.
Given all that, you're going to need a rather powerful gun to have much chance of stopping a polar bear which is determined to chase you down and rip your face off. Some kind of large calibre rifle firing high velocity armour-piercing ammunition would seem to be in order. Something more akin to an "elephant gun", of the type which were at one time used by big game hunters. This could be considered overkill, but if you're somewhere approaching the north pole, thousands of miles away from the nearest hospital or any kind of backup, why would you not want to leave as little to chance as possible?
@lloydevans2900 Canadian gun law, probably. Also, elephant guns are unwieldy and take training to fire accurately. I doubt that any of the guys present at the shoot would've been able to hit a moving bear with any type of gun.
Except Jeremy didn't want to shoot any warning shots and wanted to shoot the polar bear straight away. In the video they said that he fired the 5 shots at fake polar bear during the training.
man the trip to north pole was one of my favorite specials great to see the hilux still be arround
“Does it start?” What kind of question is that?!? Top Gear tells us a Hilux will always start.
"DON'T JUST STAND THERE! DROP THE POLES!! HANDS ABOVE YOUR HEAD! HANDS ABOVE YOUR HEAD!
HANDS. ABOVE. YOUR HEAD!
NOW ROLL IN THE SNOW! ROLL IN THE SNOW!
ROLL. IN. THE. SNOW!!"
Epic! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The quick “how dare you…” from clarkson was so funny to me.
"much better then a pink fluffy towel"
It's been so long and I can still hear every nuance of how the man with the blurry face pronounced these words.
Reminds me of dealing with little preschool kids when one of them knocks a bottle of water over. Pick it up again? Nah, just stand around and watch it empty onto the carpet.
Jet fuel is just diesel/kerosene thats been extra refined and purified. Jet A1 is for cold temps, Jet A is the more common standard fuel.
Have a friend who's an aircraft fitter and a few of the others he works with all have diesel cars. They run them this because it's mostly a bye product of emptying the tanks on the planes.
Not quite right. Jet A1 is standard whereas Jet B is for cold temps.
Huh. Ya learn something new every day. Neat!
Jet fuel has less lubricating properties because of that, so thats why some modifications are required to a normal diesel car if you wanna run on it.
@@KingGiac he was also correct - jet A1 has a lower freezing temp than jet A (-40 vs -47 c) - Jet A is only used domestically in the US, international flights which spend longer at altitude all use A1 for that reason. Jet B goes all the way down to -60.
Car guy from across the pond- look at these huge (38 x 15.5 x 15) tires, I’ve never seen a tire so huge with so much sidewall.
American- hold my beer, going to my garage, I’ll be right back.
Ya a standard offroad rig hear has 15s and 35s or 17s and 37s as a start
@@noahfyan9617 Lol. Truth. And we got a spare set of 40s in the garage “just in case.” 😂
But this is 17 years old and reliable :)
@@Monk-Darlington many of em are 15+ years old. And a lot of em are Yotas. We have Toyota in the States too ya know. Nothing in my comment was brand specific or age of vehicle related. We’ll stick 37s on anything. Lol
"In Americuh we have bigger tyres than this on our pavement princesses!"
Still is one of my favorite specials. This one and the Bolivia one
Same. With Vietnam following closely behind.
@@nathanparry8315 The Vietnam trip was great, beautiful country.
The Polar Special was the first episode I watched. Showed up on UA-cam in 480p heavily artifacted in like 6 parts. Watched them all. Went and found the rest. Have watched TG now like 5 times all the way through.
The Arctic trucks team also modified the electric Nissan Ariya that went to both poles in 2023. They didn't need the modified giant fuel tank, they just towed a trailer with a folding wind turbine on it.
The better help ads im seeing on many videos of late somewhat give me the heebie jeebies
Take me back to the time when I first watched Top Gear on TV 😭
great to see it still exists
That was a great TG episode, and I really enjoyed this. Nobody could've hosted a "car show" my daughter, wife, mother and grandmother all looked forward to watching except for those three idiots; they were brilliant on screen. I'm glad DT is keeping it alive.
And everyone has a chance to drive it as it is in Forza Horizon 5 and has been in the Forza Horizon games ever since the Hotwheels expansion of Horizon 3.
Ummmm....thats a game.
@@andgate2000 yeah and? I know it's not real life but it's as close as we can get to driving it
If you're wondering why jet fuel.
Jet fuel is basically just a diesel with additives that prevent parafination in very low temperatures. So yeah it makes sense that they used it.
My favorite Top Gear special, so happy to see that the mighty Hilux is still around and driving.
Excellent video. Nostalgia hitting different today!
Just goes to show that the old 'Taliban Tractors' are built differently 😂😂😂
I still think of this episode from time to time, really loved it for some reason :)
I love these trucks and I'm pretty happy that James did another adventure with one, the volcanic episode. However I've always hoped that to cap off the Grand Tour that the trio would take the Polar and the Volcano Hilux along with something clever as a third seeing that Richard used the dog sled and do one long global Grand Tour. The Grand Tour goes long way round. Featuring different guests, adventures and cars along with way. Ahh, one can dream.
The Royalty of Top Gear Challenge vehicles. I suspect these cars are the pride and joy of Arctic Trucks. The one thing I've always wondered: where is/what happened to the black HiLux? You had the two red ones, but there was a third one that was black, which I assume was a crew-car.
It was a black Land Cruiser. It was the boss’s wife’s car… And it’s still in Iceland, I believe! 😎
@@MrCreamPye yeb the black cruiser is alive and well saw it for sale few days ago.
the top gear hilux was a pretty regular 38" hilux like they are done over here, and they are so common you dont even look twice when you see one. and there is alot of much bigger ones
Having been to Iceland twice on 4x4 tours I never saw one hilux most drive land crusers and Nissan patrols
@@martynharcombe7920 the pickups (incl. Hilux) on Arctic Trucks’ fleet outnumber Land Cruisers by about 5 to 1.
@@ivarmarkusson382 I know. I work for Arctic Trucks and spend a bit of time in Iceland! 🇮🇸😉
Amazing work Mike, helping us all re live our childhoods again
I go back a rewatch all the specials at least once every year!
this was the best of the specials IMO
wish they'd done more like this
For the record Jeremy was 100% right about the polar bear. 1 hit with a shotgun almost certainly wont stop a polar bear.
Those trucks are bar none badass. I was stationed in Iceland for 2 years and the off road rigs there were amazing.
The Special Services guy who kicked Claxon into the arctic is my new hero.
I bet the PS2 was for DVD's as it was a console that allowed much easier connectivity than standard DVD players at the time.
I had to go back and rewatch the special after this. Nothing beats old Top Gear.
The final position of the team was some 800 miles from the true geographic north pole and around 250 miles from the magnetic north pole at the time the programme was made. The distance covered from the starting point in Resolute was only around 350 miles. But still a fun episode!
This is my favorite top gear episode of all time
I love it when things that were unknown years ago, come back and the secrets are revealed! 😮
It would be nice to see video about what happened with the burma tracks if they can be found or if they are gone completely after filming
The TG Polar episode was epic. Despite these Hilux Artic Trucks only having low kms, I'm very surprised they have so much underbody rust.
One of my bosses where i used to work, guided Top Gear on that trip. He worked on AT on Iceland when they did the trip.
just rewatched polar episode againits on of my favourites.
growing up in the american south, tires with sidewalls like this were all over the place. The guy who owned one of the tire shops in town had an F350 crew cab with 44x19.50 on a 15 inch rim lol. however most people in town had atleast 35x12.50 on 15 inch rims, long story short large tires were on every other truck when i grew up in the 90s.
Wait a minute...
Wasn't the support car the later renamed Volcanobuster and used also on Top Gear to get May to the top of the active volcano with unpronunciable name?
I love learning about all of the filming tricks ngl I recently started boom-opping so this is really cool
I love that for the 1/2 second shot of the underneath.... it is extremely rusty, like all Toyota pickups. If you don't want to wait until the very end to watch the "big reveal"..... basically, it broke down, and they swapped the truck for the nearly identical production truck to finish filming
Should sell or donate this vehicle to clarkson for his work on farm sure he’ll love own this pick up
That's weird, I was just thinking of this truck today.
Will we ever get to meet the SBS man with the "ruined face"? He deserves recognition for shoving Jezza into the freezing water.
17 years??! I feel old now ty..
“Let’s see if it starts”
Unbreakable hilux “am I a joke to you”
why did they get rid of the gin and tonic part. that was one of the highlights of that episode.
It's probably because they see it as drink driving, despite Clarkson saying that theyre technically sailing.
its a lawsuit waiting to happen for the BBC to leave it up on show because it shows drink driving.
Just smashed his phone with the tailgate
From what I remember James also used this truck to drive up a volcano in Iceland
He used a similar one the camera crew used
there aren't many things i covet but this truck, or at least something similar, definitely hovers on my list consistently.
James really underplayed how much of unsung heroes the support trucks were. at least the other one got to sneak up on a volcano
As soon as its a financial option for me... I will 100% purchase a Toyota Hilux from Artic Trucks... been in love with it since the Polar Special
Come and visit us (Arctic Trucks) anytime. Happy to give a tour and show you what we can do, first-hand! 😎
It's always fun listening to a guy talk about off-road setups that know nothing about it.
Very cool looking truck and one of the best episodes/adventures they did.
Yeah, I give the polar bear one warning shot. The rest is going in the body if he charges.
One of the best “specials” perhaps top 10!
I suspect deflating the tires is less about increasing grip and more about decreasing pressure on the ground/snow.
I watched this special when it was released back in the day. I my mind they ran the v6 4.0l petrol engine. I have checked and it is the 3.0l diesel that they ran???? Was there another episode I’m confusing it with?
I'm an American and the 3.0l diesel was never offered to us(thanks California and New York). I have become obsessed with getting one and I'm saving up to by a 1997 hilux. Can't wait.
Watch out for rust.. They are notorious bad.
Like playing with paper planes in the rain.
If it's a daily driver from 97 it's probably not worth buying it if it's not from "desert" area or been taken care of by an enthusiasts from day one.
Just look at this car with just so few miles on it, it's sad..
New subscribed from Somalia 🇸🇴
The PS2 was for DVDs im guessing. I can't imagine them playing video games when they barely made it out without killing each other.
It would be better in black or dark gray, but for a Toyota HiLUX, it certainly looks epic!
Izzy going off-roading is going to be interesting.
Can't wait to see that.
They also built the Nissan Ariya EV that recently drove from the 1922 Magnetic North Pole to the South Pole.
I think it is the car from Top gear special ln best condition. Show how serious the boy's took this trip
I apologise if someone else has mentioned this already the Toyota might have been the first car to magnetic north but two Lada niva’s reach the Geographic north pole in 1999. They only picked magnetic North because no one else has done it but when you look at any other firsts to the north Pole, it’s always to the geographic not magnetic.
True but they still have polar exploration pioneers on their resumes which is hilarious
I absolutely agree. I just think a lot of people forget to mention that Lada did it first. Not trying to take anything away from the Top Gear guys still an Incredible achievement.
Imagine being the person who has watched top gear asking if a Hilux can start. That's like asking if the wind can blow.
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I WISH THEY SHOWED US THE PS2 ON THE SHOW IN 2007!!!
By the way thanks for this video. I feel 14 again!
I bet he used that bumper dumper 😊
I remember seeing this truck in Norway once, for whatever reason it was here I do not know, but it stood out, nothing else like it on the road! (Except of course all the other Arctic Trucks running around here by people that never go offroad)
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That’s one of the reasons I’m not watching this channel as much as I used to. They inject ads as big as the actual content and some of them as certainly not worth it
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these cars are absolute legends. I want one of those.
Didn't they have 2 of these? The one that Jezza and May drove they left there but the other that was driven by the crew was used by May when he done the Iceland trip to the active Volcano.
You should ry watching the video.
That now explains the reappearing glass smasher!
I can’t believe they cut the G&T part! It was one of the funniest parts of that episode, and seemed for them like one of those simply joyous less-scripted moments.
Today's audience you know...
Even a base hilux is an awesome machine.
As per the BumperDumper i would for sure say Jezza gave it a bash lol
IM ON THE BLOODY THRONE
When Clarkson was on a rant and James had enough "Seat the pole" with menace.
Rocking the Mighty Ducks cap. Nice one
There are other companies in iceland that putt 58inch tires under trucks
Didn't expected from you to work with betterHelp.
I miss those days.
I´d absolutely have used the bumper dumper, so for sure they did it as well!
Izzi's entrance was fantastic.
It’s so weird thinking that I was 1 when that episode came out. Now I’m driving myself.
this hilux is the number 1 vehicle of top gear that i really want to own..
The polar special was really good
That's the most muffler looking fuel tank I've ever seen
…. You do know the exhaust is routed around the tank right? Look again.
I would love to daily this. But I’d have a V8 in it 😁
This car lives in the Toyota heritage collection I believe, so it’ll be well looked after and kept in running condition