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Clarkson buys a 1981 Lancia Beta Coupe, May a 1985 Mercedes-Benz 230E and Hammond a 1963 Opel Kadett, which he nicknames “Oliver”.

Mocking the use of “Chelsea Tractors” for delivering children to school and driving up leafy lanes, rules for the challenge stipulate that the car purchased to cross the spine of Africa has to be two wheel drive, and not designed in any way for off-road use. Botswana Special: The boys go to Botswana and buy a car for less than £1500 for a 1,000 mile challenge.Ĭhallenge 1: Buy a used car for up to £1500.which features an extra ten minutes of previously unseen footage, which includes scenes of frostbitten extremities during the training in Austria, Clarkson and May discovering the abandoned Isachsen weather station (left vacant since 1978), and various other changes including new voice-overs and an alternative soundtrack to the original BBC broadcast release. The DVD release of the special, Features a 72 minute "Director's Cut". The Polar Special was released on DVD as part of the first Great Adventures box-set, which also contains the US Special.

The trip from Resolute is nearly 500KM in a straight line.

Which is somewhere west of Ellef Ringnes Island, nowhere close to true north pole 90°N.

The final car destination shows 78☃5'07.0"N 104☁1'09.0"W as the North Pole.

This is the only Top Gear Special where a race was the main feature instead of the trio using three second hand cars.

This was the first episode of Top Gear broadcast in HD as a test run for future filming purposes - it would take until Series 14 in late 2009 before the show adopted it full-time.

They then underwent further survival training on Canadian sea ice, and were reprimanded by famed explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes not to take the dangers they would face lightly. Before this, however, they were sent to Austria for a cold-weather training program. The presenters began in Resolute in the Canadian territory of Nunavut.