Top Gear Shoots In China
Chinese media are going wild because BBC’s Top Gear has landed in China. Jeremy Clarkson and James May arrived in Beijing for filming a new Top Gear episode which will be on TV in next year’s season. Judging from the pictures take on-scene, the shoot seems to center on two topics, and both may make the Chinese car industry lose the ever so important face.
The first episode appears to be May in a JAC Binyue and/against Jeremy in a Greatwall Haval M2.
The second item seems to be about copied Chinese cars. There is a Shuanghuan Noble (Smart), a Shuanghuan SCO (BMW X5) and a Lifan 320 (Mini). On some other pictures Clarkson and May are looking curiously at an old Chinese 3-wheeler. Top Gear always had a thing for 3-wheelers. Possibly, they will blame China for copying a Reliant Robin
A Land Rover Discovery camera-car has Shanghai-plates on it. And the press caught the Top Gear protagonists indulging in that great Chinese pastime: Smoking.
Lifan 320. Note Mini scale model on the roof. May having a smoke.
Clarkson having a smoke.
Shanghuan SEO on the left.
Guangzhou Auto Trumpchi, there seems to be a camera behind the window, not sure whether it is part of the show.
Shanghuan SEO.
Old Chinese 3-wheeler.
May takes a look at the engine.
Clarkson in Greatwall Haval S2.
Land Rover Discovery camera-car with Shanghai plates.
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A three wheeler with opera windows in the B-pillars, just like a '77 T-Bird. Wow.
You know, I'd like to just be the guy that films or drives the support truck for that show. What a cool thing, exotic locations, goofy fun, and getting paid for it.