BBC's Top Gear Gets The Borat Treatment in Alabama

Top Gear is the BBC's top rated automotive program(me) and its three hosts have taken on their toughest assignment yet -- a roadtrip from Miami to New Orleans . The three cheeky monkeys each have been given $1000 to buy used cars and they best the can come up with are a camaro, a white Dodge Ram and a Cadillac. Ever mindful that "Americans have begun mating with vegetables" they elect to keep a low profile by spray painting "NASCAR sucks" and "Hillary for President" across their boots. Um, by boots we mean trunk though this is just the beginning of an onslaught of cultural missed connections that at once makes one despise and pity ones fellow Americans, an appropriate feeling for Valentine's Day. The trio get in a confrontation with locals at an Alabaman petrol station [around 4:13 in the video] at which they feign surprise. On the blogs of one of the hosts, James May writes, "We'd been warned by some American modernists - i.e. Californians - that the southerners wouldn't take kindly to any of our light mockery of the things they hold dear - Bush, heterosexuality, NASCAR, Country and Western, short hair...But I never really believed they would take it quite that badly." Strange because earlier in the program, May explains to the audience, "Saying Nascar sucks is like punching someone in the face." Yeah, the hicks are homophobic rednecks but these guys are fucking twats.

See the video after the jump! (Or at least until YouTube rolls over for the BBC)

Top Gear [BBC]

[Text: Christy Quirk]

Previously: Mixing Business, Pleasure and Naked Forecasters, Aerial Tramways and Gondolas of the World, Classic Cars in Manahatta