World's Most Dangerous Roads

[vrsmxtb]

Really enjoy this series when it pops up now and then, as a fan of off-roading the trip in Madagascar with Mariella Frostrup and Angus Deayton tonight was pretty good. I'd love to do something like that, an off-road road trip. That Ford Everest looked suprisingly capable, I wonder if they had any proper driving instruction beforehand?

[GTIR]

Good lord.
Seriously. I've driven in worse than that in Hertfordshire down green lanes.

Obvious amateurs embarrassing themselves. That's why the locals were all laughing!

Instead of driving on previous tracks, thought the water, he decided to drive in two foot mud!

[y2blade]

Mariella was the better driver of the two.


Another great advert for GoPro cameras.

[vrsmxtb]

Yeah a few silly mistakes, mostly by Angus. I think driving 6 days solid on roads like that for 6 days may be a little tougher than the odd drive up Middle England's green lanes.

[y2blade]

It looked pretty tough going imho, have done a lot of green laning here in the UK and never seen anything like it.

They did well.

[y2blade]

Too add: Those Ford 4x4s looked pretty much up to the job.

[Stelvio1]

I'd take 6 days off road with Mariella - went well up in my estimation!

[vrsmxtb]

y2blade said:

Too add: Those Ford 4x4s looked pretty much up to the job.

I thought they were rebadged Mavericks but quick google and they're apparently based on the Ford Ranger, so effectively Mazdas. Did well, I'm assuming they don't have difflocks and certainly not front and rear live axles.

[Flood]

Stelvio1 said:

I'd take 6 days off road with Mariella - went well up in my estimation!

Rattling up the dirt track?

The guy at the start told them to use 4 4 wheel drive high when it got bad, shouldn't that have been low?

[anonymous-user]

Flood said:

Rattling up the dirt track?

The guy at the start told them to use 4 4 wheel drive high when it got bad, shouldn't that have been low?

Think he just said "4 wheel drive". No mention of high or low.
Agreed it was quite watchable and, thankfully, devoid of all that "30 seconds from death" nonsense that hallmarks similar stuff on C4 or Five. Some of the twonks from Stobart: Trucks and Trivia need to watch this.
Loved the bit where they were effectively lost and stranded, so parked up, broke out the rum and waited til daylight....been there once or twice.

[g3org3y]

Quite enjoyed it but I think I would have preferred it if the drivers were actual motoring enthusiasts. Angus seemed pretty useless, getting the car stuck at every possible opportunity and nailing the throttle. Got it over the scary bridge though!

[iva cosworth]

I was 1/2 watching this seeing as it was after "Racing Legends" .

Agree that Angus was a bit pants and got stuck constantly

[durbster]

Really enjoy these and the Madagascar one was particularly good. It's always humbling to see these kinds of places and the driving actually looks like a real challenge unlike the faux danger in most documentaries as said above.

It's a bit of a weird concept but it seems to work.

[TheHeretic]

Like ice road truckers and the like, they make a drama out of the silliest thing.

[Mastodon2]

TheHeretic said:

Like ice road truckers and the like, they make a drama out of the silliest thing.

Did you see the episode last year with Rhod Gilbert? There were some genuinely perilous moments in that, like driving a scree road on the side of a mountain. Iirc, they only stopped when a landslide wiped the road off the mountain, so they walked the rest of the way to their final destination, which was ironically only a few hundred metres down the road. Certainly nothing as hazardous as you'd see on a UK green lane though

[TheHeretic]

Mastodon2 said:

Did you see the episode last year with Rhod Gilbert? There were some genuinely perilous moments in that, like driving a scree road on the side of a mountain. Iirc, they only stopped when a landslide wiped the road off the mountain, so they walked the rest of the way to their final destination, which was ironically only a few hundred metres down the road. Certainly nothing as hazardous as you'd see on a UK green lane though

I did. Still think it is 'overly dramatic'.

[vrsmxtb]

TheHeretic said:

Like ice road truckers and the like, they make a drama out of the silliest thing.

Those Channel 5 "extreme" series are far more guilty of hyperbole. You can almost imagine the editors reviewing the footage and cringing at having to produce drama from it!

Hugh Bonneville and Jessica Hynes driving through Gerogia tonight after Racing Legends,

[durbster]

vrsmxtb said:

Those Channel 5 "extreme" series are far more guilty of hyperbole. You can almost imagine the editors reviewing the footage and cringing at having to produce drama from it!

Absolutely hate those shows, particularly the wildlife ones. I don't mind a bit of Top Gear contrivance for humour's sake but when nature is exciting and fascinating all on its own, there's no need to bring in dramatic music and rushed editing. I can only think it's down to media studies graduates desperate to go into films or something.

Thankfully the producers of WMDR seem content that the journeys are interesting enough that they don't have to delude us with contrived situations of pretend peril.

vrsmxtb said:

Hugh Bonneville and Jessica Hynes driving through Gerogia tonight after Racing Legends

I watched these examples of driving from Russia the other day so if that's what they're facing, good luck to them!

[anonymous-user]

TheHeretic said:

Mastodon2 said:

Did you see the episode last year with Rhod Gilbert? There were some genuinely perilous moments in that, like driving a scree road on the side of a mountain. Iirc, they only stopped when a landslide wiped the road off the mountain, so they walked the rest of the way to their final destination, which was ironically only a few hundred metres down the road. Certainly nothing as hazardous as you'd see on a UK green lane though

I did. Still think it is 'overly dramatic'.

For me the critical difference is the Dangous Roads participants aren't known for their driving, so they are at times quite clearly out of their comfort zone. The Ice Road lot and Eddie "will the cream cakes get there in time?" Stobart truckers are long-term professionals driving well trodden routes, hence it's entirely dull and made up.
And the BBC commentary simply added a bit of detail of where they were and how far they had to go, unlike that Stobart garbage of "Up ahead is Derek's worst nightmare ever. It's rush hour on the M25, he's down to his last chunk of Yorkie and, on top of all that, the Highways Agency have taken the serious step of placing a 50mph speed restriction across all lanes. And the bulk delivery of frozen pizza is thawing out with every second that passes"

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 28th December 19:46

[TheHeretic]

I'll say me thing, it makes me want to watch Moto-Enduro, and 'Long Way Round' again. I wish they would do a 4x4 version of The Long Way round.