Top Gear JUMPS!

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Lead Producer, David Bradshaw

Top Gear is launching three original films that will allow anyone with a smartphone or tablet to experience the thrill of piloting three very different and totally inappropriate stunt vehicles to perform audacious jumps over a music festival, a supermarket carpark and a petrol station, all in stunning 360 video.

Exclusively available to watch on the Top Gear YouTube channel and best experienced with headphones, the 360 films immerse the viewer into the world of a stunt driver - experiencing everything that goes with it, from massive explosions to vertigo-inducing ramps, big crashes and ultimately some brilliantly spectacular failures… all in true Top Gear style.

Filmed in the first-person, a member of the Top Gear production team welcomes fans from the comfort of their own motorhome to take them around the film set on a golf buggy, showing them what they’re about to jump over. After checking out the jump ramp, it’s time to strap into the driver’s seat and hit the road.

In the first 360, the viewer jumps a petrol tanker over a petrol station. Viewers will also encounter The Stig, who has appeared to have spilled a load of petrol everywhere - so you can guess how this is going to turn out! Film two involves jumping over a mini-music festival in an old, underpowered campervan. Less horse-power, more flower-power. It’s an unusual way to enter stage-right..

And finally for the third film, in an old friend of Top Gear, the Kia C’eed which was previously the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car takes on a jump over a supermarket carpark into the last parking space.