You could be forgiven for thinking that Top Gear has a bit of a vendetta against caravans.
Not content with occasional casual violence directed towards defenseless tourers, James May set about trying to have caravans permanently removed from Britain’s roads, a quest he thankfully didn’t succeed in.
Meanwhile, Richard Hammond (who is a secret caravan lover) has tried to break the land speed record while towing a caravan, and failed in characteristically comical fashion.
Perhaps he might have had more luck if he’d tried this unique outfit (pictured above), which the BBC show has described as “road, caravan and car in perfect harmony”.
An image has surfaced on the Top Gear website showing an unknown caravan being towed by nothing less than a Formula 5000 car.
Though it dates back to the late 1960s, we’d risk a bet that this is one of the fastest towcars going, even if it can only manage particularly lightweight models.
Earlier this year, Top Gear achieved another caravanning first by modifying five tourers to create a low-cost train for the credit-crunch generation. Needless to say, this experiment also ended in a spectacular disaster.
