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(Jeremy Clarkson) : Clarkson chose the Lancia based on the brand's rally heritage. It was the most unreliable vehicle of the trio, suffering from broken dials, failed components, and frequent starting issues that famously caused "African Stig" to walk away from it during a lap test. The Back-Up Car top gear botswana cars
remains a high-water mark for the series, proving that you don't need a customized 4x4 to cross a continent—you just need a bit of blind optimism and $1,500. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May were tasked with driving across Botswana, from the Zimbabwean border to the Namibian border, using only used two-wheel-drive cars that were never meant to see a dirt road, let alone the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans or the Okavango Delta [ 0.5.1 ]. Here are the three unlikely heroes of that journey: 1. The 1981 Lancia Beta Coupé (Jeremy Clarkson) If a presenter's car broke down and could