(Entertainment-NewsWire.com, February 27, 2013 ) San Francisco, CA -- Thanks to an early advisory that was released by state officials in Florida, the press and public learned that the History channel's Americanized version of the British car-geek show, Top Gear would shut down the bridge for the programs host drove his $2.5 million sports car from St. Petersburg to Tampa.
The Bugatti Veyron is the fastest street-legal sports car available in the world, with a 267 mph whopping $2.5 million price tag to boot. It was thus no surprise that there were plenty of onlookers and local TV news crews all hoping to see a glimpse of the car as it passed.
"For us, it was really cool to see that kind of interest in Top Gear. We had three helicopters around the shoot and they weren't even ours," said Wood, an auto racing analyst and self-described "car dork" from Atlanta who co-hosts the show with race car driver Tanner Foust and comic Adam Ferrara. "I think that's the first time we've had that kind of a turnout for anything that we've done."
"That car is mostly made for traveling at a really high speed and looking like a baller pulling up to a club," Wood said, comparing the experience of driving it around Tampa Bay to an earlier Top Gear stunt where he wound up piloting a $400,000 Lamborghini sports car through the drive through window at a McDonald's. "That's not a car you can take to the grocery store."
The multimillion-dollar tag on the car likely explains why those in charge were not interested in tipping their hand about the cars whereabouts prior to the taping. Still, the word got out and the crowd gathered to see the spectacle.
"This is the first time word got out early enough that we got that big a crowd," added McCarroll. "We try to keep these things secret, more for public safety than for anything else."
