Top Gear plays Aygo-football
Yesterday, I wrote about the new Superleague Formula racing series that is on the table, combining the sports of soccer and open wheel racing. I stuck in a teaser photo with a group of compact cars playing a game of car soccer. After doing some internet research (Google) I found that this photo was from a Top Gear episode. Of course, I should have guessed.
As I mentioned in the previous post I think the idea of actual cars playing football is a brilliant idea. A scaled up soccer ball and group of scaled down cars makes for a great picture. But what is really cool is that the match was actually exciting and there was a good amount of scoring (something that real soccer often lacks). Also unlike soccer no one went down to the ground grabbing there leg in seemingly incredible pain only to be seen sprinting around the field at full strength seconds later.
The first clip is all Toyota Aygo’s, the second is Aygo vs. VW Fox. Both are entertaining.
Pretty great videos. I think they should start a crappy car soccer league here in the states. There are plenty of Geo Metros and Ford Aspires just waiting to take the field.
-Bill Mertz
Top Gear, Toyota Aygo, Volkswagen, Fox, car soccer, car football, football, soccer, compact car, sub-compact
April 5th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Hey man, great stuff! Provided quite a laugh there
Good job on digging that up heh
April 6th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Have you ever seen the video of Top Gear doing the winter olympics? They ski jump a car and also play ice hockey which is even better than the footy!
April 12th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
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