Full Metal Challenge
You know those bizarre, caravan-destroying stunts you see on Top Gear? Now imagine a programme entirely devoted to such things, but with even bigger and more fearsome cars and an iconic rock star encouraging the carnage from the sidelines.
That's Full Metal Challenge - a programme that will turn even the most high-minded pacifist into an armchair Mad Max.
Deadly gladiatorial combat is unfortunately frowned upon nowadays, but Full Metal Challenge gives us the next best thing: an array of flabbergastingly violent games in which huge, custom-built vehicles fight to the mechanical death for our viewing pleasure.
Over 27 teams from across the world, from the UK to North America to India, are involved in the series, which sees each group build their own battle car – the noisier and bigger, the better. Each episode then sees three of these monstrous machines pitted against each other in a number of bizarre contests, with the losers being eliminated from the overall tournament. It's Robot Wars but with big cars. It's like something Jeremy Clarkson might fantasise about if he was drunk. It's... well, you're getting the picture by now.
When is it on?
Full Metal Challenge is next on at 10:00 am
on Saturday, 2nd January on Dave.
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