The Jeremy Clarkson era of Top Gear will always be the gold standard of motoring shows, but there’s a show in China called Big Crazy Car that should make Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond proud.

The show is in Chinese, obviously, so unless you understand the language, it’s going to be a little tough to follow. But the action — and comedy — are all on point, something we didn’t think we’d get from a show that we had never heard before until now.

If you thought this quarantine hasn’t had a toll on my mental sensibilities, then you’d be wrong. I just spent more than 90 minutes watching a show in a language I did not understand, and had a great time watching it. I don’t want to say that I’ve lost my mind, but it’s getting there.

In any case, the show is called Big Crazy Car.Big Crazy Car}. But I managed to get through the entire episode wholly entertained about what I had just seen. Perhaps this episode is an outlier, perhaps not. But the “challenge” it had was all sorts of fun to watch.

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The challenge revolved around testing three low-speed vehicles, which are apparently popular in China. None of these cars will win any design awards — they’re mostly cheap knockoffs, including the Bugatti Chiron-looking oddity in the challenge — but the sheer absurdity of their design and function makes them worthy of our time.

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One of the three cars didn’t even have seatbelts because they’re expensive to add to the car, or so I’m guessing. Go beyond the obvious safety concerns, though, and you can totally see these cars in a different — if absurd — light. Most are designed with the grace and creativity of a wallpaper, and those who do get creative often venture into the knockoff route, as clearly shown by the abnormally pedestrian Bugatti Chiron-look alike.

It’s hard to make out what the entire challenge is about because of the obvious language barriers. But what I couldn’t comprehend through language, I most definitely understood in how they beat the living daylights out of their cars. Top Gear-style}.

But, in some Top Gear-style irony, I’d like to consider myself a winner for watching this challenge and getting entertained by it despite not understanding a single word they said.