Best Episode?

Personally I loved the jet-racers one. That pulse jet engine was the mutt's nuts!

I won't say which episode was best, but the machine I most wanted to build was "Muncher", the thing that ate brick walls. (Chaos Crew, 2000 UK series).

Unfortunately, people with structural design knowledge aren't usually part of the teams. It was clear to me that the pivot on the picker's treb wasn't adequately braced... for a similar lack of understanding of material strength, look to the Meg's car crusher (2000 intercontinetal special) - they put the I beam on its side, to make attaching the cylinders easier. But if you look at the tables for I beams, you learn that they are at most 20% of the bend strength of the thing oriented correctly. And yup, the beam bent.

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The special where they had the UK, USA and France competing to build aircraft using Wright Brothers vintage parts and tools was, in my opinion, the most incredible challenge of the series. The quality of all the contenders was outstanding and the winning British entry arguably the most successful scrapheap build ever.

The Monster Truck one was pretty entertaining for me.

Also there was a triathalon one where the vehicles had to climb hills, float, & race thru the desert. All I remember is that there were Russians competing. It's been at least 7 or 8 years since it aired.

maybe the best but i think the worst is the collabseable cars in the suitcase - by the time th challenge came in both ideas failed and yet we got to see some fat bloaks on suitcases push their rigs to the finish line - the really bummer is this lasted for nearly 15 minutes of feet and hands pushing with just stupid ending of nothing but some middleaged man doing what 3 year olds do at the park on their little peddlecars just all in all horrible how they let this air on the tele i have no idea but trust me collabseable cars in suitcases was a cool theory in a james bond kind of thing but just was executed in total disaster and the show suffered its same faith-dont waste your time watching this episode -total crum.......

one of my favourite episodes is the episode where they made remote controlled torpedoes. I Especially liked the torpedo that had an antenna sticking up over the water surface :)