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Jut posted:You know, I may be unpopular for saying this, but I would love to see more affordable stuff on the show. The £1000 shed challenges were great as they were something the average viewed could one day afford, and it's nice to see them gently caress around with fiat 500's and smaller sports cars such as the S2000 every now and again. Or if they need to jazz it up they can do something ridiculous like the Fiesta or uh, Twingo I think.
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I'd really like to see a cheap car challenge episode sometime where they are all forced to buy $1000 VW Beetles and do something with them. I think it was maybe the Africa special where they were talking about how its one of the few cars all three of them absolutely hate. The guys are great when they have things they either really love or really really hate, and I can imagine the ranting about the Beetle being hugely entertaining. Clarkson trying to pull the balancing act of despising his car while simultaneously wanting desperately to win every challenge would be fantastic in particular I think. And I expect each of them actually have different reasons for hating the Beetle individually, so it would be interesting to see the different perspectives.
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Sedgr posted:I'd really like to see a cheap car challenge episode sometime where they are all forced to buy $1000 VW Beetles and do something with them. I assume it'd be a lot like any of the caravan episodes.
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fivre posted:I assume it'd be a lot like any of the caravan episodes. Yes. Lots of fire.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Agreed. And the SIARPC is fine when they actually have someone who's into cars. I'm amazed how often they don't, considering it's a CAR SHOW I dunno, SIARPC is usually that bad, and there's plenty of non-car people who've been really entertaining guests.
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Jut posted:You know, I may be unpopular for saying this, but I would love to see more affordable stuff on the show. The £1000 shed challenges were great as they were something the average viewed could one day afford, and it's nice to see them gently caress around with fiat 500's and smaller sports cars such as the S2000 every now and again. They could replace it with a segment where James and Hammond spend ten minutes talking about all the great deals you can get on new and used affordable cars by exploiting current incentives and — oh wait
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Sedgr posted:I'd really like to see a cheap car challenge episode sometime where they are all forced to buy $1000 VW Beetles and do something with them. I think it was maybe the Africa special where they were talking about how its one of the few cars all three of them absolutely hate. The guys are great when they have things they either really love or really really hate, and I can imagine the ranting about the Beetle being hugely entertaining. That idea has some good potential; but increase the budget a bit and tell them to use whatever leftover money they have to prep their vehicle for a race. Keeping the details of the race vague until after they've modified them, since one (or all) of them will modify it to be specialized for a different type of race than they've been entered in.
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Hammond being the competitive one would have to buy some sort of salvage title new beetle and win every challenge, while being mocked mercilessly.
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The challenge would be for everyone to get Beetles, and Hammond would show up in a 911 and Clarkson would end up with a Veyron somehow.
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Cojawfee posted:The challenge would be for everyone to get Beetles, and Hammond would show up in a 911 I can see Clarkson looking pissed off for a second, then shrugging his shoulders and admitting "yep it's a Beetle, carry on." He's the kind of person that would lose a challenge to uphold his mockery for 911s.
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Feb 1, 2012 06:26
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Matt LeBlanc also has something to plug on the show - series 2 of the show Episodes, which is set to air on BBC2 (and Showtime) this summer.
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An interesting point I noticed was the news that the cars from the India special are no longer in India - they're in Hampshire, which I can only assume means Beaulieu and that gives me another excuse to go again. 
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I really hope that the stuff sent to the newspapers was actually a proper segment and we see how fast a fat old man is around the track on a bicycle. That is if he didn't give up half way through.
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Cojawfee posted:The challenge would be for everyone to get Beetles, and Hammond would show up in a 911 and Clarkson would end up with a Veyron somehow. Don't forget James in his Kubelwagon/Schwimmwagen.
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Craig Ferguson interviewed LeBlanc a few times on his show. He's pretty much the opposite of Joey in real life. I think he'll be a decent interview, and obviously a huge upgrade from last week
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I think they should dump the SIARPC and go back to Jeremy Putting V8s On Things.
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Jeremy putting v8's on things was one of my favorite bits, even if all the comments were scripted. I really liked this episode, it was just one big long car journey. I like that it was segment, news, segment part 2, siarpc, segment part 3. Admittedly the star was a total waste of time, but I've enjoyed many of them over the years. I found that in this episode I really believed the emotions of the hosts, especially during the speed run at Nardo and the track work at Imola. I've already re-watched it twice....
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Absentlife posted:Craig Ferguson interviewed LeBlanc a few times on his show. He's pretty much the opposite of Joey in real life. I think he'll be a decent interview, and obviously a huge upgrade from last week
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Deceptor101 posted:Jeremy putting v8's on things was one of my favorite bits, even if all the comments were scripted. The V8-powered blender will go down in history as one of mankind's greatest achievements.
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quazi posted:Heck, they should interview Craig Ferguson. This needs to happen.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Craig Ferguson would be a phenomenal SIARPC. James, Richard, or Jeremy on Craig Ferguson would be even better. Have any of the TG US guys been on The Late Late Show?
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neckbeard posted:James, Richard, or Jeremy on Craig Ferguson would be even better. I've watched a couple episodes of TGUSA on iplayer and while it wasn't as awful as I was expecting it really just feels like a low budget mediocre tribute to Real Top
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quote:Craig Ferguson neckbeard posted:Have any of the TG US guys been on The Late Late Show?
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jojoinnit posted:No, thank God. Give the Alaska Special a try if you haven't already. I also think season 2 was a great improvement from season 1.
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Looking forward to Hammond and Clarkson jab at each other over NASCAR.
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Killbot posted:Looking forward to Hammond and Clarkson jab at each other over NASCAR. Everybody knows that Hammond is a closet redneck.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Everybody knows that Hammond is a closet redneck. And Clarkson isn't? Guns, 4x4s, and shiny things excite him verily.
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I just want to see May driving around the track in a sleeping bag.
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angryhampster posted:And Clarkson isn't? Guns, 4x4s, and shiny things excite him verily. But would Clarkson buy an American muscle car? e: I don't consider the Ford GT a muscle car. Mister Kingdom fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Feb 4, 2012 |
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Hammond definitely loves muscle cars, his GT390 is awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O46E0gCF5os
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mod sassinator posted:Hammond definitely loves muscle cars, his GT390 is awesome: Not to mention his love for that Dodge truck he drove in the first America trip.
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Everybody knows that Hammond is a secret American. And also a secret Australian, though it's never been said on the show and it may be my American-ness throwing me off.
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mobby_6kl posted:It's not a CAR SHOW, it's an entertainment show, and thus it gets entertainment guests Top Gear really isn't about cars, well of course it is sort of, but the main theme of the show is actually exploring class differences, which is a big part of why it never took in in America.
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Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Williams talking about the reaction to the first episode and petrol head/casual viewers of the show http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2012/02/04/video-more-from-jeremy-and-andy-wilman-on-series-18/
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Hmmm, anyone else think LeBlanc looks a little... Hammondy?
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No complaints this time around about the episode, it was enjoyable to watch and very entertaining. Glad to see SIARPC wasn't terrible this week. I am surprised they haven't made a Chinese version of the 458.
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Sprat Sandwich posted:Wait, it's over?
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InitialDave posted:Watch Bomber Boys on BBC1 instead, then. OK. It also appears that my BBC2 stream is down so nothing gained, nothing lost.
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InitialDave posted:Hmmm, anyone else think LeBlanc looks a little... Hammondy? Yes! Glad I'm not the only one who thought that. Pretty good episode, the end was unexpected and funny 
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