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Having done Chumpcar and Lemons in the states I strongly agree with the trio this week. Golf to me is the ultimate symbol of middle/upper class tedium and my workmates in America were all golfers. I was "that crazy guy who races cars" in the group, when really it was track days with my M3 and events not unlike the UK rallycross.
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explosivo posted:I don't know how to make gifs but here's a screenshot! These are awesome. Thanks!
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Mar 14, 2012 09:07
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ratbert90 posted:Poor MR2 it's most definitely a N/A car if May bought it for 700 quid
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Mar 14, 2012 17:58
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Although I wonder if it had the 5sfe or the 3sge in it.
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May talking with the Ferrari owner about wanting to drive that car didn't seem like it was scripted. The guy looked genuinely scared to let him drive it. God what a beautiful car.
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Mar 14, 2012 18:27
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Turns out the bit with the jam of learner drivers was staged, which didn't surprise me for some reason - but the bit with the schoolkids running after Jsmes in the Ferrari, they insist, was real.
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Mar 14, 2012 18:37
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OptimusMatrix posted:May talking with the Ferrari owner about wanting to drive that car didn't seem like it was scripted. The guy looked genuinely scared to let him drive it. God what a beautiful car.
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Mar 14, 2012 19:24
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EL Bombastico posted:it's most definitely a N/A car if May bought it for 700 quid UK/Europe had the basic 3SGE for a stock engine so ya it is most likely a N/A. Kotaru fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Mar 14, 2012 |
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Mar 14, 2012 19:27
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Yeah, I don't think you'd find any 5SFE MR2 in the UK, whether it's a UK-market car or an import, it's going to have some flavour of 3SG-- in it.
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Mar 14, 2012 19:34
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All I could think of during this weeks TGUS was this
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Mar 14, 2012 19:40
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I only got to see the last 15min with the ugh Donald Trump scene. My dad hasn't watched the show except for that short part and said they all look like geeks. I ended up watching some season 2 last night that I missed before though and thoroughly enjoyed the $500 cheap car challenge.
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Mar 14, 2012 19:56
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Should have been their own mothers/grannies co-driving
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Mar 14, 2012 22:00
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Yea, that bit reminded me of the TGUK segment where they each got their mom out to review three cars. That part was the better part of the episode compared to the schtick with the Donald.
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Mar 14, 2012 23:12
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Mar 14, 2012 23:52
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Only just got around to watching the latest TGUK and I thought it was a pretty great way to end the series. The M5 film was okay, but May's Ferrari California film and the rallycross segment more than made up for it. Kimi was a pretty boring guest, but he's renowned for that so I wasn't expecting anything else. Slash was a pretty decent guest. On the whole I haven't been a huge fan of this series, the only impressive episodes to me were the first one (driving through Italy in supercars) and the last two. Hopefully they can come back strongly later in the year.
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InitialDave posted:Yeah, I don't think you'd find any 5SFE MR2 in the UK, whether it's a UK-market car or an import, it's going to have some flavour of 3SG-- in it.  Only the base spec model over here had the gutless wonder which was the two litre 5S-FE lump.Also, my brother and me were having a running debate about whether James May was driving the Ferrari around Windsor or not right up until the shot of the Long Walk and the castle. Annoyingly, I was taking the "It might be, it might not be" side. 
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Mar 15, 2012 01:18
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Hmm...I wonder what this unaired segment was about? It's the only thing from the season premiere teaser that didn't make it.
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Mar 15, 2012 01:30
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"How fast can a jet plane go around our track?" (Harrier did it in ~30 seconds but that wasn't on the ground  )
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Payndz posted:Turns out the bit with the jam of learner drivers was staged, which didn't surprise me for some reason - but the bit with the schoolkids running after Jsmes in the Ferrari, they insist, was real. well, yeah, that was pretty obvious. It would be too convenient to actually run into something like that while filming. But it is a (slightly exaggerated) thing that you can and do run into fairly frequently... Driving schools parallel parking on streets like that, being boxed in on streets like that, having to reverse out of the way to let someone past, etc. If they had enough time and film, they would have found themselves in a similar situation eventually, just driving around.
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Mar 15, 2012 10:55
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Yes, but based on that episode, I decided not to buy a £5.6m classic car, because of the risk that I might have been stuck behind a learner driver while using it on the public road. In fact, I sold all my other Ferraris too (at a loss), as it just seems too dangerous. To find out now that the BBC lied to the nation is just sickening. I demand Top Gear be taken off the air, that I receive a written apology from their so-called presenters, and that I'm compensated for both the loss I made in selling my cars, and the mental anquish of no longer knowing who I can trust. The BBC used to stand for something. This never would have happened when Noel Edmonds presented Top Gear!
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InitialDave posted:The BBC used to stand for something. This never would have happened when Noel Edmonds presented Top Gear! Who?
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Mar 15, 2012 11:43
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InitialDave posted:The BBC used to stand for something. This never would have happened when Noel Edmonds presented Top Gear! I can never reconcile my feelings about Noel Edmonds, he did house party which I enjoyed as a kid but now he does that loving awful Deal or No Deal. So some good stuff in the past, and a programme which I cannot stand so for a long time I thought he was a complete twat. Until I remembered something I read about him, if he has guests over at his house, either for a house party or whatever, he sometimes excuses himself only to slip on the Mr Blobby outfit and come charging through a room full of guests. I think that almost makes him cool.
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Gwaihir posted:Yea, that bit reminded me of the TGUK segment where they each got their mom out to review three cars. That part was the better part of the episode compared to the schtick with the Donald.
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Mar 15, 2012 13:11
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Here is Edmonds in his daily driver during the Seventies: He also really, really pissed off the Daily Mail by, years later, telling people how fast he used to drive it. I might not like his TV programmes, but as a car guy I've got no issues with him.
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Mar 15, 2012 13:20
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UK rallycross looks absolutely awesome. Chumpcar/Lemons is the best we have over here? They both seem like paved, endurance races which isn't nearly as appealing to me.
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Mar 15, 2012 13:59
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I was a bit bored so I made this for you. The best Ferrari.
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EL Bombastico posted:it's most definitely a N/A car if May bought it for 700 quid Ge not gte
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I wish the California segment had been even longer. That thing has been burned into my brain as the most awesome car ever since I saw Ferris Bueller as a kid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S7AyiVfNdA gently caress yeah.
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In the back of my head I was almost expecting May to pull the car back into the garage, place it on stands and put it into reverse.
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That was an amazing episode. After the trainwreck of the india special, that was goddamn gold.
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djdanno13 posted:In the back of my head I was almost expecting May to pull the car back into the garage, place it on stands and put it into reverse. I was kinda hoping for that or that Yello song.
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Has the limo C4 corvette always been in the background of the TG:USA test track shots? Am I missing an episode?
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dreesemonkey posted:UK rallycross looks absolutely awesome. Chumpcar/Lemons is the best we have over here? They both seem like paved, endurance races which isn't nearly as appealing to me. I think it's huge fun, at least during Chumpcar you have the time to really get to know the track and the line. Once you've got that figured out you start figuring who you can pass etc.
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McTinkerson posted:Has the limo C4 corvette always been in the background of the TG:USA test track shots? Am I missing an episode?
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I hate to say it but I think Top Gear US has had a better season than Top Gear UK this time around. UK was kinda boring with a lot of rehashes. US has been pretty solid with big rig challenge, muscle cars, minivans crossing the rockies, etc. Only painful thing on the US show is the celebrity car lap. It's so short and pointless they should just drop it.
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I don't know if it's that it's short, it's just that the commentating manages to make it sound so boring. Like it's just some car driving around, and they're pointing out the highlights of the track like they do every week, never making mention of the driving style or whether it's funny or exciting or anything is riding on it. At first I thought it might make a good shakeup to have them do the lap first and the interview second, but now I'm seeing that it's really essential to do it the TGUK way, because that way you've gotten to know the person (which is especially helpful if you've never heard of him before) and have some idea whether to expect him to be good or bad on the track or going for some particular goal or whatever. This way it's just "okay let's watch an indistinguishable lap being driven by someone we don't even know, all right now let's go inside and see who it is".
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Data Graham posted:This way it's just "okay let's watch an indistinguishable lap being driven by someone we don't even know, all right now let's go inside and see who it is". Sometimes they're a bit rough with the blending from feauture > star-car segment. It's like they just cut their "challenge" and spliced in the star-car part like no one would notice the abrupt halt to the challenge. As you said, it would be a lot better with the interview first. TGUK is good for having a bit of a "we'll pick this up a bit later, but first a star..." spot while IN the studio, so it feels a bit more natural than randomly appearing at the side of the track with the "celebrity".
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Yeah, it's definitely clunky, even down to having a shot of the car driving into the studio. It just begs the question, why?
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Mar 16, 2012 17:14
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The episode where the boys have to buy a super luxury car for the same price (or less) as the Nissan Pixo is on BBCA. Any idea if they'll tell us how they did in the long run?
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Mister Kingdom posted:The episode where the boys have to buy a super luxury car for the same price (or less) as the Nissan Pixo is on BBCA. Any idea if they'll tell us how they did in the long run? Was just watching that. IIRC, a couple episodes later they brought it up again, they both had lolmassive repairs. Still want the 850.
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opengl128 posted:Was just watching that. IIRC, a couple episodes later they brought it up again, they both had lolmassive repairs. I'm a sucker for pop-up headlights and the 850's are fantastic.
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