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Well I learned a lot about the cars and thought it was a great special! The TV Van had me in stitches, and the Aqua-Lotus actually working had me cheering. Obviously it wasn't Vietnam or Botswana, but I was expecting a special about Bond cars and that's exactly what I got.
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Top Gear - The Worst Car In the History Of The World. May and Clarkson DVD out on november 19th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nenQI4HrUhk Also, Hammond got an Omega Speedmaster Professional in the Bond Special. Just like mine 
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Oct 31, 2012 23:38
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I have never cared about cars at all, but I saw an episode of Top Gear a week ago and absolutely loved it. I blew through Series 17 and am halfway done with 18. Are the early seasons as good? I know a lot of shows don't get into their stride until later on and don't really want to waste my time starting from the beginning if they are going to be bad. I've seriously learned more about cars in the last week than I have my whole life. There's still a lot of stuff I still don't get (what the gently caress is a brake horsepower) but I'm tryin. It ends up taking me 2 hours to watch a 1 hour episode because I keep pausing it to go look at wikipedia. I might even try to change my own oil this week 
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Nov 8, 2012 23:54
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drunken officeparty posted:I have cared about cars at all, but I saw an episode of Top Gear a week ago and absolutely loved it. I blew through Series 17 and am halfway done with 18. Are the early seasons as good? I know a lot of shows don't get into their stride until later on and don't really want to waste my time starting from the beginning if they are going to be bad. Welcome to the wonderful world of cars! I got started in a similar fashion (except for me it was Forza Motorsport 1 for Xbox)
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Nov 8, 2012 23:58
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17 and especially 18 were pretty weak series, in my opinion. Yes the earlier seasons are good. Very early seasons? Not so much. But for the me, the meat of the series is ~9-15.
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Nov 8, 2012 23:59
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Cojawfee posted:I haven't watched his wine things, but I haven't been bored by anything May has done yet. He takes on boring subjects and makes them interesting with history and knowledge. Oz and James Big Wine Adventure and Oz and James Drink to Britain are really, really good.
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Nov 9, 2012 00:08
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:17 and especially 18 were pretty weak series, in my opinion. Yes the earlier seasons are good. Very early seasons? Not so much. But for the me, the meat of the series is ~9-15. I forget, when was the first cheap car challenge (complete with Jezza ramming his Volvo through a wall and winning anyway due to his car costing 1 pound)?
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Nov 9, 2012 00:25
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404GoonNotFound posted:I forget, when was the first cheap car challenge (complete with Jezza ramming his Volvo through a wall and winning anyway due to his car costing 1 pound)?
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Nov 9, 2012 00:28
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drunken officeparty posted:(what the gently caress is a brake horsepower) Also: Saloon = sedan Coupay = coupe MPV = minivan boot = trunk arse = rear end Estate = SUV. Or maybe it means station wagon, I can't keep this poo poo straight. grover fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Nov 9, 2012 |
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Nov 9, 2012 02:27
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Cojawfee posted:I haven't watched his wine things, but I haven't been bored by anything May has done yet. He takes on boring subjects and makes them interesting with history and knowledge. Watch them now. Its not only amazing but super informative. I impress people super hard from what I learned on his two wine adventures. The drink to Britain is pretty much a beer show.
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Nov 9, 2012 02:30
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grover posted:They're british and use funny language normal english speakers rarely/never use. 1 brake horsepower = 1 horsepower. It's a fancy way of saying it's what the engine outputs before drivetrain losses, as opposed to dyno horsepower you get from the wheels. Bendy-bus = well I guess that's self-explanatory but I never hear that here
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Nov 9, 2012 02:33
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Driving on the left side of the road = driving on the right side of the road
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Nov 9, 2012 02:37
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Estate is Station Wagon. Also: Bonnet=Hood Hood=Roof(convertible) Boot=Trunk Wing=Fender
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Sneaking Mission posted:Driving on the left side of the road = driving on the right side of the road  I thought everyone in england drove like thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6u7gHwLx4w
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drunken officeparty posted:I have never cared about cars at all, but I saw an episode of Top Gear a week ago and absolutely loved it. I blew through Series 17 and am halfway done with 18. Are the early seasons as good? I know a lot of shows don't get into their stride until later on and don't really want to waste my time starting from the beginning if they are going to be bad. Season one and to some extent two were not really the same show as everything after them. They were way more serious and season one had some fat guy that did nothing interesting ever instead of James. I'd still watch them (first, going back to them makes them seem worse) but season three on are all fantastic.
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Nov 9, 2012 12:14
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pik_d posted:Season one and to some extent two were not really the same show as everything after them. They were way more serious and season one had some fat guy that did nothing interesting ever instead of James. I'd still watch them (first, going back to them makes them seem worse) but season three on are all fantastic. I got started watching the Season 8 episode with Michael Gambon giving the best interview ever. Around the best of times for Top Gear I think with enough played straight that it didn't seem too constructed. Also, I will always have this show to thank for making me watch James May's other various shows. I feel like I could listen to him talk about nearly anything.
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Nov 9, 2012 12:33
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Okan170 posted:... Michael Gambon giving the best interview ever. Thank you for agreeing with me on this. "It made my eyes water." Jesus Christ...
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:17 and especially 18 were pretty weak series, in my opinion. Yes the earlier seasons are good. Very early seasons? Not so much. But for the me, the meat of the series is ~9-15. I guess I could agree with that, though I would probably say for me the "meat" of the show would be 6-13 or something, I enjoyed the simpler times of TG, but honestly I am not too picky at this point, I want new episodes. 
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Nov 9, 2012 15:40
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Okan170 posted:Also, I will always have this show to thank for making me watch James May's other various shows. I feel like I could listen to him talk about nearly anything. This.  James May, can you provide a constant narration of my life directly streamed into my head? It'd certainly make a day of mundane tasks seem a whole world more interesting.
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Sockington posted:James May, can you provide a constant narration of my life directly streamed into my head? It'd certainly make a day of mundane tasks seem a whole world more interesting. Yes, but you'll be forced to wear his pink jumper at all times. Is it really worth it?
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Nov 9, 2012 16:56
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Bloody hell. I learned something new yesterday; That James Bond special aired in Poland, and well... Poland is nuts for Top Gear. Millions of hits in the space of an hour nearly brought a bunch of servers down. About 45% of requests to the website went unanswered, that's roughly 2.3 million.
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Nov 9, 2012 17:25
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grover posted:They're british and use funny language normal english speakers rarely/never use. 1 brake horsepower = 1 horsepower. It's a fancy way of saying it's what the engine outputs before drivetrain losses, as opposed to dyno horsepower you get from the wheels. You say "BHP at the crank" or "BHP at the wheels" to differentiate the two. The only real difference with the US is that rating power without accessories etc was never really a thing. There's also horsepower in the sense of taxation classes from the early 20th century, but that's a whole other subject, it's unrelated to any concept of actual engine output.
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Nov 9, 2012 17:48
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Sockington posted:This. Yes... tell me everything about getting drunk on beer (properly), how man went to the moon and how to build a massive lego house or make toilet paper with Richard Hammond's biography. I'll be chuffed.
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Nov 9, 2012 21:43
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So James and Jeremy have been keeping themselves busy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nenQI4HrUhk
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Top Gear blokes starting supercar road trip across USAquote:According to the Twitter musings of one Jeremy Clarkson, the Top Gear UK crew is back in the States for another harebrained adventure, this time in a trio of comely supercars. Judging by some grainy Twitter pics, Clarkson is in Las Vegas with Richard Hammond and James May, set to drive cross-country in a Lexus LFA, SRT Viper and Aston Martin Vanquish.
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Nov 13, 2012 18:58
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Finished season 1 just now. Not-James-May was loving awful, so glad they didn't keep that guy.
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I'm somewhat surprised by this, given that Clarkson 'left 14 speeding tickets unpaid' from their 2008ish special. Of course, I can't find any proof of this, beyond their statement. 
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Preoptopus posted:So James and Jeremy have been keeping themselves busy. Nov. 19th
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https://twitter.com/jcrclarksonesq/status/269975683709693952 Cool. Obviously Hammond in the Viper and May in the Aston then, right?
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No way. Clarkson will want the Viper. He fell in love with the ZR1 in the previous American special. The Viper is a car synonymous with simple, brute force power. Clarkson laps that stuff up.
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kylej posted:No way. Clarkson will want the Viper. He fell in love with the ZR1 in the previous American special. The Viper is a car synonymous with simple, brute force power. Clarkson laps that stuff up. He has the Lexus.
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oh sorry didn't click on any of those tweets. I'm very surprised by that. Those cars seem perfect for the Clarkson/Viper - Bombastic May/Aston - British and refined Hammond/Lexus - Boring pairing
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kylej posted:No way. Clarkson will want the Viper. He fell in love with the ZR1 in the previous American special. The Viper is a car synonymous with simple, brute force power. Clarkson laps that stuff up.
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I really like how less scripted the early seasons are. The newer ones feel really fake in comparison.
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The Worst Car in the History of the World special comes out this week. 
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:The Worst Car in the History of the World special comes out this week. It's either one owned by uf, or sockington. We can get the play-by-play here at least 4 months sooner..
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Would one of you happen to remember that episode where Clarkson asks May what a certain tool was called and May explained to him with a straight face that it was referred to as a 'bumfondle'? I know I have seen this at some point but don't remember if it was in one of the episodes or outtakes. And if it was in the outtakes, from which season?
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drunken officeparty posted:I really like how less scripted the early seasons are. The newer ones feel really fake in comparison. Yeah it definitely becomes more obvious in the newer seasons. Some episodes are worse than others though.
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Viggen posted:It's either one owned by uf, or sockington. We can get the play-by-play here at least 4 months sooner.. My wife's old 2004 Focus. I swear I replaced more on that piece of poo poo than any other car I've owned. It went through an offroad rally at the hands of my wife. She left the road at 140km/h, slid down an angled berm on the outside of the corner, got airborne off the driveway which sloped up the other way, and then flew rear end backwards into a collection of small trees and brush.   $9,000 later and insurance had it back on the road. But if course, that happened about a month after we got it back from this $7,000 body job from someone running a red light and smacking me on the passenger front wheel.   So that Focus never felt "right" again until I put the nail in the coffin one last time.  The airbags had never once deployed in this checkered history. Still got $5500 from insurance for it in 2011.
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Out of curiosity since it's a car-related tv show, does anyone else here watch Canada's Worst Driver?
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