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ROFLBOT posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrNzPInDja0 The truth of watching rally in person. 
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Foehammer007 posted:The truth of watching rally in person. Rally seriously is one of those sports where its sometimes better to watch it on TV rather than in person. Unless its The Mineshaft in Canberra. Then its awesome to watch pro rally drivers poo poo themselves in mid air in realtime!
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Ferremit posted:Rally seriously is one of those sports where its sometimes better to watch it on TV rather than in person. Unless its The Mineshaft in Canberra. Then its awesome to watch pro rally drivers poo poo themselves in mid air in realtime! It's a crying shame what's happened to the WRC recently. The UK's TV coverage of the Monte looked like this:  It was easier for me to watch the Daytona 24, which at least was broadcast and probably provided better racing too, than what should have been an awesome rally to watch. 
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Edit: NVM I am dumb.
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Feb 2, 2013 21:00
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It's only Saturday.
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I think BBCA is running this season of top Gear starting Monday. I wonder what the edits will be like.
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burtonos posted:I think BBCA is running this season of top Gear starting Monday. I wonder what the edits will be like. lovely, as usual. Any word on what tomorrow's episode will be? I want to see their Nile River thing.
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Foehammer007 posted:lovely, as usual. Any word on what tomorrow's episode will be? I want to see their Nile River thing. Link pretty much reveals all of the segments from tomorrow's Top Gear, so don't click if you don't want it spoiled. http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/Exclusive-pics-from-this-week-filming-2013-01-31
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ROFLBOT posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrNzPInDja0 Not to be ridiculous, but is that license plate an anagram for Dick Envy?
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Evanauto posted:Not to be ridiculous, but is that license plate an anagram for Dick Envy? It follows the normal GB plate format and it would need to at least have an N somewhere to make sense, so... no, probably not.
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 You know that road in Bolivia that they made a huge fuss about? Well... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3XBWDlCtns Holy gently caress that is a terrible way to die. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/horror-as-bus-plunges-off-road-of-death-170743 Why the gently caress didn't they get out of the bus and walk that 50m?
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The people standing on the road and trying to guide were the passengers I thought, so only the driver died?
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Measly Twerp posted:Why the gently caress didn't they get out of the bus and walk that 50m? Assuming "they" is the passengers as nothing else makes sense, did you even read the link you posted? It specifically states "killing driver" and "It is thought he had unloaded his 50 passengers before attempting to negotiate the deadly road."
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Huh. Must have been a different bus I was reading about earlier, but basically 28 people in a bus died there.
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That is awful about the drive but I'm sooooo relieved it wasn't full of people. Holy crap that was an awful video I wish I'd never watched.
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Feb 3, 2013 19:47
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Anyone know is there's a stream for tonights ep?
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Jut posted:Anyone know is there's a stream for tonights ep? http://www.stream2watch.me/live-tv/bbc-2-live-stream Seems to work, terrible quality though
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Hmm, I'd forgotten how fackin' ugly the LFA is. Edit: I didn't know anywhere except Japan did musical roads. InitialDave fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Feb 3, 2013 |
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Feb 3, 2013 21:03
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hahahaha, I love the "55mph" edits.
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It's sort of amazing that Lexus' new design direction is based off the uglier LFA.
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grover posted:hahahaha, I love the "55mph" edits. What, you don't believe those cars top out at 55 at redline in 5th? Unrelated, but I absolutely love the nav system in the LFA.
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Neat episode, not top stuff but pretty cool nonetheless. Also they're 2/2 this series on good SIARPC segments.
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That was such a great episode, I think this series is completely on the right track. I'd probably have the Aston out of the three, simply I love that blue color with the black rims and the fact the LFA, even though much quicker, has such a small fuel tank, I just do not understand it! The Viper would be fun for being a nut in though. The SIARPC was also as good as they get.
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The episode was good, but it seemed to be missing a little something. One thing I did notice was a lack of passion from the guys as they were describing the cars. Oh well, it was cool to see these three beauties in motion together, and the things they did with them were more amusing than your typical car show. I'm just wondering when we'll get to see Stig thrash the Viper:
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I was quite disappointed. Western USA road trip and they don't drive CA-1? Why?
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fivre posted:I was quite disappointed. Western USA road trip and they don't drive CA-1? Why? Probably because they would need to block it off for half the day for film crews and whatnot. It is one thing to grab a scrap of the Blue Ridge, or some desert highway, another entirely to say "gently caress you, drive the 5", in terms of how the CA DOT feels about it.
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Slo-Tek posted:Probably because they would need to block it off for half the day for film crews and whatnot. It is one thing to grab a scrap of the Blue Ridge, or some desert highway, another entirely to say "gently caress you, drive the 5", in terms of how the CA DOT feels about it. Idunno, at least the northern section was pretty deserted when I drove it in the middle of the summer, and still quite beatiful and curvy and, special bonus for Top Gear, rated at 55mph basically the entire way! I did learn quickly that you can't drive that fast on much of it in a Sentra though. Grabbing some of it for half a day near Fort Bragg should have certainly been possible.
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Tekne posted:The episode was good, but it seemed to be missing a little something. One thing I did notice was a lack of passion from the guys as they were describing the cars. Oh well, it was cool to see these three beauties in motion together, and the things they did with them were more amusing than your typical car show. I'm just wondering when we'll get to see Stig thrash the Viper:
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KozmoNaut posted:Unrelated, but I absolutely love the nav system in the LFA. What, you mean the one that tries to reduce driver distraction by involving a human who programs your nav for you over the phone, and then makes you invoke that feature by moving a mouse pointer? That has got to be the dumbest UX "innovation" I've ever seen.
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Can someone who knows about cars explain to me why police pickup trucks can beat hundred thousand dollar supercars in a drag race? I thought it was an ok episode. There wasn't anything great, but there wasn't anything really bad. I really like whenever they go to the US though. Also they played the Saw music for a few seconds near the end for some reason. drunken officeparty fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Feb 4, 2013 |
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drunken officeparty posted:Can someone who knows about cars explain to me why police pickup trucks can beat hundred thousand dollar supercars in a drag race? Those cars/trucks they were in are not standard issue. Those were all prepped for drag racing and highly modified (the truck had a parachute on the back of it).
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drunken officeparty posted:Can someone who knows about cars explain to me why police pickup trucks can beat hundred thousand dollar supercars in a drag race? They kinda keyed on a very well known "Thing" in the US. Its pretty common/funny to see some guy in an upper tier (100K+) car show up to a drag strip and get spanked by the kid in a slightly modified honda/truck. Tires play a huge part in reaction times and ET.
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Data Graham posted:What, you mean the one that tries to reduce driver distraction by involving a human who programs your nav for you over the phone, and then makes you invoke that feature by moving a mouse pointer? It was mostly the concierge functionality I liked, it's so completely over-the-top and fitting for a luxury car. The mouse pointer was idiotic. CannonFodder posted:Sweet Jesus look at those rear tires. Largest tire footprint of any production car ever. 295 in front and 355 on the rears.
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BookaT posted:They kinda keyed on a very well known "Thing" in the US. Its pretty common/funny to see some guy in an upper tier (100K+) car show up to a drag strip and get spanked by the kid in a slightly modified honda/truck. Tires play a huge part in reaction times and ET. Also, nitrous oxide in the non-drag cars.
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grover posted:hahahaha, I love the "55mph" edits. I also like how everytime they're showing the car tach sweep, if you can partially see the speedo the car is accelerating from 30 or 40ish up to 55mph. Except once when it shows 70.
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That was a pretty great episode I thought. And drawing an enormous cock and balls with a car will always be funny to me. Jeremy with that fire extinguisher was good as well.
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I also liked how the concierge was all like "Oh my!  " rather than "Uhhhhhh... wut?"Bet they get all kinds of winners calling in.
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drunken officeparty posted:Can someone who knows about cars explain to me why police pickup trucks can beat hundred thousand dollar supercars in a drag race? The truck will have been specially set up for the strip - special tyres, suspension tuned for exactly that and nothing else, etc. Plus in a drag car it doesn't matter if you tune the engine within an inch of its life and have to rebuild it every 20 miles. Sweevo fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Feb 4, 2013 |
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