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Cojawfee posted:I have to wonder how long tgus will last if all it does is copy old top gear challenges. It's entertaining and all, but top gear is also about car reviews.
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Yeesh, if people are so into vanilla car reviews get the DVDs Clarkson and TG put out every year. They're basically 2 hour long TG shows with only reviews and very little stunts/competitions/etc.
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FogHelmut posted:TGUS might have time to review cars if they didn't spend 30 seconds before and after each commercial break telling us what just happened and what we are going to see next. God that drives me crazy. So unnecessary.
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Feb 16, 2013 16:48
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mod sassinator posted:Yeesh, if people are so into vanilla car reviews get the DVDs Clarkson and TG put out every year. They're basically 2 hour long TG shows with only reviews and very little stunts/competitions/etc. Except for all the crashing cars into each other, driving 911s into concrete structures, and blowing things up, there are indeed no stunts on any Clarkson DVDs.
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opengl128 posted:God that drives me crazy. So unnecessary.
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Feb 16, 2013 17:11
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opengl128 posted:God that drives me crazy. So unnecessary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MFtl2XXnUc
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CornHolio posted:I enjoyed it as well. The Honda was amazing. a radii hike posted:I wish they weren't against each other all the time, there occasionally needs to be a Them vs. The World kind of challenge to break up the monotony and maybe attempt to build some chemistry.
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japtor posted:I've always had a fascination with the massive old American cars so it doesn't get old for me, particularly as they become increasingly poor choices for whatever challenges they have. That said I wouldn't mind seeing them mix it up, like show up with the cars, then the first instruction would be to switch Tanner into Adam's car, Rut into Tanner's, Adam into Rut's. 2: They also did a "team VS the world" when they went through the Utah desert with 'rental' cars. The flying Mustang was magical.
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I'm curious as to when they'll do a US vs UK challenge like they did with the Australians and Germans. Given how harsh they've been about America I'd imagine it being a pretty good show.
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Hammond would get confused and bring an American car to all the challenges.
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Top gear in multiple affordable car review shocker.
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Feb 17, 2013 21:39
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Very hard to criticise an episode with Eric Clapton and car rugby.
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Feb 17, 2013 22:07
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Can someone to a gif of clsrksons girl in handbrake turn reaction please haha?
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Drakkel posted:I'm curious as to when they'll do a US vs UK challenge like they did with the Australians and Germans. Given how harsh they've been about America I'd imagine it being a pretty good show. I've often thought it'd be funnier to do a host swap. UK sends Hammond to shoot a US episode, US sends Adam to shoot in the UK. That way they don't have to edit the same things to show both sides cheating/winning, and the US show won't have to keep pretending that Tanner isn't the Stig.
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Man, they're on a roll with this series, that was really good fun. I liked how they filmed the Matt LeBlanc bit to carry it off as a dumb "Not going to show his face but it's him really" joke and then turned it on its head at the last minute.
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That Mastretta is seriously hideous. I liked the 'Mexican' Chevy Suburban with Illinois tags on it too. 
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I will never tire of car sports.  Jeremy's "oh poo poo" as he realised he was going to really give May a whack was excellent. Pitch got hosed up.
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angryhampster posted:That Mastretta is seriously hideous. I liked the 'Mexican' Chevy Suburban with Illinois tags on it too. I saw that too, I got all confused. Regardless of the fact that they were US, why was someone from Illinois all the way in Mexico for this? Or was it really random chance?
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CanOfMDAmp posted:I saw that too, I got all confused. Regardless of the fact that they were US, why was someone from Illinois all the way in Mexico for this? Or was it really random chance? Truck they rented probably just is registered in IL. I think it was the one they were following in the mountains as well, so it was probably used by the production team.
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So, who do I pay to play car rugby, that was great. Also, I would love to see an next day shot of the pitch. 
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I guess the long break paid off, because this season has been pretty good so far. I'd say this episode was the highlight and it was nice to see another completely over the top ordinary car review. That John McClane test yielded some important results and, as far as I'm concerned, should be standard in any decent car review from this point on.grover posted:TGUS is funded by advertising. Which unfortunately means they'd be unable to give any meaningful car reviews anyhow without risking their ad revenue. Sticking just to segments actually seems like a wise move. Plus Top Gear is an entertainment show, anyway, and that's good. Believe me when I say that you do not want to see a serious car review show. Germany, not very surprisingly, has quite a few of those and it is impossible for them to be more boring and stereotypically German than they already are. You'll have presenters talking at length about trunk space, measured in liters, and why the 6l difference between those two cars is a make or brake issue. Also, be prepared about long-rear end lectures on the finer points of car interior surface feel.
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parrhesia posted:I guess the long break paid off, because this season has been pretty good so far. I'd say this episode was the highlight and it was nice to see another completely over the top ordinary car review. That John McClane test yielded some important results and, as far as I'm concerned, should be standard in any decent car review from this point on. Oh mine. A country full of James Mays. 
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gret posted:Oh mine. A country full of James Mays. It's okay, I fixed your typo.
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They had a lot of topical news jokes this week. Horse meat, the pope, North Korea. And goddrat was that rugby thing great. I want to do that so bad. That looked like more fun than I've ever had doing anything else in my life combined.
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Seasons 17 and 18 felt a bit contrived and stale to me but so far 19 has been in top form. Really loved Jeremy's antics on the musical road in the second episode, looking forward to the third.
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Great episode, though I gotta say, seeing even that small an amount of Matt LeBlanc made me sick to my stomach.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I'll be the odd man out and say the rugby thing went on a bit too long. I've always been curious when they do the car sports thing and beat the poo poo out of a bunch of brand new cars; who pays for them? Does the BBC buy them all then fix them? Rent them and fix them afterwards? Sell for parts? Aside from the body damage I'm sure the drivetrains take a beating too.
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opengl128 posted:I've always been curious when they do the car sports thing and beat the poo poo out of a bunch of brand new cars; who pays for them? Does the BBC buy them all then fix them? Rent them and fix them afterwards? Sell for parts? Aside from the body damage I'm sure the drivetrains take a beating too. Kia give them all the cars they want because its a 20 minute advertisement on one of the most popular shows in the world for free ????
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Mister Kingdom posted:I'll be the odd man out and say the rugby thing went on a bit too long. Yeah, or it didn't escalate enough over the time it was on, I was expecting a lot more carnage and smashed cars. It would have been better if they'd done their usual thing of having a load of touring car drivers or even actual rugby players driving rather than a bunch of random fat old guys
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I'll be the idiot that thought they were going to pack a Kia full of rugby players and try to play a game inside it.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I'll be the odd man out and say the rugby thing went on a bit too long. Thank you. It got boring as hell. The episode was meh at best.
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That grey #5 Cee'd took a hell of a beating. I thought it was pretty impressive before half-time when it was tooling around with a caved in passenger side front door, but near the end the rear passenger door and drivers' door had both joined the fray along with a broken bumper cover and dented passenger quarter panel.
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opengl128 posted:I've always been curious when they do the car sports thing and beat the poo poo out of a bunch of brand new cars; who pays for them? Does the BBC buy them all then fix them? Rent them and fix them afterwards? Sell for parts? Aside from the body damage I'm sure the drivetrains take a beating too. I think all the cars on the show are either borrowed or the BBC covers the cost of buying them. There was one episode where Hammond and Clarkson said they liked the cars they'd used so much they bought them from the BBC.
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Bit too much schilling for Kia there. Referring to the car by brand name in every possible instance, even when it's the only car they've been talking about for the majority of the episode? The celebrity appearances further make me question the integrity of the show. I wonder what the story is. Also funny how the Mastretta is basically the same formula as a Noble or many other home-grown British sports cars with similar defects, yet the best they can do is replace their incessant casual racism with insipid commentary and abbreviated condescension. PS: motoring journalists, for gently caress's sake, when talking about cultures you don't understand, please stop trying to make cute analogies. You don't need to talk about tortillas when reviewing a Mexican car. You don't need to talk about sushi, sumo, geisha or giant robots when talking about a Japanese car. Stop. blk fucked around with this message at 09:03 on Feb 18, 2013 |
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blk posted:Bit too much schilling for Kia there. "If we talk your car up a bit can you give us 10 of them to ram into each other?" I don't mind the PR spin if the results are worth it... It's been a long while now since they last played soccer/sports with cars.
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ctishman posted:Matt LeBlanc, Eric Clapton AND Bruce Willis in one episode? How'd they pull that off? Also, Lewis seemed way more relaxed in this interview than I've ever seen him. The Mclaren bullshit is already starting to fall away. Falken fucked around with this message at 10:57 on Feb 18, 2013 |
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