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I loved the hover van segment. It was probably a lot of fun to film.
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Pretty much the entire hover van parts had me giggling like a mad man, pretty great. Hovercrafts are a blast.
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Jul 22, 2013 11:03
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If you build something that has 3 engines and requires you to shout to talk to the person sitting next to you, that's a successful build as far as I'm concerned.
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Jul 22, 2013 12:35
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It was hilarious, even the SIARPC segement was good.
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Jul 22, 2013 12:40
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beedeebee posted:It was hilarious, even the SIARPC segement was good. Hah, yeah, Hugh Jackman talking about walking around a japanese spa or whatever with his junk hanging out was pretty funny.
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Jul 22, 2013 13:02
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My favourite bits of this show are always them building something. Sure, it's scripted to hell and most of the jokes you can see coming a mile away, but I just like them so much. Although I'll admit I was kind of disappointed the first switch to hover mode to find out it took 90 minutes to sort the skirt out. I was hoping for some sort of "press button, hover mode engaged" sort of thing. Been watching too much sci-fi stuff recently I guess. 
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Jul 22, 2013 13:39
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I was worried that they weren't going to give as much time to the HoverVan. I was thinking they were going to try to slip in another little segment as well. Glad to be wrong, that episode was fantastic.
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Jul 22, 2013 14:25
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blk posted:I wonder how wearing the Union Jack in Britain is taken compared to wearing a giant Stars and Stripes jacket/shirt/whatever in the States. It's probably still something that lower class PATRIOT type people wear.
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Jul 22, 2013 14:59
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neckbeard posted:I was worried that they weren't going to give as much time to the HoverVan. I was thinking they were going to try to slip in another little segment as well. Glad to be wrong, that episode was fantastic. Hopefully they'll do something like they did with the amphibious vehicles and do a second segment with a more ridiculous challenge and fix some of the faults with the HoverVan. Actually some of my favorite segments is when they buy a car to turn it into something else. Like the van turned into a convertible, amphibious cars, the minivan race car, the BMW diesel race car, etc.
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Jul 22, 2013 17:30
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blk posted:I wonder how wearing the Union Jack in Britain is taken compared to wearing a giant Stars and Stripes jacket/shirt/whatever in the States. We don't really do that creepy American-style flag worship. It's just fashion. Slightly naff trashy fashion, but still just fashion. Sweevo fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Jul 22, 2013 |
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Jul 22, 2013 17:43
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When they knocked the guy into the water I had tears pouring down my face. The Hovervan segment was absolutely hilarious.
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Jul 22, 2013 18:35
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Hope we'll see a whole segment about that thing this season: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe5ldu2jB2E
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Jul 22, 2013 18:48
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I was dying when they got stuck on the tree and it came through the window. Because I'm pretty sure that wasn't faked and it was hilarious as hell a whole drat branch came through the window.
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Jul 22, 2013 18:55
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OptimusMatrix posted:I was dying when they got stuck on the tree and it came through the window. Because I'm pretty sure that wasn't faked and it was hilarious as hell a whole drat branch came through the window. That happened to me about twenty times when I decided to go canoeing for the first time in the Everglades. I looked exactly like them, bouncing back and forth into trees and spinning in circles.
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Jul 22, 2013 19:14
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Yeah, trying to dock at the restaurant and knocking the man over were too funny. What a great segment.
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Jul 22, 2013 23:54
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OptimusMatrix posted:Yeah to hell with range I'd rather have it than the black series. Really? You'd like roughly 15 minutes of full out driving? The electric SLS is a stupid toy for stupidly rich people. Of course Clarkson likes it.
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Jul 23, 2013 00:54
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It's a stupid toy for stupid rich people right now, but anyone who is even remotely interested in automobiles knows halo cars can breed innovation for future lineups.
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Backov posted:Really? You'd like roughly 15 minutes of full out driving? And how often would you get the chance to do 15 minutes of full out driving? At regular highway speeds the thing has a range of 200ish miles. It would be dumb on a track, but great on the street/highway.
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Jul 23, 2013 01:20
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Exactly. A lot of the technology that's in your standard econobox started first on a Mercedes or another high end automaker.
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Top Gear did say the S class always gets the fancy things first. So the SLS is probably just for Mercedes to test out electric vehicles before they start bringing out other models.
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Jul 23, 2013 01:25
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I find it a bit poetic that some of those who will buy the electric SLS will undoubtedly do so with oil money.
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Jul 23, 2013 01:56
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Backov posted:The electric SLS is a stupid toy for stupidly rich people. This is different from the Black SLS in what way?
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Jul 23, 2013 04:15
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It's an awesome toy for slightly less rich people.
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Jul 23, 2013 04:19
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Look this is stupid no one wants to wait 20 hours to refill their electric car, the best thing to do is use standardized batteries across all car brands and when at a petrol station, you pay x monies and they whip out your batteries and slap in a full charged set in seconds, then your batteries goes on to be charged for the next customer. This is the only way to make electric cars work.
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Jul 23, 2013 04:55
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Then you have to either take the batteries out one by one and put them back in, or create a standardized sled type thing that you slide out.
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Jul 23, 2013 04:59
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Sweevo posted:We don't really do that creepy American-style flag worship. It's just fashion. Slightly naff trashy fashion, but still just fashion. Yeah, they seem to tend more to a weird obsession with a bunch of inbred Germans.
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Jul 23, 2013 05:31
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The SLS has a 60 kWh battery. That's an hour or two at a high-current fast charger, or overnight (~9hrs) at home with a dedicated charger. All Clarkson's doing is basing numbers off of plugging into a normal household socket, for the sake of hyperbole. It doesn't really need a 20hr charge.
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Jul 23, 2013 06:19
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Not to mention that's for a 200 mile charge. On most days I don't drive much more than 16 and whenever someone says "but I live 100 miles from work!" what I hear is "I'm an idiot who bought a house in the wrong area and/or hate myself."
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Jul 23, 2013 06:44
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Living in Los Angeles you certainly see enough charge stations in parking ramps and so on. So if you were a in town (town being the city of Los Angeles) driver you can certainly charge and often get preferential parking treatment (For now) across the city.
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OptimusMatrix posted:Exactly. A lot of the technology that's in your standard econobox started first on a Mercedes or another high end automaker.
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Jul 23, 2013 09:55
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Not sure if I've posted this - this is at one of the propmakers we use. 
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Jul 23, 2013 11:24
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blk posted:] No one gives a poo poo because the only people who obsess about the flag in the UK are National Front facists. Most people couldn't even tell you if it was upside down or not. Oh, and it's the Union flag if it's not on the back of a ship 
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That was a pretty fun episode, the best one so far. Love the SLS segment, Hugh Jackman was great and the HoverVan was great. Loved the pissed off look on the restaurateurs as they got sprayed.
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Jul 23, 2013 13:15
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drgitlin posted:Oh, and it's the Union flag if it's not on the back of a ship I learnt that from Doctor Who 
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Jul 23, 2013 14:12
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I don't know why, but I laughed so much at the Hovervan ruining people's lunch. Just the massive failure of the thing made it funny.
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In particular, I liked where this was going before they cut away: But yeah, it was a fun episode - I usually enjoy their "build" challenges when they're taking it seriously. So this or the stuff like the diesel BMW race car are among my favorites, while the random "lol won't it be funny..." things are less so. SIARPC was cool too, as was the review. Hopefully they can keep up the momentum with the rest of the series.
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Next week looks pretty solid Jeremy and James test different crossover SUVs and their caravan towing capabilities • Richard is in Italy testing two Lamborghinis • James is on the track testing a modern recreation of the classic Porsche 911 Can't imagine James testing something besides the Singer 911 SIARPC is Steven Tyler, hoping they talk about his Venom GT a bit
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It's not standardised across different manufacturers, but Tesla have developed a system to switch out battery packs in 90 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5V0vL3nnHY
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I just realized one of the hovercraft's fan blades is missing:
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Was that before or after it was fished out of the boat ramp? And that was the first iteration, so not all that surprising given its performance.
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