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The Top Gear test track is in google street view, now. Wonder what the google prius's time was?: https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF...w&ved=0CLEBEPwS E: lol @ Stig drifting a Mercedes past the Prius around Hammerhead. I hope they do a segment about this. You can see cameramen at some spots, so... fingers crossed! grover fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Jan 23, 2014 |
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You didn't post the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi-ljpuEGnA
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Jan 23, 2014 22:34
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Not a Prius.
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mod sassinator posted:I would be OK with an entire hour long Top Gear episode of all the guys driving somewhere boring in boring cars in real time. I bet the James May one would be a fascinating discussion of mechanics and machines.
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http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/top-gear-series-21-preview-gallery-pictures-2014-1-24quote:Retro hot hatches
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neckbeard posted:http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/top-gear-series-21-preview-gallery-pictures-2014-1-24  I never realized how badly I wanted a TG-reenacted Smokey and the Bandit. Richard looks so comfortable as a mini-Burt.
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Oh god, Richard in the Trans-Am as Burt, James in the truck as Jerry Reed, and Clarkson chasing them as the sheriff. That would be awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnRwQjTYfGI
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neckbeard posted:http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/top-gear-series-21-preview-gallery-pictures-2014-1-24 If there's not at least one Peugeot 205 GTI, I'm going to be very cross indeed. Ninja edit: They're reviewing the Zenvo ST-1! Finally!
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:You didn't post the video! You this is what happens when you startle the stig. He feels the need to mark his territory.
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Jan 25, 2014 09:55
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Isn't Season 21 starting tonight? Actually, hasn't it been on for about 10 minutes?
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SpannerX posted:Isn't Season 21 starting tonight? Actually, hasn't it been on for about 10 minutes? Should be.
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Jusupov posted:Should be. Doesn't matter to me actually, I can't watch it till it shows up on what ever channel we get it on over in Canuckastan anyway.  But I love hearing about it early. I've been going through what they have on Netflix lately with the WIFU. She loves the show! But it might be the accents...
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I'm hoping they finally review the new 911 this season.
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Cheap hot hatch challenge started well but got a bit stupid/scripted in the last segment. I still laughed a lot throughout the episode though.
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Yeah, there were some ok jokes in there but overall it dragged on far longer than it should have and now I'm looking forward to the next Roadkill and Chris Harris on Cars even more.
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Yeah there have been better episodes for sure.
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Ha, the restoration centre is a film studio in Bristol - the shutter where they rolled the cars out used to be my parking space. e: this bit with the keys is interminable. e: oh, makes sense now - they filmed Trollied in that studio which is where that supermarket set comes from.
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When I heard "Top Gear Police" I got really excited and thought we'd get to see the cars they made several series back.
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Richard looked like Freddie Mercury with that mustache.
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And Jeremy looked like a fat John Cleese
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Loved the Top Gear Police motto: Ambitiose sed ineptum Ambitious but rubbish. I laughed the hardest when Hammond's car had a knackered engine but he still had a ridiculously optimistic facial expression.
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Yeah, it wasn't great with the scripting, but still a pretty solid season start in my opinion.
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Hugh Bonneville was a great guest. So, the nova- that was the Chevy sprint in the states, wasn't it?
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I think the Chevy was a Suzuki, the Nova here was the Opel Corsa everywhere else, which then became the Vauxhall Corsa after a while here.
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echoplex posted:I think the Chevy was a Suzuki, the Nova here was the Opel Corsa everywhere else, which then became the Vauxhall Corsa after a while here. I was almost speechless at the hazard light ignition hack, which a cursory google says is totally true. God drat. 
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I realize it was pretty scripted, but drat if I didn't laugh at Clarkson in the supermarket
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It started promising but got very old towards the final third of the episode. God knows why they decided to draw out a 15 min challenge to take up an entire episode...guess there were not many good cars to review or something.
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Obviously it was scripted, but I did enjoy the stunt where Clarkson climbed out of his window and over the car.
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Yeah I thought it was kind of a meh episode. Would have been more fun if they could have gotten non-crap cars like the Escort Cosworth Clarkson loves or a Lancia Delta Integrale. One thing I am looking forward to is the Mercedes G63 6x6 review they teased in the preview video!
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It didn't seem scripted to me, at all. Now that some of you have pointed it out, i'll go back and see if i can spot any subtle hints, but i really think it was all real and legit. Clarkson and may were so unscathed by the explosions because they've been in so many. It's like poison, you build up a tolerance.
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That's also why the "drone footage" was clearly from a helicopter. They're just that good.
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I've noticed that the really terrible scripting always heavily involves Hammond and his lovely pantomime level acting skills. May and Clarkson can ad-lib around a script but i think the knock on the noggin did for Hammonds improvisational brain functions I laughed really hard at Pikeys Peak though.
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I about loving died when Hammond's car wouldn't start and Clarkson hauled rear end in his police car to drive in front of him. The part with the police vehicles was annoyingly scripted but Clarkson driving the drone off the road and into the grass was pretty funny. So was May's handbrake turn when they first showed up with the hatches.
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That episode was all the funnier for me because I owned a nova once. It was red with brown remold tyres and an sri interior. Someone stole the rear bumper and then I crashed it into the back of a fiat. Didn't know about the hazard hack though.
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It was a fairly plain episode. Would've been better if they gave the hot hatches two segments instead of three, and had some crazy supercar with POWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRR for the last segment.
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You Am I posted:It was a fairly plain episode. Would've been better if they gave the hot hatches two segments instead of three, and had some crazy supercar with POWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRR for the last segment. So, Top Gear US?
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I wish they wouldn't ham it up with clearly scripted explosions so much. What happened to good old-fashioned careless driving to damage their vehicles?
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a primate posted:I wish they wouldn't ham it up with clearly scripted explosions so much. What happened to good old-fashioned careless driving to damage their vehicles? Bumping into James' car, no matter how scripted or repetitive will never not be funny.
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neckbeard posted:Bumping into James' car, no matter how scripted or repetitive will never not be funny. Casually closing the passenger side door on Hammond's car using his own car's rear bumper was a nice touch.
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