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Mister Kingdom posted:I might have checked it out. Most US car shows are more concerned with making cars go faster in a straight line. The fabrication shows are more annoying than interesting because the shop owner is always on the verge of a massive stroke. I've found a few on the internet that I liked, but I cannot for the life of me remember the one recently where dudes drove into the back of a cargo plane as it is taking off as a teaser for the next (season? episode?) If the answer is "Top Gear US" I'm going to be very disappointed in myself, I even double-checked the ends of the last few episodes...
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Kenshin posted:I've found a few on the internet that I liked, but I cannot for the life of me remember the one recently where dudes drove into the back of a cargo plane as it is taking off as a teaser for the next (season? episode?) It was Top Gear US, S05E02, called "Desert Trailblazers".
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pik_d posted:It was Top Gear US, S05E02, called "Desert Trailblazers". Oh, was it just a joke about "where are we going?" then? I thought it was leading into an episode or a special or something. Oh 
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If you hate Top Gear US to the point that you are literally shaking with sperg rage, you are just being a whiny baby. It's a good show. It's not as great as TGUK, but it's still a good show. Stop being a baby and watch the drat show or don't watch it. Seeing posts of "Wow, these hosts sure suck. Top Gear US sure does suck, right guys?" every week is getting annoying.
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Cojawfee posted:If you hate Top Gear US to the point that you are literally shaking with sperg rage, you are just being a whiny baby. It's a good show. It's not as great as TGUK, but it's still a good show. Stop being a baby and watch the drat show or don't watch it. Seeing posts of "Wow, these hosts sure suck. Top Gear US sure does suck, right guys?" every week is getting annoying. Found rutledge!
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Cojawfee posted:If you hate Top Gear US to the point that you are literally shaking with sperg rage, you are just being a whiny baby. It's a good show. It's not as great as TGUK, but it's still a good show. Stop being a baby and watch the drat show or don't watch it. Seeing posts of "Wow, these hosts sure suck. Top Gear US sure does suck, right guys?" every week is getting annoying. Suck it up princess and stop whining like a baby Also just going back a few posts.... what the hell is rolling coal?
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Cat Terrist posted:Also just going back a few posts.... what the hell is rolling coal? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDxjge5hmY
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Mister Kingdom posted:I might have checked it out. Most US car shows are more concerned with making cars go faster in a straight line. The fabrication shows are more annoying than interesting because the shop owner is always on the verge of a massive stroke.
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I watch Motorweek.  ...when I'm having trouble falling asleep 
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Okkkkaaaaay..... so this is some sort of thing to prove how much of an rear end in a top hat you are or something with a smoke tune?
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Exactly that.
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Not so much that it has a "smoke tune", any pre-DPF diesel engine will smoke when you go wide-open under load like that. It's just another wonderful facet of compensation-mobiles. Make yourself feel better by making everything around you much worse.
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Cat Terrist posted:Okkkkaaaaay..... so this is some sort of thing to prove how much of an rear end in a top hat you are or something with a smoke tune? No, see, it's to prove how much of an rear end in a top hat the other people are. For being bike-riding, tree-hugging, hybrid-driving hippies. I wish siezed rings, diluted oil and shredded bearing upon every one of these fucks.
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All to good for those dieseldouches. What should happen is the injectors should start leaking, and feeding engine oil into the combustion chamber, causing a runaway, so every moving part and most of the stuff near the motor will eventual be destroyed as it consumes itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPEDtKvt4lI
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Unload My Head posted:Not so much that it has a "smoke tune", any pre-DPF diesel engine will smoke when you go wide-open under load like that. No, it's a smoke tune. An electronically injected diesel that's tuned well doesn't smoke like that. The last mechanical diesel in a pickup was the Cummins 6BT in the Ram up to the start of the '98 models before the ISB came around for '98.5. GM switched when the 6.5 came out in '92 and Ford switched when "Power Stroke" branding came around in '94.5. DPFs cut down on the remaining bit of sootiness, but anyone throwing a thick cloud from an electronic engine is either broken or doing it intentionally. The old mechanical diesels aren't nearly as adjustable sort of like a carb vs. EFI, so they can end up being pretty sooty when tuned for power. edit: mod sassinator posted:Yeah I enjoyed All Cars Go To Heaven too. They gave up too early on that poor Cherokee though. I bet they could have swapped in a new axle from one in a junkyard and been on their way. Agreed, but after listening to a lot of their podcasts it seems that while they all know a lot about cars and know how to drive fast cars fast none of the main TST crew really seem to work on their own vehicles very much if at all. They'd probably be more useful than Clarkson, but only if they really had to. wolrah fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Jul 11, 2014 |
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Boo, FinalGear got a takedown notice from the BBC http://www.autoblog.com/2014/07/20/final-gear-top-gear-dmcs-takedown/
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blk posted:Boo, FinalGear got a takedown notice from the BBC  links. It's not like the entire site is gone.
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blk posted:Boo, FinalGear got a takedown notice from the BBC To be honest, I was expecting that site to be nuked well and truly before now.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:You could at least mention that the only thing they took down were I could at least! How dare I! Or if you knew how the DMCA worked, you could make an educated guess that only the illegal stuff was taken down, or take two seconds to read the link instead of asking me to read the news to you blk fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Jul 21, 2014 |
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blk posted:I could at least! How dare I! And don't abuse spoiler tags.
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So apparently there's a Top Gear South Korea. Has anyone seen how it compares to the US or UK (or god forbid, the Australian) version?
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Xelkelvos posted:So apparently there's a Top Gear South Korea. Has anyone seen how it compares to the US or UK (or god forbid, the Australian) version? Never seen it but I did see when they crashed a AH1 Cobra helicopter during a race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EsoWpTO2qg
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Did anybody see Monty Python Live (mostly)? The Top Gear UK guys were potential victims in the "Blackmail" game show sketch.
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tobu posted:Never seen it but I did see when they crashed a AH1 Cobra helicopter during a race: I gotta say I love pretty much everything topgear does but whenever they bust out the "racing a helicopter" schtick it rubs me the wrong way for whatever reason. So I kinda cheered a little bit when that cobra hit the dirt.
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I have no idea where to watch TOPGEAR now and it makes me feel old. Its like when I realized I only know like two people that can find me some weed.Being an adult sucks.
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Preoptopus posted:I have no idea where to watch TOPGEAR now and it makes me feel old. Its like when I realized I only know like two people that can find me some weed.Being an adult sucks. Netflix has most of them. In canada at least.
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Powershift posted:Netflix has most of them. In canada at least. But it has the B music tracks on it. A lot of what I like about top gear is their use of proper music that only the BBC can do.
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Alighieri posted:But it has the B music tracks on it. A lot of what I like about top gear is their use of proper music that only the BBC can do. To tell you exactly where to watch top gear UK online free would be but have you perhaps tried googling?
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Have they said anything about that P1 vs 918 episode recently? They said June/July in the last series and we're in August.
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pik_d posted:Have they said anything about that P1 vs 918 episode recently? They said June/July in the last series and we're in August. They're waiting until the Ferrari laferrari is available at the same time as the other 2 cars. They've just started giving journo test-drives of the laferrari.
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Powershift posted:They're waiting until the Ferrari laferrari is available at the same time as the other 2 cars. They've just started giving journo test-drives of the laferrari. One of the things that came up when I googled "Top Gear P1 918" was that Ferrari don't give Top Gear cars because Ferrari like to tune their cars for the track that it's going to be tested on and Top Gear consider that cheating. The FXX was Schumacher's personal car, and supposedly the 458 was someone else's personal car, which is why Top Gear were able to drive those. That said, getting all three makes a lot more sense considering they're all hybrid hyper-cars, and hopefully someone rich enough to own one will let them drive it. Unless, of course, what I read is a load of poo poo.
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This was a press car, from last season, so they've obviously worked out their issues. It had the plate "F12 FNE"
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Powershift posted:This was a press car, from last season, so they've obviously worked out their issues. It had the plate "F12 FNE" I don't think a car that didn't do a timed lap disproves what I said though.
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The FF from the previous series didn't do a lap time and was a private car. The 599 GTO from series 16 is a press car, and they did a lap with it. So unless you can show me something other than "some dude on the internet said", i'm calling bullshit.
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Powershift posted:The FF from the previous series didn't do a lap time and was a private car. The 599 GTO from series 16 is a press car, and they did a lap with it. OK: http://jalopnik.com/5760248/how-ferrari-spins
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That mentions nothing of top gear.
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Powershift posted:That mentions nothing of top gear. No, but it does show that Ferrari operate how "some dude on the internet said" they do.
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pik_d posted:No, but it does show that Ferrari operate how "some dude on the internet said" they do. Every manufactuer does that. quote:One of the things that came up when I googled "Top Gear P1 918" was that Ferrari don't give Top Gear cars because Ferrari like to tune their cars for the track that it's going to be tested on and Top Gear consider that cheating. You said this, i provided evidence to the contrary, you provided evidence of something only tangentially related.
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Which part are you refuting? That Ferrari tunes their cars for specific tracks? Or that Top Gear frowns upon this?
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The suggestion that the laferrari-p1-918 comparo won't happen because ferrari doesn't lend top gear cars.
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