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I had just taken a fall very similar to James' a couple of months ago (I was running on a Manhattan street just as the rain started, and I came to a sudden stop on a streetcorner and my legs shot out from under me and I landed heavily on my upper back); my ribs are still smarting and causing me shortness of breath today. Between that and the car I felt a great deal of camaraderie with James this whole special. I hope none of the camera gear they used to shoot those mountain landscapes at night got damaged. 
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Ugh, the ending. Should've put that Mustang exo-cage to the test and just hit 'em. Looks like they had a couple of heavier support trucks along with the Discos, too.  Viperidae posted:Oh god, the beaver jokes.
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I'm disappointed the ending wasn't (as I believe someone here suggested) a game of car football in the Falklands.
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Data Graham posted:I had just taken a fall very similar to James' a couple of months ago (I was running on a Manhattan street just as the rain started, and I came to a sudden stop on a streetcorner and my legs shot out from under me and I landed heavily on my upper back); my ribs are still smarting and causing me shortness of breath today. Between that and the car I felt a great deal of camaraderie with James this whole special. I believe Clarkson had stated that they lost quite a bit of camera gear.
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inklesspen posted:I'm disappointed the ending wasn't (as I believe someone here suggested) a game of car football in the Falklands. Agreed. I guess it still would have counted towards Clarkson's "one final warning"? The camera crew escape was both scary and magnificent. Would have loved footage of the group's escape though, I guess they really did take all their cameras with them 
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Logikv9 posted:Agreed. I guess it still would have counted towards Clarkson's "one final warning"? The presenters and a few crew members flew out immediately in the night, according to this
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I don't care how impractical it is, one day I will own a red Lotus Esprit
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Stay classy, Argentina.
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I like the usage of the bar song from Fire Walk With Me and some new Mogwai during the track building scene.
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Ika posted:The presenters and a few crew members flew out immediately in the night, according to this I guess it was too uneventful to include. Thanks.
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Wicaeed posted:I don't care how impractical it is, one day I will own a red Lotus Esprit Not impractical at all. They're excellent for offroading, and can even tow a small trailer.
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I am personally surprised the cooling system held together. That's the weakest link by far.
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I really enjoyed this special. I'm kind of disappointed in the ending though. Clarkson said they'd have an even better ending than the one they planned. Unless that includes the scary exodus, I don't see it. They sat on some steps, stood up, ran away and then freeze frame. I was hoping for something better. I guess they can't really do much to discuss the situation since that would just further throw gas on the fire. There's really nothing they could do that wouldn't just further enrage Argentinians.
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Dec 29, 2014 05:43
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Their planned ending was the car soccer game. The actual ending was them being chased out of Argentina.
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I suspect I missed a lot of humor not having seen Butch Cassidy.
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I know it's unlikely, but I hope Esprit prices don't go up (or supply down) after this. I was supposed to look at a very nice S4 on Friday but had to take a family member to urgent care. It's my hero car from when I was a kid and I've appreciated how its terrible reputation has kept it attainable.
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blk posted:I know it's unlikely, but I hope Esprit prices don't go up (or supply down) after this. I was supposed to look at a very nice S4 on Friday but had to take a family member to urgent care. It's my hero car from when I was a kid and I've appreciated how its terrible reputation has kept it attainable. I could definitely see some increased purchasing intent from the offroad crowd.
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Powershift posted:I could definitely see some increased purchasing intent from the offroad crowd. Haha - amazing how well it did this episode. I look at potential Esprit ownership with eyes wide open and would never expect it to do so well.
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Cojawfee posted:I really enjoyed this special. I'm kind of disappointed in the ending though. Clarkson said they'd have an even better ending than the one they planned. Unless that includes the scary exodus, I don't see it. They sat on some steps, stood up, ran away and then freeze frame. I was hoping for something better. I guess they can't really do much to discuss the situation since that would just further throw gas on the fire. There's really nothing they could do that wouldn't just further enrage Argentinians. It's the ending from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=12090#.VKFDWF4D8w
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I wish they'd escaped to the Falklands, while exclaiming how wonderful it was to be back on British soil. gently caress Argentina. If they get butthurt that easily, they can go to hell.
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I would like to think that at least some of them will watch the special (out of morbid curiosity if nothing else) and discover that the guys spent two weeks basically doing nothing but farting around in swamps and marveling at how beautiful their country is, and then they'll be all like "Welp, we're assholes huh".
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CornHolio posted:I wish they'd escaped to the Falklands, while exclaiming how wonderful it was to be back on British soil.
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Yikes to be on that film crew.
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Residency Evil posted:Yikes to be on that film crew. Yikes to be the guy driving the 2CV during all that.
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They probably didn't know the 2CV was part of the crew. All they knew was some British guy had a Porsche 928 with "gently caress Argentina" on the license plate.
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How did the Lotus not break down, was it a magic lotus?
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sbaldrick posted:How did the Lotus not break down, was it a magic lotus? They didn't have a budget this season, did they? They probably bought the single best condition Lotus available, which had been lovingly maintained by the previous owner at great expense and with uncounted gallons of elbow grease, what was truly a labor of love... and proceeded to beat the everliving piss out of it and then leave it to the mob.
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Part of me wishes they would've playing the sad RoboCop music while the mob was throwing stones at them.
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Cakefool posted:Which end am I looking at? The bell
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I just watched the Christmas special, and it was a really good one. I'm a little sad it got overshadowed by all the stupid Argy-bargy. James' fall from the horse looked seriously dangerous. Straight on his back could have been paralysis. Chile looks like a great place to drive as well. I hope they go back and do a special there. Also, I know it's from a few pages back but.. Ginny posted:The number plates: Jesus christ. You and your rock throwing countrymen are not exactly showing us the best your country has to offer.
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The amount of mental gymnastics required to take offense to the plates is roughly equal to the math people do to confirm HL3.
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Numerology is always the idiot's favorite conspiracy. And the two other cars obviously have nothing to do with anything. But massive mental gymnastics? 1982 Falklands H982 FKL Consider also that Clarkson is the most jingoistic person on UK television whose face is not pixelated and he loves spotting suggestive detail, such as a man filling car from behind appears to be having sex with it. (Or Peniston Oil etc etc) It is a bit too good to be random. The plate is real and has been on the car since it was new, but it wouldn't surprise me too much if they came across the car with the plate first, then designed the challenge to fit it. Only noticed the problem once they had arrived? Then had UK plates saying BE11 END printed in South America or whatever? No way José de San Martín. Still...649 to 258? Evita, your boys took one hell of a beating...
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NtotheTC posted:Jesus christ. You and your rock throwing countrymen are not exactly showing us the best your country has to offer. Not to mention, getting butthurt about losing a war that you started to take over a place where the residents don't want to be "liberated" is just loving retarded in the first place. If the Falklands were Argentine, presumably the people who live there would want to be Argentinians, no? Frankly, the rest of the world should remind Argentina at every opportunity that it got its rear end kicked during a lovely war of aggression that they shouldn't have fought in the first place.
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Check your hindsight and geography privilege, bro. Instead of blaming their own lovely (now defunct) military junta for starting a war it couldn't win, the obvious solution is to blame 3 goofy television celebrities making a comedy car documentary. Chile is the superior Patagonian country, anyway.
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Ola posted:Numerology is always the idiot's favorite conspiracy. And the two other cars obviously have nothing to do with anything. But massive mental gymnastics? Clarkson's plate is the most convincingly insulting one. I actually didn't believe it wasn't staged until I saw somebody's screenshot of the car registration and how it has belonged to that car since its construction. But once you take offense to one thing, everything else just becomes insulting just by being there. The plates could have read ABC123 and somebody would have commented on how it's a snide commentary on Argentinian education.
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PT6A posted:Frankly, the rest of the world should remind Argentina at every opportunity that it got its rear end kicked during a lovely war of aggression that they shouldn't have fought in the first place.
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Ola posted:Numerology is always the idiot's favorite conspiracy. And the two other cars obviously have nothing to do with anything. But massive mental gymnastics? If they are going to get that butthurt over a number plate then maybe they shouldn't of started the war.
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Logikv9 posted:Clarkson's plate is the most convincingly insulting one. I actually didn't believe it wasn't staged until I saw somebody's screenshot of the car registration and how it has belonged to that car since its construction. Oh so this is actually true? That's an impressive coincidence then, it fits right in with the kind of plates Top Gear has had before. I really wanted to believe this was just a minority group causing a shitstorm but with the "Las Malvinas son Argentinas" sign law it's hard to imagine the country doesn't support what the protesters in the end of the special did.
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