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I want to like the i8 but there's just too many stupid things about it.
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CannonFodder posted:Hammond's restored Land Rover was a nice gag. Yeah I was laughing for a good few minutes about that. Normally I don't find Hammond that funny but he really sold it this time, especially that pained expression as he offered lame excuses like "I've been really busy"
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Feb 17, 2015 00:17
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neckbeard posted:Even by German standards...  Really, they added features until stuff broke but then left them in. What is the point of the super easy to break door releases? Anti theft? You know, so you can't fish a wire in and pull them up. Even then I can easily think of better designs than what they went with.
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Feb 17, 2015 00:52
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If you can afford to keep throwing money at a dealership until you get tired of it, the i8 would be really cool.
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Feb 17, 2015 02:35
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CannonFodder posted:Hammond's restored Land Rover was a nice gag. "Can't be too sentimental about these things." 
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Feb 17, 2015 02:46
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The difficulty in opening up the hood is what really got me. Even if it's not meant to be done regularly, that's still just a needlessly complicated method. I mean poo poo. Needing two people and screw drivers to keep it propped open? So dumb.
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Feb 17, 2015 02:56
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holocaust bloopers posted:The difficulty in opening up the hood is what really got me. Even if it's not meant to be done regularly, that's still just a needlessly complicated method. I mean poo poo. Needing two people and screw drivers to keep it propped open? So dumb. I dunno, the kind of people it's marketed at aren't really going to be doing their own repairs and services on it anyway.
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Feb 17, 2015 03:44
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Rudager posted:I dunno, the kind of people it's marketed at aren't really going to be doing their own repairs and services on it anyway. It's a car hood. We as a race have mastered how it ought to function already.
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Feb 17, 2015 03:50
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I think it's mostly what's the point of making the hood that way? Is it weight? The parts it would take to have the hood keep itself up or to add a carbon fiber or aluminum brace to keep it from flexing weigh less than whatever cheeseburger or steak dinner the driver just ate. I understand if they want to keep the manual hood releases. It's supposed to be a super car, so weird things like that can happen. But a hood that has to be held up by two people? That's real great when you're on the side of the road and the low voltage battery is dead and you can't start the gas engine.
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Feb 17, 2015 03:52
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SFH1989 posted:What is the point of the super easy to break door releases? Anti theft? You know, so you can't fish a wire in and pull them up. Even then I can easily think of better designs than what they went with. And the first time there's an electrical fire in one of those, someone is going to die.
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Feb 17, 2015 04:24
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holocaust bloopers posted:It's a car hood. We as a race have mastered how it ought to function already. I like the fact that the shop monkeys who are supposed to be working on this thing are incredulous about the whole procedure. edit: Oh poo poo, that's the sales team that's laughing at it. edit: Also "I'm not selling this car!" "You don't have to, it sells itself" Jonny Nox fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Feb 17, 2015 |
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Feb 17, 2015 05:26
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Jonny Nox posted:I like the fact that the shop monkeys who are supposed to be working on this thing are incredulous about the whole procedure. My favorite was when the guy doing the demo said "The only time the hood will ever be up is when it is in the shop".
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Feb 17, 2015 09:05
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Hammond's ascent perfectly captured my own personal suffering every time I'm made to go on a ferris wheel or some other "fun" contraption designed by civil engineers that has been welded together by the cheapest Romanian they could find and has been standing out in the rain for years and creaks and yawns when it moves and where I can't be sure how well it has been maintained and  "So dependent on things made by other people"
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Feb 17, 2015 09:57
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Tsuru posted:Hammond's ascent perfectly captured my own personal suffering every time I'm made to go on a ferris wheel or some other "fun" contraption designed by civil engineers that has been welded together by the cheapest Romanian they could find and has been standing out in the rain for years and creaks and yawns when it moves and where I can't be sure how well it has been maintained and This is pretty much what I felt like going on a theme park ride in Malaysia, every creak has you doing fatigue calculations in your head.
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Feb 17, 2015 12:17
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Ecstatic posted:This is pretty much what I felt like going on a theme park ride in Malaysia, every creak has you doing fatigue calculations in your head. YES
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Feb 17, 2015 12:40
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Tsuru posted:"I thought you were an engineer?" I think there is likely a certain serenity to be found in not knowing when you need to be really apprehensive.
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Feb 17, 2015 14:05
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I hear that for an extra 4 grand, it comes with an optional aerodynamic manual hood. Yeah you just bolt this just under the windowscreen. 
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Feb 17, 2015 14:45
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Comrade Flynn posted:I want to like the i8 but there's just too many stupid things about it. Seeing it next to the M3 though made the M3 look really dated by comparison. And RE: Firetrucks. I've been lucky enough to work very closely with one major fire truck company and for another, and they're loving incredible machines beneath the skin. A lot of work goes into them to make them what they are, and seeing the wiring and mechanicals (especially the PTO system on a pumper) really makes my inner six-year-old just loving giddy. Every year there's a big fire truck show in Indy, FDIC, it's basically utterly pornographic in nature. Chrome everything, treadplate everything, a pair of ladder trucks in the middle of the arena with ladders fully extended and a US flag hanging from them... it's very jingoistic but at the same time really, really loving awesome as hell. CornHolio fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Feb 17, 2015 |
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Feb 17, 2015 16:16
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So it looks like they're reviewing the new Corvette this series if Wikipedia is to be believed. Brace for: "Fat bloke from Kentucky" "Same plastic they make their news readers out of" LOL PUSHRODS LOL LEAF SPRINGS "But you can't drive it in Britain because (reasons)" Then again Clarkson really liked the ZR-1 (until he sort-of recanted later) so who knows. 
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Feb 17, 2015 16:21
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ColHannibal posted:My favorite was when the guy doing the demo said "The only time the hood will ever be up is when it is in the shop". He honestly seemed to be saying that because he was afraid to break it otherwise.
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Feb 17, 2015 16:55
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Josh Lyman posted:If the winch was powered by a separate engine, what made the stunt different than using any other car? It doesn't, because almost all winches are electrically powered and can be attached to anything. The winch they were using looked like it was hydraulically powered from the rear engine which was probably done because A) offroaders will often wire in a second battery so they don't need a jump after running down the battery winching themselves 20 feet so it would have taken many batteries to scale a dam and B) most electric winches aren't rated for a 100% duty cycle and would overheat if run for that long. The point of the exercise wasn't that only a Land Rover was capable of winching itself up a dam, it was to recreate a (supposedly) very famous commercial in a way that was more in the spirit of what was being advertised, like if they'd found a way to make the Crossfire board game as interesting as in the commercial or found a hamburger where old women couldn't find the beef.
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Feb 17, 2015 17:03
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Cat Hatter posted:Crossfire board game as interesting as in the commercial This really needs to be done, IMO
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Feb 17, 2015 17:05
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CornHolio posted:This really needs to be done, IMO Using Toyota Aygos and a caravan.
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Feb 17, 2015 17:09
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If anyone wants to get rid of their E92 M3 in favor of the clearly much better M4 after this episode, I'd be willing to take it off your hands.
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Feb 17, 2015 17:28
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sean10mm posted:So it looks like they're reviewing the new Corvette this series if Wikipedia is to be believed. Seeing all you US goons getting upset about the firetrucks and now Corvettes is well worth the trolling Top Gear does 
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Feb 18, 2015 00:18
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sean10mm posted:So it looks like they're reviewing the new Corvette this series if Wikipedia is to be believed. Yeah, about that... quote:However, theres a problem. I first noticed it a couple of years ago while driving the previous-generation Corvette ZR1 from San Francisco to the Nevada desert. I know, of course, that American products often seem not so bad when theyre at home I can even tolerate Budweiser in some states but the car really didnt seem to be so bad. Yes, it was a big, daft old Hector, but it looked as though Chevrolet was actually trying to make it more than 1 tons of plastic, pig iron and straight-line grunt.
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Feb 18, 2015 01:06
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What have you done 
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Feb 18, 2015 01:34
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Wow claiming it to drive better than the F-Type are some fighting words I cant wait for James to not accept.
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Feb 18, 2015 01:45
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You Am I posted:Seeing all you US goons getting upset about the firetrucks and now Corvettes is well worth the trolling Top Gear does Oh I'm not upset, I've just seen the show before. 
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Feb 18, 2015 02:40
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Fo3 posted:Aren't there ones (in eastern europe or the ME), that use a giant turbine to flow water/blow it out as well? They're the best. Yes, Yes there is.  Its known as big wind, uses two MiG 21 engines strapped to a T34 chassis and was used after the first gulf war when Saddam ignited half of Kuwait on his way back to Iraq to put out the oil fires. 8000 gallons of water a minute converted to steam by the jet exhaust and used to literally sever the spray of oil out of a broken well head and rob the fire of its fuel. http://www.caranddriver.com/features/stilling-the-fires-of-war-big-wind-page-2
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Feb 21, 2015 04:48
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Ferremit posted:Yes, Yes there is. You can't post that without actually posting a video of it in action! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLIrOyIg6y0
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Feb 21, 2015 13:12
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Repurposed war machines are awesome. Anyone know of more poo poo like that?
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Feb 21, 2015 22:08
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Tsuru posted:Hammond's ascent perfectly captured my own personal suffering every time I'm made to go on a ferris wheel or some other "fun" contraption designed by civil engineers that has been welded together by the cheapest Romanian they could find and has been standing out in the rain for years and creaks and yawns when it moves and where I can't be sure how well it has been maintained and Please don't blame civil engineers for amusement park rides. Especially portable rides with lots of moving parts like ferris wheels. Those are mostly the creation of mechanical engineeers. A civil engineer usually won't be on the design team for anything unless it's a permanent installation, like a roller coaster or something similar. Even then, the civil will usually only design the support structure, and a ME designs the track and cars. Even for bridges with moving parts (drawbridge, etc) the CE will not be responsible for the hinges and motors, our drawing will point there and say "designed by others." I know what you mean about rickety rides though. Last time I went to a fair I saw a "Ring of Fire" that I couldn't believe was erected properly. All the guy wires were slack and bouncing. I could see connections with open bolt holes. But it had passed inspection. I decided that I wasn't going to be getting on anything else there.
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Feb 22, 2015 17:14
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 Yes, it's Captain Slow versus one of the very fastest road cars in history, Italy's 950bhp petrol-electric masterpiece  Sunday's show also sees Richard pit the new Corvette against Porsche's Cayman GTS, a battle of American muscle against German precision! Should be good!
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Feb 22, 2015 17:27
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Ariza posted:
This reminds me, they never did that P1 vs 918 thing, did they?
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Feb 22, 2015 17:29
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pik_d posted:This reminds me, they never did that P1 vs 918 thing, did they? I think they did test them last year on a track in Abu Dhabi or something.
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Feb 22, 2015 18:44
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mobby_6kl posted:I think they did test them on a track in Abu Dhabi or something. The P1 was at Spa, the 918 at Abu Dhabi, unless they went back.
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Feb 22, 2015 18:44
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Oh what I wouldn't give to see that car with a proper classic Ferrari 3/4 window line.
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Feb 22, 2015 18:45
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pik_d posted:This reminds me, they never did that P1 vs 918 thing, did they? I have a feeling they'll never test the three head to head on the track
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Residency Evil posted:I have a feeling they'll never test the three head to head on the track Top Gear magazine was allowed to, which is different obviously, but still it has happened
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