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I love Jeremy's Fiat. He made that thing look great  And is my conversion correct on the SUV challenge? Did Hammond seriously get a running, driving, 4wd XJ for $400?
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Jun 29, 2015 01:27
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Watched this about three stiff mojitos deep. It worked really well. *sniff*
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Jun 29, 2015 01:38
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"I hate working on Top Gear." Well on that bombshell...
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Jun 29, 2015 01:43
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my favorite part was clarkson's repeated use of AUGH
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Jun 29, 2015 01:45
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what a brilliant end to a brilliant season cant wait to see what they got line up next.
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Jun 29, 2015 01:47
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Scrambles posted:my favorite part was clarkson's repeated use of AUGH "AUGH" *crashes onto embankment onto which James forces him* Lost it there.
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Jun 29, 2015 01:51
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T1g4h posted:I love Jeremy's Fiat. He made that thing look great Definitely, and he got a nicer later model one ('97+ in the limited trim model with better seats, stereo, etc.). You can find XJ's for well under $4k all day long--they're crazy cheap for what you get. edit: Ohhhh duh $400 not $4k. Wow that is a hell of a deal if it really was $400!
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Jun 29, 2015 02:13
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mod sassinator posted:edit: Ohhhh duh $400 not $4k. Wow that is a hell of a deal if it really was $400! Was it though? 
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Jun 29, 2015 02:53
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Philip J Fry posted:Was it though? Considering it ran and drove and the body looked pretty good, and considering a similar example here goes for at least $2k minimum... 
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Jun 29, 2015 02:56
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Ahaha, those were excellent.
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Jun 29, 2015 03:30
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I was made aware of Top Gear back in 2004 or so when it briefly aired on the Discovery Channel after Mythbusters. Caught a few episodes of that and had been hooked ever since. Gotten the vast majority of my friends hooked on the show as well. It was perhaps the one show we all had in common. The last few seasons have had it's crests and valleys, but this season was going quite well. Who would've figured that it'd end up being the last.  I can't wait to see what the guys'll have lined up next.It was really sobering to go from their antics to an empty studio and stark silence. Bittersweet.
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Jun 29, 2015 05:01
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Well BBC is going to make a new Top Gear, but it won't be the same. Hammond, May, and Clarkson are going to make a new car show with Wilman, and that won't be the same either. Whatever, enjoy what you've had, all things die. I laughed my rear end off at the first map screen in the SUV challenge though.
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Jun 29, 2015 05:36
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Ghostpilot posted:I was made aware of Top Gear back in 2004 or so when it briefly aired on the Discovery Channel after Mythbusters. Caught a few episodes of that and had been hooked ever since. Gotten the vast majority of my friends hooked on the show as well. It was perhaps the one show we all had in common. The last few seasons have had it's crests and valleys, but this season was going quite well. Who would've figured that it'd end up being the last. Same here, first episode I caught was the race with the Ferrari 612 vs a plane to some ski resort. If it wasn't for Top Gear, the Ariel Atom would never have achieved the popularity it has and I would never have gotten the opportunity to drive one, which was one of the funnest days of my life. Gonna miss this show. Remember when everyone thought this was their farewell piece? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q0Svvdrx_E
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Jun 29, 2015 05:38
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My very first car just beat my brother's first car in a top gear challenge (well, half of it anyways). Great way to end the show, though the silence in the studio was sad. I kept hoping Jeremy would walk out and say good night until the credits rolled. drat shame it's over, but they went out on a high note.
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Jun 29, 2015 05:42
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T1g4h posted:Considering it ran and drove and the body looked pretty good, and considering a similar example here goes for at least $2k minimum...
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Jun 29, 2015 10:30
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Jun 29, 2015 10:35
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Man those studio segments were kinda depressing. Just two dudes on a couch in a dead silent studio. Wonder what walking out felt like. There was what, some folk from the production crew around maybe, everyone said their thanks and goodbyes and left. Lol kinda felt like it finished on a whimper.
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Jun 29, 2015 12:08
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Looks like Hammond didn't care about his clothing anymore and was fresh off the farm during the studio segments.
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Jun 29, 2015 12:23
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neckbeard posted:Remember when everyone thought this was their farewell piece? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q0Svvdrx_E I do remember this and I felt like it was the end as well. As far as last night I watched it with a heavy heart. But I still found myself laughing at some of the bits, especially hammond on the plane. _firehawk fucked around with this message at 12:35 on Jun 29, 2015 |
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Jun 29, 2015 12:33
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I've heard that XJs are deadly cheap over there because spare parts are super hard to find and must be ordered at huge markups from the US. Thus you get really nice XJs with some minor issues that are sold for peanuts even compared to what they would cost you here (where they are already cheap as poo poo.) Also holy poo poo the "elephant in the room" was pretty loving funny!
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awesome-express posted:Man those studio segments were kinda depressing. Just two dudes on a couch in a dead silent studio. Wonder what walking out felt like. There was what, some folk from the production crew around maybe, everyone said their thanks and goodbyes and left. Lol kinda felt like it finished on a whimper. I liked the literal elephant in the room at least Glad we got to see the last couple of challenges... I'm hoping the new potential Netflix car show is styled more like American Top Gear with an unending series of challenges and cuts out the studio segments.
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Jun 29, 2015 12:59
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:I've heard that XJs are deadly cheap over there because spare parts are super hard to find and must be ordered at huge markups from the US. Thus you get really nice XJs with some minor issues that are sold for peanuts even compared to what they would cost you here (where they are already cheap as poo poo.) Pretty much the same case here in NZ too, except the cost of shipping is even higher, it can be hundreds and hundreds of dollars *if* a vendor will even ship here in the first place. And they simply don't exist in junkyards. 4.0l Jeeps of any description range from either beat to poo poo with lots of jury-rigged fixes, or really really nice condition ones with prices to match.
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Jun 29, 2015 13:08
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"I've crashed into myself" A fitting quote for Clarkson.
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Jun 29, 2015 13:12
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That ending seemed kind of Sopranos-like, to me. The silence was surprisngly depressing.
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Jun 29, 2015 13:16
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Jun 29, 2015 16:31
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Jun 29, 2015 16:34
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Keyser S0ze posted:BBC 'Murica better show this dammit. And that is why I am so thrilled Clarkson and company are getting the hell off the BBC. It will be so nice to legally watch the latest episodes without doing stupid stuff like buying into a crappy proxy service, etc. The BBC would always tout a figure that Top Gear was the most pirated TV show, and no duh of course it's going to be pirated if you don't offer any way to watch it outside the UK. I can't wait for the BBC management to slowly realize their decisions are poo poo and the Top Gear cash cow is dead.
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At any point did this get a few reshoots, it kind of feels like it did. Also the BBC really doesn't seem like they wanted to air this at all but kind of got forced into it just based on the ending.
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mod sassinator posted:And that is why I am so thrilled Clarkson and company are getting the hell off the BBC. It will be so nice to legally watch the latest episodes without doing stupid stuff like buying into a crappy proxy service, etc. The BBC would always tout a figure that Top Gear was the most pirated TV show, and no duh of course it's going to be pirated if you don't offer any way to watch it outside the UK. I can't wait for the BBC management to slowly realize their decisions are poo poo and the Top Gear cash cow is dead. This. gently caress em Im so glad Youtube is blowing up with TopGgear episodes a little bit cropped and sped up.
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Jun 29, 2015 19:13
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sbaldrick posted:At any point did this get a few reshoots, it kind of feels like it did. I get the impression that the BBC felt like they had to do something with the unused footage, since their international affiliates were pretty pissed about having one of their most popular programs yanked off the air partway through a season, after they'd already sold advertising space for those episodes and had probably paid the BBC a decent amount of money to broadcast Top Gear.
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:Also holy poo poo the "elephant in the room" was pretty loving funny! I suddenly feel like an absolute loving idiot for not getting the joke last night when I watched it. Philip J Fry posted:Was it though? Yeah, I'd say still worth it. I'm pretty sure they showed it in 4WD later on (at least the "PART TIME" light was on  ) so I don't doubt part of that was Hammond intentionally making it look like it was much harder to shift the transfer case than it really was.
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Jun 29, 2015 21:15
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"It's authentically dangerous."
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IOwnCalculus posted:I suddenly feel like an absolute loving idiot for not getting the joke last night when I watched it. Me too  KozmoNaut posted:"It's authentically dangerous." This was my favorite line in the whole episode.
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IOwnCalculus posted:I suddenly feel like an absolute loving idiot for not getting the joke last night when I watched it. Not just you: I read two newspapers that thought it was a replacement for Jezza. Metaphors are hard.
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Jun 29, 2015 22:26
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Jun 29, 2015 22:54
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Normal Person posted:Absolutely lost it when Jeremy backed up over the bicycles.  You can see they've put a cheap-rear end "stunt" bike next to the high-end stuff.
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IOwnCalculus posted:I suddenly feel like an absolute loving idiot for not getting the joke last night when I watched it. Yeah those Jeep transfer cases can sometimes get in a spot where you can't pull it into 4 wheel drive. The solution is to move forward or backward ever so slightly to line up the gears and try again.
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