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IDK what you guys are on about but they made it very clear in the last season that one of the bin Ladens had all three cars and that he had offered to lend them to the boys for the head to head. It is exceedingly likely that that is where these cars came from and in my opinion makes the whole matchup that much cooler.
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One small correction: Chris Harris pissed off Ferrari for saying they lend out ringers (Ferrari seems to be over it now) and most recently is banned by Lamborghini for pointing out that they handle like crap now and are basically jewelry.
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Spiffness posted:One small correction: Chris Harris pissed off Ferrari for saying they lend out ringers (Ferrari seems to be over it now) and most recently is banned by Lamborghini for pointing out that they handle like crap now and are basically jewelry. Yeah, that's what I was getting at. And possibly the old trio pissing off more manufacturers as the new season gets on if there's no bbc/british government reigning them in. I'm sure ferrari love Evans, and he hasn't annoyed US manufacturers or governments yet, or any other governments around the world like the old trio have. On the plus side, now the old trio aren't with the bbc, maybe they can go to Iran finally? E: Does anyone know if they are going to go for a new format, like skip the interviews/studio and do it topgear USA style and just have features/challenges only? That's probably the way to go if they don't want to upset manufacturers or talk too much. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Oct 9, 2015 |
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Oct 9, 2015 16:18
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Features a little teaser: http://jalopnik.com/chris-harris-mc...dium=socialflow
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Oct 9, 2015 18:06
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Fo3 posted:Yeah, that's what I was getting at. And possibly the old trio pissing off more manufacturers as the new season gets on if there's no bbc/british government reigning them in. Flip side, with Amazon's war chest they can almost certainly get a personally-owned example of any car they want to test.
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Oct 9, 2015 20:31
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IOwnCalculus posted:Flip side, with Amazon's war chest they can almost certainly get a personally-owned example of any car they want to test. "Fine, gently caress you, we'll just buy one"
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Oct 9, 2015 20:57
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InitialDave posted:"We won't let your nasty journalists slate our car! No Ferrari for you!" Thankfully Ferrari produces supercars in huge quantities and they sit on dealership lots just waiting to be sold.
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Oct 9, 2015 21:26
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IOwnCalculus posted:Flip side, with Amazon's war chest they can almost certainly get a personally-owned example of any car they want to test. They could at the BBC too, the problem at the time was that anyone who wanted to lend them a LaFerrari for a 3 way comparison would have been barred from ever being offered another rare Ferrari.
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Oct 9, 2015 21:38
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InitialDave posted:"We won't let your nasty journalists slate our car! No Ferrari for you!" They did that on one of their trips to the USA: Dodge withdrew the offer of a press loaner Challenger the day before they started recording, so they went out and bought one for cash, at a $10k premium (so what's that, $60k?)
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Oct 9, 2015 21:39
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Fayez Butts posted:They could at the BBC too, the problem at the time was that anyone who wanted to lend them a LaFerrari for a 3 way comparison would have been barred from ever being offered another rare Ferrari. I'm assuming that the BBC, being a publicly-funded entity, probably required more approvals and bureaucracy. If they could guarantee more viewers (and Prime members) from it, I'm sure Bezos would hand them a blank check for drat near anything.
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Oct 9, 2015 21:43
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Residency Evil posted:Thankfully Ferrari produces supercars in huge quantities and they sit on dealership lots just waiting to be sold. spog posted:They did that on one of their trips to the USA: Dodge withdrew the offer of a press loaner Challenger the day before they started recording, so they went out and bought one for cash, at a $10k premium (so what's that, $60k?) IOwnCalculus posted:I'm assuming that the BBC, being a publicly-funded entity, probably required more approvals and bureaucracy. If they could guarantee more viewers (and Prime members) from it, I'm sure Bezos would hand them a blank check for drat near anything.
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Oct 9, 2015 21:58
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InitialDave posted:I bet you could find an owner who would at some point relent if you just kept slapping them in the face with an ever-increasing seven-figure sum. I think this is pretty much how you find new in-demand Ferraris for sale. Almost everyone has a certain dollar figure over which they don't care if they get to buy a new car from Ferrari ever again.
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Oct 9, 2015 22:09
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Not Gear Knobs. https://twitter.com/JeremyClarkson/status/652539027476889600
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https://twitter.com/JeremyClarkson/status/652467492921712640 This indicates they're filming in Portugal.
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Oct 10, 2015 00:32
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Wow I'm amazed the use a helicopter to film on a track like that. Don't they need to worry about rotor wash and such when flying that close to the ground and buildings? Should make for a heck of a shot though!
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So this is a thing that happened...: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUPfLHPUelE e: embeddening Tsuru fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Oct 12, 2015 |
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Oct 12, 2015 15:42
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Well, I guess Clarkson can breathe easy then.
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Oct 13, 2015 09:10
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Interesting that the McLaren had the worst of the conditions and still came up trumps! Still looking forward to Not Gear's take on it though, as that video was kinda .. lacklustre?
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webmeister posted:Interesting that the McLaren had the worst of the conditions and still came up trumps! Still looking forward to Not Gear's take on it though, as that video was kinda .. lacklustre? In the post-television age, there's still something to be said for television making skills.
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Ola posted:In the post-television age, there's still something to be said for television making skills. Editors these days are loving awful. :/
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I didn't mind the long unedited laps, it was interesting to see how the different cars handled the corners. But the driver's summary was home video stuff, a good example of why "scripted" television actually just means "prepared and thought through, not just ad lib babble".
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Oct 13, 2015 13:16
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The thing I thought was curious was how the Porsche was hardly mentioned or shown after the lap.
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Oct 13, 2015 13:29
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 "The P1, now that is a supercar... It has a really good engine." "Now, the Porsh, well, that's a supercar too. Only slightly different." "Now, the Ferrari... Oh yes, well the Ferrari, now that's interesting." "Thank you so much for this tremendous honor."
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Oct 13, 2015 14:34
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Data Graham posted:
A perfect example of why the Stig isn't allowed to talk.
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Cat Hatter posted:A perfect example of why the Stig isn't allowed to talk. Yea I remember Clarkson or someone mentioning that they purposefully made the Stig silent because race car drivers are incredibly boring.
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I am secretly hoping that Amazon is going to build a perfect 1:1 copy of the Top Gear test track somewhere in the world so that all future lap times cam be easily compared to Top Gear's lap times. Also, don't have it at a airport, build the track from scratch without all that runway business so maybe May can find his way around the track for once.
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HolyDukeNukem posted:Yea I remember Clarkson or someone mentioning that they purposefully made the Stig silent because race car drivers are incredibly boring. He's very wrong, you justs need the right driver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QsZhME3-uY
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mobby_6kl posted:He's very wrong, you justs need the right driver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QsZhME3-uY Or vintage Dick Johnson when the commentators were able to talk to the drivers while they were racing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aZN8VB59_E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ds4PU_PweU
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That's the best racing TV I've ever seen.
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I like how he glances back to assess the damage while simultaneously prepping for an absolutely insane power on drift around a corner
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That guy has lots of bad luck and is almost permanently broke because of it. In 1980 while in the lead he was wiped out by a rock on the track. Could only continue racing due to donations and ford backing. If not for donations, he never would have got back there to win in 1981. Later on his son drove for his team, was still always broke, and had to sack his own son because he needed sponsorship money. The sponsors didn't pan out anyway, he had to sell his old winning racecars to cover debt. E: Now he's teamed up with penske. Hopefully that means he can afford his retirement. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 12:32 on Oct 14, 2015 |
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That said, Mike Raymond, the commentator who usually spoke to Johnson was a great bloke and had the same dry sense of humour as him. The only other person who would be able to pull that off was the late great Barry Sheene. Sadly these days the commentators for the V8s are crap and there is no more in car conversations with the drivers
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You Am I posted:That said, Mike Raymond, the commentator who usually spoke to Johnson was a great bloke and had the same dry sense of humour as him. The only other person who would be able to pull that off was the late great Barry Sheene. Still seems like yesterday for me when Sheen died.
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Seems like forever to me. In the F1 thread I was mentioning that after he died and the series went crazy with motor sizes was about the time I stopped following motogp, so about 2002-2004 Speaking of Barry Sheene and Dick Johnson, remember their shell ad? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_5gWURWnnQ
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Fo3 posted:Seems like forever to me. Yeah that was the time I quit watching MotoGP. Was always an avid watcher and even succumbed to buying a Repsol plastered Honda (Silly little NSR-SP150 when because it was learner rider allowed haha). Hearing his voice again, drat I miss his commentary....down the youtube hole I go!
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James may has been doing a thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNLsCUYyk7Q
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Preoptopus posted:James may has been doing a thing. Thanks, as a management consultant I'm enjoying this for probably all the wrong reasons.
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