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drunken officeparty posted:I want them to take a supercar mudding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-4v4I7Gzk0
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sbaldrick posted:The military thing struck me as something that was funny in a production meeting but didn't work in real life It made sense when they started Top Gear USA to draw ideas from the decade and a half of British Top Gear for inspiration, but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. The USA guys did that whole take cars through a military simulation village and get shot at by soldiers and it was fine, but it didn't work to rehash it with Clarkson & Co. Also slow motion expensive explosions are a gimmick that lose their appeal the more often you see them.
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davebo posted:It made sense when they started Top Gear USA to draw ideas from the decade and a half of British Top Gear for inspiration, but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. The USA guys did that whole take cars through a military simulation village and get shot at by soldiers and it was fine, but it didn't work to rehash it with Clarkson & Co. Also slow motion expensive explosions are a gimmick that lose their appeal the more often you see them. Another thing that made me at least like the TGUSA version more is that they had soldiers with them in the cars and on the course the whole time which makes the contrast more noticeable and funny. With them being alone (except for the bad guys) and talking a lot about Edge of Tomorrow beforehand, it seemed less like a military test and more like action movie cosplay.
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projecthalaxy posted:like action movie cosplay. 
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drunken officeparty posted:I want them to take a supercar mudding That's more Roadkill's style.
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projecthalaxy posted:Another thing that made me at least like the TGUSA version more is that they had soldiers with them in the cars and on the course the whole time which makes the contrast more noticeable and funny. With them being alone (except for the bad guys) and talking a lot about Edge of Tomorrow beforehand, it seemed less like a military test and more like action movie cosplay. It's you. You are the person they were making fun of.
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Except that just like with any other cosplay, you're laughing at them and not with them.
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I mean I thought the segment was pretty funny with James's sudden assassination of the Queen being the peak for me (is he on record against the monarchy irl?) but I feel it could have lost several minutes of dead weight. Not sure what else on the episode I'd have given them to though.
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Cojawfee posted:That was pretty good. Much better than the first two. The stuff with Hammond in the Charger was rather overdone, but that seems to be a general trend with everything in the series. Subtlety is not on the agenda. At least we didn't have to put up with Ricky Bobby this time.
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I enjoyed Hammonds childish humor thoroughly.
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That was much more like classic Top Gear in a very enjoyable way. Consistantly funny and at the end The pay off we knew was coming with Clarkson's house being blown to bits. At least they interrupted that funeral for our enjoyment!
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Ohtsam posted:I just noticed Jeremy is wearing high heels in the conversation street intro Yeah, I saw that too. Was that always there?
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This new episode was excellent. Regular service has been restored! 
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I'm starting to guess that the stars-dying-on-the-way-to-the-tent thing is going to be in every single episode. Was a classic episode though.
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I really liked this one too. That Hellcat getting just 6.6 MPG was pretty crazy though.
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projecthalaxy posted:I really liked this one too. That was probably a "dramatization" though. A Hellcat SRT is rated 13C/21H by the EPA, so Hammond was either doing lots of donuts off camera or they fudged it a bit.
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Deteriorata posted:That was probably a "dramatization" though. A Hellcat SRT is rated 13C/21H by the EPA, so Hammond was either doing lots of donuts off camera or they fudged it a bit. would they really do that? just go on
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Data Graham posted:I'd love to know why Hammond didn't get the Hellcat with a manual if he was going to rev the engine in all the tunnels. Must have gotten super annoying having to accelerate and brake and accelerate and brake every time. Probably just downshifted
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Episode 3 was way better than the first two, since it's basically "expensive cars go on road trip, hilarity ensues", and annoyed James May will never not be entertaining.
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What an episode, total turnaround from the previous one. Even the music felt spot on like old TG and the celeb segment was short and easily skipped.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:That's more Roadkill's style. Na, they would build a junker that has the horse power of a supercar, but none of the handling or engineering. Then just go with it.
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I like the celebrity dying every week bit, as well as the drone falling out of the air during the intro.
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Deteriorata posted:That was probably a "dramatization" though. A Hellcat SRT is rated 13C/21H by the EPA, so Hammond was either doing lots of donuts off camera or they fudged it a bit. I mean... This is like, every muscle car ever. Those EPA numbers already rely heavily on getting to the super low ratio top gears all these cars have, and not wringing them out at all. I get a nice ~12-13mpg around town in a gt350 while driving pretty sedately and not breaking 4k RPM. If I stuck around in second and third all the time it'd drop down dramatically np. The only time I get the rated MPG is exclusively highway cruising in 6th at ~65-70mph.
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Gwaihir posted:I mean... This is like, every muscle car ever. Those EPA numbers already rely heavily on getting to the super low ratio top gears all these cars have, and not wringing them out at all. I get a nice ~12-13mpg around town in a gt350 while driving pretty sedately and not breaking 4k RPM. If I stuck around in second and third all the time it'd drop down dramatically np. The only time I get the rated MPG is exclusively highway cruising in 6th at ~65-70mph. Yeah, I find the GT350's 6th gear is pretty hella long, for mileage reasons, but it's also about the only way you're gonna keep the exhaust from barking  Also no torque. But hey, that's what that engine's all about.
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The 6.6MPG was probably an average from the start of the tour to that point, donuts and all. This episode ruled.
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I recall someone, I think it was Matt Farah, saying that they got single-digit mileage out of a last-gen CTS-V over the course of a week. I have no trouble believing the Hellcat can do the same, especially when it's being hooned at every opportunity.
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Celebrity deaths might be better if the three didn't give play by play commentary. Sit there, talk about Pegg's movies and he gently falls off in the background, then turn in surprise. Also can't help but think we got cheated out of a proper self-driving car build challenge but overall this was a good episode. Love May gently dismantling the house.
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The celeb segment is like 2mins long, who gives a poo poo... Hammond could start fellating May and it would still be less painful than STIARPC.
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What I'm not a fan of, to be honest, is the ersatz "Tonight Show" standup material. It all feels really artificial. I mean, not as much so as the old TGUSA studio segments, but definitely more "guys standing on a stage delivering curated lines to a laugh track" than "guys sitting around an engine block table laughing at each other about how gross their eye infections are".
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The awkward tent-flap reveal and walk out sets an awful tone. But add me to the chorus of people declaring this week much, much better.
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Qmass posted:Hammond could start fellating May and it would still be less painful than STIARPC.
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I feel like the show started out wanting to be more of a season-long narrative than just a "format" show. Like, from the framing scenes in Episode 1 (and the epicness of the trailer) I thought there would be this whole story about how they're traveling the world and seeking out interesting cars and car stories, and half the show would be about their real-time travels and the poo poo they get into. I really wasn't expecting it to be this much of a "Top Gear with the numbers filed off".
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