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DiggityDoink posted:This week's episode was pretty good, I only had to skip the star in a car spot like I do every time. Agreed. Supercars make for bad TV I think. I wish they did more side by side racing on their track, Best Motoring style.
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DiggityDoink posted:I wonder if they know how much people hate the star in a car bit. If I actually watched it on TV I would change the channel during it, it's so bad. I kind of enjoyed the star segment this time - having watched a bit of Mock the Week etc sometimes helps.
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DiggityDoink posted:I wonder if they know how much people hate the star in a car bit. If I actually watched it on TV I would change the channel during it, it's so bad. Every time it came on when I watched it live I took the opportunity to go to the bathroom or make a coffee to try and kill the 10 minutes.
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The Ford F650 is an actual thing you can buy? Why?
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Mar 21, 2018 21:38
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Olympic Mathlete posted:The Ford F650 is an actual thing you can buy? Why? Bigger is always better
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I gotta say I'm really enjoying this season of Top Gear. The long segments with Chris and Matt are good, and there's just enough of Rory's oddballness to be entertaining without being too much.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:The Ford F650 is an actual thing you can buy? Why? I think it's expected that you're going to build something on the back of it, like a tow truck or something. I don't think it's meant to be a commuter.
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Cojawfee posted:I think it's expected that you're going to build something on the back of it, like a tow truck or something. I don't think it's meant to be a commuter. Yeah, the F-650 is a commercial work truck. It's the basis for dump trucks and the like.
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I enjoyed seeing another Stinger GT review, even if it was in typical Top Gear fashion. Make car seem like it's a lot of fun, complain about the aspects that aren't great, then recommend people just buy unspecified models of brands that costs tens of thousands more.
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davebo posted:I enjoyed seeing another Stinger GT review, even if it was in typical Top Gear fashion. Make car seem like it's a lot of fun, complain about the aspects that aren't great, then recommend people just buy unspecified models of brands that costs tens of thousands more. Except instead of tens of thousands more, they recommend a cheapo Hyundai
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Olympic Mathlete posted:The Ford F650 is an actual thing you can buy? Why? I design stuff on F750s pretty regularly. They're pretty sweet.
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The tractor they built in latest top gear episode is registered as a 1978 Chevrolet Leblanc
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Powershift posted:The tractor they built in latest top gear episode is registered as a 1978 Chevrolet Leblanc YEL 512S seems like it should be a gag about something, but I'm not smart enough to figure it out.
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Only 6 episodes this season and the last one was a stinker. I couldn't give a poo poo about SUVs and the testing was boring anyway. The Alpine part was decent but not enough to make up for the rest of the episode.
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Plus, we had the bad news: Eddie Jordan isn't dead.
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The burning Alpine was cool.
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Deteriorata posted:The burning Alpine was cool. That was wild. Pretty car when its not on fire.
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spog posted:Plus, we had the bad news: Eddie Jordan isn't dead. My father worked the Paddock Club at F1 race weekends for a few years and he saw someone drop after having a heath attack. Eddie Jordan ran over and started giving CPR. Not sure if he would be up to it these days.
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Hammerhead's getting the hammer: Top Gear Test Track Could Be Demolished to Make Way for a New Housing Developmentquote:Since 2001, Dunsfold Aerodrome—a disused WWII airfield 40 miles from London—has been the home of Top Gear, including the show's famous test track. But soon, that might not be the case. Local news organization GetSurrey reports that a plan to build 1800 homes at Dunsfold was approved last Thursday, likely moving the test track one step closer to destruction. sic 'em, Stig
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What's dumb is that it costs a whole bunch of money to put that much asphalt down, and it's just some space out in the middle of nowhere surrounded by other space where they could build a bunch of houses. It almost seems like wanting to build over the the runways is simply about wanting to destroy them.
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opengl128 posted:That was wild. Pretty car when its not on fire. Huh, I and the guys I watched with kept commenting on how ugly it was. That front end...
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Powershift posted:What's dumb is that it costs a whole bunch of money to put that much asphalt down, and it's just some space out in the middle of nowhere surrounded by other space where they could build a bunch of houses. Seriously. Just use the existing runways/taxiways as the basis for the neighborhood roads. It would probably hold up a lot better than the much thinner roads they'd build to replace them. ...or buy some of the surrounding farmland instead.
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What if the owners of the farmland don't want to sell it, but the owners of the airfield do?
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Could very well be the airfield owners wanting to do the development, or that they want to sell the land and nobody wants to buy it unless they can build apartments.
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Being from the leafy NIMBY land that is Surrey this is 90% the locals were fed up with the noise and pestered the owners of the site that they just sold it to developers. This happens a lot of sites where there is any kind of motor sport activity. A good example is Castle Combe which has been there since before WW2 and people are moving into the village and complaining about the noise the track makes. It has been around longer than you have and maybe if you had looked at a map before you bought the house you might have noticed a large racing circuit that hosts events pretty much every weekend 8 months of the year. Morons.
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BigPaddy posted:NIMBY That's a pretty common problem here in the US with suburban sprawl. New developments creep up against the local airport and residents start complaining about the noise and about how the engines rattle their windows. Or the smells from the zoo, or the traffic from the industrial park, or...
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I'm more upset about them bulldozing a historical airfield. That kid of history can't be replaced.
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Sweevo posted:What if the owners of the farmland don't want to sell it, but the owners of the airfield do? A cynic would suggest that the owners of the farmland and the airfield both would love to put houses on them and make huge stacks of cash. However, only the professional developers know how to
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Taerkar posted:That's a pretty common problem here in the US with suburban sprawl. New developments creep up against the local airport and residents start complaining about the noise and about how the engines rattle their windows. Dude that happens in downtown Toronto. Bunch of condos went up on former industrial land, and apparently the buyers forgot to check on the still in use abattoir next door lmao.
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BigPaddy posted:Being from the leafy NIMBY land that is Surrey this is 90% the locals were fed up with the noise and pestered the owners of the site that they just sold it to developers. This happens a lot of sites where there is any kind of motor sport activity. A good example is Castle Combe which has been there since before WW2 and people are moving into the village and complaining about the noise the track makes. It has been around longer than you have and maybe if you had looked at a map before you bought the house you might have noticed a large racing circuit that hosts events pretty much every weekend 8 months of the year. Morons. The same reason Brands Hatch can only run the full GP circuit a few times in a year and also the same reason Donnington has constant council noise monitoring even though the local airport makes a shitload more noise.IDGAF about the topgear track though haha.
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Has anyone watched this new Netflix show Fastest Car? Wondering if that's worth watching.
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BigPaddy posted:Being from the leafy NIMBY land that is Surrey this is 90% the locals were fed up with the noise and pestered the owners of the site that they just sold it to developers. This happens a lot of sites where there is any kind of motor sport activity. A good example is Castle Combe which has been there since before WW2 and people are moving into the village and complaining about the noise the track makes. It has been around longer than you have and maybe if you had looked at a map before you bought the house you might have noticed a large racing circuit that hosts events pretty much every weekend 8 months of the year. Morons. Same with Elvington near York, F1 teams & superbikes used to use the massive runway for speed testing a handful of days a year, but it all got brought to a halt by people who were surprised to find that living near an active airfield (there since 1937) can occasionally be a bit noisy. track day bro! posted:The same reason Brands Hatch can only run the full GP circuit a few times in a year and also the same reason Donnington has constant council noise monitoring even though the local airport makes a shitload more noise.IDGAF about the topgear track though haha. Download festival has a strict noise curfew in spite of being on the final approach to East Midlands too.
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wargames posted:Does motor trend no longer release full episode on the youtubes? Correct, full episodes are now only on MTOD. They did keep the same staggered release schedule so episodes still end up free over time, but now you have to watch them through MT's portal.
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Expect like 6 commercial breaks per episode of Roadkill unless you pay them too.
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davebo posted:Has anyone watched this new Netflix show Fastest Car? Wondering if that's worth watching. Powershift posted:There's a new show out on netflix called "fastest car" and it is unbelievably lovely. It's so bad. Like they try to do personality profile things on supercar owners who can't buy a personality. In the one episode, the dude says "many people don't know the car exists" about a Ford GT. In the end the car that wins the whole thing is a rental huracan because they did all the drag races in the first 7 episodes on pavement and the finale on dirt.
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DiggityDoink posted:Expect like 6 commercial breaks per episode of Roadkill unless you pay them too. Frankly, it is worth the money.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Frankly, it is worth the money. No it isn't. They're expecting you to pay for something that is already totally covered by sponsorships and was previously free. Motortrend got on the bandwagon of creating their own streaming service that only has like 3 good shows that only update once a month.
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