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Top Gear UK is going to be on the Motortrend app and they're making Top Gear America again. https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/top-gear-motortrend-bbc-studios-1203185477/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
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net work error posted:Top Gear UK is going to be on the Motortrend app and they're making Top Gear America again. I'm still salty they cancelled the last Top Gear US. Those guys developed great chemistry and the show really found it's footing. The last couple seasons were great.
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Apr 10, 2019 16:38
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Can't wait for another two seasons of "Welp, they didn't instantly have the chemsitry that Jeremy, James, and Richard built up over 15 years, better cancel it.
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Apr 10, 2019 18:48
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opengl128 posted:I'm still salty they cancelled the last Top Gear US. Those guys developed great chemistry and the show really found it's footing. The last couple seasons were great. Agreed. It was a really good show there at the end.
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Apr 10, 2019 19:04
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I legitimately miss Rutledge and his silly smiling face.
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Apr 11, 2019 03:32
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hrm. I wonder who the hosts are going to be of this new so called top gear. TBH, I don't think they need the baggage that top gear brings and are basically already making the american top gear I want to watch... across all their original shows. I just watched the dirt every day rubicon in old 4WDs and it was great.
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Apr 11, 2019 16:18
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Heh, my mom had a mk III Cortina 
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Apr 12, 2019 00:16
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While they were doing the bit about it being the last ever I thought "Wait, I thought they were just doing films for the next season, is it really over?" They got me.
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Apr 12, 2019 00:39
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I think they really enjoyed the show like aspect of it. Also I'm surprised the BBC let them use that footage
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Apr 12, 2019 00:50
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Cojawfee posted:While they were doing the bit about it being the last ever I thought "Wait, I thought they were just doing films for the next season, is it really over?" They got me. Yeah same here, I was pretty confused until the guy said "Don't stop!" from the crowd. Nice montage though, I've even watched a few of those episodes recently.
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Apr 12, 2019 02:14
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I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING
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Apr 12, 2019 02:32
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPQAHpQS2EI
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Apr 12, 2019 08:39
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In the United States we never got the Cortina. I know it's far from a similar car, but in terms of "everybody having one" would the eighties/early nineties Taurus be the rough equivalent?
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Apr 12, 2019 12:00
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CornHolio posted:In the United States we never got the Cortina. I know it's far from a similar car, but in terms of "everybody having one" would the eighties/early nineties Taurus be the rough equivalent? There seems to have been tons of Escorts running around, too.
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Apr 12, 2019 12:20
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Maybe similar to Contour/Escort/Taurussincx posted:Does anyone know why they're abandoning the studio format? Too much work and hassle over just airing clips? I think Amazon did some analytics of top gear episodes and saw that the specials were a lot more popular. Also, it's probably cheaper. Not only were they filming on location, they also had to film tent segments. Now they just have to do films.
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Apr 12, 2019 12:55
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Odd, I thought the whole premise of TGT was that they no longer have to worry about budget (Because of the unique way in which Amazon is funded)
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Apr 12, 2019 12:59
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CornHolio posted:I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING I was. Then they said the show is going to be 100% the best bits of the show
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Apr 12, 2019 13:41
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The Contour and Fusion are literally Mondeo rebadges. Taurus was bigger. A closer equivalent to the Cortina would be the Falcon-Maverick-Granada-Fairmont lineage, the Sierra was technically closest to the Tempo (ugh) but also quite close to the Fox Mustang (but ofc they also sold it here as the Merkur). E: as far as "everyone has one" goes, think 90s Camry. Turbo Fondant fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Apr 12, 2019 |
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Apr 12, 2019 13:57
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The Mondeo ST wagon made me really mad all we got was the Contour SVT. That thing looked rad.
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Apr 12, 2019 14:59
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opengl128 posted:The Mondeo ST wagon made me really mad all we got was the Contour SVT. That thing looked rad. The Contour SVT was at least...'passable'. I know faint praise. Seeing one now would be like spotting a unicorn.
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Mainly salty as usual that we never get the cool wagons. Also, color me surprised as well the BBC let them use Top Gear footage. Didn't expect that at all.
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Apr 12, 2019 15:15
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opengl128 posted:Mainly salty as usual that we never get the cool wagons. I've been watching new so-called Top Gear since I think season 4 (and caught up on the three previous seasons including the first with Jason Dawes) and I think I recognized every part they showed. I wasn't crying, I had something in my eyes, I promise.
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Apr 12, 2019 15:47
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Sucks to see them so sad about losing their show, they genuinely enjoyed having an audience and the show's format worked well (both TG and TGT). Then again the specials are pretty amazing so at least we'll have that.
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Apr 12, 2019 17:16
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I started tearing up during the church scene when people were holding the pictures of themselves as kids with their parents Fords. Not sure why that got me as I detest all things Ford (had a Taurus wagon once) Was pretty flabbergasted during the montage at the end until the "Don't Stop" guy who was obviously a plant. The old TG scenes were pretty jarring when you notice how young they looked in a few.
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Apr 12, 2019 19:39
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Is Hammond getting smaller?
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Apr 12, 2019 20:15
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Crankit posted:Is Hammond getting smaller? May and Clarkson are getting fatter and it makes Hammond look smaller by comparison.
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Apr 12, 2019 20:29
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sincx posted:Does anyone know why they're abandoning the studio format? Too much work and hassle over just airing clips? Amazon has said they want to keep TGT going for several more seasons, albeit in the shorter "all special" format they're changing to. My guess is that Amazon has enough data to find that the "studio segment, drive car around track, film" format was getting played out (since they know exactly what episodes and parts of episodes people actually watch), so they probably decided that the budget would be better spent on doing fewer episodes per year, but in format that got more viewers (especially people who aren't car enthusiasts) and drew more attention to the show.
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Apr 12, 2019 20:33
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I'm hoping road trips include the old new TG style cheap car challenges, behind the specials those were always a blast to watch. I'll miss conversation street and Hammond's enthusiastic introductions to them, he seemed genuine in his enthusiasm for the terrible puns.
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Apr 12, 2019 21:00
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Data Graham posted:Odd, I thought the whole premise of TGT was that they no longer have to worry about budget Minimum wage workers is not unique.
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Apr 12, 2019 21:35
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drat they got me for a moment there, although I suspected something when Clarkson said "the show as you know it" was ending, I could certainly imagine all the travelling and ridiculous stuff they do has to be getting pretty difficult for these three old farts. I'm super happy they're continuing with the adventures, but losing the audience is kind of a bummer, I generally liked having an occasional break in the tent, although the guests were still mostly pointless and once you cut them, there's little reason to keep the audience around just to watch the clips on the TVs. NumbersMatching320 posted:The Contour and Fusion are literally Mondeo rebadges. Taurus was bigger. A closer equivalent to the Cortina would be the Falcon-Maverick-Granada-Fairmont lineage, the Sierra was technically closest to the Tempo (ugh) but also quite close to the Fox Mustang (but ofc they also sold it here as the Merkur). Maybe the Mustang, in terms of popularity and cultural impact, or Model T if you go further back? Bajaha posted:I'm hoping road trips include the old new TG style cheap car challenges, behind the specials those were always a blast to watch. E: I guess this also answers my previous question. mobby_6kl posted:Does the Sierra from the opening title sequence come up in some episode? I'm only up to the RV episode so far so I'm not sure I missed an episode or it just never made it. mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Apr 12, 2019 |
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The audience seemed to make a lot more sense in the context of TG when it was supposed to look like a physical car show, as in a big hangar or convention center full of actual cool cars you could walk up to and look at, and here’s these three guys who are there to talk about them and demo them to you and talk to your face about what chance you’ll have of sitting in one.
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Apr 12, 2019 23:15
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Elephanthead posted:Minimum wage workers is not unique. Amazon’s minimum wage is $15/hr, more than double the Federal minimum wage.
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Apr 13, 2019 00:12
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So what you're saying is that they are minimum wage workers, hmm... this is just a joke ffs let's not start another communism derail
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Apr 13, 2019 00:35
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So long as they keep Abbie on board with more dialog and shenanigans I will be just fine.
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Apr 13, 2019 01:32
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They definitely should do challenges with whatever car they have and see if they can beat Abbie with the standard option for the task.
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Apr 13, 2019 01:49
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Lol I knew there was a 4th season and they still got me 
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Apr 13, 2019 02:21
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The tent did lose its main purpose early on when they did away with actually going anywhere in it. With no guests, travel, or live prop-gimmicks anymore, the only remaining casualty is Conversation Street. But maybe they can work that into the adventure specials by literally stopping by the side of a road in whatever town they're near, setting up some chairs, and discussing automotive non-sequiturs whilst confused locals look on.
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Nill posted:The tent did lose its main purpose early on when they did away with actually going anywhere in it. With no guests, travel, or live prop-gimmicks anymore, the only remaining casualty is Conversation Street. Or they could sit together in a studio somewhere and chat between segments to fill in the story and give the action segments some contrast.
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Conversation street wouldn't work if filmed during the adventure. The news would be even more out of date than it is now.
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