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Jeremy's Jag sounded loving amazing with those six unsilenced exhausts, like the truck from Duel. Or the Battletruck. Apart from that, yeah, the weakest special by far. The best bits were unscripted, but unfortunately the scripted stuff was about 95% of the show.
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That was the first time I've ever wandered out of the room to do something else during SIARPC.
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CornHolio posted:I thought the car Will designed from scratch was pretty awesome looking.
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Matt LeBlanc's apparently into car and (especially) motorbike racing, so while he's not going to be at Jay Leno levels of auto-nerdery, he'll have something to talk about. And I've seen him in person; when he drops the Joey persona he's a pretty sharp and witty guy, so I doubt the interview will be like will-dot-i-dot-am-dot's  .(Incidentally, I have never heard a Black Eyed Peas song; it sounds like this is a Good Thing.)
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Jan 31, 2012 14:42
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I bet Hammond would have got a cheer if they'd introduced him as Richard J Cheeseburger.
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echoplex posted:Was watching the killer 959 vs F40 segment on youtube the other day, and suddenly it's really obvious how often they blur out the windows to hide the fact that it's not Hammond driving.
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Feb 8, 2012 21:01
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Bigsteve posted:Nick Love is the oval office responsible for Danny Dyer. For that he should be taken into the streets and flogged then shot.. And the episode was going so well, too. One of the funniest newses in ages (and which contained actual news too!), an entertaining guest for SIARPC and James taking the piss out of the entire Power Test concept. But then nope, got to get in the horribly telegraphed and overlong scripted buffoonery where the presenters play up their personas as if they are literally retarded!
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InitialDave posted:Hammond, yes, is just plain annoying, but Clarkson seemed to be playing it straight, and I liked that side of it.
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Bigsteve posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5h9ZPBuBEs
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Feb 13, 2012 22:53
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I would love it if Jeremy and James did a potted history of some aspect of motoring every week. Every time they do one (how modern controls developed/communist cars/Saab) it's gold.
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Feb 26, 2012 22:14
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An understated-but-good episode this week, I thought. The flames coming from that 40 litre German bomber-car's exhausts were absolutely insane. The first track-day segment went on a bit too long, but the hosts clearly having such a terrific time hooning around Hammond and the Audi was genius too.
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KozmoNaut posted:Something that is close to me, being an owner of a small Fiat is that he absolutely gushed over the Panda in his newspaper review but has been 'meh' at best about it on Top Gear. I'm surprised they haven't brought back the Cool Wall to save money for a segment, actually.
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Mar 5, 2012 23:40
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Ineptus Mechanicus posted:Damnit Clarkson maybe I do actually want to hear James talk about airplanes. Would have been better than another celebrity with an expensive designer bad hair day talk about
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Turns out the bit with the jam of learner drivers was staged, which didn't surprise me for some reason - but the bit with the schoolkids running after Jsmes in the Ferrari, they insist, was real.
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Gorilla Salad posted:They could use traditional Russian vehicles likes these ones I've found from EnglishRussia.com  Also, if they were doing something in Russia I could totally see James rocking up in a VT-10 Vityaz articulated crawler. It would suit him perfectly - it's practical, can cover literally any terrain (even water), and is dog-slow.
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Jeremy seemed genuinely terrified taking the P45 onto the A3, and to be honest I can't blame him. What did he say its top speed was, about 35mph? Still, it's his own fault. Bentley put some pics of the car on Twitter; it was driven straight back to the factory after the rally, still caked in mud. It's now part of their development fleet. (Well, they'd have a job selling it after what it was put through.)
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If it had been UK Top Gear that had crashed a helicopter gunship as part of a TV stunt, the Daily Mail would have been calling for Clarkson to be jailed and the show to be cancelled, followed by the BBC being shut down. (And then immigrants deported and gays hung from lampposts, but for the Heil that's just a normal Monday morning.)
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Feb 12, 2013 01:56
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The Terramax was , especially when James just stood there and trusted it to stop. I know driverless vehicles have been around for a while with things like the Grand Challenge and that Pike's Peak race (as well as Top Gear's own segment with the BMW Track Trainer), but I didn't realise they'd got the technology down to that level of packaging. The lidar turret was the only obvious sign that the truck was unmanned, compared to the racks of gear previous autonomous cars had bolted to them.
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Speaking of racial slurs, the Daily Mirror (formally run by Clarkson's old mate Piers Morgan) today ran a story alleging that he used the n-word during a recording in season 19; Clarkson denies it; the Mirror doubles-down. Let's see where this one goes.
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Wamsutta posted:They should rename and reboot entirely. I can't stand Chris Evans, and never have. Like Clarkson, he's an arrogant and abrasive egotist, but the main difference between him and Clarkson is that Jeremy isn't afraid to let himself look like an absolute imbecile, which allows him to get away with whatever rubbish he's spouting, whereas I've never once seen Evans trying to portray himself as anything less than utterly brilliant and a comedic genius and ooh so rock 'n' roll woo, PAY ATTENTION TO ME. The format of "three idiots have calamity-prone misadventures in cars" isn't going to work with someone like that at the centre. And god, no, not Suzi Perry. The BBC's F1 coverage has gone massively downhill since Jake left and she took over. She's so bloody dull.
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The Guardian's saying the same thing, and they're a bit more credible journalistically. (Insofar as any British newspaper can be considered entirely credible.)
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The best parts of EJ's F1 presenting career were: Jake gently winding him up about his F1 team's lack of success in its later years and Eddie getting visibly pissed off about it, and; EJ literally dragging the Ferrari team boss out of the middle of an interview he was doing for Italian TV in Ferrari's own hospitality area to talk to the BBC. He can be entertaining, or an utter prat who gets fixated on having the wrong opinion like a pub bore. We'll find out soon!
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Apparently Richard "Sniff Petrol" Porter has taken up his old TG role of script editor for The Grand Tour - he linked on Twitter to a Sunday Times article he wrote about his Defender which mentioned it in his bio. He's kept it very quiet until now, and I guess it means he's patched things up with Clarkson after being pretty scathing about his post-fracas behaviour in the last chapter of his book.
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Residency Evil posted:Did anyone read it as being "pretty scathing?" TBQH I thought he was pretty reasonable. Clarkson did punch a guy at work.
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