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fivre posted:Unfortunately they're all too old at this point, and I expect the next special will be "Top Gear drives to the shops to pick up their medication" or somesuch. Best bit of the episode, IMHO: "Why can't we do a Christmas special one year where we go from Miko* to Portofino? "How luxurious can this be?"." "I was the first to check in to a 5-star hotel, and as you can see I've done it properly: a man is carrying all my bags." "But then Jeremy arrived" *Dumb horn* "Oh my word, Jeremy. Look what you got as your car, it's the new Ferrari FF." "I wonder where Hammond is?" "Hammond had indeed checked in to a Formule Un in a Renault 4." * Miko, Barcelona?
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webmeister posted:Pretty sure he said Monaco. Well gently caress. Headphones cleared up that he did indeed say "Monaco". That makes a lot more sense. Miko   
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Gorilla Salad posted:I really liked the opening bit where they were talking to the camera outside of Number 10 and the PM came out and said, "Stay away from India!" Top Gear - Ambitious, but rubbish.
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gently caress the special, I just bought my ticket to the greatest show on Earth   I'm all giddy with excitement!
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4G63 posted:I hope you have fun but when I went to their Live show in Sydney it sucked How so? Was it boring?
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You Am I posted:I went to the Live show in Australia. It was a mixture of cool stunts and advertising from Shell. I naturally tune out advertising, but with the price I paid for my ticket, I hope they refrain from it this time.
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Slimbo posted:I went to this in London in November, it was a bit disappointing really. You've got about an hour or so of track action (the Group B rally cars were awesome), then had to sit about for 5 hours where the only thing you could do was go to the exhibition stall and browse lots of automotive companies selling stuff, then the arena show which lasts about an hour which was entertaining enough. They're doing 2-3 shows spaced 3 hours apart, per day. So hopefully, they've streamlined everything a bit.
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Deceptor101 posted:Jeremy putting v8's on things was one of my favorite bits, even if all the comments were scripted. The V8-powered blender will go down in history as one of mankind's greatest achievements.
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Philip J Fry posted:I didn't even bother watching the second half after SIARPC. Next week sounds like it could be amazing though... I am eagerly awaiting this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy5rkw4SeP4
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You Am I posted:That was a really enjoyable episode, the Fisker was an interesting car, the Ferrari/Bentley ice race was very well filmed and edited and the mobility cart race wasn't too stupid or arseholish. This was pretty much my immediate reaction as well. The Ferrari/Bentley ice race was brilliantly edited with the cuts between the ice and the actual Silverstone track. The two different engine notes worked really well together, I just love how outright dirty the otherwise dignified and conservative Bentley sounds.
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Ecstatic posted:I assume on the Mclaren front you were talking about the F1 GTR, which was just crashed by Be honest, would you trust this man to drive an F1? 
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Matlock posted:I'm on my tear through Top Gear, beginning S2E5 right now. I do hope the Car Sales Talks end soon, although James May's dulcet tones work far better than Jason Dawes' blubbery garble in such segments. I believe they end after season 2. Seasons 3 and 4 are where the show really got into its groove.
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CornHolio posted:I really liked the episode where they reviewed a whole lot of Malaysian cars. Sure they said all of them were terrible but it was fun seeing them drive regular cars and review them. I think they were general Pacific Rim cars, there was a Hyundai But perhaps you were thinking of the "presenting cheap cars to investment bankers" segment, where they had three Malaysian cars and tried to play up their advantages to a bunch of bankers. Both segments were really good, I thought.
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Cat Terrist posted:Toni Gardenmeiser is not the Stig Calling it now, CT is the Stig.
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Cat Terrist posted:Yes exactly, I *know* how poo poo goes wrong. Why on earth do you think I'm having a hissy fit to such an avoidable incident? The simple fact is Montoya was going far, far too fast and it was only luck that a marshall or track worker wasnt hurt as a result and I can only ask what the hell was he thinking? Kaptain Ballistik, then. Would give them a good reason for never letting him speak.
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Preoptopus posted:Its not the first time they have recycled stuff from Clarkson's movies/life. I mean his movies feature a ton of the same super cars that he tests on the show although sometimes there are inconsistencies in some of his reviews. 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.
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bolind posted:I'm pretty sure we could lock three choice AI members in a garage with a welder and a bunch of beaters and get a better show than this one. Depends on your definition of "better", but I'm sure it would be quite entertaining. I'm voting Mooecow, DJ Commie and Dr 14 INCH DICK Md, with Cat Terrist as the SAtig.
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fivre posted:Fixed that for you. I'm seriously considering bringing a brand new King Dick spanner or something similar to the Top Gear Live show to see if I can get James to sign it.
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Cojawfee posted:That's what they need to do. gently caress off reviewing new cars. Review old cars. Discuss the history and previous models of popular cars. I'd love to learn about the evolution of the 3 series, or the history Ferrari or something. Granted the new M5 is actually different from the last one, but it's still a new M5. And do more amateur racing segments like the rallycross bit. It felt like they were genuinely just having great fun and happened to have the cameras rolling. I'd love it if they focused a bit more on the whole "if you've got petrol in your veins, here's how you can go racing and have fun without breaking the bank" thing.
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Holy poo poo, my Platinum/A-class ticket to Top Gear Live means I get a backstage pass and a tour after the show. Fuckin' A!  I am so bringing a spanner for May to sign.
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Hammond won't be there, apparently it's a May+Clarkson-only thing. Not that I mind, really.
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vote_no posted:A trans-Canada episode would be great, except it'd take too long to go from Saint Johns to Vancouver or the Alaskan border. I still want an Alcan Highway episode from either UK or US, that seems doable. Do the Dalton Highway as cheaply as possible. What could possibly go wrong?
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Sinestro posted:Jeremy Clarkson posted something exciting on twitter: Clarkson will probably be in the Ferrari FF. Isn't that the latest greatest GT car?
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InitialDave posted:"Can we get further than Napoleon into Russia?" (driving French cars) I vote for this. Fixing French electronics with backwoods Russian assistance? Comedy gold right there.
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Cojawfee posted:I think that one was pretty much the worst of the bunch. The Charger was pretty awesome, but I've seen those before. The Taurus was amazing, plus I'm a Ford guy. Then the Caprice was all "herp derp, I'm a police car." It looked boring, not aggressive like a police car should. Why should a police car look aggressive? I'd prefer police officers (and their vehicles) to be friendly and curteous, but firm and decisive. Not aggressive.
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Cojawfee posted:No one wants to load up an action movie and a bad guy is being chased in a boring Peugot. You must have never watched Ronin  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITS5GkkqgEQ
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Counterpoint: That is in no way a boring Peugeot.
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Data Graham posted:They are, actually. They're just PS2s, only in a custom size. And a significantly higher speed rating due to a higher-spec construction. So while it may share the name, the tire itself is different.
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InitialDave posted:Going off at a mild tangent from this, how do you buy the Veyron-spec tyres? Can you only buy them through Bugatti, or can anyone special-order a set for their quad-turbo V12 XJ220 or whatever? VolumeOverTalent posted:I remember something about having to send the wheels away somewhere to be fitted with new tyres... I might just be imagining it though. You have to special-order the tires for the Veyron, they're made on a special production line because they need to be absolutely perfectly made. It's no fun having a blowout while doing a top speed run, after all. Whether you can actually order them directly from Michelin, I would think so, if you can pony up the cash. I think you need to have a specialist fit the tires, probably because seating the bead properly etc. on a 400+kph ultrahypermegacar is somewhat important. The Veyron uses the Michelin PAX runflat system, which require specially-designed rims:  Obviously, that's not a Veyron wheel, PAX tires are used on a bunch of more pedestrian vehicles as well. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Sep 22, 2012 |
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Mr. May and Mr. Clarkson will be out on Dee-Vee-Dee in November, trying to find the worst car.... In the world! (while also ragging on each other's cars) http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2012/10/25/video-highlights-from-the-brand-new-top-gear-dvd-the-worst-car-in-the-history-of-the-world/ I really hope this turns out like a full-length version of their bit on communistical cars. It was one of my favorite bits of TG ever, and there's no Hammond!
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Data Graham posted:Nah, that was James' Fiat Panda. Not really, from reading his columns, I think his is gray and it definitely has alloy wheels. Top Gear scripted and partially fake?! Heavens no!
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Change that one to "Drink whenever Brewer is an insufferable cockney oval office" and you'll be hammered within seconds.
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Gorilla Salad posted:I hate it when I hear someone say "Coop" instead of coupé. A coop is where you keep chickens. The 'k' makes him look like he has the raddest mustache, as befitting the driver of a coop.
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i understand why the dislike the Peugeot 308. It's ungainly to look at and dull to drive. But then they flash various other recent Peugeots, calling them all crap, which most of them are. But the last car shown is the 508, which has been widely hailed as a resurrection of the old Peugeot virtues of making competent-handling family cars for not a lot of money, that you could comfortably drive across the world. Probably some intern who didn't know what the hell he was doing, lumping it in with the admittedly dreadful cars they've served up for years. For all their failings, there is an unbroken line of well-handling sedans and wagons with the 504, 505, 405, 605, 406, 607, 407 and 508 all being solid. And then they went and smashed up a Panda that looked exactly like my old car, the wankers <  >
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mobby_6kl posted:
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The international teaser for season 19 has been posted (it's full of old footage, but there's a good reason for it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7i7GISSjvU 0:48 on is particularly brilliant.
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I count two metallic phalluses and one cock in that picture.
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I was in stitches all the way through the P45 segment. It's easily tied with the Reliant Robin bit as the funniest thing they've ever done.
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fivre posted:If James May were not paid to go outside, he would just sit in his house and I bet his entire tool collection is completely spotless, despite actually working on his own cars and bikes.
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grover posted:hahahaha, I love the "55mph" edits. What, you don't believe those cars top out at 55 at redline in 5th? Unrelated, but I absolutely love the nav system in the LFA.
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