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neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

I've been waiting for the Zenvo to be on Top Gear since Top Gear Magazine had it on the front page back in 2010, was sad that it had to do it's lap in the rain.

Kinda wondering if they put off the McLaren P1's lap hoping there would be drier conditions later on

# ¿ Feb 17, 2014 16:26

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 03:42

neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

Mustache Ride posted:

Boom

Best exhaust ever.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2014 14:10

neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

Zarkov Cortez posted:

It needs the audio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmNCziNhMmI

# ¿ Mar 3, 2014 20:36

neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

Data Graham posted:

Arctica

Arctic

# ¿ Mar 10, 2014 14:56

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Bajaha posted:

I'm wishing they'd do a Canadian special, would be fun to watch them bombing through the Canadian Rockies in either something nice or ratty rusted cars they bought online. A drive from coast to coast would be awesome, you could show off all of it, the mountains in BC and Alberta, the flatness of the prairies, Clarkson could get "murdered" in Winnipeg, the murder capitol of Canada, the rolling hills and many lakes of Ontario and then the funky accents of the east coast.

Summer or the dead of winter would work, probably would be really entertaining if it was a cheap car challenge special vs nice cars, but I'm not too picky.

Last episode was really enjoyable I'd say. Looking forward to the next part

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear:_Polar_Special

a coast to coast drive would be awesome, but it's like 6000Km so not too practical and the guys would kill themselves in the winter. Maybe a US/Canada "gold rush" race? San Fransisco, California up to Dawson, Yukon would be epic

# ¿ Mar 11, 2014 19:38

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McTinkerson posted:

Top gear running the Dempster or Alcan in horribly unsuitable vehicles would be entertaining.

I did the Dempster in a Ram 3500, and when it was raining, that felt like a horribly unsuitable vehicle at times.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2014 20:21

neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

Loved the episode, glad May is doing it instead of Clarkson as I don't think we'd have gotten the segments about Italy or Russia, just an extra 40 minutes of nazi jokes.

Mister Kingdom posted:

I liked the use of Spinal Tap's "(Listen to the) Flower People".

I liked the use of Hell March from C&C Red Alert

# ¿ Aug 14, 2014 13:27

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drunkill posted:

The first and second episodes were great, the third one was pretty lovely and then quickly wrapped up in 3 minutes, no real story of the episode like the others, just a bunch of cars James wanted to hsow off.

It felt like something out of the first couple seasons of Top Gear. We didn't need the traveling salesman race at all.

Nothing on the history of Lamborghini either, a car company founded out of spite, big missed opportunity there.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2014 16:05

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Powershift posted:

Top gear is back!

by which i mean there was a new episode of top gear Us

they beaters and trash them in the desert.

edit: really need a gif of tanner passing rut on the highway.

that was their best challenge idea they've had yet. great episode

# ¿ Oct 1, 2014 15:52

neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

pik_d posted:

no real reason.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2014 20:22

neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

Jeremey's take

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/focus/article1467360.ece

quote:

A Top Gear film shoot in the wilds of Argentina ended in a dramatic escape. Jeremy Clarkson reveals how he hid under a bed from an armed mob baying for his blood

It all started to go wrong while we were filming on a mountain in the world�s southernmost ski resort, just outside the city of Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego.

We knew Ushuaia was the port from which the General Belgrano had sailed on its doomed voyage at the start of the Falklands War and we knew that anti-British feelings still run hard and deep, here at the bottom of the world.

As a result we were on our best behaviour. We were posing for all photographs, and happily accepting requests for autographs. The sun was out. All was calm. We were even referring to the slopes as �gradients� Certainly there was no suggestion that we had walked into the middle of a war we thought had ended 32 years ago. But then came word from the bottom of the mountain. Some protesters had arrived and were keen to let everyone know they were unhappy with our visit. Our producers tried to explain that we were there to film at the ski resort and then to host a game of car football in the city. England v Argentina. The Bottom of the World Cup we were going to call it.

They were not listening. They were angry. They said that they were not violent but that a group of men from the local truckers� trade union were on their way. And that when they arrived things would definitely turn nasty. Our local fixers advised that we stop filming immediately, leave the cars on the gradients and go to a nearby hotel.

�This is a mafia state,� said one onlooker. �Best you do as you�re told.�

So we did, but going to the hotel did not work. A gang of people were waiting there. They said they were war veterans, which seemed unlikely as most were in their twenties and thirties. Bonnets were banged. Abuse was hurled. The police arrived and immediately breathalysed Andy Wilman, our executive producer � we�re not sure why.

Richard Hammond, James May and I bravely hid under the beds in a researcher�s room while protesters went through the hotel looking for us. The car park was filling up. More were arriving. This was starting to get ugly.

Back at home, newspapers were saying I had caused the problem by arriving in this political tinderbox in a Porsche bearing the numberplate H982FKL, which if you turned the H into a 1 and transposed the K and the L, could have been seen as a reference to the 1982 Falklands War.

This, however, was untrue. The car had indeed arrived in Argentina with those plates, but two days into our journey, when we were in Chile, a Twitter user pointed out the problem so we removed them.

When we arrived in Tierra del Fuego the car had no plate at all on the front and a meaningless jumble of letters and numbers on the back. And no, it wasn� W3WON. Which it would have been if I�d been trying to ruffle feathers.

The numberplate then wasn�t the issue. But something was causing more and more people to arrive at the hotel. Twitter was rammed with messages from locals saying they wanted blood. One said they were going to barbecue us and eat the meat.

�Burn them. Burn their cars,� said another. Mob rule was in the driving seat.

Government officials then stepped in saying we were no longer welcome in the city, that our safety could not be guaranteed and that we needed to leave Argentina immediately. Plainly they had given us permission to visit simply so they could make political capital from ejecting us when we arrived.

The problem was: how do you leave when the streets are filled with mobs with pickaxe handles, paving stones and bricks? No one had an answer to that one.

Chile is a spit away across the Beagle Channel but we weren�t allowed to cross it because Argentina says it owns the land on the other side, too. We therefore gathered up as many possessions as we could, rounded up the girls from our party and made a dash for the airport.

That night we were in Buenos Aires among sensible Argentinians who couldn�t believe what had happened. And the next morning we were back in Britain.

We felt that with us three gone the situation might calm down. It didn�t.

We had left behind 29 people; cameramen, sound recordists, fixers, locals and producers. They had to make their escape overland in a ragtag collection of hired 4x4s, trucks and the three �star� cars that they had been told to remove from the ski resort.

They faced a long, bumpy and gruelling six-hour trek to the Chilean border and safety. But in the first town the locals were ready. A lorry was blocking the road and as our convoy approached, it reversed at speed towards them, forcing our guys onto the verges, which were filled with people who made it plain they wanted blood. Bricks were hurled, windscreens were smashed and two of the party were cut by flying glass. But they made it through.

And then they had a problem. The next city was Rio Grande. And the word from there was that 300 cars and thousands of locals were setting up an ambush. This turned out to be true.

The British embassies in Chile and Argentina were doing their best to get a police escort. And the nine of us who had escaped were in a hotel room in Buenos Aires working through the night to find a plane and an airfield from which they could get out because, make no mistake, lives were at stake.

Meanwhile, a chase had begun. Our guys were being herded towards the ambush. So they abandoned the star cars, which were filled with hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of camera equipment � and my new hat � at the side of the road. And took off across the frozen wilderness to a remote border post where there isn�t even a road. You get into Chile by fording a river.

We had to get a tractor there to pull them across. And it had to be a fast tractor because we knew our convoy was being chased by the thugs. And you try finding a fast tractor at 2am, in the middle of nowhere. All credit to producer Al Renton that he did it.

With the batteries dying in the convoy�s satellite phone, we lost contact and for six hours had no clue whether they had been caught. Whether our friends were alive or dead. That was a long night. I still haven�t had a chance to speak to any of them but I know they were held at the Argentine border from 3am, when they arrived, until 11am. Why? To allow the thugs to catch up? Who knows? All I really care about is that they are now in Chile and safe.

Tierra del Fuego is not listed as a problem for visitors by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office but there is no question in my mind that we walked into a trap.

I know mischievous newspapers in Britain have said it was all my fault because of the numberplate. But that wasn�t even mentioned down there because the plate in question had been replaced.

No. We were English (apart from one Aussie camera guy and a Scottish doctor) and that was a good enough reason for the state government to send 29 people into a night filled with rage and flying bricks.

�Look what we�ve done,� they will say at the next elections. �Sent the English packing.�

That is true. We got our arses kicked. But there is a glimmer of a silver lining in the whole sorry affair. The game of football would have been a good ending for our Christmas special. But we�ve been gifted something even better by the region�s politicians and their rent-a-mob cohorts.

I�d like to say �gotcha� at this point. But I won�t.

Argentinians denounce '200 years of lies'

Argentine officials and newspapers seized the opportunity of the row over Top Gear�s visit to bash the British in general and the BBC in particular. One official even used it to restate Argentina�s claim to the Falklands, writes Clare Pennington and George Arbuthnott.

Jeremy Clarkson insisted he was unaware that his Porsche�s H982 FKL numberplate could be taken as an allusion to the 1982 conflict and had it removed as soon as he was alerted by Twitter protests.

But Mariano Plecity, the regional government minister in Tierra del Fuego where the incident happened, demanded a written apology from Clarkson and the Top Gear production team, stressing the importance to the region of the Malvinas, as the Falklands are known in Argentina.

�You have to take into account that the Malvinas belong to Tierra del Fuego and the city of Ushuaia is the capital of the Malvinas,� he said. �The licence plate number on the car was a provocation and a very big offence in all of Tierra del Fuego.�

Plecity said the most important thing for the local government had been that Clarkson �leave without his life being threatened, because had he stayed longer, the response from society would have been much bigger� Clarin, the top-selling newspaper in Argentina, rejected Clarkson�s explanation that the use of the numberplate had not been deliberate.

It quoted a member of the war veterans� association as saying the British had a long-running habit of being dishonest.

�They say that they did not want to hurt our feelings but they have been lying to us for 200 years,� said Osvaldo Hilliar.

The strength of anti-British feeling in Tierra del Fuego is illustrated by the twinning earlier this year of Rio Grande, the province�s industrial capital, with Algeciras, a Spanish city near the British territory of Gibraltar, to which Spain has long maintained a claim.

Diario Popular, a Buenos Aires newspaper, said Top Gear had a record of offending foreign countries. It claimed Clarkson had �taunted Asians� with a reference to a �slope� on a bridge in Burma, for which an apology was later made.

The Top Gear presenters also previously risked a riot by driving into redneck country in the Deep South of America with cars including a pick-up truck with the words �man-love rules OK� on it.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2014 15:55

neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

jamal posted:

Wish Tanner had just driven the original golf he had around the ring. Would have been more interesting to see Rut and Adam try to beat that time than just see him drive a race car.

Definitely. The Internets say the Mk7 Golf R can do the ring in ~8 1/2 min so Tanner still probably would have won anyways and wouldn't have seem as forced as it did

# ¿ Oct 9, 2014 15:24

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PT6A posted:

Yes, but... why Trail? Literally every place even remotely near Trail is much nicer than Trail, and probably superior is most every way (except having a large regional hospital... I always assumed they put it in Trail so it would have something going for it).

Being from Castlegar; drat rights.

Delsaber posted:

Holy poo poo, I was just talking to a buddy last week about how cool it would be if Top Gear finally did something in Canada, and bam, they turn up in BC, which is objectively Best Canada.

Have you forgotten about the Top Gear Polar Special?

# ¿ Nov 24, 2014 14:05

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Star War Sex Parrot posted:

pip pip cheerio

'ello guvna, al-oo-mini-um

# ¿ Dec 27, 2014 22:35

neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

(picture) preview of the new episodes:

http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/series-22-top-gear-preview-2015-1-2

looks like there's a couple 'buy a cheap vehicle and have a series of challenges' a tribute to Peugeot, and Hammond goes to Canada in a F-150 SVT Raptor - gently caress yes.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2015 17:09

neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

PT6A posted:

gently caress you, I'd successfully blocked that part of the region's gently caress-uppedness from my memory.

Fake Edit: Bigamist if you're lucky...

I'm hoping there'll be a challenge involving how many Doukhobor girls each truck can tow.

(I'm from Castlegar)

# ¿ Jan 4, 2015 21:26

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My Lovely Horse posted:

I hope there will be another one.

I wouldn't be surprised if all 3 of them rock Hitler-staches for a few min and have a giggle when they shave

# ¿ Jan 12, 2015 17:45

neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

I'm finding it weird that they're hating on Lamborghini for the design being too restrained. Excluding the low production models Sesto Elemento and Veneno, the only model in recent history that had real crazy styling was the Murci�lago SV.

# ¿ Jan 26, 2015 19:18

neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

I could watch interviews with Clarkson critiquing car-related rap lyrics all day

# ¿ Feb 16, 2015 16:23

neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

holocaust bloopers posted:

That is hilariously complicated.

Even by German standards...

# ¿ Feb 16, 2015 20:19

neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

Spiffness posted:

I wish we could get an update on the 7 series and S-class they bought for cheap a few seasons ago.

I know what the update is... but I want to hear them say it.

8-series and CL class

# ¿ Feb 24, 2015 21:42

neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

Next episode is rescuing Hammond from the BC Rocky Mountains in a Ford F150 Raptor - gently caress yes

# ¿ Feb 25, 2015 18:47

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PT6A posted:

I believe they're between the Selkirk range and the Monashee range in Trail (the worst possible town to visit in an otherwise gorgeous area) judging by their tweets during filming. Those mountain ranges are geologically distinct from the Rockies.

Either way, pedantry aside (James May would be proud), it will indeed be an awesome episode. Shame we'll have to wait another few weeks for BBC Canada to actually get its thumb out and broadcast it.

Whoops, I grew up in Castlegar, so have been psyched for this episode when I heard they were stuck in Trail, but I haven't been to the area in at least 15 years.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2015 19:25

neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

Looks like they were on Whitewater Mountain or Mount Brennan between New Denver and Kaslo

# ¿ Mar 2, 2015 04:08

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PT6A posted:

But why Trail, if they were between New Denver and Kaslo? Castlegar has the biggest airport in the area (not saying much) and it would be on the way to Trail.

Go skiing at Red Mountain?

I really loved the new RC-F review "This car is such poo poo that it makes me hate Lexus as whole, so instead I'm going to have some fun in a car that makes me love Lexus"

# ¿ Mar 2, 2015 06:22

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Ola posted:

Is it better or worse than a hullabaloo?

worse than a hullabaloo and a brouhaha combined

# ¿ Mar 10, 2015 18:04

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mod sassinator posted:

I hope Jeremy quits, comes to America and starts a new car show with Jay Leno and Adam Carolla.

Clarkson on Leno's Garage would be awesome

# ¿ Mar 10, 2015 18:35

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SquadronROE posted:

I couldn't even finish the first episode, should I start in something like season 3?

Yeah, they drop the guest segment and their interactions feel a lot less forced/scripted in season 3

# ¿ Apr 10, 2015 20:52

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Terrible Robot posted:

I've been passing the time waiting to see if the trio is going to get another gig or not by watching old seasons (about to start season 11 now). The older seasons are much more entertaining, honestly. Comparing them to the later seasons it's obvious when they got told to tone their poo poo down.

Hammond's crash most likely had a lot to do with that

# ¿ Jun 12, 2015 19:42

neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

Alighieri posted:

TGUS for me started with the Alaska special, I think that was their S1 finale and after that no more studio segments iirc.

They started moving away from the format in season 2, but they still had the SIARPC segments. Season 3 is when they ditched those.

# ¿ Jun 17, 2015 17:23

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spog posted:

Thank you. You have said exactly what I was having trouble putting into words. He's an egomaniac, but not in the good way.

He's also a bit creepy:

At 34, he married Billie Piper aged 18. Her mum was only 3 years older than him.

I think it would be safer to say that at age 18, Billie Piper married his money

# ¿ Jun 17, 2015 17:28

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Foxtrot_13 posted:

I'll have you know there is no such thing as leathal quatity of tea

doing some lovely math:

LD50 of caffeine is 127 mg/Kg
average British male is 84Kg
cup of black tea has up to 70mg of caffeine
152 cups to hit LD50 levels
would need to drink about 36L of tea to hit lethal levels

# ¿ Jun 27, 2015 21:41

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Ghostpilot posted:

I was made aware of Top Gear back in 2004 or so when it briefly aired on the Discovery Channel after Mythbusters. Caught a few episodes of that and had been hooked ever since. Gotten the vast majority of my friends hooked on the show as well. It was perhaps the one show we all had in common. The last few seasons have had it's crests and valleys, but this season was going quite well. Who would've figured that it'd end up being the last. I can't wait to see what the guys'll have lined up next.

It was really sobering to go from their antics to an empty studio and stark silence. Bittersweet.

Same here, first episode I caught was the race with the Ferrari 612 vs a plane to some ski resort. If it wasn't for Top Gear, the Ariel Atom would never have achieved the popularity it has and I would never have gotten the opportunity to drive one, which was one of the funnest days of my life.

Gonna miss this show.

Remember when everyone thought this was their farewell piece? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q0Svvdrx_E

# ¿ Jun 29, 2015 05:38

neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

Just watching some episodes on Netflix, i really hope that either on the new Top Gear or whatever the boys do, they continue making segments featuring touring car racers racing random types of vehicles

# ¿ Jun 30, 2015 03:24

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Preoptopus posted:

James may has been doing a thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNLsCUYyk7Q

I really wanted to see more James May at the Morgan factory.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2015 05:05

neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

Chris Knight posted:

That's way more of a Hammond thing.

True, was just interested in the handcrafted process. Would watch a 5 hour episode of this of James at the Rolls Royce factory

# ¿ Oct 26, 2015 14:04

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mod sassinator posted:

Wow 6 hosts, seriously?

more like Top Zoo amirite?

# ¿ Feb 11, 2016 17:55

neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

Doesn't look like it's on the schedule on History/H2 up in Canada :smith:

# ¿ Apr 26, 2016 15:33

neckbeard: Jan 25, 2004; Oh Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy...

cinematography still looks amazing. Is Chris Evans as intolerable as I think he'll be?

# ¿ May 10, 2016 22:43

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 03:42

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Top Gear UK announced it's coming back on May 29

# ¿ May 11, 2016 16:37

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