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yaffle posted:Just don't try to open the hood. "There's no reason to open the hood unless it's in the shop". Isn't that the wiper fluid container down there?
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CannonFodder posted:He said "I went to Humberside" and just assumed it was in England. That name is very British. This made me curious as well. The generation 1 MX-5 he drove at the beginning of the piece was LHD. I suppose "Humberside" must have referred to the airport, unless global warming has been exceptionally kind to the north of England. I guess Mazda provides the cars the reviewers want. Here's the plate.  Did a bit of internet detectiving, it's a German 5-day temporary plate issued in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, valid to Jan 30 2015. Now, who can identify the location? And who can give  a Sherlock Holmes hat and a magnifying glasss?
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Bumming Your Scene posted:Why does suspending him have to involve not airing the episode? Is it better or worse than a hullabaloo?
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sbaldrick posted:Did you count Wolf Hall in that? It's been cancelled as well. Cromwell was ... let go.
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When Angus Deayton got fired from Have I Got News For You, they didn't replace him with a person with similar characteristics. They replaced the entire role and started doing guest hosts every episode. Top Gear should do that as well. One week, Richard and James will get getting along swimmingly with Steve Coogan (in character as Alan Partridge perhaps?), next week they're doing a camper van challenge with Brian Blessed, the week after that they have to suffer a Jedward takeover. Of course it won't work, but it will two series of absolute mayhem before the entire concept goes supernova.
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But...but...that clip with Clarkson in a bouncing car, saying "what in God's name is happening"...might we never see that?
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Mar 12, 2015 21:06
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Dear so-called BBC....
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"You should've heard my language while we were filming this'". *car maintains almost perfect traction in 2 inches of slush* On the cutting room floor: "Oh gosh and father's galoshes! By Jove this fellow is practically afloat upon the snow. I haven't seen such an ill-shod conveyance since dear old grand uncle came home from the pheasant shoot in his co-respoondents, carrying the Earl of Albermarle and their combined quarry on his back. The mud and the dram had done something of a number on them all you see." There is a quite a bit of new Jeremy in there though.
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Watermelon City posted:If Clarkson preemptively went to his bosses what does this mean for the left wing conspiracy to ruin people's fun revealed just a few pages back? Take it with a pinch of artisanal Maldon grain salt. The Guardian is overflowing with opinion pieces on this event, opinion pieces about the number of opinion pieces and so on up to the fourth or fifth meta level.
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PT6A posted:If this were done in the same tone as the film where they tried to understand Peugeot drivers, it would be loving awesome, actually. Yeah, I think that sounds great. They'll have tons of clichés to play with. And "nice" cars that turn out to be horrible is a great recipe for a challenge, think British Leyland and cheap supercars.
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cloudchamber posted:There's something very Alan Partridge about that segment. "...drags the car down on its haunches, giving it a taut stance through the bends. It's clever stuff."
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Cat Terrist posted:This talk about the Guardian reminds me of a rather good show that touched on this very subject..... Such a gem this. Hacker is usually a goof, but in this case he insists on his priority and shows where his wisdom is at, knowing the press. Which of course the unelected, arrogant and actually quite powerful civil servant thinks he does, but really does not. What an amazing piece of comedy.
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The only sort-of public statement he has made was this "rant" saying how the BBC had hosed it up. Given what happened, and that before that he had went to the producer's house to try to apologize, qualifies him for oval office Of The Year. He's scheduled to host Have I Got News For You on April 24th, will be interesting to see if he goes through with it.
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CornHolio posted:Hammond lives in an actual castle? wow. He's done more entertainment shows and advertising.
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Symphoric posted:This is one of the things that aggravates me the most. By firing Clarkson they've made Oisin into a villian and given them no real way to salvage the situation. If TG went on as is Clarkson could have just stepped out and said "Yeah it was my fault I'm a big fat rear end in a top hat" but now Oisin will forever be the guy that killed Top Gear. Reminder: the only sort-of public statement Clarkson has made so far, in addition to some tweets, is to say to a charity auction that this is the fault of the loving BBC execs who have ruined the show.
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Fartpopper posted:May is a gentleman through and through. "Our challenge was this, will we enjoy ourselves in northern Italy with its Barolo wine, Alba truffles, Ferrari cars, winding roads, lovely scenery AND eachother's company?" *television happens* "Yes, 10 point to us, we did enjoy ourselves" Viewing figures: 95 billion, most of them me
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Meydey posted:This is pretty accurate That's amazingly well done. It even included the tasteful Cinematic Orchestra soundtrack. So, take 30 internet points if you accurately identified this Top Gear challenge before 60 seconds of video time had elapsed.
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japtor posted:Cock's Kitchen This week on Cock''s Kitchen, like last week, it's spam and beans.
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Apr 3, 2015 08:54
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Someone smelled the sofa. It still smelled like Bugatti cologne.
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Fo3 posted:They actually didn't have a sofa when they sprayed the cologne in season 10 Bloody hell readers, they didn't even have a sofa! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIFPqVgvnBk
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Post the best Top Gear videos that actually reflects your inner desire to be friends with them and the deletestest scenes u got https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poE2l5Kt8Ww https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aOfjtnjGQI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31xN0KTU99E
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I wonder who they have booked to replace him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmys4LH9jTE
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It would be extremely sad to see Guy Martin do SIARPC, contractually obliged to pretend to gve a poo poo about Spiderman 7 under studio lighting.
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spog posted:http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jun/04/top-gear-bbc-in-james-may-richard-hammond-jeremy-clarkson Ola posted:When Angus Deayton got fired from Have I Got News For You, they didn't replace him with a person with similar characteristics. They replaced the entire role and started doing guest hosts every episode. Top Gear should do that as well. One week, Richard and James will get getting along swimmingly with Steve Coogan (in character as Alan Partridge perhaps?), next week they're doing a camper van challenge with Brian Blessed, the week after that they have to suffer a Jedward takeover. Of course it won't work, but it will two series of absolute mayhem before the entire concept goes supernova. 
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Evans has been on Top Gear at least once, James May got to take the rare Ferrari out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxWMYcPX27s It will be very interesting to see how they get on. I'm banking on spectacular failure or spectacular success, nothing in between. Actually, no, the other way around. It's going to be a tepid non-failure.
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The one thing that can save Top Gear is if the other two hosts are total randoms. [Chris Evans V/O] Tonight on Top Gear. I take a look at alternative uses for camper vans. Reverend Richard Coles takes the new 458 Speciale round the 'Ring. And Kevin Bridges tries to buy insurance for his GSX-R 1000.
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Will be interesting to see how this turns out. It used have way more than just petrolheads tuning in, but it was a prime time Sunday show after all. How many will tune in behind a regionally limited paywall?
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Aug 3, 2015 22:43
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quote:Jeremy thought he was Richard Branson – it was like he’d swallowed a business book you buy at an airport. Haha. In terms of visualizing, I am 100% on board with this.
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Residency Evil posted:
Not at all. European beer buffs are well aware that the current craft beer trend started in the US and has moved to Europe along with beards and lumberjack shirts - despite Europe's beer history perhaps, but the trend has helped the European traditional varieties back into the limelight as well. Both James and Oz will agree to this, but on TV it would probably be a pretend disagreement so one could explain it to the other.
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Yes, thanks AcidRonin. I wasn't saying that beer originated in the US. I was saying that the current craft beer trend in which hipsters obsess over weird varieties originated in the US. This means that James and Oz will be likely to find and enjoy many varieties they like in the US. And I'm not knocking the beer trend, if anything I'm part of it. Currently very giddy about Belgian lambic, but I don't have a lumberjack shirt or a beard.
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Could also be some very boring reason, like the BBC would only work under a certain set of legal / insurance terms which the car manufacturer had to defer to (with Top Gear being on the car maker's side and fighting the bureaucracy). But since Amazon has no bindings they would gladly pay for or sign whatever terms the car maker wanted.
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One massive plus: They no longer have to have celebrities on plugging films in order to class the show as "light entertainment".
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webmeister posted:Interesting that the McLaren had the worst of the conditions and still came up trumps! Still looking forward to Not Gear's take on it though, as that video was kinda .. lacklustre? In the post-television age, there's still something to be said for television making skills.
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I didn't mind the long unedited laps, it was interesting to see how the different cars handled the corners. But the driver's summary was home video stuff, a good example of why "scripted" television actually just means "prepared and thought through, not just ad lib babble".
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That's the best racing TV I've ever seen.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I'm surprised BMW sold the test car to a unsuspecting buyer, that's a bit of a dick move. Could be that BMW sold it with full disclosure at a discount to rear end in a top hat dealer, who then jacked up the price and sold it on to unsuspecting buyer.
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BBC has a new series of James May's Cars of the People. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06z98lc/james-mays-cars-of-the-people-series-2-episode-1 In it, James May suggests we get rid of the Morris Minor as a symbol of britishness. He compares it to a popular television show, getting rid of it would hurt at first, then everyone would get over it...
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djdanno13 posted:Really if there is any car that denotes Britishness anyways it would be the Austin 7 James May agrees. Watch it!
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Episode 2 is about 4x4s and is great. Those who've seen it...when he lists various rally stars who have won in the Audi Quattro, was one of them TV's Oz Clarke?
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