Have you only seen a couple of serieseses of Top Gear or something? There's no way that series was the best, not by a long shot.Quote:
Originally Posted by UltimateDanGTR
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Have you only seen a couple of serieseses of Top Gear or something? There's no way that series was the best, not by a long shot.Quote:
Originally Posted by UltimateDanGTR
I beg to differ. If you meet the man face to face he is the same in "real life" as he is on television. Clarkson is Clarkson, there is no "character".Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Brockman
Top gears I have loved;Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
Top Gear 60 years ago. Great to see Jeremy loose and get dirty to boot.
Crossing the channel - Funniest thing I've ever seen
Limos - that MGF of hamsters. Utter genius!
10K supercars - BOOM!
Bus racing at Lydden Hill
Car football - both times
Long live top gear!
The races have been some of the best. The one to Switerland being a highlight.
The race to vietnam was the best
I know there's some industrial-grade setups and editing in the races, but Clarkson's fall from his moped looked genuine enough!
I don't know what it is about that one. Perhaps because when I originally saw it I was exceptionally tired and just wanted to go to bed, or what. But it didn't grab me in the same was as the American one did -- which btw, was the best one!Quote:
Originally Posted by Langdale Forest
I preferred the Vietnam one because it was somethign different and you felt it was more like 3 mates on a road trip. The US one was a setup start to finish, more than any other 'special' they've done.
Bring back William Woollard and Tony Mason..........and Top Gear RallyReport........ ;)
Oh and how could I forget;
"OLIVERRRRR!"
Also, The top gear boys re-tarmac a road and become farmers were brilliant.
Good recce :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mihai
id have to strongly disagree.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
they crossed the channel
went to that great driving road
built a catarham
went to botswana
raced motorhomes with 'the touring car stars'
and various other things
as for last nights episdoe, that was great, amazing road in romania. and amazing tunnels underneath the peoples palace. and ferrari california is as pretty as the DB9 IMO. (delibratley DB9, not DBS) and thats some feat!
in fact, im off to google earth now to find that epic road! and then im going to implore Ioan goes there-its in his country after all!
You might find these useful :DQuote:
Originally Posted by UltimateDanGTR
http://stable.toolserver.org/geohack..._24_37_42.35_E_
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=45.59...0317,24.628431
Maybe next summer. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by UltimateDanGTR
I don't have holiday before that and also the road is closed most of the year.
The Transfagarasan is oficially closed until June, although some drivers still travel on the icy tarmac. Last Sunday a Dacia on summer tires rolled 6 meters into a pit and the injured passengers were spotted by chance and eventually rescued. The road has a wild and mean beauty, so you better treat it with great respect. A lot of people, mainly military, died in the 70s during the construction of the road (some zilions of tons of dynamite being used to blast through the rock). Even if you don't believe in ghosts, the vast stretch of raw mountain and the almost permanent presence of thick fog (especially on the 1 km long tunnel on the very top of the road) is a bit mind boggling.
Last September I completed a back and forth trip on the Transfagarasan in a Mondeo. The report is in Romanian only, but go for the pics:
http://www.topgear.ro/blog/2009/09/transfug/
I met JC & RH about a year ago and JC was just like his "on screen" persona. Brash, arrogant and full of opinions about everything! RH on the other hand was quite the ladies man and pretty quiet to be honest.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
nice, lucky you. maybe i will visit there one day, via stelvio etc and those great roads in italy and switzerland!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mihai
and top gear said about 40 people were killed in the construction. ;)
the road looks dangerous as well, no barriers i noticed! and it looks fantastic on google maps!
Nope, I'm lucky for this : http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ink/orn/00.gif
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Translation?Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
The Top Gear MPH show held every year at the Coca Cola Dome in Johannesburg.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
He looks like a burkeQuote:
Originally Posted by gloomyDAY
Hammond looks like he just enhaled one heck of a joint...lol
I now love Romanians. Especially Ioan!
Terrific pictures Mihai on your report. I feel like driving to Scotland again (when the weather's better again obviously).
Obviously its 'lets do 'something stupid just to provoke a reaction' but anyone else find the supposed hilarious set ups not so hilarious anymore?
:up: and I'm really tiring of the car horns in the background, like in the electric car one the other day. It's just as bad as a sitcom having canned laughter IMOQuote:
Originally Posted by wedge
I thought the electric car episode was excellent. In particular the slow motion crash test!
That was the only thing that had me in stitches in a long, long while.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bezza
The dual carriageway stunt I found blatantly unfunny.
Saying that, here's the Autocar review:
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I cannot belive clarkson has not yet commented on 'invisible' cars.
Knowing how these things are put together; it's rather obvious that the car didn't crash into a tree and then be rebuilt. It was crashed into the tree at the end of filming..
Next you'll be making wild claims that WWE isn't real mark! ;)
Yeah I have to say some of TG is becoming a bit too formulaic. But let's be fair, bellow par TG is still better than most other rubbish on TV. Plus they still have moments of genius; the slow motion crash test was brilliant.
I'd like another building challenge - maybe build you own tank or james bond style submarine lotus for 1000 pounds. I'm sure they could do something funny with that.
agreed. for a while i was in stitches just looking at their creation!Quote:
Originally Posted by wedge
but the dual carriageway thing wasnt funny, it was blatantly delibrate and stupid. wasnt sure about the car 'accidently' rolling down the hill either, very 'staged' me thinks.
but genuinly funny all round, fantastic 'slow mo crash' and loved the reversed slammer thing-fantastic1 Hammond; 'Tuo kooooool!' :D
my my hammond, what hav you done to your hair? :p :Quote:
Originally Posted by Mihai
He looks like a gypsy.
With the help of a few contacts of mine, I was fortunate to meet him after the MPH show where he was full of %$#^ just like on TV, the show, in a space shuttle to mars etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
Jenson Button on last night.
Another excellent episode. This series has been excellent so far, with two episodes to go. :up:
Bolivia special next week, and then Brundle & Coulthard the week after :) Can't wait.
Button was good, But overall a poor episode IMO.
The road trip episode next week should be good, they always are!
As long as its not too forced. The USA trip from florida was poor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
I'd like to see a Top Gear "round the world special". The boys are given a set budget to buy a car AND purchase transportation across oceans etc. It could be a whole TG series and alonf the way they get to test drive new models from whichever country they are in.
Ace!
I think the three of them should have to drive from London to the Nurburgring in a G-Wiz then set a lap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sonic
PML! That would be frikin' awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by BeansBeansBeans
Top Gear has gone downhill
They might as well remake 3 Men in a Boat or Wind in the Willows or stick them in Last of the Summer
What happened to Fifth Gear? Would've thought there'd be another series by now.
Fifth Gear got dropped didn't it?