Jim Prower
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Post by Jim Prower on Jul 14, 2008 22:08:16 GMT
Did some checking around...Yeah, It's the current #3 on my top 10 favorite cars list, the GT-R. I think it might be one of my most attainable dream cars.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2008 23:32:22 GMT
I just watched Last Sundays Top Gear. The race across Japan was awesome, and if only Our Railways were run to the standard of Japans trains, I mean 1 minute late and you don't pay for the service!! if only!!! and as for the outcome I was gutted May and Hammond didn't win, Clarkson is just too smug sometimes and Eliot as for your point about Iplayer, I hadn't thought about that, but you are right when I think about it that way, it is only fair that it's only available to UK residents.
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Post by Halstead on Aug 1, 2008 21:19:12 GMT
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Post by Nicholas on Oct 21, 2008 23:31:00 GMT
Just saw an advert for the new series of Top Gear. Delightfully, it was quite a long advert. It started with Clarkson saying something like, "We're back again, as a team." I missed the first few seconds because I was looking on SiF at the time. There was a shot of James May in an aircraft. Another one saw Clarkson in a car, yelling at Hammond, in another, "Go! Go now!" They seemed to be in a busy city in rather flash cars. We then saw Hammond, looking half shocked, half laughing. There was James May with an old racing hero [can't be sure who, I'm not familiar with many of them]. May was holding a camcorder next to him, as he screeched the car around a corner. Another shot saw a double decker bus going round the Top Gear race track. Then there was a shot of two rather large lorries. They were side by side, one overtaking the other, although very close to the other. We then saw in the cab of one of them, and Clarkson was driving. There was also a shot of a White Bugatti Veyron racing along, with, I believe, the Stig at the wheel. I'll have a look on YouTube for it... EDIT: This looks like it! uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bkEAs2VCbqs
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Jim Prower
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Post by Jim Prower on Oct 22, 2008 0:55:35 GMT
They finally put the Veyron around the Top Gear Test track, huh? Too bad it probably won't top the Ascari A10's laptime: I don't think that overweight Bahnburner has good enough handling to overcome the downforce monster that is the Ascari, even if it has 1001 HP.
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Post by Nicholas on Oct 23, 2008 15:27:29 GMT
OK, found a bit more news on the new series [Series 12] It starts on 2nd November here in the UK. There is to be a Vietnam episode, although I'm not sure whether this will be a special, like the America or Africa ones, or just a race, like the Japan race last series, with the bullet train. The first episode will be the one with the lorries. There will be 8 episodes in total; last series there were 6, but there used to be normally around 10 per series. As well as that a higher quality version of the trailer can be found here: uk.youtube.com/watch?v=H99slALLrUgNicholas.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2008 10:30:30 GMT
It's really great that Top Gear is back on TV. Loving this new series and I'm catching up on Dave, all the ones I missed. Recently watched the Polar Challenge. Brilliant, Pure Brilliance!
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Post by Halstead on Nov 10, 2008 17:08:40 GMT
Last night's second edition had me chuckling every minute of the show, which I partly blame due to May gambling, american censorship and Jeremy cross referencing last week's scandal.
"Clarkson you infantile pillock!"
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2008 17:24:56 GMT
Last night's second edition had me chuckling every minute of the show, which I partly blame due to May gambling, american censorship and Jeremy cross referencing last week's scandal. "Clarkson you infantile pillock!" haha, I loved it when those to odd people were hovering over May's shoulder. Brilliant. and also liked Clarkson getting done by the Police in Las Vegas!
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Post by Nicholas on Nov 10, 2008 18:31:06 GMT
Personally, I did slightly prefer the HGV episode, one bit epspecially had me in stitches: [Hammond: I daren't look. It's bad isn't it May: Much worse than that, mate!] but that's not to say this Sunday's episode wasn't brilliant. Factual, but certainly entertaining at the same time Looking forward to next week's. I wonder when the Vietnam episode will be, and whether it will be the car vs. other method of transport race episode of this series... Nicholas.
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Post by Jim Prower on Dec 1, 2008 1:18:16 GMT
They finally put the Veyron around the Top Gear Test track, huh? Too bad it probably won't top the Ascari A10's laptime: I don't think that overweight Bahnburner has good enough handling to overcome the downforce monster that is the Ascari, even if it has 1001 HP. I just saw something on YouTube that confirms my suspicion: It didn't even beat the Zonda it was pitted against!
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Post by Halstead on Dec 1, 2008 16:22:17 GMT
Yesterday's episode weren't bad but I nodded off while watching Long Way Down so I missed the first quarter of it. My favourite highlight was when May won a race (finally) against Hammond in a speedboat and the loser trying to deny it.
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Post by Nicholas on Jan 3, 2009 21:21:51 GMT
Did anyone happen to catch the Vietnam Special episode? Personally, I thought it was the highlight of this series, a truly brilliant and epic adventure. A bit of an unusual break from the normal motoring about in cars, but it worked! The trio managed to pull off an outstanding episode again. I have to say I hope they do more episodes like this in future. First there was the classic America episode, and then Africa, and this was a brilliant addition. Might watch it again later actually. Nicholas.
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Post by MRHloco on Jan 6, 2009 23:11:02 GMT
Hmm, interesting. I don't seem to have made my voice heard here yet... Oh well, might as well do so now... Me and my family have occasionally dipped into a few episodes of Top Gear in the past and still do so. It's an interest sort of series on the whole: It keeps the car enthusiasts happy. It poses all sorts of mad, even quite dangerous challenges It's also a nice place to go to for humour Nevertheless, I'm very divided over what to think about its presenters. Let's examine in depth, shall we? First there's Jeremy Clarkson - the boisterous, boastful, cynical South Yorkshireman from Doncaster with a craze for speed and little actual respect for the others, considering they're all supposed to be friends! He's definately a comedian but I don't think I'd ever want to meet him and be on the end of his more insenstive comments. His attitude to Boris Johnson recently was actually quite appalling! Especially directed at a man who, from my little experience, is actually doing quite well as a Mayor Of London (no major rebellions against his regieme for a start). And when interviewing David Tennant, he seemed rather dissmissive of the desire to be Doctor Who and claimed that all he wanted to be was "Julie Christie's underwear!" How embarrassing! Then there's James May, a Bristolian who fortunately is a minor improvement from Clarkson in terms of manners but still needs censoring on screen every so often. Has a certain trademark exclamation for when he messes things up... He seems more of a classic 1960s schoolboys than a tough, insensitive roadhog. In fact, he's regularly featured in other productions outside of Top Gear - reliving his boyhood innovations for a start! And then there's Richard Hammond from Cheltenham. Far more polite and well-mannered than Clarkson and May put together but still has a small hint of recklessness. Speaking of which I'm quite delighted that he made such a rapid recovery after that horrendous accident of his. I only hope it's taught him a thing or two about such dangers - it's far too early for him to abandon this world and leave us with a Top Gear where scarcely a word of sense is spoken without being brash. And of course there's the Stig, an experienced racing driver who has more common sense than the presenters appear to have. But then you need it to compete on dangerous racetracks. On the whole, I'm impressed by the adventurous content on Top Gear but not unfortunately by the example set by the presenters, which is fairly minor so please don't take any notice of my remarks. Anyone else like it? Warm Regards As Always, MRHloco P.S. There's something else very trademark about Top Gear that I've only just remembered. The BBC crews always need censoring machines handy, unless of course they have well-mannered people like the aforementioned David Tennant driving the highly-priced cars around their track! Just thought you might like to know...
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Jim Prower
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Post by Jim Prower on Jan 11, 2009 18:55:17 GMT
Sometime this year the US is getting their own version, on NBC. I havent' a clue how it's gonna turn out.
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Jim Prower
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Post by Jim Prower on Jan 23, 2009 21:01:33 GMT
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Post by Nicholas on Jan 23, 2009 22:20:36 GMT
It doesn't seem 100% official, but I'm actually fairly conviced. To be honest, upon looking at that article, I'd have prefered not to know. It's the element of mystery that allows for discussion, speculation and greater interest.
Nicholas.
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Post by Halstead on Jan 23, 2009 22:45:01 GMT
I'm deeply uncertain on that article as well, given that the manner it's been distributed appears to be very low key. If they finally revealed his real identity, the news could've been widely spread out in alternate formats but TBH I'd rather not know given that any minute now the Stig would drive into the sea, plunging to his death like his predecessor.
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Post by FlyingScotsman on Jan 23, 2009 23:44:24 GMT
I'd have preferred not to know. The Stig is just supposed to be this weird mystery man - if you get rid of that, you lose the character. It would be like if Clarkson took the bus, or May became the cool one.
Speaking of which, you'll never guess what - I was in St Pancras Station the other day, looking to use the gents. There are two, one by the Underground, and one at the far end of the station. The one by the Underground was out of order, so, irritable, I went to the other end (trust me, this story gets better). I came back, past the shops, and thought on an impulse that I'd pop into Borders bookshop to see if they had anything interesting in stock. I browsed around for a few minutes and then, on my way out, was surprised to see a bit of a crowd gathered by the entrance. Which was weird, it hadn't been there when I came in. And there was James May. He was doing a signing with that wine guy, Oz something. What are the chances?
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Post by Jim522 on Mar 31, 2009 4:51:13 GMT
Top Gear is a great programme. It's highly enjoyable and even addicting viewing.
It's one of those rare shows that I can watch and watch, and never tire of.
I saw Top Gear Live a bit earlier in the year. It was both great and a letdown.
There were some great segments, like the car football match between the UK and Aus, which drew great excitement and cheers from the crowd, as though it were the world cup or something! Great fun.
The part where the audience has to hold up the colour sensitive cards to steer the car round the virtual Top Gear track and shout loudly to accelerate the car was fun, and quite unique.
Although there was also pure nonsense as well, in my view at least. There was this segment where a vehicle of sorts is driving fast and sliding round the arena, and there's this girl prancing around in what is supposed to be artistic dance I guess. Basically, her and the vehicle were supposed to be in a sort of duel.
As Clarkson put it: Have a girl stand there with her crotch up and you can call it art!
A segment Aus got was the cage thing motorbike riders zip around in. Good for a while, but it went on far too long. It started off as 1 rider, slowly progressing up to 4. It felt like it went on for at least 15 minutes, and that's just too long for the one thing, in the realm of the show as a whole. All other times, it was one spectacle to the next, and so I feel it broke up the pace to an extent.
It was a shame James May didn't do the rounds around the world. I'm imagining it's because he doesn't like to travel abroad. He's very eccentric isn't he? I mean, he flies distances in planes, went (reluctantly) to the North Pole, but didn't want to do a live show or two?
I just felt a bit ripped off and let down. Though seeing Jeremy and Richard, two of my heroes, was really cool.
The Stig was most certainly just one of the show's stunt drivers dressed up as him. I mean, the "Stig" was only in 1 segment, the final one, which lasted a matter of minutes. I doubt they would bring the real Stig (or whatever the deal is, one theory being there are multiple Stigs for different things) all the way out just to slide a car round an arena for 3 minutes.
And I feel the show was rather short, running at less than an hour and a half. Just one more segment at least would have been nice.
Still, while improvements were needed in my mind, it was still a great and memorable show, and, had I had the money, would have seen it again.
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