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The Top Gear MEGATHREAD!!!!

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Pretty good episode. Not the best so far, but I enjoyed it.




And yes, that was perhaps the quickest I've ever seen a Top Gear torrent download :D
 
The doors keeping on falling off the poor old rover was just the funniest thing on earth :D

...until hammonds car just generally fell in to small pieces...
 
MacboobsPro said:
The cool wall was crap. It was painful to watch, they made out it was great but really they knew it was *****. I'm glad it caught fire.

This weeks episode was good but I'm still hankering after another epic. Something like converting Ford Cortina's into submarines to go to the bottom of the ocean and back and as a sub story they could plant mines to stop the Japs from whaling, but instead they accidentally sink an French ship and start world war 3. you know something like that. :D
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Yeah, that woulc be cool. I'm waiting for a proper epic race across Europe again. Don't think we're going to have one this season though.

robbieduncan said:
Hmm, typical Top Gear review for me. In the hands of a larger group of people who can actually drive and it came last out of the contenders (Evo Car of the Year: see this months Evo Magazine). The winner? Porsche 997 GT3 RS. It scored 95.7, the DBS only managed 78.9.
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Thats just it, I don't want a bunch of folks in suits talking to me about how the negative camber affects the handling and giving them [Cars] all a score out of 100. Thats just a bit... Square. It doesn't matter to me as I'm not looking to buy a DBS, and I highly doubt 95% of the Top Gear watching public are. They [Top Gear] give the information people want, does it look good, how fast does it go round a track, etc. At the end of the day this information is useless to me, but so is the workings of the right rear shock absorber. If I was looking to buy a DBS I'd still not care what the blokes 'who can actually drive' have to say, and I'd buy one anyway.

edesignuk said:
The doors keeping on falling off the poor old rover was just the funniest thing on earth :D

...until hammonds car just generally fell in to small pieces...
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Yeah, the door card staying in exactly the same position when Clarkson opened the door was just brilliant.
 
Markleshark said:
Thats just it, I don't want a bunch of folks in suits talking to me about how the negative camber affects the handling and giving them [Cars] all a score out of 100. Thats just a bit... Square. It doesn't matter to me as I'm not looking to buy a DBS, and I highly doubt 95% of the Top Gear watching public are. They [Top Gear] give the information people want, does it look good, how fast does it go round a track, etc. At the end of the day this information is useless to me, but so is the workings of the right rear shock absorber. If I was looking to buy a DBS I'd still not care what the blokes 'who can actually drive' have to say, and I'd buy one anyway.
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That's not how it works. They get all the cars together, blat over to France and spend a few days hammering round the back roads and spend a bit of time on track. Then they all vote. They don't care overly for the technical details, more for the way the whole thing comes together and works. And unfortunately the DBS apparently doesn't. To be fair their car had pre-production dampers and the production setup is meant to be a lot better but I still doubt the DBS actually holds up against the competition.
 
scotthayes said:
not sure I should admit this, but I nearly bought a Princess for my first car in 1990 :eek:
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Probably best not to, at least the Rover P5 I nearly bought looked cool :)
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Markleshark said:
Thats just it, I don't want a bunch of folks in suits talking to me about how the negative camber affects the handling.......
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The old Top Gear was a consumer show about cars. The new (studio based) TG is an entertainment show about cars. I would like them to review some people carriers, but what gets the audience is watching fast cars being driven fastly (?!) Still enjoy it nonetheless!

Plenty of other car shows and magazines (and the interweb) that will do the reviews and techno pr0n.
 
mpw said:
Probably best not to, at least the Rover P5 I nearly bought looked cool :)
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my grandad had one of those in the 70's. In black, it look so cool used to love going out with him in it and never seemed to breakdown. For some crazy reason he sold it and bought an Austin Allegro (and it was the one with the brown square steering "wheel"), which broke down at least once a week.
 
twistedlegato said:
What about the DBS?
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It looks really cheesy in green. :p

And the colour-coding... what on earth were Aston Martin thinking? :p :p :p I haven't seen that sort of style faux pas since 1985. :p Hopefully when the italians start making 'em, they'll engineer in a little style as well... ;) :p
 
The DBS is a beautiful car, but looks a bit fussy next to the DB9.

I loved the BL challenge segment, but it crushed an old auto fantasy if mine, as I've always thought the Dolomite Sprint was a very cool car...in reality it seems to have been built with less care than my Dad's '69 TVR Vixen S1, a car that was built in a shed. :eek:
 
Lord Blackadder said:
in reality it seems to have been built with less care than my Dad's '69 TVR Vixen S1, a car that was built in a shed. :eek:
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They were scrapping the bottom of the barrel with what they were buying though. A fully restored version will address the majority of concerns with the original British Leyland build quality (or lack thereof :p) and in the grand scheme of things, won't be all that much more expensive.

They should've bought a Montego... (if they could've found one :p) those were real BMW bating cars back in the '80's... ;) *Synthesised Nicolette MacKenzie Voice* Please Fasten Your Seat Belts. :p :p :p
 
Lord Blackadder said:
Ugly, but the specs look quite good.:)
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They were quite sharp looking cars (for their time) though they were considered to be quite conservative when compared to the futurist jellymould of Ford's Sierra, but still a league ahead of the Vauxhall Cavalier's design at the time. :p

My dad had a new one as a company car in 1987 (the first car we had with rear seat belts, still very much a novelty back then :p) though of course, as soon as we received it, Austin Rover launched the face lifted version with a glass sunroof (ours had a metal one) digital radio/cassette and the super-80's-chic two-tone paint work with GTi aping red pinstrip. :p I remember my dad being quite pissed about that at the time. :p

Still though, even in 1.6 form it matched the contemporary 2 litre rivals of the time, and was almost a match for the contemporary Golf GTi to 60, proper sleeper car. :cool:

Anyway, I'd have bought one of those (or an '89 Sterling) for the challenge... easy win then. ;)

P.S. Nooooooo way would the SD1's doors fall off without the assistance of a spanner. :rolleyes:

Lewis Hamilton's on next weeks show. :cool:
 
iGav said:
P.S. Nooooooo way would the SD1's doors fall off with the assistance of a spanner. :rolleyes:

Lewis Hamilton's on next weeks show. :cool:
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They did say that the car has been purchased from car "restorer" and that's probably why the back doors were crap.
 
bartelby said:
They did say that the car has been purchased from car "restorer" and that's probably why the back doors were crap.
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But the back door still shouldn't have fallen off because of the latch system. It should've dangled off by the other end. ;) :p

iBlue said:
admittedly off topic but iGav, I miss your old avatar.
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Just for you and for one day only... the Ape is back baby. :D
 
iGav said:
P.S. Nooooooo way would the SD1's doors fall off without the assistance of a spanner. :rolleyes:

Lewis Hamilton's on next weeks show. :cool:
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Yeah, I was a little suspicious about the doors falling off - I'll bet they had a little help.

Can't wait to see another F1 driver on the show.
 
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