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Tweek
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I thought last night's episode was pretty good, I'm surprised lorry drivers complained just because of a couple of jokes, it did show that lorryists do a difficult job.
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Melllvar
DOOP Secretary
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Dear Daily Mail,
Jeremy Clarkson has just come on my television and said something disparaging. Frankly, I'm shocked. Will someone think of the children?
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Spiritinthesky
Crustacean
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I think its the best thing on TV, I love it and its getting better all the time.
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Ninaka
commandant cleavage
DOOP Secretary
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That article came out here the other day about The Stig too. Lousy spoilsport journalist... . Hope they don't have to kill him off
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Ninaka
commandant cleavage
DOOP Secretary
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Fuchsia, because it's going to be a woman.
HAHA.
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Tweek
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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No doubt if it wasn't similar they'd complain that it wasn't Top Gear just a show with the same title, some people just like to whinge.
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Javier Lopez
Urban Legend
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I saw the episode with the Veyron on the test track and I did not even find it appealing all of those millions of dollers spent on making that and its not even in the top times on the UK TG tracks
Its natural that the Veyron scored that time.. now in 5th position i think.. Ok so its not the fastest car in the track..? Whats the deal? look whats ahead of it.. The Gompher., the Zonda and the Koenigggggggsssssssssssssssse ig (and now the Lotus katerham) all of them are exotic hipercars made for the track and track only.. the Veyron weights 2.1 tons.. the Gompher weighs only 1.1 tons, thats half.. so it should had only 500hp to equal the Veyron.. but it has 750.. Same with the other two.. But .. the amazing thing of the Veyron is that its confortable, easy to drive and its made to last 20 years of daily use . I can asure you a Zonda wit Daily use will not look good in even 5 years (damn, it even broke down in Top Gear's track) same with the other 2.. they are cars made to be in the garaje of a silly millionair who collects cars and from time to time will take them for a quick spin.. or use them to cruise to a Casino or some other resort.. The Veyron is capable in theory of hablde daily use for 20 years.. of course.. the owners of a Veyron will left it at the garaje with the rest of the collection.. but nevertheless the car was enginered to be extremely quick (410km/h in straight line at least) to be easy to drive arround , be quite confortable , silent inside and last witout anoying to hell its owner with repairs every day, its a car you can take from Lisbon and drive to Hellsinki without fearing it will fall to pieces.. like the SLR, any Porsche and so.. And yet it managed to go faster the TG track than a Ferrari Enzo wich has 651hp and weights 1365kg.. thats 477hp per ton.. just the same as the Veyron.. while the Enzo is far more racing oriented , quite less confortable and several magnites less reliable and not as far to easy to drive..
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Ninaka
commandant cleavage
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With Top Gear Australia alot of people seem to hate it because they say 'its too much like the UK version' f**king duh its a franchise its a bit like complaining that every McDonalds is the same.
Unfortunately the "franchise" chain totally forced them to do things identically to the UK version to make sure it was successful. I would have liked to have seen a little bit of individualisation for the Aus version - giving us something to look forward to, a little bit of an Aussie touch. If the series were to continue here, I'm sure over time it would eventually create it's own image... but I don't know how successful it's going to be. We already have the UK version, it's not like we need our own anyway with the small selection of auto we produce, it wouldn't make that many eps. That being said, are you going to see the UK boys when they come out to Sydney this week?
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RS 2thou
Urban Legend
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With Top Gear Australia alot of people seem to hate it because they say 'its too much like the UK version' f**king duh its a franchise its a bit like complaining that every McDonalds is the same.
Unfortunately the "franchise" chain totally forced them to do things identically to the UK version to make sure it was successful. I would have liked to have seen a little bit of individualisation for the Aus version - giving us something to look forward to, a little bit of an Aussie touch.
If the series were to continue here, I'm sure over time it would eventually create it's own image... but I don't know how successful it's going to be. We already have the UK version, it's not like we need our own anyway with the small selection of auto we produce, it wouldn't make that many eps.
That being said, are you going to see the UK boys when they come out to Sydney this week?
When you look at the UK TG most of cars they review are not even UK car's most are just european car jap cars, which similar to the Aus car market. But the UK gets more of the supercars then waht Aus. I would guess if it does continue it would eventually form its own personality. I'm betting not many people got the LUCAS electrics joke in the first ep of AUS TG. I'm kinda hoping they reveiw the old(er) Aussie cars in future episodes, like the XR/T/W/Y Falcon and the Monaro's of the 70's that sort of thing. I recall reading a well written post at RS Motorsport about the whole UK TG vs AUS TG. I'm not going to the TG live in Sydney, I need money for that.
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Ninaka
commandant cleavage
DOOP Secretary
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It's a rip off anyway... it's only a 75 minute show for all that money.
That hasn't stopped me trying to WIN tickets for free though heh
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Javier Lopez
Urban Legend
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« Reply #216 on: 02-04-2009 03:10 »
« Last Edit on: 02-04-2009 03:14 »
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Lamer than Fifth Gear, even.
wow.. thats a hole new level of lameness I enjoy some of Tiff , Jason and Vicky tests but i certanly cant stand any more the other lame and wrong tests.. they are stating things simply wrong.. Washing a car in an auto-wash better than washing it by hand?: WRONG Cars fuel economy better in rain than dry?: WRONG Not to forget mention than they proclaimed a tie between the Ford Mondeo and the Renault Laguna in the slalom because while the Laguna was quite more superior.. they sayd "The Mondeo feels more pure and more like a pure car". WTF? By that rule my car would bash both them.. the test was to see wich one was the better in slalom..not wich feels more natural.. some reason they dont work the funnies at the same level as Top Gear.. i can see Jeremy thrusing a car because its german only .. and laught because i know how Top Gear works and how its supossed to be taken.. .. Fifth Gear not
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Javier Lopez
Urban Legend
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Wait did Jeremy really make it almost 840 miles in that diesel jag? they said his route was nearly 200 miles more than his original range calculations on the tt v6 diesel XJ, but he still made it even with his attempts to burn enough fuel to conk out on his door step failing miserably (80+mph, dropping mpg to about 29 on the computer from 49.1 lol)
Yeap he did.. but still the jag has a huge fuel tank while the Polo has a small one, the Jag has almost twice as many juice than the Polo (19galon the jag vs 10-11 Polo) the final average fuel numbers were 3,8l/100 for the Polo and about +6l/100 for the Jag.. My brother is a driving instructor and he made courses on fuel economy.. the thing is that one important factor to fuel economy is torque. Torque is one of the things that allows Diesels to have good economy numbers.. because with that much torque in low range you can cruise with not so much gas-pedal. A V6 twin turbo 3.0l diesel engine must have really good torque figures. That amount allows you to say to be much more inmune to A/C , heater and electric things draining than a 1.4 diesel for example. (*)This means that despite Jeremy using A/C and all electric systems , at 70-80mph it didnt had any impact into the fuel economy for the "inertia" / torque of the engine to say.. and in the end Hammon's Polo was average faster than the Jag because simply it arrived first, sure it used a shorter route but that "if i go up i will come down so i average" thing is not much true in reallity, uphills damage more than downhills can repair. Jeremy would won if he had used the same route as Hammond? Probably, the Jag is heavier and should suffer more in the uphills but again it has a huge torque reserve so maybe it would had endured it better than the Polo. (*): In a car if you use the A/C usually you increase fuel compsumption by 10-20%. But if you are cruising lets say at 120km/h and engage it it will take then 5-10%. Thats because with the engine working at those speeds at final gear and nearer torque wise zone and dont needing to increase speed constantly (acelerate) it will carry-on the A/C or electric (alternator) loads much easier. The moral is if you wanna use A/C and you worry about fuel economy try to engage it when you are allready at a cruise speed, not while acelerating or the engine is cold.
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suss6052
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Well they've built amphibious cars twice, (ambitious but rubbish), police cars, a convertible people carrier, et. cetra, however I'm not so sure about the concept of building a flying car and actually making a challenge out of it, since thats much more dangerous, and given their rather poor record for building functional protoypes that meet all expectations, its not terribly likely to happen, but knowing the production team likes to set imposible challenges it just might.
Oh and to be honest they pulled the flying car stunt with an inflatable Astra with some fans underneath it, not quite a full car flying overhead, but it gave the illusion of one.
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Gopher
Fallback Guy
Space Pope
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« Reply #237 on: 08-30-2009 01:23 »
« Last Edit on: 08-30-2009 01:25 »
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