Top Gear

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I loved this weeks show when they tested 3 budget priced supercars and Calrksons car lost it's brakes and all had lost at least half their horsepower.

I think they are hinting that "The Stig "is Michael Schumacher.
It's in this months mag.

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Can't wait for the Veyron v. Airplane next week!

[Reply #242 on:]

Can't wait for the Veyron v. Airplane next week!

I saw the Veyron test and still can't believe that at top speed the Veyron has a time limit of around 10 minutes.
Then out of gas.

[Reply #243 on:]

Can't wait for the Veyron v. Airplane next week!

Is that a past TG program right? They did 2 Veyron vs airplane races actually.. one against the Eurofighter and other against a Cessna 182 across europe..

I saw the Veyron test and still can't believe that at top speed the Veyron has a time limit of around 10 minutes.
Then out of gas.

"Coming up to top speed ..wich means the tyres will last only 15 minutes... but its ok.. because the fuel runs out in 12 "

When Jeremy raced that SLR across europe he said that at top speed it emptied a 19 galon fuel tank in 20 minutes..and that was a 620hp car

[Reply #244 on:]

That's the appeal of Top Gear.Nobody in their right mind would use these for personal transport,so we live our fantasies through Jeremy and his crew.
They run through some amazing cars.

But you know you could actually modify a BMW and drive it an organized race.My uncle drove a F production car in south Florida in SCCA sanctioned meets.Really cool,but he never would let me touch his "baby".

[Reply #245 on:]

I wound up linked to this forum for some reason, and thought the Clarkson fans might get a laugh out of the comments from offended Uhmericans. I sure as hell did.

Top Gear has definitely grown on me at this point.

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I laughed. Tetchy Americans.

[Reply #247 on:]

Can't wait for the Veyron v. Airplane next week!
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Wow the Veyron cost Volkswagon 5,000,000 pounds to produce.
I wonder if they deliberately make the races closer to stimulate interest?Or could they be edited to tighten finishes?

[Reply #248 on:]

Top Gear series 15 to start June 27th

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I'm enjoying the series so far, I laughed till I cried during the Reliant Robin section

[Reply #250 on:]

Yep, that pretty much had me in stitches as well.
Funnily enough I hadn't seen many Reliants around on the roads lately, until that report, and then I saw three seperate ones in as many days. And this is the south! Although that said, there was a mining community down here once upon at time...

Well, what do you know? Rubens Barrichello...

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It is a shame that there were no Robins in this week's episode, I'm sure it could have been converted into a motor home with little difficulty

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Just now watched the Ayrton Senna tribute on Top Gear. Need a moment...

[Reply #253 on:]

New ep was pretty clool, James May pushing the limits of the new Bugatti Veyron. Can't believe how much the tyres cost though, especially given how long they last (or don't)...

[Reply #254 on:]

Some of the last few Top Gears have been the best I've seen in a long time, this series has been pretty great.

[Reply #255 on:]

I like it, bump.

Jeremy Clarkson is funny, I saw this episode on Dave 'UK Channel, this might be a cliché but, not a person' - that I hadn't seen before, Dave show all the old episodes...

They were given a challenge, to turn Cars in to art, and given a gallery up north to do it.

Was cool.

[Reply #256 on:]

It is a great show, though I only get to watch episodes on Netflix and clips on YouTube.  I especially liked the car-boat and semi truck challenges.

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Clarkson is a legend, you take him too seriously...

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[Reply #260 on:]

A bit harsh, but I can see why he gets a lot of hate, but I sorta like him for that as he just carries on anyway. Top Gear is just as much about comedy as it is cars since Hammond and Captain Slow joined, so many classic moments. I don't agree with everything Clarkson says, but I take most of it with a pinch of salt...

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Clarkson is the reason I watch Top Gear.

[Reply #262 on:]

Clarkson has the ability to be immensely arrogant without being utterly hated. It took him a while to get there though.

[Reply #263 on:]

Given the amount of pre- and post-production they do on the show, that Clarkson still portrays himself as arrogant, which is something I wouldn't expect an arrogant person to do, speaks more to the fact that he's playing a caricature of himself.  Yes, he's probably an insufferable ass, but it likely gets magnified for the sake of continuing the chemistry between the hosts.  I also doubt James May is such a sullen loser as he appears to be on the show, but that's the sort of thing that gets distilled out of his actual personality and played up on screen.

That being said, Netflix now has all of season 2 to season 12 or 13.  If I'm not around PEEL as much over the next few weeks, that will be why.

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Clarkson is the reason I watch Top Gear.

Huh, he's the reason I don't watch it.

[Reply #265 on:]

Given the amount of pre- and post-production they do on the show, that Clarkson still portrays himself as arrogant, which is something I wouldn't expect an arrogant person to do, speaks more to the fact that he's playing a caricature of himself.  Yes, he's probably an insufferable ass, but it likely gets magnified for the sake of continuing the chemistry between the hosts.  I also doubt James May is such a sullen loser as he appears to be on the show, but that's the sort of thing that gets distilled out of his actual personality and played up on screen.

That being said, Netflix now has all of season 2 to season 12 or 13.  If I'm not around PEEL as much over the next few weeks, that will be why.

Good to see American's digging the British humour, there's just something about it, it's just... British y'know, in that classic kinda old but new skool way...

[Reply #266 on:]

Clarkson is the reason I watch Top Gear.

Huh, he's the reason I don't watch it.

Must be because you are Irish and have no humour.  No wonder you all drink.

[Reply #267 on:]

We have a different sort of humour, one that doesn't involve ridiculously annoying middle-aged British twats obsessed with cars.

[Reply #268 on:]

Its clear Clarkson plays a role , mostly as a buffoniced version of himself and most things he sais are jokes not suposed to be offending.

He plays stereotypical jokes , like the ones everybody says in their close circles , but at virtually everyone.... including the british and specially himself..
I renember that when that "group" that goes arround smashing pies in famous people's faces .. Clarkson was one of the very few to take it humorously and turn it into more humor "Good shot.. (eats part of the pie) mmmm delicious"

He is wrong in many things and maybe he is hatefull in his "real life" self.. but most of the things he sais have to be taken humorously..and are scripted

[Reply #269 on:]

Or I suppose FazeShift doesn't watch Futurama because of the stuff Bender and/or Zapp Brannigan says?

[Reply #270 on:]

You're doing it wrong if you take Clarkson seriously, in a single episode he made racist comments about the Mexicans, Australians, and Germans. And yet for some reason only the Mexicans got offended enough to make a complaint.

[Reply #271 on:]

I sort of agree with Fazshift, not liking Clarkson doesn't mean you lack a sense of humor. I don't find him offensive either as I don't take him seriously, I just find him tedius, like he is trying too hard to be controversal.

[Reply #272 on:]

That's not agreeing with Fazeshift, that's making a rational statement opposing Clarkson's personality.

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Just saw the India Special.  More British flags upside down.  But it had the Mexican flag, so that was an upside moment for me.  I knew something was wrong instantly when he began painting a vertical green strip.

[Reply #275 on:]

The India Special was pretty good. Delivering the food by car was the funniest part, along with the absolutely insane things on the roads later on. I don't envy them driving along with those huge tyres though. That guy who drove into the side of Jeremy Clarkson, and didn't seem to give a flying fuck when he was spoken to, and then just drove off, wtf lol!...

Some of it was a bit predictable; I mean who didn't see James May's air conditioning getting broken from a mile off? Good stuff though...

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Some of it was a bit predictable; I mean who didn't see James May's air conditioning getting broken from a mile off? Good stuff though...

What wasnt predictible was the effective revenge from James sabotaging Jezza's heater..

i laughted at that because in my Golf its just as easy to do as put the heater on max , the vent control to face and blower to max and then just pull the knobs out and thats it... you are stuck with a full head on heater and there is nothing you can do about it (unlike james who could stop and recharge the AC)

lol at the mexico stuff too... actually after withnesing how bad they took the jokes about them one wonders how they took this..

And this comes from a person who throws donkeys out of towers 

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This somewhat sums up my feelings on 'Top Gear'.

[Reply #278 on:]

If he is so infuriated and angry at the insensitive things Jeremy Clarkson says as jokes, I can't even begin to imagine how he would feel if he watched Tosh.0. Not even in the same ballpark of offensive.

[Reply #279 on:]

He's not really worried about things being offensive as is probably evident from his own work ('Jerry Springer: The Opera'). He's just, as he explains at the end, using the values of 'Top Gear' to satirise 'Top Gear'. Hilariously so, I might add.