Top Gear Season 10 Discussion

[Dartzap]

I would've sworn Cowell did the "reasonably priced car" bit sometime last season...

He did it a few series ago now, when they came back. he was at the top of the new leader board for quite a long time. He burned Jezza and even won an award.

[andrewgpaul]

Any trailer involving the words "oh no, it's the rozzers" is probably advertising a good thing

[Lost Soal]

Clarksons going to have a heart attack

[Bounty]

They've won a factual programme award, despite "not having a single fact in five years". Heh.

So, walking, Tube and cycling. What the hell?

ETA: Aston Martin versus rocket-propelled skater. Versus rocket-propelled skater.

[Lost Soal]

Ouch. Poor Lambo

[Bounty]

So it's a road-legal production car - but you can't drive it unless there's an army's worth of rescue personnel and vehicles standing by. Because it spontaneously combusts and/or disintegrates without warning.

Cool.

The floor fell off

[Siege]

In the news this week, they actually manage to find time to talk about cars; including the Mazda 6, Maserati Quattroporte Sport GTS, Subaru Impreza WRX Sti and Mitsubishi's I.

Was I asleep through the news segment, or did they skip 3 out of those 4 cars?

[Lost Soal]

So thats either the second or fourth time a car has been beaten in a race through London. Still, at least it isn't quite as embarrassing as being beaten by a guy on foot.

[Crazedwraith]

Now that was just totally awesome. Especially when the music nabbed from a James Bond film (The World is No Enough) cuts in when Clarkson goes full speed.

[Bounty]

Tonight, on Top Gear

There's a truly global flavour to this week's show, as the presenters test the finest cars to come out of German, Italy and Japan... and smash up a bunch of motorhomes for good measure.

Jeremy pits two of the great Teutonic tourers against head-to-head as he twin-tests the BMW M5 Touring and Mercedes E63 AMG Estate.

And as if burning rubber on the world's fastest luggage-loaders wasn't enough, he's also appropriated the new Honda Civic Type R for a blast on the TG test track. Off us, actually - suffice to say that TopGear.com's Type R lifer came back looking somewhat the worse for wear.

James gets a belated drive in one of Italy's finest exports, the beautiful Alfa Romeo 159, and discovers whether the Giugaro-penned saloon is faster than, erm, a very tall man. We can't tell you any more than that, but all shall become clear on Sunday.

And, speaking of very tall men, this week's Star in a Reasonably Priced Car is England rugby legend Lawrence Dallaglio. He's a big lad. The Lacetti hasn't been quite the same since.

And it falls to Richard to invent an entirely new form of motorsport: mobile home racing. Can big wobbly houses-on-wheels make it round the track? Will they disintegrate in the process?

I guess they needed some cheap filler after Africa.

[Dartzap]

Is Clash of The Worlds overrunning for everyone else as well?

Bloody Palestine conflict!

[Bounty]

BBC2 has been overrunning since this afternoon. I blame darts.

ETA: "A dashboard from the Romulans and the door handles of a fifties fridge"

[Ubiquitous]

That blonde was fucking FINE.

[Siege]

Bloody pikeys!

Humour-wise I think this might have been the best episode of the season thusfar. Jeremy's "...and you'll look like a Victorian prostitute", the quips about the Citroen, the dashboard provided by the Romulans... They're really getting into it, methinks.

[Bounty]

I don't think mobilehome racing will be taking off any time soon.

[Rye]

Interestingly, I saw a motorhome race last year on the isle of wight with similar results, so it is sort of already going on. Didn't have the rules in the program though, obviously.

[Bounty]

Tonight, on Top Gear

See, next year sees the 40th anniversary of the formation of British Leyland, a milestone that Jeremy, James and Richard thought should be celebrated appropriately. Reasonably, the producers disagreed, saying that everything BL ever produced was a bunch of rusty, patchy rubbish.

To prove them wrong, our intrepid presenters headed out with £1,200 of their own cash to buy a car to prove that some good did come out of British Leyland.

Unfortunately, they returned with a Rover SD1, a Triumph Dolomite Sprint and an Austin Princess. And a lingering smell of rust and oil.

This week's Big Feature sees them thrash the Seventies not-quite-icons to well beyond an inch of their lives... and get very, very wet in the process.

But it's not just old bangers on the show this week. Jeremy arm-wrestled James Bond himself to get the keys to the new Aston Martin DBS, a car that might just be better than the Vanquish and the DB9. Together. Find out how the gorgeous, carbon fibre-clad supercar takes to our test track in the hands of Double-O-Stig.

And this week's star in a Reasonably Priced Car is comedy legend Jennifer Saunders, who proved absolutely fabulous behind the wheel of our Chevy Lacetti.

Nice car, nice guest. I'm more worried about them doing a BL item.

[Admiral Valdemar]

I only saw the African rally challenge the other day. Best damn challenge EVAR!1!

The awesome of that episode was too much.

[Bounty]

"Some BL cars were poorly built. Most weren't built at all"

[andrewgpaul]

"has anyone got any butter?"

[Lord Pounder]

That Rover is a most unfortunate colour. The same yellow as milk left in the sun too long.

[Bounty]

That Aero Max looks dead sexy. It's like something that drove right out of Batman: TAS...

[Admiral Valdemar]

British cars rawk so much. So long as you have at least a hundred grand to spend on them.

If you're driving a Leyland, it better be a truck.

[Bounty]

Ah, Jennifer Saunders. She just gets better with age.

[Lord Pounder]

She actually is looking pretty deacent.