Top Gear Season 10 Discussion

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-11-25 03:45pm

ROFL! Goooo, Rover!

And I concur on the Saunders comments.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-11-25 03:51pm

I don't think those parts are supposed to come off on their own.

Also, WTF on the test. Fill them with water?

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2007-11-25 03:52pm

Fuck me I think I lost the ability to breathe when Jeremy's rear passanger door fell off.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-11-25 03:57pm

Just to be clear: that's the door on the other side that came off this time

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-11-25 03:57pm

That Rover is the most awesomest car evar. Just don't sit in the back and rely on the doors.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2007-11-25 04:01pm

Captain Slow actually won a challenge. A rare occurance to be sure.

Lost Soal · Post by **Lost Soal** » 2007-11-25 04:01pm

Frankly I wouldn't trust the seat belts either.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-11-25 04:06pm

Lord Pounder wrote:Captain Slow actually won a challenge. A rare occurance to be sure.

Consider that he won a sizeable portion of his points in a challenge to stand perfectly still.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2007-11-25 04:14pm

Bounty wrote:
Lord Pounder wrote:Captain Slow actually won a challenge. A rare occurance to be sure.
Consider that he won a sizeable portion of his points in a challenge to stand perfectly still.

I thought most of the money came from lapping Richard.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-11-25 04:16pm

Lord Pounder wrote:
Bounty wrote:
Lord Pounder wrote:Captain Slow actually won a challenge. A rare occurance to be sure.
Consider that he won a sizeable portion of his points in a challenge to stand perfectly still.
I thought most of the money came from lapping Richard.

Stop ruining my joke, damnit

Lost Soal · Post by **Lost Soal** » 2007-11-25 04:17pm

Lord Pounder wrote:
Bounty wrote:
Lord Pounder wrote:Captain Slow actually won a challenge. A rare occurance to be sure.
Consider that he won a sizeable portion of his points in a challenge to stand perfectly still.
I thought most of the money came from lapping Richard.

Yip.

100 for standing still.
900 for lapping
20 for... something else

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2007-11-25 04:20pm

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

That's exactly what I thought. I was totally with Hammond and May on that one, since I'm a fan of 30s/40s cars.

And yeah, like £900 came from the water challenge, in all fairness, that was a quite ingenious test; it put much more strain than you'd usually get on both the engine and chassis. If they did that test with a really nice car like the Jaguar XJ220 or a Lambourghini Countach (both favourites from my childhood) , it would be downright godly television, haha.

Sephirius · Post by **Sephirius** » 2007-11-25 04:41pm

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

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-11-25 05:01pm

I have to say, the bonnet looks adorable. Like a puppy that has done something wrong and knows it.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-11-25 05:48pm

Does anyone know what they said about the SD-1 at the end? About it being a botched repair or something?

Also, what was so special about the test track with the hill and the cobblestone?

Crazedwraith · Post by **Crazedwraith** » 2007-11-25 06:17pm

Dammit, Saunders was 0.2 seconds too slow for my liking. Damn Cowell still in the lead.

Still the old English cars were hilarious and no mistake.

Master Arachnos · Post by **Master Arachnos** » 2007-11-26 04:01am

Hmm, i think it's confession time.

A long time ago i lost all respect for my dads taste/knowledge in cars. After someone crashed into his (our) beautiful white Escort Mark 2 he replaced it with a british racing green Austin Maxi, which to 70's british car buffs is a poor mans princess.

If he had'nt been cremated I'd dig him up and ask what the hell he was thinking...

'err no dad, here will be fine...I'll walk the rest'

edit'd for poor spelling

andrewgpaul · Post by **andrewgpaul** » 2007-11-26 03:02pm

Bounty wrote:Does anyone know what they said about the SD-1 at the end? About it being a botched repair or something?

Also, what was so special about the test track with the hill and the cobblestone?

From what I could gather, that's where the UK car industry goes to test their cars, before releasing them for sale.

As regards the SD-1, I think they were trying to blame the doors coming off on repairs/restoration work by a previous owner, rather than it being built poorly by a halfwit at Longbridge.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-12-02 12:25pm

Tonight, on Top Gear

TG site wrote:On this Sunday's Top Gear, we've got a man who can drive an F1 car very fast, and a man who, well, can't.

The man who can is Lewis Hamilton. You might have heard of him. The McLaren star joins Jeremy in the TG studio to discuss his first season in Formula One and, more importantly, straps himself into our old Suzuki Liana to see how he measures up against Mansell, Hill and the rest of the F1 drivers who have taken to our test track.

The man who can't drive an F1 car? Our very own Richard Hammond, who somehow convinced Renault to give him a test drive in Fernando Alonso's 2005 championship-winning car.

As Richard discovers, piloting a car with a power-to-weight ratio of 1,216bhp per tonne and a V10 that revs to 18,000rpm isn't quite as easy as the pros make it look. Much embarrassment ensues.

Not to be outdone in the tyre-smoking, sideways-sliding stakes, Jeremy gets his hands on the Vauxhall VXR8, the Monaro replacement that's lairier than Grant Mitchell after an evening on the Stellas.

To cool down from all that excitement, JC joins James at the Beaulieu Motor Museum to answer the question that's on everyone's lips: what was the first car to settle on the modern control layout of steering wheel in front, gear level in the middle and clutch, brake and accelerator (in that order) on the floor?

And this week's Star in a Reasonably Priced Car is army-captain-turned-troubadour James Blunt.

James fucking Blunt. When it comes to guests, they've hit rock bottom

Also, two SiaRPC's? They must've run out of money.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-12-02 03:12pm

The American Green Car of the year: a 21mpg V8 Tahoe

Are they serious? Really?

Ma Deuce · Post by **Ma Deuce** » 2007-12-02 03:20pm

Bounty wrote:The American Green Car of the year: a 21mpg V8 Tahoe

Ah, but it's a hybrid 21 MPG Tahoe

. Apparently a vehicle has to be a hybrid to win that award and be all new for that year, so with that criteria there really wasn't much else competing with it.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2007-12-02 04:07pm

MY GOD was that a good episode, even if it did have James Blunt annoying the shit out of me. The F1 stuff left me with sweaty palms, bloody hell, I could not drive one of those things, I just don't have the bottle for it. Hammond's voice when he had to go fast, that really struck a chord, I was genuinely scared at that point, haha.

I'm glad Hamilton didn't beat the Stig, though, in some bizarre sour grapes. Damn good driver, though, respect due, even if he is younger than me and obscenely rich because of it.

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2007-12-02 04:27pm

Bounty wrote:Also, two SiaRPC's? They must've run out of money.

Then here's hoping they'll end off like Season 6. "So, we'll need something that will allow us to show you old clips, consume a lot of time, and cost 50p. Welcome to the Top Gear Awards."

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2007-12-04 03:17am

Hydrogen huh?!?

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2007-12-09 02:56pm

And this week on Top Gear

First of all, Top Gear is still on BBC Two this Sunday, but it's on at 9pm instead of the usual 8pm.

So that's 9 O'CLOCK. PM. An hour later than usual.

Which is probably quite fortunate, considering that the star in the reasonably priced car is none other than Lily's sweary dad Keith Allen, so expect a Morse Code style beep fest come the repeat on Wednesday (which is on at the normal time of 7pm).

The Stig takes out the mightily impressive Ascari A10 for a power lap, and James races some yoofs on BMXs in Budapest. They're on the bikes, he's in a Fiat 500.

And as you might remember Jeremy saying on last week's show, the big news is that this Sunday sees the three of them take part in their first ever competitive event, the punishing Britcar 24 hour race at Silverstone, using the fuel that they started growing last season.

It promises to be one hell of a show.

Uh oh....