Top Gear: Patagonia Special
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Welshbeef said:
sone said:
4/10 fell asleep for 10 mins during it and so far that the highlight for me!
Come off it - you actually fall asleep during a show and the first thing you do when you awake is quickly log onto piston heads to post up .... Seriously!!! With a few mins to go 3 mins from the post you made wowsers. If so let's put it down to over indulgence and late nights over the Xmas period and this is the first time you have sat down to watch some TV and being in a comfy sofa drift off.
BoRED S2upid said:
The choice of cars was superb for what are old cars now the Porsche and lotus really his their years well. I imagine part two is going to be better traditionally they are allowed to modify / fix their cars.
The scenery is stunning roads are stunningly bad!
Well definitely some mods happen. As the Mustang had an external roll cage in the "Next Time...." clips.The scenery is stunning roads are stunningly bad!
I liked the Inda one, last night's was average at best.
Positives were the choices of car and scenery, nothing more. Nothing will ever novice me that the whole number plate thing wasn't set up though.
They've played with number plates before and there is no way on earth that nobody noticed the significance of the Porsche plate. I know we don't want to open this whole can of worms again but i am absolutely certain the thought process went like this:
Where haven't we done?
Argentina.
Excellent, lets find a classic car with an original and potentially offensive number plate.
Look, here's a 928 sure to offend.
Brilliant, we need two more V8's
Positives were the choices of car and scenery, nothing more. Nothing will ever novice me that the whole number plate thing wasn't set up though.
They've played with number plates before and there is no way on earth that nobody noticed the significance of the Porsche plate. I know we don't want to open this whole can of worms again but i am absolutely certain the thought process went like this:
Where haven't we done?
Argentina.
Excellent, lets find a classic car with an original and potentially offensive number plate.
Look, here's a 928 sure to offend.
Brilliant, we need two more V8's
The whole format is a set up.Do you really think they just follow the map and happen to end up in a swamp or an unfinished bridge ? Of course not.They send researchers out months beforehand to find 'interesting' places to film at.
As for Clarkson repairing the Porsche,they have a support crew of mechanics.
It's a load of contrived tosh but if that's what you enjoy watching,fine.
Time Top Gear was sent to the crusher
As for Clarkson repairing the Porsche,they have a support crew of mechanics.
It's a load of contrived tosh but if that's what you enjoy watching,fine.
Time Top Gear was sent to the crusher
BoRED S2upid said:
The choice of cars was superb for what are old cars now the Porsche and lotus really his their years well. I imagine part two is going to be better traditionally they are allowed to modify / fix their cars.
The scenery is stunning roads are stunningly bad!
They may be quite old cars, but the Mustang is extremely old.The scenery is stunning roads are stunningly bad!
Some of the roads over there are very rough (and I sought them out when I was there), but.... Proper, metalled main roads do actually exist in Argentina.
Bariloche-Ushuaia doesn't actually need to involve driving through a field, wood and flooded moss....
Somebody could drive from Manchester to the Peak via Rushup Edge or London to Oxford via the Ridgeway if they so wished.
Edited by MC Bodge on Sunday 28th December 09:30
V8covin said:
The whole format is a set up.Do you really think they just follow the map and happen to end up in a swamp or an unfinished bridge ? Of course not.They send researchers out months beforehand to find 'interesting' places to film at.
As for Clarkson repairing the Porsche,they have a support crew of mechanics.
It's a load of contrived tosh but if that's what you enjoy watching,fine.
Time Top Gear was sent to the crusher
It's light entertainment though, if you want to see proper expeditions thru the arctic or jungle then i guess some sort of national geographic documentary would be more suitable.As for Clarkson repairing the Porsche,they have a support crew of mechanics.
It's a load of contrived tosh but if that's what you enjoy watching,fine.
Time Top Gear was sent to the crusher
egor110 said:
It's light entertainment though, if you want to see proper expeditions thru the arctic or jungle then i guess some sort of national geographic documentary would be more suitable.
It is indeed light entertainment but by the way some people are discussing it on here you'd think it was a documentary.That's pretty much my point really.Oh and it was crap 
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