The Official Top Gear Season 14 thread...starts 15th Nov

[CastrolCraig.]

so, here we go again folks, more high jinx and hopefully a longer series than last time.

ep 1 looks good anyway.

In the first of a brand new series, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May take an Aston DBS Volante, a Ferrari California and a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder to Romania in search of an obscure stretch of tarmac that some hardcore drivers claim is nothing less than the greatest road in the world.

Meanwhile, James makes a rare appearance on the track as he compares two absurdly powerful limos, the BMW 760i and Mercedes S63 AMG, and gets into a strange card game with The Stig.

Plus, Star Trek, Troy and Hulk star Eric Bana is the Hollywood legend in the Reasonably Priced Car.

[Flanders.]

Dam I was hoping they had got rid of SIARPC.

[V8mate]

So..... if this is the official thread, what does that make the other threads on this topic

[flakeypaul]

I just hope the total an utter dumbing down of the last few series goes away. I cringe every time they talk about how many 'brake horse powers' and 'torques' a car has and how they explain about the short-comings of front wheel drive will make a powerful fwd car rubbish which, ironically is itself rubbish.

I'm not expecting a return to the old days of making a car review programme but some of the st they come out with just makes you wonder why you looked forward to the new series (the last two series have made me feel that way before the end of the first episode).

[adycav]

I thought that the last series was considerably better than the one before.

[Hairspray]

I am very excited.

[triggersbroom]

Hairspray said:

I am very excited.

+1

[MentalSarcasm]

Eric Bana is a huge car fan so he should be good in the RPC.

[pokethepope]

CastrolCraig. said:

so, here we go again folks, more high jinx and hopefully a longer series than last time.

ep 1 looks good anyway.

In the first of a brand new series, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May take an Aston DBS Volante, a Ferrari California and a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder to Romania in search of an obscure stretch of tarmac that some hardcore drivers claim is nothing less than the greatest road in the world.

Meanwhile, James makes a rare appearance on the track as he compares two absurdly powerful limos, the BMW 760i and Mercedes S63 AMG, and gets into a strange card game with The Stig.

Plus, Star Trek, Troy and Hulk star Eric Bana is the Hollywood legend in the Reasonably Priced Car.

So is it going to be 90% of the time talking about their new film, then a 2 min trailer, then 30 seconds on something interesting/funny/about their car history?

All the previous big stars, e.g. Wahlberg, Sienna Miller, were only there to promote their film, showed a bloody trailer and talked about the film for most of the session. SIARPC is better than HLIARPC.




Hopefully the rest of the show is more of the same good stuff from last series.

Edited by pokethepope on Monday 9th November 03:52

[mp3manager]

I predict that within the first ten minutes of the first show, they will play at least one of the following incidental tracks....

Hunger

Ashes To Ashes

Tribal War

Remember Remember

Valerie

Evey Reborn

Knives & Bullets (And Cannons Too)

And possibly also a snippet of The Prodigy or Underworld could make it in there too.

Edited by mp3manager on Monday 9th November 04:35

[XJSJohn]

Still excited!!! We don't get much fresh new TV out here in the boondocks so the sniff of a new Top Gear is always eagerly anticipated!!

[Gun]

pokethepope said:

CastrolCraig. said:

so, here we go again folks, more high jinx and hopefully a longer series than last time.

ep 1 looks good anyway.

In the first of a brand new series, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May take an Aston DBS Volante, a Ferrari California and a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder to Romania in search of an obscure stretch of tarmac that some hardcore drivers claim is nothing less than the greatest road in the world.

Meanwhile, James makes a rare appearance on the track as he compares two absurdly powerful limos, the BMW 760i and Mercedes S63 AMG, and gets into a strange card game with The Stig.

Plus, Star Trek, Troy and Hulk star Eric Bana is the Hollywood legend in the Reasonably Priced Car.

So is it going to be 90% of the time talking about their new film, then a 2 min trailer, then 30 seconds on something interesting/funny/about their car history?

All the previous big stars, e.g. Wahlberg, Sienna Miller, were only there to promote their film, showed a bloody trailer and talked about the film for most of the session. SIARPC is better than HLIARPC.




Hopefully the rest of the show is more of the same good stuff from last series.

Edited by pokethepope on Monday 9th November 03:52

Just checked IMDB and he's not got anything coming out in the next couple of months. Hopefully he's just going on as a petrolhead, he regularly races over in Australia doesn't he?

As for the new series, can't wait for it!

[Makila2A]

Should be good to see Bana there, cause as Gun suggests, he's a proper car bloke. He races a Porsche back here and has run Targa Tasmania a few times.
He did a doco a little while ago called "Love the Beast" about his love of cars. Worth a look.
Cheers

[Mr Dave]

If Bana was talking about Love the beast for the whole hour, I doubt any petrolhead would complain. If its pushing Star Trek then itd be dull but he really is a true petrol head.

Should be fast as he is an amateur racing driver too.

[Charlie Foxtrot]

Mr Dave said:

If Bana was talking about Love the beast for the whole hour,

I think that is what he will be talking about. the uk release of the DVD is next monday.

[Dick Dastardly]

Bana should be brilliant considering he is car mad and this is the film he has produced and is currently promoting: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1284028/

"Eric Bana and the co-star is his very own Ford GT Falcon Coupe - THE BEAST...He set about documenting his own 25 year long love story. A simple tale of one man's ongoing relationship with his very first car. After years of precious restoration, Eric and his 3 closest friends, decided to enter the car into one of the most grueling and dangerous motor races that exists: The Targa Tasmania Rally..."

[adycav]

Love The Beast is a fantastic film, I watched it yesterday.

Anyone with even a passing interest in cars, motorsport, the endurance of blokey friendship or Bana himself should watch it forthwith.

[bakerjuk]

pokethepope said:

CastrolCraig. said:

so, here we go again folks, more high jinx and hopefully a longer series than last time.

ep 1 looks good anyway.

In the first of a brand new series, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May take an Aston DBS Volante, a Ferrari California and a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder to Romania in search of an obscure stretch of tarmac that some hardcore drivers claim is nothing less than the greatest road in the world.

Meanwhile, James makes a rare appearance on the track as he compares two absurdly powerful limos, the BMW 760i and Mercedes S63 AMG, and gets into a strange card game with The Stig.

Plus, Star Trek, Troy and Hulk star Eric Bana is the Hollywood legend in the Reasonably Priced Car.

So is it going to be 90% of the time talking about their new film, then a 2 min trailer, then 30 seconds on something interesting/funny/about their car history?

All the previous big stars, e.g. Wahlberg, Sienna Miller, were only there to promote their film, showed a bloody trailer and talked about the film for most of the session. SIARPC is better than HLIARPC.




Hopefully the rest of the show is more of the same good stuff from last series.

Edited by pokethepope on Monday 9th November 03:52

Guess what.. he has a crappy car film out where he crashes his 25 year old interceptor into a tree.

[Nom de ploom]

lest we foreget it is an entertainment show that hapens to have cars in it, rather than a serious "car" show.

I think the balance of the presenters helps keep it fresh, it's like an old friend.

[triggersbroom]

Nom de ploom said:

it's like an old friend.

I'd go with that