Top Gear Series 21

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MarshPhantom

9,658 posts

138 months

Sunday 24th August 2014
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There were going to be a couple World Cup related specials, but it didn't happen AFAIK. I know Clarkson's mother died recently, I don't know if that had anything to do with.

Scuffers

20,887 posts

275 months

Sunday 24th August 2014
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You also have to ask with all the grief JC has taken from the bbc and all, whether he can be bothered anymore, it's not like he needs the money.

Pebbles167

3,455 posts

153 months

Sunday 24th August 2014
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I know TopnGear season 22 is being filmed as a "friend" lent them his car to use wink

Welshbeef

49,633 posts

199 months

Sunday 24th August 2014
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boxst said:
Did I miss the 'special' that was supposed to happen in June/July? McLaren Vs Porsche?
There wanted to get the 3 LaFerrari P1 and 918 together - probably on one of the adventures but ending on the lap time.


Also cannot wait to see them do a Tesla S section

FiF

44,136 posts

252 months

Sunday 24th August 2014
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Scuffers said:
You also have to ask with all the grief JC has taken from the bbc and all, whether he can be bothered anymore, it's not like he needs the money.
Tbh if anyone got slagged off by the likes of a weapons grade count (sp?) like Frankie Boyle and called a "tumour" it would be difficult to find a polite answer that didn't use the words Arkell or Pressdram.

MarshPhantom

9,658 posts

138 months

Sunday 24th August 2014
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Pebbles167 said:
I know TopnGear season 22 is being filmed as a "friend" lent them his car to use wink
With Chris Harris standing in for Jezza?

Halmyre

11,214 posts

140 months

Sunday 24th August 2014
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FiF said:
Scuffers said:
You also have to ask with all the grief JC has taken from the bbc and all, whether he can be bothered anymore, it's not like he needs the money.
Tbh if anyone got slagged off by the likes of a weapons grade count (sp?) like Frankie Boyle and called a "tumour" it would be difficult to find a polite answer that didn't use the words Arkell or Pressdram.
I saw that quote too. I like Jeremy Clarkson. I like Frankie Boyle. But sometimes they say things that make me cringe. Whatever.

JonRB

74,609 posts

273 months

Sunday 24th August 2014
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FiF said:
Tbh if anyone got slagged off by the likes of a weapons grade count (sp?) like Frankie Boyle and called a "tumour" it would be difficult to find a polite answer that didn't use the words Arkell or Pressdram.
Quite. yes

Frankie Boyle is someone who should look around his environment and the degree of glazing in it before casting stones. Especially in the light of his climbdown in a heckler confrontation with a mum with a disabled kid.

jimbop1

2,441 posts

205 months

Sunday 24th August 2014
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JonRB said:
FiF said:
Tbh if anyone got slagged off by the likes of a weapons grade count (sp?) like Frankie Boyle and called a "tumour" it would be difficult to find a polite answer that didn't use the words Arkell or Pressdram.
Quite. yes

Frankie Boyle is someone who should look around his environment and the degree of glazing in it before casting stones. Especially in the light of his climbdown in a heckler confrontation with a mum with a disabled kid.
Frankie Boyle is repulsive.. Jeremy Clarkson is great.

Please don't put the two in the same sentence!

rufusruffcutt

1,539 posts

206 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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These are the three cars for the Christmas/Easter/May bank holiday special. Patagonia through to Cape Horn.

More pics here:
http://autoblog.com.ar/2014/09/top-gear-argentina/

ZesPak

24,435 posts

197 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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rufusruffcutt said:
These are the three cars for the Christmas/Easter/May bank holiday special. Patagonia through to Cape Horn.

More pics here:
http://autoblog.com.ar/2014/09/top-gear-argentina/
Hmm, muscle car is deffo the hamster, James in the Porker?

Halmyre

11,214 posts

140 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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ZesPak said:
rufusruffcutt said:
These are the three cars for the Christmas/Easter/May bank holiday special. Patagonia through to Cape Horn.

More pics here:
http://autoblog.com.ar/2014/09/top-gear-argentina/
Hmm, muscle car is deffo the hamster, James in the Porker?
I would have said Jezza in the 'Stang (with Slow=928 and Hamster=Esprit), but you may well be right. I didn't think Clarkson would fit in an Esprit, but then realised I'd just recently watched him jammed into an Austin-Healey Sprite...

Prawnboy

1,326 posts

148 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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3 great V8's there, so a good starting point.

hope it's actually shown at xmas this time.

williamp

19,265 posts

274 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Halmyre said:
Please delete
Thats not helping with the spoiler, is it....

williamp

19,265 posts

274 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Spoiler people, spoiler. Please dont ruin it for those who haven't clicked the link. Maybe talk about it elsewhere?? Or not at all??

Mr_B

10,480 posts

244 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Oh no, please don't trash that Esprit. Is it an ex-press car ?

anonymous-user

55 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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It's all scripted yer know.

Mr_B

10,480 posts

244 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Halmyre said:
I would have said Jezza in the 'Stang (with Slow=928 and Hamster=Esprit), but you may well be right. I didn't think Clarkson would fit in an Esprit, but then realised I'd just recently watched him jammed into an Austin-Healey Sprite...
Hammond in the Yank thing, Slow in the Porker, Jezza in the Lotus. I would have thought.

DrDoofenshmirtz

15,246 posts

201 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Google translate...

Top Gear, the program's most famous cars in the world, recorded for the next two weeks an episode in Argentina's Patagonia. The famous BBC show filmed a cruise down Route 40, linking Bariloche to Ushuaia. So is it confirmed to Autoblog several local sources, who participated in the production of the program during the last two months.
The photos that illustrate this paper were taken this afternoon by José Bellora, paparazzo and correspondent Autoblog header in Bariloche. The images belong to the Llao Llao Hotel parking lot, where the three classic sports that will star cruise are: a Porsche 928 GT, a Lotus Esprit V8 and a Ford Mustang Mach 1 All three have RHD.
For the uninitiated, it's a classic Top Gear expose less appropriate cars to the most extreme situations. Everything indicates that this voyage will mark a new milestone, where it is difficult to imagine that these three collector car can reach the goal in the same state.
The three sports and part of the production team are in the hotel from this weekend. Today also got the support vehicles that move to film crews: Toyota Hilux and SW4 all Argentines.
For this Wednesday are already booked rooms on behalf of the three hosts of the show: Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond. It is estimated that the journey will start on Friday. It would take almost two weeks to get to Ushuaia.
From Bariloche, Bellora reported: "The cars were unlocked, but it did not seem fair play to open the doors. We were going to look like the 'Italian garden'. I know the Route 40 and those cars with that clearance, plowing they will go all the way. Those who know the ground we know that, between the tracks, always rises a pile of stones.It is impossible to move forward with that cleared! If you really go for the 40, the only sound is the Mustang come. And I hope you have brought several windshield replacement. "
A minor detail is not the amount of spare wheels that charge the cars, especially Porsche.
In Autoblog's opinion, is likely to receive the file changes, as usually happens halfway on all cruises Top Gear (see example below).
What state will arrive in Ushuaia? It only knows the legendary mastermind behind the most watched car show on the planet: Andy Wilman.
This is not the first time Top Gear plans a special program in this area of the planet. In 2012 he became a special preproducirse in the Falkland Islands, but was ruled out because of political unrest (see note). Coincidentally, now chose Route 40, the longest and most demanding in the country, just as there is a bill to rename it as "Nestor Kirchner" (see note).


surveyor

17,844 posts

185 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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MarshPhantom said:
Pebbles167 said:
I know TopnGear season 22 is being filmed as a "friend" lent them his car to use wink
With Chris Harris standing in for Jezza?
Happened to spot Jezza last week at Blyth services being filmed driving a BMW i8. Very nice it looked too.