Top Gear/Grear Nobs: Could We Do it Better....

Top Gear/Grear Nobs: Could We Do it Better....

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CS Garth

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2,860 posts

104 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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At times it appears that we can be a critical bunch on here so I thought I would harness the wisdom of the crowd. What ideas for segments/VTs would we like to see on Top Gear/The Three Amigos new show (if Tiff Needell wants to use them for 5th Gear so be it).

My hapeth worth:

-Italian Job: 3 people. 3 minis. Could even get Caine to do a cameo. Can't understand why not thus far? Perhaps city of Turin won't play ball.

-Meet Your Hero - new style review of a classic/modern classic.

-Paris-Dakar: Car, bike truck recreate the original Dakar.

-Nuns on the Run(way): 2 "nuns" with the stig helmet do the car lap, kills the stig off

-Driving Standards: Take driving tests in variety of countries to "compare" driving standards

-Bring back a few "heritage" TG presenters (step forward Edmonds) and pit them against a car full of current presenters. No idea doing what

Better ideas


mk4gtiturbo

194 posts

146 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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I've always fancied doing a few timed laps of the TG track to see how I compare to others, never really done anything competition related, "Normal Blokes in Reasonable Priced Car", ok doesn't have the same ring to it.

toon10

6,140 posts

156 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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I like the idea of the meet your hero's segment.

I'll add...

Z Star in a Z car. Basically take a Z list celebrity (I'm thinking Danny Dyer, Anyone from Geordie Shore, etc. and put them in a Nissan Z car around the track.)

Meet the parents. Take iconic cars and pit them against their modern day interpritations. Mark them on how they make you feel, looks, fun and other subjective things. Could be anything from a 911 to an Impreza.)


Matt UK

17,650 posts

199 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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Yup, just leave it to me, I've got this.

Just have a P1 and an F1 delivered to my door. And I'll need a credit card for hotels and expenses. Oh and about £10k cash for petrol where cards are not accepted.

I'll head off to somewhere in Europe with some mates and make an amazing feature film about my adventures. I'll need to be away for about a month in order to really do this justice. Don't try to contact me, disrupts the creativity.

It will be brilliant, see you all soon!
Probably...

Truckosaurus

11,183 posts

283 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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CS Garth said:
-Nuns on the Run(way): 2 "nuns" with the stig helmet do the car lap, kills the stig off
Monkey Tennis: Chris Harris reviews the Peugeot 205 Roland Garros.

CS Garth

Original Poster:

2,860 posts

104 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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Truckosaurus said:
CS Garth said:
-Nuns on the Run(way): 2 "nuns" with the stig helmet do the car lap, kills the stig off
Monkey Tennis: Chris Harris reviews the Peugeot 205 Roland Garros.
If Partridge can't make it work no one can!


-Highway to Hell: road trips from the most mundane roads in the world.

-Working a night on one of those crews that cones off the road

-Basket weaving with Peter Duncan: Peter takes a light hearted look at the appropriateness of various vehicles from the point of view of the professional basket weaver.

Evans Above: Motorway gantry review segment where Chris visits some of the UKs most loved motorway gantries



austinsmirk

5,597 posts

122 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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thinking of production ideas:

surely there is a lot of mileage in micking taking, relating to the VW dub scene of rusty bonnets and stanced wheels

4 x 4 scene and green lanes- plenty of "tugging each other off" jokes




must admit I loved top gear USA, because the cars were just so much more interesting than a lot of european stuff and the road trips were properly epic.

although I never really knew who the guests were.


must admit its probably hard to come up with more stupid things to do, surely many have been done already ?

CS Garth

Original Poster:

2,860 posts

104 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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austinsmirk said:
thinking of production ideas:

surely there is a lot of mileage in micking taking, relating to the VW dub scene of rusty bonnets and stanced wheels

4 x 4 scene and green lanes- plenty of "tugging each other off" jokes




must admit I loved top gear USA, because the cars were just so much more interesting than a lot of european stuff and the road trips were properly epic.

although I never really knew who the guests were.


must admit its probably hard to come up with more stupid things to do, surely many have been done already ?
I like the slammed idea. Slammed and Canned. Matt and Eddie visit some of the UKs pre-eminent canning facilities in a slammed dub.