Top gear series 18 January 29 2012

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Balmoral

41,168 posts

250 months

Tuesday 13th March 2012
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e21Mark said:
stephen300o said:
I don't think I'd upgrade to an M5, I'd just buy the CD.
Maybe it'll be on i-tunes?

How long till someone coaxes 600 watts out of that new V8?

tommy vercetti

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11,491 posts

165 months

Tuesday 13th March 2012
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One disappointment from this series was that they didn't show the guy with the James May tatoo during the news section

CatJ

9,586 posts

245 months

Tuesday 13th March 2012
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114478/To...

I didn't notice on Sunday that all the driving school cars were from the same school of motoring.

FloppyRaccoon

1,916 posts

168 months

Tuesday 13th March 2012
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It was quite clearly fake (as most of Top Gear is), but I knew that when I saw it. I still enjoyed it regardless. In fact I enjoy every episode, just some more than others.

FourWheelDrift

88,836 posts

286 months

Tuesday 13th March 2012
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I've been down roads where there have been 2 or 3 cars all from the same school practising 3 point turns or reverse parking. They have favourite roads and they always use them. It might have been set up for the cameras only because they had already been blocking up the road 15mins before they got there.

Daily Mail in "but it's not real" cry baby shocker. Do they employ 12 yr olds to write their stories these days?

P I Staker

3,308 posts

158 months

Tuesday 13th March 2012
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CatJ said:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114478/To...

I didn't notice on Sunday that all the driving school cars were from the same school of motoring.
Ridiculous.

JonRB

75,200 posts

274 months

Tuesday 13th March 2012
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FloppyRaccoon said:
It was quite clearly fake (as most of Top Gear is), but I knew that when I saw it. I still enjoyed it regardless. In fact I enjoy every episode, just some more than others.
I must confess, the driver of one of the learner cars confidently reversing on mirrors alone whilst chewing away on chewing gum with his mouth open (ewwww) kind of gave it away a bit. smile

Edited by JonRB on Tuesday 13th March 19:52

FloppyRaccoon

1,916 posts

168 months

Tuesday 13th March 2012
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JonRB said:
FloppyRaccoon said:
It was quite clearly fake (as most of Top Gear is), but I knew that when I saw it. I still enjoyed it regardless. In fact I enjoy every episode, just some more than others.
I must confess, the driver of one of the learner cars confidently reversing on mirrors along whilst chewing away on chewing gum with his mouth open (ewwww) kind of gave it away a bit. smile
hehe Most certainly news worthy

JonRB

75,200 posts

274 months

Tuesday 13th March 2012
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CatJ said:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114478/To...

I didn't notice on Sunday that all the driving school cars were from the same school of motoring.
Top Gear said today the show was ‘not a documentary and the viewers are intelligent enough to know some elements of the programme are for entertainment.

and

"A BBC spokesman said at the time: 'As an entertainment programme, Top Gear prides itself on making silly films that don't pretend to represent real life.
'Any suggestion it deliberately misled viewers is patently ludicrous.'"

Well, quite.

stephen300o

15,464 posts

230 months

Tuesday 13th March 2012
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Daily mail said:
"It was the heart-stopping scene which had viewers of the final episode of this season's Top Gear holding their breath."

Really? I take Topgear's japes more seriously than that piece of.. writing.


LuS1fer

41,192 posts

247 months

Wednesday 14th March 2012
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The claim that their races are sacrosanct made me laugh as they are clearly scripted to keep things close ie getting stopped by Police which occurred in both UK and US versions of a long-distance race.

AdeTuono

7,286 posts

229 months

Wednesday 14th March 2012
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It makes me smile that there are so many on here lambasting The Daily Mail for their comments, when PH is probably 10 x more guilty of coming out with almost identical comments week after week.

And anyway, May's comment still stands. They were real cars, and they were on real roads. Or was it all CGI?

LuS1fer

41,192 posts

247 months

Wednesday 14th March 2012
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The degree of planning also suggests Evans knew he would be driving it.

jimslops

6,419 posts

156 months

Wednesday 14th March 2012
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LuS1fer said:
The degree of planning also suggests Evans knew he would be driving it.
Woah! It's sherlock!

LuS1fer

41,192 posts

247 months

Wednesday 14th March 2012
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jimslops said:
Woah! It's sherlock!
Oh, my sides, they're splitting.

Marc W

3,782 posts

213 months

Wednesday 14th March 2012
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Russ T Bolt said:
I wasn't paying attention, but I'm sure Chris Evans said this morning that he doesn't own the Ferrari anymore. Must have been about 7.15, did anybody else hear it or is it my imagination?
That story on themail website quotes one of the instructors as saying it was filmed in November 2009 so he would have still had it then but it's true that he has since sold it and the other white Ferrari's. I'm quite suprised that it took this long to show it though.

stephen300o

15,464 posts

230 months

Wednesday 14th March 2012
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Round and round we go. I bet the Topgear team don't read this anymore. it's not what it used to be.

jimslops

6,419 posts

156 months

Wednesday 14th March 2012
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LuS1fer said:
Oh, my sides, they're splitting.
That is an unexpected response, don't see what is funny about it wink Your post was a severe case of state the obvious!

LuS1fer

41,192 posts

247 months

Wednesday 14th March 2012
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jimslops said:
LuS1fer said:
Oh, my sides, they're splitting.
That is an unexpected response, don't see what is funny about it wink Your post was a severe case of state the obvious!
On which basis, so was yours. Let's call it even.

jimslops

6,419 posts

156 months

Wednesday 14th March 2012
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LuS1fer said:
On which basis, so was yours. Let's call it even.
Deal


(2-1 to me).