Top Gear

[saucyboy]

Just a quick note guy's,

Top Gear Best of British on BBC 2 at 9pm tonight. Might include Noble?

James

[malc 21]

nice one i hope so

mal

[mgbond]

It does include the M15.

Bondy

Well thats what NTL said.

Edited by mgbond on Sunday 7th January 22:01

[malc 21]

about time they started showing more nobles on T G
and should og been on there tonight tut tut top gear

mal

[gadgeroonie]

what did you guys think of the Ascari

Lee Noble was involved in its design

[mikey_p]

gadgeroonie said:

what did you guys think of the Ascari

Lee Noble was involved in its design

From dead front I did think it looked kind of similar to the M15. However I don't like the Ascari, it's far to dull from most angles and just doesnt look like a £235,000 supercar.

Also did he say the engine was taken from the BMW M5 and tuned to 500bhp? I thought with "sport mode" on, the M5 was 500 and something bhp already.

I would probably rather get a Merci for £180,000 and spend the other £55k on say, i dunno, an M400 maybe. Although I need to shift some funds around before I can do that

"Hello bank manager, could you increase my student loan to £235,000 please? Thank you very much, thats very kind of you"

[Alfa Dave]

The Ascari uses the previous M5 V8 engine not the latest E60 M5 V10 engine...

[ajg31]

mikey_p said:

gadgeroonie said:

what did you guys think of the Ascari

Lee Noble was involved in its design

From dead front I did think it looked kind of similar to the M15. However I don't like the Ascari, it's far to dull from most angles and just doesnt look like a £235,000 supercar.

Also did he say the engine was taken from the BMW M5 and tuned to 500bhp? I thought with "sport mode" on, the M5 was 500 and something bhp already.

I would probably rather get a Merci for £180,000 and spend the other £55k on say, i dunno, an M400 maybe. Although I need to shift some funds around before I can do that

"Hello bank manager, could you increase my student loan to £235,000 please? Thank you very much, thats very kind of you"

just get a mortgage and "forget" to buy the house. the way they offer money these days even a student could get 1/4 mill mortgage!!!

[plipton]

Alfa Dave said:

The Ascari uses the previous M5 V8 engine not the latest E60 M5 V10 engine...

£235k for last year's motor. They can bu99er off!

[joust]

Lee was involved in this

www.pistonheads.com/fastcars/ascari.htm

Can you tell....



AFAIK Lee wasn't involved at all in the KZ1.

J

[gadgeroonie]

it looks a bit like a stretched M12 with round rear lights !!

didn't realise Lee was involved in the Maclaren F1 !!

[ajg31]

what was the name of the old replica F1 car on Top Gear last night, only caught bits of the program

[joust]

gadgeroonie said:

it looks a bit like a stretched M12 with round rear lights !!
didn't realise Lee was involved in the Maclaren F1 !!

An Ultima chassis was used as the development chassis for it.

Not sure how directly involved Lee was on that?

J

[Humpy]

ajg31 said:

what was the name of the old replica F1 car on Top Gear last night, only caught bits of the program

It was a Vanwall click

[ajg31]

stunning in my eyes, thanks for the link

[joust]

I love the tyre tread mudguards

J

[gtr-gaz]

joust said:

gadgeroonie said:

it looks a bit like a stretched M12 with round rear lights !!
didn't realise Lee was involved in the Maclaren F1 !!

An Ultima chassis was used as the development chassis for it.

Not sure how directly involved Lee was on that?

J

Lee wasn't involved at all, other than selling the chassis to Maclaren.
www.ultimasports.co.uk/history/mclaren.html

Did you know that both prototypes ended up in the shredder

edit: love the Ascari btw. In fact I love all the projects Lee has been involved with. He has a natural flair. A bit like Colin chapman really.

Edited by gtr-gaz on Tuesday 9th January 13:52