Tivs aren't the fastest cars
Tivs aren't the fastest cars
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konrod

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912 posts

258 months

Monday 14th May 2007
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Anyone on here read the latest Top Gear mag with the so called 100 fastest cars? Got a few tasty ones in there but no Tivs! I know that TG are generally anti-Tiv argue although they have had better comments recently, so any idea why the there aren't any in there? I would have expected the Cerbie at least......... grumpy

David Godfrey

3,857 posts

254 months

Monday 14th May 2007
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been posted before, sumary was along the lines that as there not made now there not on the list.

konrod

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912 posts

258 months

Monday 14th May 2007
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OK, search isn't up to much then as I looked for it before I posted. The fact they aren't made now is crap anyway as half the cars in the list aren't made.

David Godfrey

3,857 posts

254 months

Monday 14th May 2007
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hm, I can't find it either, was convinced it had been posted before, perhaps I'm wrong??

forthright MC

8,362 posts

313 months

Monday 14th May 2007
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i was surprised at seeing that too, like you say there should have at least been a Cerb or a Sag included in there (seeing as Clarkson once called the Cerb a "wheeled atom bomb" and also said the Saggy was so quick it was "melting the road!" )
Tivs are now not included in the new car section in the back of the mag either (that might have been mentioned in a thread elsewhere too)


Edited by forthright MC on Monday 14th May 20:00

sidewayz

2,681 posts

271 months

Monday 14th May 2007
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frazer guest said:
Is the lack of being on this list such a bad thing? Do we really want our beasts to be "as common as muck"? Lets just keep it our little secret eh?

Whats the better feeling, your car being in some poxy list, compiled by a half cocked motoring rag, or the feeling you get when you park up after a supersonic run out across the moors, listening to your pride and joy gentle pinging as it cools down?

The noise, the looks, the performance, the craftsmanship, the feeling of being "as one" with the car. The roof down, floor the throttle, hear the thunder, warp speed buzz of it all. Nothing else pushes those buttons for me.

Top Gear can keep their crappy lists. nothing can ever take away the magic feeling of owning a tivver.
driving


Edited by frazer guest on Monday 14th May 20:16



Amen Brother

SEN 18

1,247 posts

242 months

Monday 14th May 2007
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Turn the tele off when Top Gear comes on.I go out for an hour and shovel some horse shit.

mikee

1,851 posts

314 months

Monday 14th May 2007
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Yeah but what's your definition of a fast car? I've never seen a fast TVR on track....



davetherave1970

2,144 posts

276 months

Monday 14th May 2007
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mikee said:


Yeah but what's your definition of a fast car? I've never seen a fast TVR on track....
Half the cars on the list aren't "fast" on a track.....

Billy_rfc

587 posts

285 months

Monday 14th May 2007
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So whats actually on the list then?

Rum Runner

2,347 posts

247 months

Tuesday 15th May 2007
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mikee said:


Yeah but what's your definition of a fast car? I've never seen a fast TVR on track....





You obviously never saw Steve Cole racing the factory 420SEAC back in its day when it just about cleaned up on every race, beating most of the more modified classes as well.

jiggs

40 posts

247 months

Tuesday 15th May 2007
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Not the fastest well I recently tried a monster Griff that was for sale on PH my friend bought it
lucky bastard, it had a John Eales engine in it and was putting out just under 400 BHP bloody hell there may be faster cars but I sure as hell dont know their names , and I have a fast Griff but nothing like that beserk monster
Simon

BTY

31 posts

233 months

Tuesday 15th May 2007
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top <insert number here> <insert random classification to brag about here> lists are always total bollox anyways.

bigandclever

14,392 posts

268 months

Tuesday 15th May 2007
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If you can be arsed the list as a gallery can be worked through here ... www.topgear.com/content/timetoburn/sections/galleries/other/100_fastestcars/01/

"If you've ever snoozed at 35,000ft before finding God in the back of an airport taxi, you'll understand that speed is relative. No 0-60mph here, nor 0-100-0mph, but just the cars that remind us, in the terrifying thick of it, that we are utterly alive."

morebeanz

3,283 posts

266 months

Tuesday 15th May 2007
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Subaru Forester and a Daihatsu Cuore are in there - clearly the boys were smoking while putting that list together!

LordGrover

34,176 posts

242 months

Tuesday 15th May 2007
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bigandclever said:
If you can be arsed the list as a gallery can be worked through here ... www.topgear.com/content/timetoburn/sections/galleries/other/100_fastestcars/01/

"If you've ever snoozed at 35,000ft before finding God in the back of an airport taxi, you'll understand that speed is relative. No 0-60mph here, nor 0-100-0mph, but just the cars that remind us, in the terrifying thick of it, that we are utterly alive."

Cerb's in that list. clicky

LordGrover

34,176 posts

242 months

Tuesday 15th May 2007
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As is Sag, T350c, Tam & Tusc ...

bigandclever

14,392 posts

268 months

Tuesday 15th May 2007
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LordGrover said:
bigandclever said:
If you can be arsed the list as a gallery can be worked through here ... www.topgear.com/content/timetoburn/sections/galleries/other/100_fastestcars/01/

"If you've ever snoozed at 35,000ft before finding God in the back of an airport taxi, you'll understand that speed is relative. No 0-60mph here, nor 0-100-0mph, but just the cars that remind us, in the terrifying thick of it, that we are utterly alive."

Cerb's in that list. clicky
Shhh, don't tell anyone but yours is a link to the regular picture gallery

97octane

2,203 posts

253 months

Tuesday 15th May 2007
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Do you care?
Have you ever seen a small boy giving thumbs up and "Nice car, Mister!" to a Porsche?

LordGrover

34,176 posts

242 months

Tuesday 15th May 2007
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bigandclever said:
LordGrover said:
bigandclever said:
If you can be arsed the list as a gallery can be worked through here ... www.topgear.com/content/timetoburn/sections/galleries/other/100_fastestcars/01/

"If you've ever snoozed at 35,000ft before finding God in the back of an airport taxi, you'll understand that speed is relative. No 0-60mph here, nor 0-100-0mph, but just the cars that remind us, in the terrifying thick of it, that we are utterly alive."

Cerb's in that list. clicky
Shhh, don't tell anyone but yours is a link to the regular picture gallery

Bugger! Must be a cookies thing. paperbag Just select TVR as the make at the bottom then ...