Top gear series 18 January 29 2012

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http://www.inautonews.com/it%E2%80%99s-official-to...
Not the best of links sorry, but can't wait for this, should be brilliant

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There going to be about 6 episodes probably. Who would you lot like to see as SIARPC?
Mine would have to be Jason Statham and Paul Walker, all I can think of at the moment.

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RESSE said:

Spotted:
Clarkson, Hammond and May, filming in Rome with a Lamborghini Aventador, a McLaren MP4-12C and a Noble M600.

Sounds Brilliant! Hope the M600 comes out on top, but I reckon it will be the 12c

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durbster said:

tommy vercetti said:

There going to be about 6 episodes probably. Who would you lot like to see as SIARPC?
Mine would have to be Jason Statham and Paul Walker, all I can think of at the moment.

Honestly, I'd love to see some car industry insiders - stars known to the industry but perhaps not the public. How about Chris Bangle, the chief-exec of Morgan, a top engineer from McLaren or the lead-designer of the 911 (if there is one ) etc.?

Obviously it won't happen because that bit is to appease the non-car audience but personally I'd stop fast-forwarding it if they did it.

I know what you mean, would love to see Chris Bangle as SIARPC, but people will still moan you know

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCoNmCOg7Wc- filming in italy

http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2012/01/16/t...
Check out Stigs Italian cousin

Can't wait!!!

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Damn. I hate will i am.

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Three days left. If they are testing the F10 M5, that will be brilliant, don't know if they have done the E63 though.

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VinceFox said:

That s yet to complete an entire song, let alone make a car.

Can't sing, act and now can't make a car lol

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Just read on wiki that Matt Le Blanc is going to be the siarpc in the 2nd episode

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Scripted or not who cares it better than most shows on telly, would you rather watch x factor or shiiting on ice?
Plus they have some brilliant stuff lined up for this series; F10 M5, supercars in Italy, Nascar racing etc.

Nobody does car reviews like Top Gear. If you don't like their TV reviews, there is the magazine which you can read, or you can flick over to channel 5 and watch fifth gear arguing or Tiffany judging a car on whether it can drift or not.

Edited by tommy vercetti on Sunday 29th January 17:00

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NSFW said:

To quote Clarkson "it's TopGear as TopGear should be..." looks like Ray Winstone in the last clip too! Excellent!

Yeah it was. He was with Ben drew aka plan B too. It's to do with The sweeney.

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The Spruce goose said:

B Huey said:

According to the interview in The Times today they were very happy with tonight's episode.

They are celebrating the fact that this is TG's tenth anniversary

a 350 million viewing program will always have it ups and downs, and me for one will watch it until it dies, it at the least relieves the brain for an hour and considering the tv it is against nowadays it has a long way to go to reach the celebrity big brother lows.

+ 1 Excellent point.

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Damn coursework. Going to have to watch it on iplayer laters, sounds good though so far!

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What an episode Jeremy at the start lmao, back to business as usual for him.
James answering the theory questions haha; "an erection" & "at the police station" Doesn't give me much hope for when I take mine There are some bloody stupid and irrelevant questions though.

Prefer the Noble in grey, think it looked fantastic, and thats what I would take out of the three. Personally I feel it's a bit unfair to compare the Noble and the Lambo to the Ferrari as they are in a different league; speedwise, power and pricewise. Mclaren brilliant as it is, and it's British, just isn't as good to look at compared to the 458.

You could tell that Jezza was scared/excited as he pushed the Lambo to it's limits at Nardo, thats one of many points of what driving/being a petrolhead is all about, giving you adrenlanine like nothing else. Will i am, it was alrite but his too dry, no personality imo.

Next week should be a cracker, nascar racing, merc sls, c63 amg, and we meet the stig's..... Chinese cousin!

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sebhaque said:

Top ep I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet, but I loved the talking to the cars pre-Imola part. Thought that was very, very well done. Best one I've seen in a long time!

Could tell that they were taking it properly serious.

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Gretchen said:

F1GTRUeno said:

Your ten year old son is clearly a massive petrolhead and a huge F1 fan/nerd then. (Not that it's a bad thing)

The majority of the Top Gear audience aren't.

Those that care about factual things like this are a minority. I wish more would be done to recognise Ratzenbergers crash but in light of Senna (and his standing in F1) it's not surprising he never gets talked about.

Indeed he very much resembles your statements. Petrolhead (wants a Koenigsegg), Massive F1 nerd - facts/stats etc. the complete history. Ask him a question who was on pole at a certain track in a certain year, he knows, and then proceeds with who won the championship that year etc etc

However in your original post you stated you very much doubted the TG team knew who he was. I was replying to that. Given that the majority of the studio audience might not know. Someone else pointed out earlier in the thread about the girls looking bored to tears... I thought this, I very much doubt they knew who Ratzenberger was, let alone Barichello or Senna... But this programme should aim to educate as well as entertain. 

Frankeh said:

Or has watched the Senna documentary.

No. It's still in its wrapper from Christmas. He's under strict instructions not to watch it before me, or at least with me. 

He does read however. All the F1 encyclopaedias, autobiographies, AutoSport, books and more books, PH included. I have to watch what I say. 

Booey said:

Have you been feeding him petrol instead of water?

He wishes! He never watched Thomas the Tank et el to calm him as a baby. He somehow discovered 'C'est un Rendezvous'. This was the only thing that nursed him to sleep or calmed him from crying. Then he moved on to films like LeMans. Much to the horror of his younger Pokemon loving brother. 

We enjoyed this episode. It's great family viewing. Seemed fresher than the previous series. The team appeared enthusiastic and passionate again, something that's lacked of late. And even Pokemon boy watched with interest and decided he wants an Aventador (as a second car to his KTM XBow). 
One criticism as most have mentioned was that Will I Am was a bit...odd... Hopefully there will be some more charismatic personalities on the Star in a reasonably priced car slot This seems very stale of late, maybe they should 'scrap' it. Perhaps
replace it with a 'stars in their cars (garages)' cribs style section. 
Looking forward to the rest of the series, especially if it lives up to tonight's episode. 

Brilliant! Top lad

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His said that his business is set up in the ghetto, so people can get out of it, but do we know if he is giving them a good wage or fuk all? If not, then he's no better than the big companies paying kids in asia nothing for a hard days labour.

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durbster said:

B Huey said:

Plenty of hate on this thread for Will.I.Am

It would seem that the only thing worse than SIARPC is having a black man on SIARPC.

Don't be silly. Bob Geldof was by far the worst one they've had.

Yeah he was the fking knob.

Remember when Peter and Theo from Dragons den came on, they were good guests imo.
http://www.topgear.com/uk/videos/enter-the-den

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Just watched the episode on iplayer, bloody hell the filmography at the imola race track is brilliant.

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ajprice said:

The car maker will have a budget to advertise their cars, if part of it is passing a car over to a tv show to be destroyed, that's up to them. How many Toyota Aygo, VW Fox and Suzuki Swift have been damaged or met their end in Top Gear Football and Winter Olympics Ice Hockey?

True. It's up to the car makers, and once the cars are given to top gear, they get some of the best advertising they could hope for e.g. Renault Twingo and Ford Fiesta. Don't know why people moan when cars are destroyed, Top Gear can do what they want with the cars, they bought or were lent them.