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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #40 on: February 5, 2007, 12:56:37 pm »
And no way is that Alfa Brera the best or most desirable car. Had one on loan a few months ago, and it doesn't drive anywhere near what you'd expect a £30k coupe to drive like.
Alfa's rule! Easily the best looking, which is the most important feature.

As for the Top Gear/Fifth Gear argument - Fifth Gear has had Tim Lovejoy presenting it and there ends the argument.

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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #41 on: February 5, 2007, 01:03:28 pm »
Dunno about that, but he should be put down.

That cock has done more damage to the image of a British man than any football hoolie or BNP skin head could ever dream of.

what has he done? ???
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #42 on: February 5, 2007, 01:05:29 pm »
what has he done? ???
Got a blowie of a fugly hooker?
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #43 on: February 5, 2007, 01:13:10 pm »
what has he done? ???

Stared in a procession of shite films that leave the rest of the world thinking we're a bunch of dithering idiots.

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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #44 on: February 5, 2007, 01:14:34 pm »
Got a blowie of a fugly hooker?

Aint that bad then compared to Prescott's affair  :puke2
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #45 on: February 5, 2007, 01:15:36 pm »
Stared in a procession of shite films that leave the rest of the world thinking we're a bunch of dithering idiots.

I am beginning to forgive you for all previous faults ;) :P

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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #46 on: February 5, 2007, 01:16:13 pm »
Alfa's rule! Easily the best looking, which is the most important feature.

The front end of that Brera was excellent looking..I thought its back end was saggy and ugly though.


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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #47 on: February 5, 2007, 01:18:11 pm »
Got a blowie of a fugly hooker?

That is the average British male isn't it?
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #48 on: February 5, 2007, 01:18:36 pm »
I am beginning to forgive you for all previous faults ;) :P

They're still there Brad, trust me.

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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #49 on: February 5, 2007, 01:22:47 pm »
As the owner of a Toyota Pious it pains me to say it but Clarkson is fucking funny.

His 'mobile as bloke falling down the stairs with calipers' impression made me cough a carrot out of my nose.
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #50 on: February 5, 2007, 01:28:01 pm »
As the owner of a Toyota Pious it pains me to say it but Clarkson is fucking funny.

His 'mobile as bloke falling down the stairs with calipers' impression made me cough a carrot out of my nose.
Too right, and his "I'm gonna stick a 2v battery in a Hummer and call it a hybrid" line!

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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #51 on: February 5, 2007, 01:31:00 pm »
Too right, and his "I'm gonna stick a 2v battery in a Hummer and call it a hybrid" line!

no i didn't like that ;D
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #52 on: February 5, 2007, 02:20:55 pm »

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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #53 on: February 5, 2007, 02:40:36 pm »
Fifth Gear has had Tim Lovejoy presenting it and there ends the argument.


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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #54 on: February 5, 2007, 03:44:10 pm »
Chrisakes!!!! Lets get one thing straight.

As a proper car programme, Fifth Gear is absolutely lightyears ahead of Top Gear. You only have to look at any of the road tests they do. The Z4M/Cayenne or the S2000/R-Type tests were classic examples. Their knowledge, technical expertise, and driving abilities (2 former BTCC drivers, and 1 ex-rally driver) put them miles ahead of old pot belly Clarkson and his raggedy crew. And for the record, Jeremy Clarkson knows absolutely fuck all about cars (as his Sunday Times column will testify).

As an entertainment programme, Top Gear is alot more popular. But its for the mainstream masses who aren't so much interested in cars but the basic 'oooh ahhh' entertainment value. They're the sort of people who think a Ford Escort with a spoiler on the back of it is a great car. You only have to look at the sketches they do such as the exploding caravan sketch, and the 'build a stone fireplace and chimney' in the back of a car to know its not even a remotely serious car programme.

And Top Gear is scripted, pre-produced, and edited to death to make it look vaguely entertaining. Recorded live my fucking arse. So in yer face Top Gearites!

You are not wrong but since all that tech spec is easily available to anyone with web access why would you want to watch it drearily trotted out in a car programme? Top Gear is at least well scripted and the interplay between the presenters is very funny.
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #55 on: February 5, 2007, 03:48:55 pm »
The 3 Stooges

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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #56 on: February 5, 2007, 04:13:36 pm »
thought the comment about middle lane drivers and kiddie fiddlers was amusing

both i hate

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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #57 on: February 5, 2007, 04:17:51 pm »
And if you're both, you're a middle fiddler.

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Re: Top Gear
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #59 on: February 10, 2007, 04:20:16 pm »
this weeks show

If any of you caught the episode in the last series where the lads went caravanning, I think you'll agree that, bar a few hiccups, it all went rather well. In fact, even as we watched the firemen put the last of the flames out, there was a general agreement that Jeremy, Richard and James should try this holiday lark again, and so, this week, you'll be able to see their American Fly-Drive special.

The trip began in Miami, Florida, but instead of renting some dull saloon with white paint and velour trim from Avis, the three of them were each given $1,000 and a morning to see if they could buy an interesting car - a car with a few character lines around its grille, and a few stories to tell - for the same money you'd spend on a fortnight's rental.

As it turned out, the buying alone was worth a film, because $1,000 doesn't actually get you much any more, which meant our expat trio spiralled further and further down the food-chain of Miami's car culture, until they ended up in a part of the city where the car dealers were outnumbered by the crack dealers.

Clarkson's salesman, for example, broke out his handgun and telescopic-sighted rifle much more often than he did his Glass's Guide. Eventually though, cars were bought.

Jeremy, typically, overstretched himself and bought a five-litre Chevy Camaro, the murderer's muscle car of choice. In fact, it even had the shirt of the last hitchhiker victim stuffed in the boot.

James, true to form, returned with a 15-year-old shagged Cadillac that had its suspension tuned by a trampoline maker, and Hammond, always a big fan of Brokeback Mountain, arrived in a battered old Dodge pick-up truck.

With the buying done, the adventure really began. The TG holiday cars had to be tested, so they headed north on an 800-mile road trip that aimed to take them up through Florida, across Alabama and Mississippi to the finish point of New Orleans. That's a tough trip for bargain basement cars that even the lowest low life in Miami wouldn't be seen in.

But to make life even harder, there were naturally some Top Gear challenges along the way. So tune in to see what happens when the boys run into the Stig's hillbilly cousin and find out what they cook up when they have to live off roadkill. If that little lot doesn't kill them, will the Alabama Inflammatory Statement Down The Side Of the Car Challenge finish the job?

Find out at 8pm Sunday on BBC Two. Miss that and you've got two more chances: Wednesday 14, 7pm on BBC Two and Saturday 17, 7pm on BBC Three. No excuses, then.

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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #60 on: February 10, 2007, 05:51:28 pm »
That bugatti veyron bit they had on last week was fucking class, i want one how much are they?  ::)
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #61 on: February 11, 2007, 06:35:55 pm »
Looking forward to tonight's, don't miss it folks like i did last week :butt

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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #62 on: February 11, 2007, 06:37:26 pm »
Even if you do its repeated on wednesday at 7
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #63 on: February 11, 2007, 06:38:18 pm »
Even if you do its repeated on wednesday at 7

Missed the repeat too didn't i ;D

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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #64 on: February 11, 2007, 06:39:46 pm »
Cheers for bumping the thread.  I'd almost forgotten about it.
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #65 on: February 11, 2007, 06:42:26 pm »
Cheers for bumping the thread.  I'd almost forgotten about it.

How can you forget about top gear on a Sunday night!
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #66 on: February 11, 2007, 06:49:09 pm »
How can you forget about top gear on a Sunday night!

I have a man cold.
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #67 on: February 11, 2007, 06:50:14 pm »
I have a man cold.

You reckon you'll make it through the night? I feel your pain man.
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #68 on: February 11, 2007, 06:56:50 pm »
You reckon you'll make it through the night? I feel your pain man.

Touch and go i reckon :P

Looking forward to a cracking show though, "laughters the best medicene" and all that.
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #69 on: February 11, 2007, 08:25:42 pm »
Yank land special

:lmao @

nearly falling in river with the gators :o

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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #70 on: February 11, 2007, 08:25:45 pm »
Hammond's second brush with death this time being with crocodiles was hilarious  ;D
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #71 on: February 11, 2007, 08:27:32 pm »
Was just as funny when they pushed the hippy presenter near the edge ;D


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:o :o Can only eat road kill
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #72 on: February 11, 2007, 08:37:26 pm »
Grilled squirrel ..  :puke

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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #73 on: February 11, 2007, 08:42:38 pm »
Cow juice on the back seat :o

then wreck james's air con :lmao
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #74 on: February 11, 2007, 08:45:57 pm »
Ha, nice slogan on Hammonds car.
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #75 on: February 11, 2007, 08:46:05 pm »
James May is a legend.

:lmao
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #76 on: February 11, 2007, 08:46:41 pm »
this is hilarious to be honest!
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #77 on: February 11, 2007, 08:46:58 pm »
"Hilary For President", "Country and western music is rubbish"  and "Man Love Rules OK"  :lmao :lmao :lmao
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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #78 on: February 11, 2007, 08:48:53 pm »
Was that a real cow?!

This is one of the best episodes I've ever seen :lmao!

She's going to fetch the boys :lmao!  Now May's car won't start :lmao!

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Re: Top Gear
« Reply #79 on: February 11, 2007, 08:49:22 pm »
hahaahhahaha

"y'all gays wanna know how it takes to get beat up in a hick town"

:o :o here come the hick crew
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