The Top Gear Photo Thread (Read First Post!!)

[MedigoFlame]

This is a photomode thread for Top Gear related pictures. Anything related to the reviews and videos from the television show! Do your best to try and stay close to the show (cars, color, aero parts, camera angles, etc.) I am also looking for people who would like to help out with some pictures, I'm hoping to try and recreate some of the Top Gear episodes. It doesn't have to be just the Top Gear track! I shall make a list of requests and plans:

This thread is about the television show, and NOT just the track, please don't just use your own custom car and post it here.

Tips (ish)
-You could use SSR7 for the Top Gear races like DB9 vs train or SLR vs boat.
-Of course, use the Top Gear test track for the reviews and power laps, unfortunately, the cones can mess it up, see if you can get them out of the shot.
-Use tracks that the Top Gear crew's been to, for example: Laguna Seca with the NSX or Fuji Speedway for the GT-R review
-Some cars have been modified for example, the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ360 had a front splitter, which is a aero part in GT5
-Try to get the color as close as possible
-Do your best to do the same camera angles
-Try to recreate the filters used in the shot if available

Possible recreations
(So far at the top of my head)
1. STI vs Evo X (I just bought a red STI, anyone got a Evo X with the front aero splitter?)
2. Tesla Roadster
3. GT-R review at Fuji
4. R8 5.2 FSI vs Corvette ZR1
5. Ferrari 599 review
6. Fuel saving race (LP640, R8 4.2, SLR McLaren, DBS (Only the DB9's in the game)
7. XFR vs M5
8. ISF vs M3
9. LP560 vs 911 GT2 (Could use the...RUF RGT?)
10. Evora review
11. Z4 vs 370Z (No new Z4 though )
12. LFA review
13. Ferrari Enzo
14. New (ish) supercars vs old supercars: (McLaren F1, Jaguar XJ220, Ferrari F40, Ferrari Enzo, Pagani Zonda, Porsche Carrera GT -unavailable-)
15. LP640 review
16. GT-R vs. XKR-S (Only XKR available)
17. MP4-12C vs. 458 Italia
18. Z4 vs. S2000 AP1 vs. Boxster (RUF in GT5)

Top Gear US Recreations
1. Ferrari 458 vs. Corvette ZR1
2. Ferrari California vs. commercial airline.
3. Mercedes Benz SLS AMG review
4. Honda CRZ review
5. Lexus LFA vs. Forza 4
6. Impreza WRX STI review (Obviously can't do the STI vs. dirt bike race...but you can try)

I can't list all of the challenges and races, I'm just listing ones that GT5's car list has in common with the Top Gear episodes. Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_challenges (Thanks to Da_Crazy_Driver, I forgot about wikipedia X_X)

Stig's power laps count too!
To unlock the Top Gear Test Track, you must earn a gold in the beginner Top Gear Special Event
Other Top Gears are allowed (Top Gear Australia, America, Russia, China, and South Korea)
Post your Top Gear related pics!

 

[Jay4275]

I have a picture, inspired from the episode where Jeremy takes an S-type round the Nurburgring.

 

[MedigoFlame]

Nice! Taking the GT-R pictures right now

 

[Cogency]

one I made last week:

A RUF instead of a porsche and the V10 instead of the V8 audi.
(sorry for posting it again, but it belongs in this thread! hehe)

 

[MedigoFlame]

Some pics of the GT-R review. I forgot to take one of the GT-R on the side of the track when Jeremy's neck went ping. :/ Loved the R8 vs 911 review.
(Same area where he sped by, I used the signs!)

 

[Jay4275]

Nice pics, i'll get some more soon.

 

[MedigoFlame]

Some of the STI pics, hoping to find someone to help me with the STI vs Evo X pictures (including the one of them parked together at the end of Hammerhead with body parts laying around)

 

[Da_Crazy_Driver]

how about the Kit car race using the Caterham??

or you could use this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_challenges

 

[MedigoFlame]

That works! I'll post it into the first post. The kit car race works

 

[jmsbrydon]

It's from the 1st episode of the 1st series. They use an 02 Civic type R, a TVR Tuscan and an SL55 AMG to try and beat a speed camera down the main straigh. I think there was one more car aswell?. Either way all in the game.

 

[Jay4275]

From the Clio 182 review. Colour is pretty much dead on, apart from the stripe.

Even got the wheel cocking.

 

[Dan Hill]

2 sets from me.

Lotus Evora Review

Renault Avantime Faster Than An Evo Challenge

Wasn't til after I switched the game off that I was going to do the Tesla.

 

[Da_Crazy_Driver]

^^^^i wish you could put a F1 spoiler on the back

 

[Gizmo247]

And a plywood splitter that might catch fire.

 

[Machate-man]

Jeremy did a test on the Pagani Zonda R, and the TG track review of the car is on series 16
in the meantime- http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/jeremy-clarkson-pagani-zonda-r-dvd-the-italian-job-2010-11-01

I can get quite a few pics of this later.
*The Cool Filter was used most during this film.

 

[Falango]

Great idea for a thread! Once I get my new PS3, and get back into GT5, I'll contribute. I challenge people to try to recreate something from a TG episode. Take a frame from an episode, and do your best to recreate that shot, down to the location, car, color, action, exposure, etc. When I am back in GT5, this is how I will contribute. Let's see some comparison shots!

 

[pixeljunkynz]

This is my favourite photo I've taken on the TG test track…

 

[andmen]

How do i get the TG test track?

 

[Jay4275]

You unlock it in Arcade and Practice after you get gold in the beginner Top Gear Special Event.

 

[kr0nika]

Awesome thread idea...will be watching this one.

👍

 

[R3LF13]

one I made last week:

A RUF instead of a porsche and the V10 instead of the V8 audi.
(sorry for posting it again, but it belongs in this thread! hehe)

Nice! this is one of the first things i thought of reading the topic of the thread. that was an epic shot when the 911 came into view completely sideways. Your pic came out great.

 

[freight48]

Great idea. I'm gonna work on some this weekend.

 

[Yui-san]

This is my favourite photo I've taken on the TG test track…

Nice shot! But if I remeber correctly, Clarkson drove a white LP560, not a red one.

 

[veryferry]

Nice shot! But if I remeber correctly, Clarkson drove a white LP560, not a red one.

Here you go:

 

[MedigoFlame]

Got some of the Camaro review. No E63 AMG to pit against it... Maybe the E55 >_>

 

[Jesus]

The next time a monaro comes up in the UCD i'll drift it on the TG test track for some pictures, if anyone remembers that episode. Another good one would be the murderers camero, special 62 for james's buick and improvise for hammonds truck. Chevy?

 

[SALEEN_S7-GTR]

Some one needs a F40 versus a McLaren F1!

 

[Jesus]

Mclaren F1 V Bugatti Veyron drag race and also the mercedes SLK GTR V lambo SV (i think)

 

[MedigoFlame]

I guess no one's really had the chance to take any new pictures? >_>

 

[Da_Crazy_Driver]

ok here is some more starters:
- driving a F1 car around the track
- Britcar endurance using a BMW 3 series (or a BMW M3 GTR because it was tuned)
- OOOO, or better yet.....the test to see if you can take a NSX around Laguna Seca as fast as you can in real life (dont know the time Jeremy did it in real life)