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[Smart_Roadster]

Surprised/Gutted we Didn't see the Huayra This season .Too soon for a review Perhaps

Yeah, there was a feature in the latest Top Gear magazine where they got a ride in a prototype Huayra/Vomit Noise. I think it mentioned that it wouldn't be ready until 2013.

Anyway, I'm currently watching a Best Of on Dave. The one with £10k Italian Supercars, Mazda Vs. Dog and Range Rover Sport Vs. Challenger Tank. Average episode really.

I find it a shame that they seem to have stopped doing their epic races. The last one I think was Nissan GT-R Vs. Bullet Train, and that was back in 2008.

 

[McLaren]

I find it a shame that they seem to have stopped doing their epic races. The last one I think was Nissan GT-R Vs. Bullet Train, and that was back in 2008.

I have to agree. I wonder what car they (as in Jeremy) would choose now-a-days though & what Hammond & May would travel by.

 

[Smart_Roadster]

I have to agree. I wonder what car they (as in Jeremy) would choose now-a-days though & what Hammond & May would travel by.

Well Clarkson could use the Ferrari F12berlinetta when it's released, and I know Hammond recently got a helicopter license.

 

[Tom]

Just found this on the Top Gear website.

 

[Cowboys965]

BBC America isn't on my TV anymore!

 

[sems4arsenal]

Terrible News ,No top Gear till 2013 maybe because of the London Olympics

 

[Liquid]

Terrible News ,No top Gear till 2013 maybe because of the London Olympics

X Factor.

They need a sabbatical to recover anyway.

 

[funkyDucks]

Terrible News ,No top Gear till 2013 maybe because of the London Olympics

Except for the Christmas special.

 

[NINE_HUNDRED]

I doubt it's because of X Factor, that's on every year.

 

[nealcropper]

Yea it usually starts when xfactor finishes

 

[HeinS]

Hi guys. Does anyone know where I can find all the old Top Gear (1977-1999)? I would really like to watch the old episodes

 

[daan]

Youtube? Include the names William Woollard, Chris Goffey, Quentin Wilson or Tony Mason and a few clips should turn up. You probably won't find whole episodes though.

 

[HeinS]

I have watched a few clips on youtube but I'm looking for something more complete, not just a few clips here and there. But thanks for the reply

 

[daan]

Basically that's what old Top Gear was though. Old WW would just introduce clips, whilst waving his hands in an annoying manner, for the whole show. There wasn't a thread through the whole episode or anything like that.

 

[HeinS]

okay thanks:tup:

 

[nealcropper]

http://cars.uk.msn.com/features/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=157032502 there ya are

 

[daan]

http://cars.uk.msn.com/features/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=157032502 there ya are

That's new TG. He's looking for old TG. 💡

 

[nealcropper]

How old? Like series 1?

http://www.ovguide.com/tv_season/top-gear-season-1-74608

Try that one then 👍

 

[Liquid]

How old? Like series 1?

As in, pre-2002.

You did know that Top Gear existed before the current Hammond, May, Dawe and Clarkson era, right?

 

[Wiegert]

How old? Like series 1?

The pre-2002 format Top Gear, which was more akin to Fifth Gear than the current incarnation of TG.



Tree'd.

 

[daan]

How old? Like series 1?

Did you not look at the dates he posted? Did you not wonder who the people were that I posted?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_(1977_TV_series)

As opposed to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_(2002_TV_series)

 

[nealcropper]

Yes I knew it existed before this recent incarnation.

EDIT: sorry for that last link, there's only one episode of top gear pre 2002, didnt read it properly before posting it.

 

[Liquid]

I liked old Top Gear; practical advice and casually informative.

By extension, anything by Jeremy Clarkson in the 1990s was good, before he became an international, delibrately controversial marmite figure. He seems to find it hard sometimes to not be in character in front of a camera on other shows. Could you imagine how vastly different Motorworld, Inventions That Changed The World and Extreme Machines would be if they were made by him today?

 

[SuperShouden]

No Season 19 this Fall, by the way. That'll have to wait until 2013

 

[jus1029]

WHAT?!?!?!

Time to watch season 15-18 till 2013!

 

[jus1029]

*Sorry for double post*

 

[Sanji Himura]

Fancy a bobby that shares a face with Jeremy Clarkson? One child and his family who are sick of speedy drivers in Northumberland erected this fake cop that shares the likeness of the Top Gear host in an attempt to slow down traffic that comes complete with a blow dryer as a stand in for a radar gun to get drivers to observe the 30 MPH speed limit.

Surprisingly, it works.

Here is the fake cop:

 

[Tom]

Fancy a bobby that shares a face with Jeremy Clarkson? One child and his family who are sick of speedy drivers in Northumberland erected this fake cop that shares the likeness of the Top Gear host in an attempt to slow down traffic that comes complete with a blow dryer as a stand in for a radar gun to get drivers to observe the 30 MPH speed limit.

Surprisingly, it works.

Here is the fake cop:

It looks like something out of Shaun of the Dead.

 

[Sanji Himura]

Yeah, it looks like he lost a bet there.

 

[PureAwesomeness]

Basically that's what old Top Gear was though. Old WW would just introduce clips, whilst waving his hands in an annoying manner, for the whole show. There wasn't a thread through the whole episode or anything like that.

WW would always end the show with "Drive safely".