'Top Gear' (Sunday 26th December)

[Bush Tucker Man]

I've just been watching this episode.
Laughs?
Clarksons face flapping around in that Ariel Atom :lol:

It was the same as watching the old US films of volunteers testing the rocket powered sledges.

But 300(supercharged)BHP in a car that weighs only 500kg :shock:

And in Clarksons own words

And 'Driving God' 'Hamster' Hammond in the G-Wagon

[Range Rover Blues]

I don't agree with Hammond's opinion of the G wagon though, it might be fast but it looks like a minibus and that's just not cool.

[Andy.]

JC's face was a picture  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Great car though, shame it was the last in the series  :(

[Bush Tucker Man]

I don't agree with Hammond's opinion of the G wagon though, it might be fast but it looks like a minibus and that's just not cool.

Sounded damn good though

And 'Stig' on the track in the Atom :shock:  :shock:

Suppose a less kind person could say the same about a 110CSW, but it's  a 'Top Gear' Cool Car.

(Don't care if it's cool or not, I want a 110CSW!!!)

[muky-kid.]

:( Got in late the other night and missed the bit about the Merc G wagon, That Atom looks great and goes like stink ( british built as well? )
The Gwagon might look like a minibus but there great offroad ive seen them in action at a winch challenge event and one only had basic mods, I beleive there a heavy 4x4 though. But with that engine and those lockin diffs they go anywhere. :D

[SteveH]

I got fed up enough to email top gear the other day, keep banging on about no diesel being cool, despite having a 110 on the sub zero section ;)

[V8MoneyPit]

:shock: You must have reached the depths of boredom, Steve!  :lol:

[SteveH]

Yup, was about 3 in the morning and I could not sleep in a vague kinda defence :)

[Dirty Gertie]

That G-wagon looked to me like a 70 grand defender looky-likeee!! I was amused that it was being driven around what appeared to be a flat track with puddles, no gradients, no axle-twisters, a 70k car that can drive through puddles; whoop-de-doo =D>:roll:  

That Atom looked fun tho (and made JC even UGLIER than usual!! :lol: )

[thermidorthelobster]

Just to be different, I'm going to opine that I think Top Gear is quite crap now.  It seems that all they do is try to be politically incorrect, not for any great reason apart from that they think it sounds cool...  For example, their diesel bashing.  There's nowt wrong with diesels any more but Top Gear thinks that it's more entertaining to constantly moan about them than to concede they might have some merit!

The Stig stuff on the track is vaguely entertaining, apart from that I can never really work out what order everything comes in, because they don't give you a chance to look at the whole leaderboard.

So basically I'd say Top Gear is outdated, past it, unable to keep up with the times, a struggling vehicle for Clarkson's ego which in turn serves only to prop up his pension fund...  It's rapidly becoming the Bernard Manning of motoring journalism :)

 

[thermidorthelobster]

...but having moaned about it, I've just seen the Ariel Atom videos, which are under the Press section of their website.

You just can't argue with Clarkson's jowls flapping in the wind like that.  Anybody got thirty grand?

[Bush Tucker Man]

And James may has lost the edge that he had when he used to write for 'Car' magazine.

Give Stephanie Simmonite a job on there :lol:  :lol:

They (her & Rachel) once held the BBC record for the number of 'Bleeps' in a sequence ever shown (Welsh Hill-Rally in the mid-90's)
T'was funny :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol: