Top Gear, back on tonight

Fizman

PAULWATSON wrote: »

that hammond is a twat.

He's dead on from what I've heard.

Mr.Boots

ironclaw wrote: »

I'll have to find the article but the race is in real time, they just go back to get shots of the cars, trains etc. The Bugatti race, most of the outside shots are of the Stig driving taken a week or so after. Remember, always question when your watching tv, what AM I watching? Its not always as it seems. The latest special was a let down in this regard, very staged.

However, tonight I'm having an open mind. See what happens.

I think thats what he was questioning dude....

RandomAccess

Lazy prats haven't changed a damn thing.
Same rather tired old format.

I think its time for Fifth Gear to become my number one now, Top Gear relegated to second place!! For shame!

Tiff and Jason are much more watchable.

MagicMarker

RandomAccess wrote: »

Lazy prats haven't changed a damn thing.
Same rather tired old format.

I think its time for Fifth Gear to become my number one now, Top Gear relegated to second place!! For shame!

Tiff and Jason are much more watchable.

It's been a great episode tbh, if you don't like it then don't watch.

sharkman

Is this repeated ?

CabanasBoy

Mr.Boots wrote: »

I doubt he will like the Yeti

Ja reckon?

RandomAccess

Bah, seen this car drop one on mythbusters before.

Originally was a lexus advert - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRLqVlHzn68

TheBazman

RandomAccess wrote: »

Lazy prats haven't changed a damn thing.
Same rather tired old format.

I think its time for Fifth Gear to become my number one now, Top Gear relegated to second place!! For shame!

Tiff and Jason are much more watchable.

And Tiff was on this again tonight. Double jobbing.

bennyx_o

sharkman wrote: »

Is this repeated ?

I think it's repeated later on in the week on BBC 3, otherwise try FinalGear.

EDIT: Seems it's repeated on Wednesday at 7pm on BBC HD if you have it

muletide

Well that was an hour of my life I won't get back.

A dire show that just shows they really are on the way out.

Webmonkey

I thought that was disappointing. They should just remove the cars entirely out of the show and it wouldn't seem any different.

RandomAccess

TheBazman wrote: »

And Tiff was on this again tonight. Double jobbing.

That 911 turbo convertible test was absolutely sh!te..

But thankfully Tiff & Fifth Gear recently made a much better job of it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbfk0RXWdmg

dr.fuzzenstein

It was that or watch The Kardashians and Kendra on E! and in that case Top Gear is still ahead for me.
Yeah it's the same formula and Clarkson's car tests get ever more ridiculous, but I still like it, and who here can honestly say 5th Gear isn't formulaic?
Anyways, as long as Wheeler Dealers is on there's still something worth watching.:)

muckwarrior

I thought it was a pretty decent episode tonight. There wasn't quite as much of the dumbass scripted crap in the studio.

Confab wrote: »

When will Top Gear end? I eagerly await that day.

Does someone tie you to a chair and force you to watch it? Coz otherwise you could just, you know, turn it off!

hmmm

RandomAccess wrote: »

That 911 turbo convertible test was absolutely sh!te..

But thankfully Tiff & Fifth Gear recently made a much better job of it!

That clip with Tiff driving & Plato looking on was fabulous. Plato looks genuinely terrified

mickdw

Watched on HD & the sound was slightly out of time with the pictures. I thought it was a reasonable show but the skoda stuff was sh1te as was the 911 piece.

RandomAccess

hmmm wrote: »

That clip with Tiff driving & Plato looking on was fabulous. Plato looks genuinely terrified

Yeah, they put an outtakes reel up on youtube with some extra footage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT5yLR4aluY

Stinicker

mickdw wrote: »

Watched on HD & the sound was slightly out of time with the pictures. I thought it was a reasonable show but the skoda stuff was sh1te as was the 911 piece.

I watched on HD and the sound was fine, were you watching on a Sky HD box? (which has loads of problems this last week?) I was watching on my Freesat tv.

It was a good enough episode and "the news" was great, Star in a reasnobly priced car was its usual bore and the jackass made a crude joke about the Irish famine which the lemmings in the crowd lapped up. Fecking dickwads.

Alanstrainor

Moved to the Top Gear forum. Damn....missed it!

KylieWyley

It was utter kack. I'm sick and tired of these silly tests and competitions. They don't review cars anymore.

Fifth Gear all the way - Tiff Needell, Jason Plato, VB Henderson and now Ben Collins (the Stig) - ALL racing drivers and ALL with opinions that actually matter and with judgement you can trust if you are looking to buy a car.

slimjimmc

sharkman wrote: »

Is this repeated ?

bennyx_o wrote: »

I think it's repeated later on in the week on BBC 3, otherwise try FinalGear.

EDIT: Seems it's repeated on Wednesday at 7pm on BBC HD if you have it

Also on standard BBC2 digital and analogue at the same time.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/programmes/schedules/ni/2011/01/26

RandomAccess

KylieWyley wrote: »

It was utter kack. I'm sick and tired of these silly tests and competitions. They don't review cars anymore.

Fifth Gear all the way - Tiff Needell, Jason Plato, VB Henderson and now Ben Collins (the Stig) - ALL racing drivers and ALL with opinions that actually matter and with judgement you can trust if you are looking to buy a car.

Ah well, Ben Collins has been a bit meh so far as a presenter, but maybe he will find his feet.

And I don't mind some mucking about as long as its not to the detriment of the feature, the 911 test had no substance.. it was just filler so they could drop a car from a helicopter.

But certainly its nice to know that a presenters opinion is his own, and he isn't just playing top gears good cop/bad cop routine, where one guy loves the car and the other hates it, when in reality thats not their opinion at all.. they are just playing along a script/formula/old record

mickdw

Stinicker wrote: »

I watched on HD and the sound was fine, were you watching on a Sky HD box? (which has loads of problems this last week?) I was watching on my Freesat tv.

Yep watching on sky hd box

Hail 2 Da Thief

The show has sadly lost its magic . Was fun while it lasted though!

Mind you I'll still watch it as there's sweet FA else worth watching on tv these days!

Cormic

Captain Slow IRL wrote: »

At 8pm on BBC 2!

Plug wrote: »

nice one Captain Slow!!!

colm_mcm wrote: »

Nice one, put it on series link :-)

Zynks wrote: »

Thanks OP!

It is on BBC HD also, sweet...

Oi! What is wrong with my thread started last Monday :mad:

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056150246

Hail 2 Da Thief

Stinicker wrote: »

the jackass made a crude joke about the Irish famine which the lemmings in the crowd lapped up. Fecking dickwads.

Sensitive much? He made a joke about himself not the famine!

bnt

RandomAccess wrote: »

Bah, seen this car drop one on mythbusters before.

Originally was a lexus advert - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRLqVlHzn68

Any excuse to see a Flattened Beetle is fine by me. :cool:

Another thing they borrowed "from another show" (as Jeremy said) was the idea of the off-road tattoo: it's from Jackass: The Movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imsspl_XOJE

(the best video I can find is dubbed, but you don't need to know what they're saying ...)

Zynks

Cormic wrote: »

Oi! What is wrong with my thread started last Monday :mad:

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056150246

I guess it wasn't showing on the front page when I found this one. But, hey, will go check yours out too

ThisRegard

Stinicker wrote: »

the jackass made a crude joke about the Irish famine which the lemmings in the crowd lapped up. Fecking dickwads.

There was nothing crude about it and there was no reason to be offended. The jackass in question is/was a regular on The Panel and as he said himself he was with Jason Byrne at the time so there was no malice in it, he admitted he had no idea about it, he didn't make a joke about it.

muckwarrior

Cormic wrote: »

Oi! What is wrong with my thread started last Monday :mad:

It wasn't in motors, that's what was wrong with it.