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Top Gear is back - Sunday 27th January

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  • Site Banned Posts: 60 ✭✭drumslate


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Those rams continental races are so boring, if I wanted to watch people on a train I'd get the train :confused:

    I dunno, I quite like them. It is interesting to see who will win!


  • Registered Users Posts: 302 ✭✭lway


    drumslate wrote: »
    I dunno, I quite like them. It is interesting to see who will win!

    Except for the fact that James May admitted last season on the show that the endings were fixed. Can you really believe that they have cameras set up all along the route to capture those drive by moments as they happen or that Clarkson is going at flat out speed with the camera Range Rover ahead ?

    I'd love to be proven otherwise but the cynic in me says it's pretty much all staged.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,611 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    lway wrote: »
    it's pretty much all staged.
    Everything in the show is staged and pre-scripted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    Everything in the show is staged and pre-scripted.

    That's precisely the problem, it's gone stale or they are stale. The show's dynamic needs turbo charging. What was once unmissable is now very missable.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,072 ✭✭✭keithsfleet


    Was a bit preoccupied on Sunday and the stupid sky box didn't record it.
    I've checked the search function but can't see it repeated, can anyone shed some light on when I can catch it again?
    Bbc iplayer won't work for me either.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,611 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Happyman42 wrote: »
    That's precisely the problem, it's gone stale or they are stale. The show's dynamic needs turbo charging. What was once unmissable is now very missable.
    The ratings figures tell a different story as far as I'm aware.

    It's a car based entertainment show now. Anyone who remembers that it was a car show from years back will always be disappointed as it's not aimed at them.

    It'#s not a bad light entertainment show if you view it that way


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,394 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Was a bit preoccupied on Sunday and the stupid sky box didn't record it.
    I've checked the search function but can't see it repeated, can anyone shed some light on when I can catch it again?
    Bbc iplayer won't work for me either.

    Saturday.


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    Everything in the show is staged and pre-scripted.

    Exactly.

    Anyone that's been to Top Gear live will tell you this. The only difference with the show itself is that they have plenty of time to edit it and make it more punchy.

    Top Gear is an entertainment show and not a documentary. ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,187 ✭✭✭alan partridge aha


    It's been pretty poor this year, bar the race with JC vs the 2 boys, that girl guest driver was brill in fairness too. I do agree they do need to revamp it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 487 ✭✭Cungi


    kneemos wrote: »
    A bloke driving a car is not riviting in fairness.

    It is when it's a Shelby Mustang GT500. That car makes my pants tingle :D


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭afatbollix


    lway wrote: »
    Except for the fact that James May admitted last season on the show that the endings were fixed. Can you really believe that they have cameras set up all along the route to capture those drive by moments as they happen or that Clarkson is going at flat out speed with the camera Range Rover ahead ?

    I'd love to be proven otherwise but the cynic in me says it's pretty much all staged.

    Clarkson will drive to where ever the race is going with a range rover filming It is done on real time but they do pick tight routes and then the crew will drive it back to get the fancy shots.

    It took them 5 days to get back to the UK when doing the Varon race they did. It was on that top gear blog.


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,209 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Thats the one race i love to watch over and over again, Adore that Buggatti :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭SniperSight


    For anybody worried about the "lack of 4x4 action" (Personallu I've seen loads on TG),
    One of the challenges in the current series will be to find the source of the R. Nile in 4x4s, thats according to a season preview in TG Magazine.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,336 ✭✭✭ofcork


    Watched fifth gear on monday night and found it much better,new audi s8 savage.


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,209 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Who's watching??? Prefer the Astra myself in the 3 of them Hatchs :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 635 ✭✭✭BillJ


    Must say I love car rugby!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭Gosub


    BillJ wrote: »
    Must say I love car rugby!
    I fricken hate the way they do that sh¡t! Why damage perfectly good cars? I guess I'm just an old school petrol head, with a lot of mechanical sympathy. :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Taxmans trousers :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,316 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Gosub wrote: »
    I fricken hate the way they do that sh¡t! Why damage perfectly good cars? I guess I'm just an old school petrol head, with a lot of mechanical sympathy. :mad:

    Cos it makes for decent viewing. And who wouldnt love to be at the wheel playing car rugby? Be great craic.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Car Rugby looks like great craic, not too sure the groundskeepers at Twickers would have been with it though :D


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Dartz


    Because they're Kias...

    It's like throwing Christians in the Colluseum. Great entertainment for the BMW-owning Romans.


  • Registered Users Posts: 73,365 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    I'm sure KIA don't mind the publicity


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,534 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    Gosub wrote: »
    I fricken hate the way they do that sh¡t! Why damage perfectly good cars? I guess I'm just an old school petrol head, with a lot of mechanical sympathy. :mad:

    Because the cost of damaging those cars and the cost of flood lights give Kia a hell of a lot more advertising than what the cost of an ad would cost.

    It's not as if a fleet of Ferrari GTO's were being mangled.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Nice bit of free publicity for Discover Ireland there too


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,209 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Would love to play car rugby :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 73,365 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    They make one every 5 seconds :)


    (As Daihatsu told younger Jeremy Clarkson when he damaged one of their cars on a test drive in japan)


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,136 ✭✭✭Stallingrad


    Well that was boring.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,534 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    I see the Vauxhall Vectra made a welcome return to our screens.

    I remember on the older series of Top Gear, Clarkson walked up to it and just started to look at it. After 30 seconds of looking at it, he gets a call on his mobile.

    "Ah, I'm supposed to drive it. Wasn't sure looking at it".


    EDIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0RU9Ax8MSs

    A bit different to how I remembered it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 487 ✭✭Cungi


    Good ep. Enjoyed car rugby. Those Kias are surprisingly tough. Expected to see more bumpers strewn around. Pitch looked fucked afterwards.

    Also regarding the Vauxhall/Ford/Renault comparisons, i would have gone with the Astra too. And i'm usually a Ford fan. I don't like Fords new "trout pout" styling :(


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭corkgsxr


    Are sportages really only front wheel drive? Thats useless for a jeep


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