Top Gear is back - Sunday 27th January

MuppetCheck · 24-02-2013 11:24pm

Barry Barry wrote: »

So a MK4 estate could be bought new in 06?

Possibly. I seem to remember seeing an 07 one advertised at some stage on car zone. Most likely had been sitting up a while before being registered.

Mycroft H · 25-02-2013 12:55am

My god that range rover is an amazing piece of kit

Stheno · 25-02-2013 1:15am

BX 19 wrote: »

My god that range rover is an amazing piece of kit

I was in a 2010 one recently as a back seat passenger.

It was horrific.
No legroom (I've fairly long legs), and the suspension was like jelly, the slightest pothole and it jarred everyone in the car.

Put me off them for life. Didn't help that I'd a bad knee injury and restricted legroom caused me grief.

Lovely looking cars, with lots of ability but a serious -1 for me as a backseat passenger.

25-02-2013 1:17am

Stheno wrote: »

I was in a 2010 one recently as a back seat passenger.

It was horrific.
No legroom (I've fairly long legs)............

RR sport or a full size one?

Stheno · 25-02-2013 1:56am

RoverJames wrote: »

RR sport or a full size one?

Sport I think, didn't pay much attention, as it was due to car seating for a funeral, I'm fairly certain sport was on the badge, there was about 14 inches legroom in the back.

25-02-2013 2:16am

The sport is disco based so a tad smaller than a full fat RR

Stheno · 25-02-2013 2:20am

RoverJames wrote: »

The sport is disco based so a tad smaller than a full fat RR

Put me off them for life, couldn't walk for about two days due to existing injury, cramp, and the godawful suspension, not helped by the appalling driver, who has a hummer as a day to day vehicle.

AugustusMinimus · 25-02-2013 10:01am

alan partridge aha wrote: »

I'll give you ugly cars, Nissan Tiida (horrific) and the Corolla saloon (02-07)no design thought put into both.

On Top Gear I thought this was a good episode funny and interesting and Hamsters pulling the face to match that mini was brill.:cool:

I have to take the opposite view to you on Hammond.

That whole Mini thing was cringeworthy. All of his skits look incredibly faking with him just howling out some nonsense while on the other hand, Clarkson and May try to be witty.

The old person's car skit would have been much more entertaining if May had done it instead of Hammond.

kneemos · 25-02-2013 12:03pm

AugustusMinimus wrote: »

I have to take the opposite view to you on Hammond.

That whole Mini thing was cringeworthy. All of his skits look incredibly faking with him just howling out some nonsense while on the other hand, Clarkson and May try to be witty.

The old person's car skit would have been much more entertaining if May had done it instead of Hammond.

He definitly changed after his accident,lately he does appear to be a bit manic.

blackwhite · 25-02-2013 8:37pm

Barry Barry wrote: »

I've seen a few 06 MK4 estates on the net before, unsold cars or something Id guess?

The mother bought one new in late 2004. She got a very good deal on it because the Mk5 had been rolled out for everything except the estates, and they weren't expecting the Mk5 estate until mid-05 at the earliest.

alan partridge aha · 25-02-2013 9:42pm

AugustusMinimus wrote: »

I have to take the opposite view to you on Hammond.

That whole Mini thing was cringeworthy. All of his skits look incredibly faking with him just howling out some nonsense while on the other hand, Clarkson and May try to be witty.

The old person's car skit would have been much more entertaining if May had done it instead of Hammond.

Well I'm not usually a Hamster fan and I don't like the way he fawns over Clarkson, however I did think pulling the face was funny.

I'm not a fan of ripping perfectly good cars apart (Multipla) put what they did was funny especially Clarkson's new speedo.

Next week should be good the boys looking for the source of The Nile over 2 weeks.

Cungi · 25-02-2013 10:12pm

alan partridge aha wrote: »

I'm not a fan of ripping perfectly good cars apart (Multipla) ....

Hahhahahahahahahahahahahah :pac::pac::pac:

Stop. Mys sides are hurting from laughing so much.

Tea 1000 · 26-02-2013 12:12am

Cungi wrote: »

Hahhahahahahahahahahahahah :pac::pac::pac:

Stop. Mys sides are hurting from laughing so much.

Multipla is a good car. Just cause it's ugly, doesn't mean it's bad!

alan partridge aha · 26-02-2013 12:20am

Cungi wrote: »

Hahhahahahahahahahahahahah :pac::pac::pac:

Stop. Mys sides are hurting from laughing so much.

Ok point taken, what I meant was the condition of the car was excellent irrespective of make or model.

Cungi · 26-02-2013 3:04am

alan partridge aha wrote: »

Ok point taken, what I meant was the condition of the car was excellent irrespective of make or model.

I know what you mean dude

The Multipla could have parts that never fail and run on a teaspoon of water but it would still be the most hideous looking thing ever

Second generation looked a lot better.

kneemos · 26-02-2013 6:56am

alan partridge aha wrote: »

Well I'm not usually a Hamster fan and I don't like the way he fawns over Clarkson, however I did think pulling the face was funny.

I'm not a fan of ripping perfectly good cars apart (Multipla) put what they did was funny especially Clarkson's new speedo.

Next week should be good the boys looking for the source of The Nile over 2 weeks.

Sounds like they're stretching out the Christmas episode for two hours.

dr.fuzzenstein · 26-02-2013 11:29am

Cungi wrote: »

I know what you mean dude
The Multipla could have parts that never fail and run on a teaspoon of water but it would still be the most hideous looking thing ever

Second generation looked a lot better.

:D:p (I like it, I'd buy one just to annoy people)
And anyway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vBesOFURek

Boscoirl · 26-02-2013 12:37pm

Not impressed with the new season so far, I think they are running out of ideas, and they are stretching every idea out as much as they can, there seems to be less and less content in the more recent shows

Boscoirl · 26-02-2013 12:38pm

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

:D:p (I like it, I'd buy one just to annoy people)

Remember, if you are in it you cant see it.

(thats what i say about my girlfriends yellow A3)

Mc Love · 26-02-2013 4:00pm

Boscoirl wrote: »

Not impressed with the new season so far, I think they are running out of ideas, and they are stretching every idea out as much as they can, there seems to be less and less content in the more recent shows

The first two or three episodes were very good and actually laughed at moments in them. The last two not so much.

I watched one of the newer episodes of fifth gear too and actually enjoyed it from a motoring perspective!

spank_inferno · 26-02-2013 4:28pm

The new Range Rover is pretty impressive.

Though you would expect that for the price.
Looks like the version James drove is €160k on the Landrover website

101sean · 26-02-2013 9:37pm

Good to see Range Rovers are as capable as ever even if 99.9% will never see those conditions (and even less of a chance of me owning one :rolleyes:)

More chance of owning an Oshkosh MTVR, British Army bound to be selling some soon