Top Gear

spartacus93

It's back on Sunday the 7th of May on BBC2, cant wait!

KTRIC

Feckin' great news, can't wait

byte

Good stuff!

*puts Top Gear into Sky Personal Planner*

mike65

The I think the first programme features the first open top people carrier (by force!)

Mike.

colm_mcm

Is that the Renault Espace that Clarkson cut the rof off on his "Heaven and Hell" DVD?

Guy:Incognito

Yeah, looked like an espace on the ad.

Diamondmaker

Savage, the only time ever I have a TV programme in to my phone as a memo!
Loe the way it is on on Summer Sun eves when you are just back from a nice drive!!

Tipsy Mac

Great news...

I always wonder how they produce the programme with such a high budget on the BBC. I think it gets sold around the world and this makes up some of the cost.

colm_mcm

In the "Heaven and Hell" DVD Clarkson cuts the roof an Espace. Buys a brand new Perodua and smashes it up outside the dealership and much more!

ninty9er

Has anyone seen MPG on TG4. Its good for gettin used to the cupla focal and they actually drive decent cars like Aston's, M6s the likes.

Dunno what time its on though

Tipsy Mac

ninty9er wrote:

Has anyone seen MPG on TG4. Its good for gettin used to the cupla focal and they actually drive decent cars like Aston's, M6s the likes.

Dunno what time its on though

Yes good programme although last week they made themselves look like idiots by doing a comparison between a Hyundai Getz a Nissan Micra and a Toyota Aygo which is a car not even in the same class as the other two models, they should have compared them with the Yaris.

colm_mcm

The Getz and Aygo are fairly close in price if you go for a proper spec Aygo (5 door Aura) at €13,700. at lot closer than the Yaris €16500 5dr entry price

jimmycrackcorm

I hope they get a new format - watching it revently I thought it was getting a bit predictable.

Skyuser

Tipsy Mac wrote:

Great news...

I always wonder how they produce the programme with such a high budget on the BBC. I think it gets sold around the world and this makes up some of the cost.

Not to mention the trillions they pay Clarkson from jumping ship to ITV.

Mc-BigE

Might also be time to get rid of the Suzuki Liana! and get something new and better! and start a new board, only problem with that is all the old guest would be back on again for another go!

delly

Thanks for the heads up. Its a very entertaining program, even the wife likes it.

kluivert

ninty9er wrote:

Has anyone seen MPG on TG4. Its good for gettin used to the cupla focal and they actually drive decent cars like Aston's, M6s the likes.

Dunno what time its on though

It was on Thursday at 8PM the first series is over now it was only on for four weeks and the show was half hour long, the cars where good but the reviews where crap.

mike65

Cunningly timed reminder bump

Mike.

faigs

I wonder what they're going to 'race' across Europe in this season. Clarkson will no doubt get the sports car and 'win' even if the others are on a rocket!

optiplexgx270

I always seem to miss it ALWAYS so i have to get it by other means ... Feckin love this show/mags ever since i was a lil one

ciarsd

Good man Mike, otherwise I would've missed this. The series link is now in the planner and texts have been sent!

colm_mcm

Is MPG the programme where they chav up a Rover 400 or something similarly lame?

Big Balls

No. It's like the old format TG where they just test drive cars for 30 minutes.

Most of the cars are either worth less than 15k new or right out of the average person's budget though.

colm_mcm

I think I might have seen it a few weeks ago. reception on TG4 not the best though!

Diamondmaker

AGGHHHH Help!!

Top Gear is on and clashes with most of the Leinster match, any one know when the TG repeat is on?

I watch no TV all week and then the only shows I want to watch are together!

GGrrr!:mad:

RobertFoster

Monday at 7PM according to RTÉ.

Diamondmaker

Savage, good excuse to get out of office fairly lively!:D

Stephen

Well, that was good wasn't it?

HungryJoey

ARGHHH! !! I MISSed it ! And I was doing feck' all tonight. Was just dossing about. Arghhh

mike65

I enjoyed the Soft top Espace esp round the Millbrook Bowl and I like the way they never identified James Hewitt (post spoken chap) in the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car celeb-fest.

Does anyone else notice how star-struck the wimmin in the audience look when they are within spiting distance of JC?

Mike.

BFassassin

i liked when stig was really pushing it ant then crashed, and the car wash was just hilarious ''he wouldnt give me back my £3.50'' roflmao

coolcon

"its on fire.. run... just run!"

philologos

HungryJoey wrote:

ARGHHH! !! I MISSed it ! And I was doing feck' all tonight. Was just dossing about. Arghhh

likewise Battlefield 2 took up a lot of my afternoon damnit!

philologos

RobertFoster wrote:

Monday at 7PM according to RTÉ.

BBC 1 or 2 because I cant find it on that site

mike65

I can't find it in digiguide, so it could be UKTV G2, if you have it, in several weeks time.

Mike.

KTRIC

I just found it on a certain Bittorent site. I'll download it tomorrow and if anyone wants it send me a DVDR and an SAE.

qz

Wow, that was a good show to open the season with! The poor Koenigsegg, and hopefully we'll see the Veyron around the track soon.

bazz26

qz wrote:

Wow, that was a good show to open the season with! The poor Koenigsegg, and hopefully we'll see the Veyron around the track soon.

Not a chance if VW see the video of what the Stig did to the Koenigsegg.

ciarsd

bazz26 wrote:

Not a chance if VW see the video of what the Stig did to the Koenigsegg.

Sure Koenigsegg didn't mind - their response, give it back to us we will modify the body and add a rear wing to aid with its tail happiness (the cause of the crash) and hand it back to TG for another run on the track! Excellent stuff

weemcd

Absolutly loved it, the first shot of them in the espace from the side had me near pissing myself. Fantastic. Will be good to see what the Koenigsegg can do with the new spoiler when they get it back to them. How much further can they go after the 2nd ccx and if they ever get a veyron? Can think of nothing that could compete...

Other highlights were top gear dog (expect to see that one in some unusual positions/places in the next few weeks.)

Nice to see a new reasonably priced car, they really do seem to be going wilder with it this time. Brilliant lets run school boy moment when the car wash caught fire, but I have to question how real that was. Those guys must absolutly love their jobs, must be a dream to work on the show.

bring on next week and lets hope they have more crazy drifting in the series. (hopefully get the D1 guys back!)

bazz26

The Hamster driving around with a paper bag over this head in a bright pink Micra C+C was also good.

mike65

I imagine they must pinch themselves some days when they consider what they could be doing for a crust.

Bastards! :mad:

Mike.

colm_mcm

what's the reasonably priced car this time, havent got the Beeb

HungryJoey

colm_mcm wrote:

what's the reasonably priced car this time, havent got the Beeb

Likewise...I'd like to know that too. I missed it.:o

mike65

Its a Daewooo er Chevolet Something Ordinary and Dull.

Mike.

Trotter

I was in bits laughing when they were booting up the road in the espace with the lad holding up the back reg plate in the air Classic start to the series.

colm_mcm

what was the reasonably priced car though

Trotter

Its the Chevrolet Lacetti saloon

bazz26

The clutch went on it and it only had 26 miles on the clock.:eek:

colm_mcm

Oh jaysus, bring back the Liana!

Stephen

They then pointed out the bit in the manual about running it in, how you should not use full throttle for the first 500 miles